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Screen lag glitch and FFB steering wheel disables
I have a weird glitch. I have a Moza direct drive wheel and I have everything set up and working. The game will play fine and play for some random amount of time with zero issues.

Then at some random point I will get a screen glitch like the whole game lags briefly, and then it continues on. When it lags like this is dropps the wheel. The FFB stops completely and the wheel is loose. It stops reading steering inputs entirely, and the axis is locked at whatever position it was during the glitch. All other controls remain normal, all other axis work without issue. It's just the steering wheel.

In windows the Moza Pit House apps shows the wheel and the current angle fine. The wheel is lit up, and everything seems ok.

I can also do nothing besides close LFS and restart LFS touching nothing else, and LFS picks up the wheel axis again and the FFB is on again.

I don't know what the game is doing during this event or why it seems to lose and not be able to recover the steering axis or regain FFB. I also don't know why it's only that.

I haven't played LFS for a number of years, but I used to run an old Logitech G37 wheel for a few years with zero issues.

It acts like a communication problem, but it shows in Windows fine, including real time angle changes while LFS sees nothing until I restart the game.

Is this a known issue?

Any feedback on what I'm experiencing?
resetting controllers (shift+c i think) doesn't work?
I had the same issue. The wheel kept disconnecting at random times during gameplay.

I fixed it by completely closing the Moza Pit House software before playing LFS. I only open it if I want to adjust some settings.

Some people also suggest disabling power saving for the USB device of the wheel.
Didn't know about the reset, so I'll check that.

I certainly don't need the pit software running (I don't think) to have stuff work, so I'll try that too.
** Best answer **
I figured out the issue. It was power options USB sleep settings. I recently upgraded to Windows 11, and I guess it just assumes a desktop PC needs battery saving features enabled???

The dumb thing is they hide the setting by default, so step one is enabling access to it in the first place, restarting, and then disabling the power option setting.

There's a bunch of Microsoft posts about it and some Youtube videos I found to enable actually seeing the setting and making the change.

I've done a bunch of laps and no issue at all.

What originally pointed me to the issue was Moza Pit House closed did nothing, and I was running BeamNG and constantly getting both the steering wheel and the handbrake (but oddly nothing else) disconnecting and resetting. I pulled the handbrake maybe thinking it was doing something goofy, but the steering wheel alone was still doing it. So multiple games, multiple components. I dug into it more, and it seems like USB constantly disconnecting is a common issue.

So all is fixed, and it's Microsoft's fault! lol.
Happy that you found the solution. I had the same issue and for a moment I thought that my Moza was about to yeet itself. In the end I also disabled all power saving options (one by one) and suddenly the issue was entirely gone. I even contacted Moza about the issue and they sent me out a new USB cable as they believe it would be an usb cable issue. Fortunately just OS side issue.
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