help me bros, Im trying to play colin mcrae rally and my gearshift is fucked for some reason

>plug in wheel(logitech gt)
>wheel turns to center itself, detected in the game, I barely have to adjsut anything in settings
>I have a gearshift on this wheel, it detects when Im shifting up or down on it, hence shifter back/forwards being read in button assignments
>startying rally school I can shift up jsut fine, always registers
>I cannot downshift at all
>I can go into settings, input how to register downshift everytime with the lever, no errors ever pop up
>the second I start a course, it never reads the input again, even though its still assigned in settings

what do?