selection keeps scrolling down constantly and you have to disconnect your wheel in order to play a game properly with a controller....

Look no further at least where it applies look in your wheel software settings and select the option "combine pedals" to be on.

This fixed my issues but later in a racing game I was wondering wt* the car was doing and later I wholly forgot about all this but now that I remember....

I think this information might be useful to others possibly.

Cheers.