Controllers
The game supports many different controllers such as keyboard, joystick, gamepads or steering wheels with H-Shifter and clutch pedal.
We tried to make it simple to setup your own controller and used a default, which would work for most of you using keyboard or gamepads.
If you find the control of the car problematic, too intensive or too slow, you should check your controller setup. Also, you can re-map any of the actions on the same page. Just open the Main Menu -> Options -> Controls page to find these setup.
The control page contains several setting options and the actions where you can assign your own keys, buttons or axises.
The game currently does not support FFB, therefore if you are using a FFB steering wheel, please adjust your steering wheel setup in it’s driver or utility tool and disable FFB there.
This will make your steering wheel much more usable in our game.
If you have a wheel which support high rotation degree like G25, 27, 29… you might find it better to adjust the rotation degree in the steering wheel driver/utility tool and reduce it to 360 deg or below.
Using 900 degree making the racing way too hard, because of the large wheel movements.
The very first item on the control page is a selector for the controller. Changes you made will effect that controller’s setup, with the exception of a few global setup.
It will start with keyboard and you can use the arrows to select another connected controller.
Racing cars use to use manual shifter. If you don’t like or know how to use the manual gearbox, you can switch on the Auto shifter, which will change gears like you would have an automatic gearbox. While the game only supports manual gearbox at the time of this guide, please don’t misunderstand the option. It will change gears on behalve you, but it’s not an automatic gearbox. Your car still has the manual gearbox and you can still change gear or use clutch etc. Once the game will support automatic gearbox this will make bigger differences then it is now.
Some controller supports manual gear shifter, H-Shifter. If you have such a controller and you would like to use it in the game turn on this option.
This option has two effects: It turns on the H-Shifter mode to allow you to keep your gear in the right position (shifter position) and use Neutral in the middle and it also turns on / off the automatic clutch. When you turn on the H-Shifter mode, you also have to deal with the clutch, when you are changing gears or start and stop the car.
Auto-clutch is a built-in helper, which will automatically use the clutch when needed to avoid damage or engine to halt. If you turn on the H-Shifter mode it will turn off the auto clutch and you have to deal with the clutch yourself.
Sensitivity will make the wheel more responsive to your controller movements. Before you would change the sensitivity we would advise to start with the gamma setup. Once you adjusted the gamma try to adjusting the sensitivity as well.
We recommend to use max or very high value for gamepads and steering wheels to avoid delay between the controller and the car’s steering wheel.
High values: could cause too intensive reaction and could cause your car flip over in some extreme cases.
Low values: could cause too much delay between the controller and the car steering, which makes the car very hard to straighten after a turn. If you cannot keep the car in straight line and always turn too much when you try to counter-steer, you might have too less sensitivity setup.
Everyone is a bit different and there are so many different types of controllers, that it is very difficult to setup the controller for everyone right. Steering gamma let you change the characteristics and dynamics of the steering. It defines how it should turn the wheel when you move the steering a bit and how when you move it very close to the full.
Low values: less dynamics, the steer wheel move slowly and the beginning and get faster at high angle, recommended for joystick, some gamepads and steering wheel with 180 deg or less total rotation (+90 to -90).
Middle: it is a linear setup, where your controller action used directly to turn the steering. Use this with high precision gamepads joystick or steering wheels with high rotation degrees – over 180 – like G29.
High values: more dynamics, steering will response quicker at low angle and slower at high angle
This will set your controller sensitivity for all of its axes. It will have effect on the gas, clutch, brake and steering as well.
Use this when you find the max steering sensitivity still too slow.
Set your controller deadzone, which defines how much it can move from the centre before the motion has been recognized. If you controller always turns or cannot keep the wheel in straight, you might need to use more deadzone.