Overview
A walk through tutorial on how to set up a wheel using a software called x360ce.
| The Basic Idea |
Things you need
1. A Wheel with or without Force Feedback
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2. X360CE Controller Emulator
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3. A general understanding of what buttons are what, and what you wish them to do.
4. To understand that any Force Feedback wheel has rules applied to it’s buttons already,
And that there is no need to create such rules in the first place, only to bind them.
| How to Begin Setting Up |
First, when you start X360CE, you’ll notice it has a pop up for a missing plugin.
Allow it to create a new one, this is the config for your controller, It won’t work without this.
After you’ve figured that out, try not to be intimidated by the layout, it’s pretty simple from here actually.
All we have to do now is click the corresponding button we’d like to route, such as bottom left trigger to brake, and bottom right trigger to accelerate.
This is done by clicking the box of a specific button, and clicking record action, then pressing a button on the wheel.
Also, something I found that helped me was to ensure the wheel itself was set to Stick Axis Y rather than on Steer Left/Steer Right.
This allows the Force Feedback to work more efficiently from my experience.
After you’ve bound the controls to the Emulator, we can move to the last couple things!
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| Adding the game you want the Emulator to Work With |
This is the last step where we use the Emulator, However, you may change certain things later such as where your E Brake is bound.
Our goal here is to use the wheel with a specific game that does not originally support our wheel in the first place.
So in order for the wheel to work, the game must believe there is a controller being used.
By clicking the green “Add” Button, we can navigate our file directory to find our game we wish to play through our steam library, and add it to the list of games for the emulator to pair with.
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After you’ve done this, you should be able to use your wheel in the game of your choice.
Be aware that in the game settings your wheel should be set to the exact same rotation #, and your settings should be less than 30% steering help, and set to the most linear setting on Project Torque.
It’s all messing around and finding good preference at this point, so enjoy!
Also, Remember that when you want to play a game with the wheel, you must start it from X360CE.
Otherwise it will not recognize the wheel.