Assetto Corsa Evo has officially entered Early Access. As with any new sim, dialling in the right settings is the first challenge. Fortunately, Kunos Simulazioni has provided a handy set of recommended wheel settings to help you get on track quickly.
We will review these settings for Fanatec, Logitech, Simucube, Simagic, Moza, and a few other manufacturers based on our experiences during the first days of early access. Remember that you will likely want to tweak them further to suit your driving style as personal preferences and hardware differ.
In-Game Settings
You can access the in-game wheel settings by going into the Controls menu from the Settings tab and selecting your wheelbase from the tabs across the top of the screen. If the options on the right-hand side do not change, click the “Settings” button between “Properties” and “Track IR”. This will open up the force feedback settings.
If the sim does not detect your wheel, ensure other input devices, such as Xbox controllers, are unplugged. These devices can sometimes override your wheel settings. Once your wheel is recognised, you will see its name in the controls menu.
For some setups, you might see multiple devices listed if your pedals are connected separately, but everything can still be configured under your wheel’s tab. From here, map your steering, throttle, brakes, clutch, paddle shifters, and other inputs. The process is straightforward, but remember to hit “Apply” after making changes to save your settings.
Here are the recommended in-game settings:
- Steering Lock: The same as the setting in your wheel app. When using 1080 degrees, note that you may need to lower it in the future for open-wheel cars.
- FFB Gain: Set high in the wheel app (80-100%) and adjust in-game to your preferred strength.
- Dynamic Damping: Use 40% as a reference value. Increasing this parameter affects the wheel’s reaction speed.
- Damper Gain: This controls the wheel’s static damping. Set it to 20% as a reference.
For Logitech wheels, a solid foundation is:
- TrueForce Gain: 100%.
- Speed Sensitivity: 70% balances responsiveness at various speeds.
- Steering Filter: 20% eliminates micro-adjustment jitters if your force feedback is high.
- Steering Assist Weights: 50-100%, relevant only if you use them.
- Vibrations: 50-70% give a good sense of curbs and impacts without being overwhelming.
Once everything feels right, save your configuration and create a preset to switch between setups for different cars or tracks.
Now, let’s check the wheel-specific settings. You will notice that the recommended torque ranges fall between 7 and 9 Nm, even for more powerful wheelbases. Exercise caution when going for full power on high-end wheelbases as with the early access sim you may find yourself on the wrong side of 20+ Nm.
Fanatec Wheel Settings
The official baseline is 7Nm torque and 80% in-game strength. You can increase it in the Fanatec app and lower it in-game according to your preference.
Recommended settings:
- Sensitivity: AUTO
- Force Feedback Strength: 60%
- FullForce: 50%
- Natural Damper: 15%
- Natural Friction: 5%
- Natural Inertia: OFF
- FFB Interpolation Filter: 2
- Force Effect Intensity: 100
- Force Effect Strength: 100%
- Spring Effect Strength: 100%
- Damper Effect Strength: 100%
Logitech Pro Wheel Settings
The official baseline is 9Nm torque and 80% in-game strength. TrueForce is supported and can be activated using the Logitech app.
Recommended settings:
- Sensitivity: 50%
- Operating Range (Angle): 1080
- Dampener: 16
- Strength: 9.2 Nm
- Force Feedback Filter: 2
Simucube Wheel Settings
The official baseline is 8Nm torque and 80% in-game strength with all parameters for Direct Input Effects Fine Tuning set to 100%.
Recommended settings:
Advanced profile:
- Overall Strength: 100%
- Steering Range: 1080
- Bumpstop Feel: Medium
- Bumpstop Offset: 0 degrees
Constantly operating filters:
- Reconstruction Filter V2: 1 Smoothness
- Torque Bandwith (Lowpass Filter): Unlimited
- Damping: 13%
- Friction: 0%
- Inertia: 0%
- Static Force Reduction: 0%
- Slew Rate Limit.: 0Nm/s
- Centering Force: 0%
- Ultra Low Latency Mode: 0%
- Center Frequency: 0%
- Attenuation: -25.50dB
- Q-factor: 0
Simagic Wheel Settings
The official baseline is 8Nm torque and 80% in-game strength with mechanical spring, centre damper set to 0 and other values set to 100.
Recommended settings:
Steer settings:
- Angle: 1080
- Hard Lock Angle: 1080
- Limit Strength: Normal
Basic settings:
- Force Feedback: 52%
- Smoothness: 0
Vehicle:
- Wheel Rotation Speed: 50
- Feedback Detail: 0
Mechanical:
- Max Torque: 15.4Nm
- Mechanical Damper: 2%
- Mechanical Friction: 10%
- Mechanical Inertia: 0%
- Feedback Frequency: 0
Moza Wheel Settings
The official baseline is 8Nm torque and 80% in-game strength with mechanical spring, centre damper set to 0 and other values set to 100.
Recommended settings:
Basic settings:
- Maximum Steering Angle: 1080
- Road Sensitivity: 10
- Game Force Feedback Intensity: 90%
- Maximum Wheel Speed: 100%
- Wheel Spring Strength: 0%
- Wheel Damper: 10%
Advanced settings:
- Maximum Output Torque Limit: 90%
- Hands-Off Protection: ON
- Steering Wheel Inertia: 2600
- Natural Inertia: 100%
- Wheel Friction: 10%
- Speed-dependent Damping: 0%
- Start Point of Speed-dependent Damping: 0%
Thrustmaster Wheel Settings
Kunos has not provided recommended settings for Thrustmaster wheels. If you use a belt-driven Thrustmaster wheel, there are not too many settings to adjust in the control panel.
The following configuration should work well as a baseline:
- Overall Strength: Start at 75%, increase if desired but make sure the fan is set to constant cooling to prevent overheating
- Constant Force: 100%
- Periodic Force: 0%
- Spring: 0%
- Damper: 0%. Belt-driven wheelbases already have inherent mechanical damping
Asetek Wheel Settings
Kunos has not provided recommended settings for Asetek wheels but Asetek provided its setup guidelines for AC EVO:
- Steering Range: 800 degrees for road cars and 540 degrees for racecars
- Overall Force:
- Invicta: 27 Nm
- Forte: 18 Nm
- La Prima: 12 Nm
- Bumpstop Hardness:
- Invicta: Soft
- Forte: Soft
- La Prima: Medium
- Bumpstop Range: 10 degrees
- High-Frequency Limit: No limit (max)
- Damping: 0%
- Friction: 0%
- Cornering Force Assist: 0%
- Torque Behaviour Prediction: 0
- Anti-Oscillation: 0%
- Inertia: 0%. To enhance the feeling of oversteering, increase this setting by 10%.
- Torque Acceleration Limit:
- Invicta: 9.4 Nm/ms
- Forte: 6.7 Nm/ms
- La Prima: 4.0 Nm/ms