01
Use the best preset for your exact setup
Choose the dedicated game-and-wheel guide below and copy its recommended values first. Each page puts the complete wheelbase and in-game settings table before the explanation, using manufacturer or game guidance where it exists and clearly identified community refinements where it does not.
Do not transfer torque percentages between bases with different maximum output. Use the profile for your exact hardware, platform, and game, then make only small comfort adjustments after driving it unchanged.
02
Understand the signal chain
Fanatec documents wheelbase controls such as strength, natural damper, friction, inertia, interpolation, and force-effect scaling as different parts of the output. The simulator has its own gain and effect controls, so changing two layers at once makes the result difficult to diagnose.
Le Mans Ultimate's official setup guide recommends zero minimum torque for direct-drive hardware and only inverting force feedback when forces run in the wrong direction. Treat those as LMU-specific instructions; use each game's documentation for other titles.
03
Preserve signal headroom
When the output saturates, distinct strong inputs can be rendered at the same ceiling. Test a sustained high-load corner and reduce game gain if steering load stops varying as the car and track forces change.
Choose a comfortable hardware torque limit before refining detail. Follow the wheelbase manufacturer's safety instructions and stop if impacts or sustained force are painful or unpredictable.
04
A three-lap tuning procedure
Choose a familiar car and circuit with slow and fast corners, kerbs, and a heavy braking zone. Run three laps at the starting preset. If steering clips, lower overall game strength. If the car oscillates on straights, add a small amount of damping. If surface detail feels gritty, add one step of interpolation rather than masking it with several filters.
Repeat with only one change. Record the game version, platform, driver or firmware, wheel rim, base torque mode, and every value. A saved, versioned preset is more useful than an unexplained screenshot.
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Choose the guide for your hardware
Start with our focused guides for the Fanatec GT DD Pro, CSL DD, ClubSport DD, and ClubSport DD+. We cover separate profiles for GT7, F1 25, and Le Mans Ultimate because the same base needs very different gain and filtering in each simulation.
Next in the publishing queue are Logitech G Pro and Thrustmaster T598 guides for GT7, F1 25, and LMU; MOZA R5/R9/R12, Simagic Alpha, Simucube 2, and Asetek guides for supported PC titles. We only publish a GT7 page for hardware with genuine PlayStation support.
