Far Cry 5: How to set up your steering wheel (guide based on the G920)

This will show you how to set up a wheel to work with Far Cry 5

The tools

Unfortunately wheel support does not work out-of-the-box with Far Cry 5 so we need a little tinkering with some 3rd party software. For Far Cry 5 you'll need to download two apps: x360ce and XOutPut. For both x360ce and XOutPut I'm not using the latest versions because the newest version of x360ce once BSOD'ed my PC and I don't wanna try it again, whereas the new XOutPut seems to need more configurational effort, and since the old one worked fine I didn't bother trying the new one.

Here are the links to these two tools:

• x360ce[www.x360ce.com]
  
• XOutPut[github.com]

Enabling x360ce

x360ce is a great tool for controller support in various games where it's not built-in by default. To install it simply extract the zip you downloaded and place the x360ce_x64.exe file in your .../Far Cry 5/bin folder. Next start this program, a prompt will pop up, choose Search automatically for settings and click Next and then Finish. This will set up the default configs for your wheel, assign your physical wheel to a virtual XBox controller slot (most likely controller no. 1) and your virtual controller tab should have a green square icon (active):



Note: if you get an error and your controller tab has a red square (disabled), try clicking on Auto below and then Yes - this usually fixes it for me and the controller tab becomes active.

The last thing you'll need to do is close x360ce, go to .../Far Cry 5/bin and rename the xinput1_3.dll file to xinput9_1_0.dll

Configuring x360ce

Open x360ce again and in the sub-tab section underneath you can set up various settings, but what we'll need the most are two tabs:

• General - here you'll be able to map you physical wheel buttons and axes to correspond to buttons and axes of the virtual XBox controller (that the game thinks you're using)
  
• Left thumb / Right thumb - depending on which stick you hook up your steering on, you'll be able to adjust the deadzone / antideadzone settings to make you steering less / more sensitive.

Note: once we get everything running, you'll be able to set these settings any way you want, the only problem is whenever you change something, you'll have to exit the game and launch it again for the changes to be reflected in game. And just in case you happen to have a G920 (this is probably the same for the G29), you can give my configs a shot and see if the cars handle nicely or if something needs adjusting. Here are my button assignment and deadzone configs that I used with my G920 - just select these options from the dropdowns and adjust the slider values, and then click Save at the bottom:






Also, here are the virtual XBox controller controls to which I mapped my physical G920 wheel through x360ce (in the General tab):

Enabling XOutPut

Usually games work with x360ce alone, but Far Cry 5 also needs XOutPut, which is a DirectInput to XInput wrapper for controllers. When I was setting my wheel up all I needed to do was:

1. Extract the downloaded zip of XOutPut into any folder you like
2. Open that folder and find and install ScpDriver.exe
3. Once it's installed, close the window and run XOutPut
4. In the open window you should see a section for your wheel
5. Without configuring anything else, simply check Enabled
6. Click Start - this will initialize a new controller which will convert your wheel's input
7. Don't close XOutPut or disable the checkbox for your wheel while you're gaming, but you can minimize the app

Launch the game and test the wheel

That's about it, just make sure your x360ce settings are saved, XOutPut is running and your wheel checkbox is enabled - you can then launch the game and test your wheel. A few things to keep in mind:

• XOutPut needs to be open while playing
  
• x360ce does not need to be open while playing
  
• if you open x360ce to config your wheel while XOutPut is open, x360ce will see XOutPut and will try to initialize a second virtual controller. Don't mind it, it's not needed for the game. If x360ce keeps nagging about it, simply close x360ce, then close XOutPut, open x360ce again, config your wheel as you like, close x360ce, and once again open XOutPut and enable your wheel
  
• if you don't know what button on the the virtual XBox controller corresponds to which action in game, you can go to the in-game options menu and check it in the gamepad section
  
• this guide should work for many different wheels, the only catch being that my G920 settings in x360ce may not feel smooth with your wheel. You may have to fine tune the deadzone / antideadzone settings in x360ce yourself until driving feels comfortable, which could be time-consuming (the whole setup research took me 4-5 hours lol)
  
• I have not tried setting up force feedback nor did I care about it, so please don't ask how to do it because I'm fairly certain it cannot be accomplished easily. If anybody finds a way feel free to share. Instead I used the Logitech GHUB software to enable the "Centering spring in non-FFB games" and set it to ~10% for an artificial centering effect
  
• there is a bizarre bug which sometimes makes the player draw their sidearm and shoot through the windshield when accelerating, turning, or sometimes totally at random. It does not happen very often but I sadly haven't found any way to fix this. What I did was I mapped a key on my wheel to holster the weapon so I could push it whenever Rook decided to draw their pistol. However, if you use a car with a mounted weapon, e.g. machinegun or rockets, this issue will not occur
  
• this guide also works for Far Cry New Dawn - everything is exactly the same.

That's all, happy driving :)

[Prophet]

Hey Bubblegum Man, thanks and glad to hear you got it working. As for the gun glitch - sadly no, I never found a better solution other than mapping a button on the wheel to holster the weapon. I remember though I mostly used cars with mounted weapons during my playthroughs, probably for this exact reason.

[Bubblegum]

one last question, did you ever find a better solution for stopping the gun glitch, like whenever you slam the gas pedal or wreck into an enemy, you character pulls out their sidearm and throws the whole screen off balance. thx

[Bubblegum]

Hey Prophet, I managed to solve the issue eventually, thanks a lot for this guide, I also used it to set up a joystick for flying planes as well. I had the turning for the wheel mapped on the wrong axis, instead of X Half axis 1, the data was recorded as being on whole X axis 1, if that makes sense, I had to manually change it after resetting everything and redownloading apps.

[Prophet]

If it still doesn't solve the mapping issue, I'd then close the emulator app, delete the "x360ce.ini" file, open the emulator app once again and let it recreate the "x360ce.ini" file (this basically resets all the mapping and configurational info between the wheel and the virtual XBox controller). Then I'd check the left thumbstick again and map it to "HAxis 1" or use the "Record" option and turn the wheel until it registers. Turn the wheel and if you see the green icon correctly moving horizontally over the left thumbstick in the picture, it means the mapping is correct. Then remap the rest of the buttons, set the anti-deadzone for "Left Thumb" and it should be all.

[Prophet]

Hi, been a while since I did this and it's difficult to say what the problem may be without seeing it firsthand, but some things I'd try: open the x360ce emulator app and check if the left thumbstick X axis is showing as constantly stuck on the left side. If it is, unassign any input for the "Stick Axis X" section on the left by setting it to "empty" and reassign the correct input again by either selecting the correct Axis option from the dropdown or by clicking "Record" and turning the wheel to the right so it registers automatically (in my case it was half-axis 1, i.e. "HAxis 1", which takes half of the horizontal turning axis of the G920 wheel, but you can try the other options too if this doesn't work as I'm not sure if the axis naming for G29 is the same as G920 or different).

[Bubblegum]

i got it to work at first, but by g29 logitech wheel always says i am turning the x axis to the left when I am not, but the logitech app says the wheel is aligned. So much time i spent on this, is this a tech error on my end or did anyone else struggle with this?

[Prophet]

Thanks, glad this was useful :)

[Ledfger]

Thanks for this tutorial, I couldn't find any elsewhere.