Best Controller Settings 2025 by Trux

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I've spent countless hours trying to get a decent controller profile.
I have a wheel but I have to set it up each time I want to sim race. Sometimes though an offline blast around the ring with a controller can give me that plug and play fix.

I have read other guides.. I have tried other settings but most were written for an older version.

These are my settings since AC version 1.13 still the best in 2022 and good for any controller.

Controller for PC

Enable support for your controller in Big Picture mode (Settings). Remember AC wasn't build for controllers so you still have to use mouse and keyboard for menus.


Once in game
First - For cockpit View - Lock the Virtual Steering wheel to 180 degrees. Do this in the graphics settings (View) in game.

Then set to your controller settings to these values:

Speed Sensitivity - 75%

Steering Speed - 20%
Gamma - 2
Filter - 0.7
Deadzone - 0

That's it :)
If using a pad then its a good Idea to start with Traction Control on and Stability Control on (Try 50%). ABS on is personal choice. These values work on console too.

Different Cars and further tweaking

First thing to remember here is that an LMP1 car wont feel the same as a Porsche Cup car which will also feel diffent to say a Mazda MX5..

Don't be too hasty to change your controller settings if a car feels too twitchy at first.
The settings I posted work well with all cars with a little setup tweaking.

If a car is too twitchy - first try and be smooth with your inputs. Practice makes perfect.
But for further tweaking - Try raising the Toe settings - lowering springs or softening anti roll bars (arb).
You can also change bump and rebound settings and also change the downforce on some cars.

Change one thing at a time then test.

You can check my car setup guide here:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=915318217

[Aquarius]

These are pretty good baseline settings. This game has turned out to be massively more fun with a controller than I ever thought it would be, thanks very much for the guide.

[strzab37]

mine doesnt want to connect by cable (ps5)

[Pvt Tommy]

Awesome guide! AC feels amazingly playable with a controller.

[♣GeNiX™♠]

it works for my dual sense with DSX emulation

[Slasher2K]

nice

[ZeroF]

managed to keep a porsche 935 on track with those settings. well done homie.

[Mcmaclassie]

I just bought the game since it was dirt cheap and used these setting to take a Lamborghini around a relatively easy track and it felt great. Might have to use a different setting or tweak it at least a little for something like a Mustang, though... that one felt a bit squirrely for me :P

[Huntyer]

Cheers for the settings. Went from fighting a MX-5 to lapping a R34 around Nordschleife Endurance.

[Baco]

Thank you so much!!, i'm having a lot more fun now, legit feels like a new game

[Robica Darayava]

how tf are u playing with ps controler i have one and it don t work