In the world of Forza Horizon 5, speed is easy to find, but true precision needs to be earned. While the game’s built-in assists make controller play feel effortless, switching to a racing wheel significantly enhances the gameplay. It places every ounce of control and every mistake right into your hands. Your gameplay is enhanced with the wheel in a way that you are rewarded with smooth inputs and technical mastery.
As easy as this sounds, finding the right settings for your wheel is essential. The wrong settings can have your wheel feeling floaty or twitchy, leading many of you to switch back to gamepads. By fine-tuning your advanced controls, you can eliminate deadzone lag and sharpen the force feedback. While everyone will have different preferences, we’ve found some of the most common settings that make the most difference.
Change These Advanced Controls For All Wheels In Forza Horizon 5
Before you fiddle around with your wheels software, you must apply these settings in-game for a far better experience. To be able to enter these settings, you should have your wheel plugged in and recognized by the game. Next, you open the settings menu and go to advanced controls, and ensure your input device is set to wheel.
Once you’re here, you’ll find a lot of settings to change. However, we recommend only changing the ones that make a significant difference to test things out. Here are settings that work well across a wide variety of wheels. Start from here, then fine-tune some of the other options according to your liking:
- Steering Linearity: 50 (Linear)
- Inside Deadzones: 0
- Outside Deadzones: 100
- Vibration Scale: 0.5
- Mechanical Trail: 1.2
- Difficulty: Steering Simulation
An important note for 2026 players is that since the game’s expansion to other platforms, the menus have remained largely consistent. However, if you are playing on a console, you may notice that Steering Rotation is sometimes missing from the in-game menu.
Logitech G923/G920 Settings
The Logitech G923 is the gold standard when it comes to mainstream racing wheels. It features TrueForce, a high-definition haptic system that translates engine vibrations and tire surface data directly through the wheel. The G923 is great for FH5 since it recognizes the wheel instantly, so it’s basically a plug-and-play system. There’s also the G920, a cheaper model that doesn’t feature TrueForce haptic feedback. Fortunately, the settings apply to both models here.
In-Game Settings (Advanced Controls)
- In-Game Linearity: 50
- Vibration Scale: 0.5 (TrueForce handles the rest)
- Mechanical Trail: 1.2
Logitech G HUB Settings (Software)
- Operating Range: 540° for drifting or 900° for cruising
- Sensitivity: 50
- Centering Spring: Off (Let the game control the centering)
Other than these, follow the universal settings in the section above to finish the overall configuration.
Thrustmaster T300 RS GT/TX Series
The ThrustMaster is a great midrange wheel option. It uses a dual belt system, making it significantly smoother and quieter than the gear-driven Logitech. It’s perfect for FH5 because the belt systems provide a more fluid feel, which is essential for the wide, sweeping turns in Horizon. The following settings apply mainly to the Thrustmaster T300 RS, but they also work with the TX Series wheels, like the T248X:
In-Game Settings (Advanced Controls)
- Force Feedback Scale: 1.1
- Force Feedback Minimum Force: 1.0
- Road Feel Scale: 0.7
Thrustmaster Control Panel Settings (PC Software)
- Overall Strength: Set to 75% to prevent the motor from overheating during long sessions.
- Spring/Damper: Set these to 100%, allowing the game to downscale these via the in-game menus.
Fanatec CSL DD (5Nm or 8Nm)
In all honesty, the Fanatec CSL DD is one of the most premium wheels for Forza Horizon 5, while also being one of the annoying ones during setup. It’s a direct drive wheel, meaning the feedback you get is direct from the motor in the wheelbase, not from belts or gears. Unfortunately, to set it up in FH5, you need to enable compatibility mode within the wheel software. This wheel, in particular, wasn’t designed for Microsoft’s simcade, as it’s more geared towards simulation titles.
Either way, here are the best settings we found:
- In-Game Mechanical Trail: 1.5
- Road Feel Scale: 1.1
- Fanatec Control Panel: Set SEN (Sensitivity) to AUT (Auto) so the game can match the rotation of the specific car you are driving.
