I’m relatively new to the series and I’ve recently purchased a Thrustmaster TMX Pro to play F1 games. I was very excited for the Forza Horizon release because it was a nice new opportunity to use my wheel and pedals.
I’m loving driving around in the game so far, however when I need to be fast and race around corners, the experience isn’t so great. I keep drifting and I’m not able to get out of a drift so I’m constantly backwards. I get that there’s a learning curve, but it seems very steep. Especially when comparing it to playing on a controller, I have no issues there.
Turn some of the assists on, TSC, STM, ABS Normal steering. driving on a wheel gives you propper control of the steering input and doesn’t assist you as much as it does with the gamepad. once you start to get more comfortable on the wheel you can try slowly removing the assists to continue improving your skills on the wheel.
Fellow TMX owner: I have not messed around with my wheel yet in FH5 unfortunately, and I know it has a different wheel setup/tweaking menu than FH4, but off-the-cuff look for Wheel Dampening and turn that OFF or down to 5 or so. Literally touch nothing else in the menu at this point for wheel tuning. See if that makes things feel better, in FH4 just turning off/down Wheel Dampening made the difference for many Thrustmaster users to making cars not spin out on every single corner.
Next, in the Difficulty Menus, I recommend the following changes: Turn your Traction Control ON…especially for S1/S2 class cars with Rear Wheel Drive, and then turn your STEERING from “Normal” to “Simulation”. This will make it easier for your car to spin out (when set to Simulation) but it removes the weird assists in steering that help with a controller but can hurt you with a wheel, try it both ways (Normal/Simulation), see what works for you.
But if FH5 is like FH4, start by turning off Dampening for the wheel in the Advanced Wheel menu…game was unusable (FH4 again) until I turned dampening off and then suddenly, everything just started feeling ‘right’. You can tweak more settings later but dampening was the big one for me. Good Luck.
Great, thank you for the tips! I’ll try play around with the settings as suggested.
I was at another forum where they told me to just use a controller as it’s “a controller game” (their words). I don’t want to give up yet, so happy I came here for some advise!
Still stuck unfortunately. I’ve got 17 hours in, and I’m doing ok, but more often than not the game is frustrating me when I’m getting into a slide that I can’t prevent or fix.
Just now I played an offroad horizon event with a bunch of jumps in it. Jumps are the worst, because 90% of the landings the car just gets out of control. I’ve tried the same race with a controller and did fine.
It seems the wheel is way too sensitive, but there’s no way to set the sensitivity on an Xbox (apparently there is on PC). I’m very, very cautious on the throttle but I keep getting into slides and 180s even if I’m going much slower than my opponents and I’m on the racing line.
I don’t know what to try anymore, I’ve played around with all settings (traction control on/off, stability control on/off, wheel damper, anything else I could find online) but nothing makes a difference. I’m doing fine playing F1 games, just Forza Horizon is not clicking with me yet. Any more tips I could use before I give up and switch to controller?