F1 23 Controller Settings Guide: Improve Your Control & Lap Times

f123 is one of the most accessible Formula One games in a very long time both for newcomers and returning fans and is played by a wide variety of Gamers from Hardcore Sim races to both the completely new to racing games and formula one fans one of the most popular ways to race f123 is with a controller such as an Xbox controller A PS5 controller or a different gamepad and with a controller not providing quite as much fine level of control as a racing wheel does it's important to correctly set up your controller for f123 to ensure you have the maximum amount of control using the correct f-123 controller settings can improve how your car feels to dry how stable and easy it is to drive as well as allowing you to push harder and lap faster that's why good controller settings can actually improve your lap time and the great news is the EA and code blasters have actually added a new setting specifically to help control the players fine-tuning their steering I'll talk about that a little bit further on in this video and the purpose of this video is for me to run through the best f-123 controller settings along with a quick how-to guide on how to correctly serve your controller in f123 along with some button mapping recommendations all things that will make f123 more enjoyable with controller and potentially make you faster so before we look at recommended controller settings you should first check that your controller is correctly calibrated in f123 this is a very quick and easy test to do and it's available in the controller settings in f123's options first thing you'll want to do is head over to the settings screen go into your control settings and then look at vibration and force feedback you'll probably have to choose a controller profile to get to this point and you should see some presets for the Xbox and PS5 controller so click one of those and Away you go after choosing the controller profile enter the controls menu first thing you should do is ensure all buttons are registering in-game correctly so start the button test by pushing the corresponding button that is shown in the bottom right of your screen for Xbox controllers that's the select button but this may differ depending on what controller you're using you'll now see your steering throttle and brake on the right hand side of the screen with bars next to each one if you move your analog stick left and right and push your throttle and Brake triggers you should see the dial moving across the line to show that the inputs are being recognized in game you can also push any other button it should appear on the right hand side if you aren't reaching the full 100 of movement of that little bar you can make tweaks to your dead zone and linearity to adjust these inputs and I'll provide more of an explanation in a second so you know exactly what to adjust to fix certain issues and the main issue that players may find is that if you move your analog stick from left to right you may not be able to hit -100 and 100 on your steering or 0 and 100 on your your brake and throttle if you can't reach that 100 value or if the bars aren't showing zero when you're not pressing anything it means that you do need to do some minor calibration tweaks you'll see in the calibration settings that you have settings for dead zone linearity and saturation for all three major inputs you're steering your throttle and your brake each of these can be changed from 0 to 100 and each setting will affect your inputs in different ways these are broken down across all three inputs so that if you want to adjust your throttle you can do that but it won't have any effect on your breaker of steering and vice versa you can really tune each individual setting new to f123 is also the steering rate setting which is the first item in the calibration menu and this has been introduced with the sole goal of helping controller players fine tune their steering so steering rate essentially affects the speed of the in-game steering higher values will make the in-game steering turn faster and more aggressively while lower values will slow the rate at which the in-game steering changes so for example if you set the steering rate setting above 100 so quite High and then you push the analog stick all the way to the right you'll see that the in-game steering wheel will turn to full lock pretty quickly if you then jump in and reduce the steering rate setting perform the same test the in-game steering wheel will move much slower and this really helps controller players fine tune that little sweet spot between speed and sensitivity The Dead Zone settings will change how much you have to push an input before it's actually registered in game and this will essentially create a small dead zone at the start of the input travel Dead Zone settings in f123 are pretty helpful if you notice that the value of the throttle the steering or the brake isn't at zero when you perform that button test and no input is being applied so essentially if you don't touch anything on your controller and you see any number other than zero in any of those three input bars and you'll need to adjust your dead zone a little bit increasing The Dead Zone setting will ensure that no input is being applied in game until you apply any movement on the trigger or analog stick the higher you set your dead zone the more input you need to apply before anything is actually registered in game it's only recommended to increase the dead zone of any input if you're noticing any little bits of input being applied when you're not touching the throttle brake or the steering as I said before a really common issue with controllers is accidentally applying a little bit of brake which will force your DRS to close when you're accelerating down a long straight this can happen simply by resting your finger on the brake trigger while not actively pressing it or breaking if you do notice this you can increase your brake dead sign to eliminate it completely you can also adjust your steering dead zone to improve your car stability down straight to avoid it from feeling too sensitive or too Twitchy or kind of veering to one side or the other 3 will change the input curve of your throttle your steering or your brake as standard you'll have a good one-to-one linearity curve which is shown as a straight line from the bottom left corner to the top right corner in many Sim racing games this means that when you apply 30 throttle for example 30 throttle will also be applied in game ideally this is what you should aim for and what you would really want however some Sim races will like their inputs to be more or less sensitive even the start or the end of the travel a common use for this is to increase the steering linearity and this will make the car less sensitive at the start of your analog stick movement and more sensitive towards the end of it this enables finer adjustments to be made at high speed the saturation setting is the final one and this can be seen as an overall sensitivity setting in f123 increasing the sensitivity will decrease how far you need to press on a trigger or move your analog stick to achieve 100 input this is helpful if you struggle to reach 100 input when a trigger to fully depressed all your analog stick is as far as it will go to either side which again you can check during the button test if you can reach 100 input with the button test I'd recommend leaving the saturation setting completely aligned now I'm going to flash up on screen now my recommended controller calibration settings you'll see that I've increased the linearity and dead zone here and there and unless some settings completely at zero you'll see that I've increased the linearity for all of the main controller inputs and as I mentioned earlier this will adjust the linearity curve of each input the goal of this approach is to give you more control over finite inputs increasing the linearity of your steering for example will allow you to make more gradual inputs giving you finer levels of control and precision throttle management and avoiding wheel spins and overstay is a vital part of mastering your car in f123 and driving without traction control on a controller can be one of the hardest things to do in f123 so given us more control over our throttle input at slower speeds will help a lot increasing the throttle linearity will mean that as you press the throttle trigger to let's say around 25 to 30 percent in game you'll only be applying around 10 to 15 of throttle and this will depend on how much you adjust your linearity setting essentially this increases and opens up the window Precision when applying fine levels of throttle input this will in turn give you better control of your throttle especially at lower speeds when it's so easy to break traction and spin your car the same idea applies to the brake linearity giving you finer control and precision over your brake input to help avoid locking your wheels and finally you'll see that I've increased the steering Dead Zone a little which is just to reduce any tendency for your steering to Twitch or your car to pull to left or right when you're traveling in a straight line once you're finished correctly calibrating your controller you can move on to adjust the controller force feedback settings in f123 and these are the settings that will affect how much vibration you feel through your controller During certain scenarios again I'll flash these on screen now and you can pause the video to copy these down in game but much like racing f123 with a racing wheel the force feedback and vibration in the controller is just as important to give you feedback for how your car is interacting with the track controller vibration and Rumble effects can indicate that you're losing grip or that the track surface is changing and this is knowledge that can help you decide how to respond and is vital to having the confidence to push your car starting at the top the first controller settings change is the vibration force feedback strength see this as a master setting that controls the overall vibration strength that you'll feel for your controller increasing this setting as I've done in my recommended settings will increase the overall vibration strength and give you more vibration when on track this is important to open up and expand the range of vibration you'll feel minor subtle details such as tires scrubbing across the track or small track details will now be enhanced so you can feel them more some premium controllers such as the Xbox Elite Series 2 and the PS5 dual sense have vibrations in the triggers and these provide great feedback especially under braking and acceleration these trigger vibrations can help you learn the limits of grip by vibrating as you as soon as you start to lose grip or you lock your wheels under braking the on track off track and Rumble strip effects in f123 will change the intensity of vibrations through the controller as you drive over these specific parts of a circuit changing the on track settings will change how much feedback you get from changes in track surface which is pretty important however the off track and normal strip effects are much more down to personal preferences these won't really affect your speed too much many f123 controller Racers will actually lower these two effects to avoid them becoming overwhelming and improve the chances of regaining control if you do go too far off track wheel damper setting doesn't really affect controllers and f123 as it's designed to change the weight and the damping in racing wheels now one of the secret controller settings in f123 that can actually make you kind of gain more control and speed in game is to adjust your maximum wheel rotation many players will leave this at 360 Degrees as that's the default rotational lock of an F1 car steering however lowering this setting while racing with the controller can actually give you a pretty big advantage and we can use that to improve our precision and potentially find lap time the trick is to lower this setting to the maximum angle that you need to turn your steering wheel this setting directly controls how much in-game steering you can apply the lower you set this value the less your maximum steering lock will be in game this means that at a value of around 280 to 290 degrees you'll see that when you move your analog stick all the way left or right your driver won't actually rotate the steering wheel but complete 180 degrees this does have a direct impact on tracks like Monaco where at The Hairpin you'll need as much steering lock as you can achieve however at most other tracks you very very rarely use the full steering lock so the thought here is to reduce the maximum wheel rotation to give you more Precision across the remaining steering by reducing your value down from 360 to about 290 you'll have finer levels of control and precision across those 290 degrees then you'd have across 360 degrees this setting will really help you find additional precision and when paired with the increased steering linearity in the calibration settings this can have a really big effect on your speed and precision on track final step of setting up your controller in f123 is to adjust your button mapping in here you can change your button bindings allowing you to change which buttons change gear which buttons control your MFD and more this is helpful to allow you to feel comfortable during your race in f123 the last thing you want to do is have to try to remember which button controls your DRS or which button adjusts your on-4 diff mid race each button should be easy to remember and you shouldn't be using any brain power to use them during a race if you're using a premium controller such as those who scuff or Xbox Elite Series 2 you do have additional buttons to map thanks to the additional inputs on these controllers one of the main buttons that I would change are for your downshifts and your up shifts many Sim races likely to be assigned to the shoulder buttons leaving the face buttons kind of clear for other inputs such as DRS and overtake While others will prefer to change gear using the face buttons on the controller whichever you prefer simply scroll down to the button you wish to change select it with a or X and then press the button you wish to change it to once you've mapped all of your buttons back out of the controller settings which will prompt you to save your settings as either a new profile or overwrite the existing profile the main recommended controller buttons I would change would be to map your brake bias and your on throttle differential both of these functions are used regularly throughout race and the brake bias is often changed heading into each corner to really maximize your braking performance I'd recommend mapping these to your white analog stick so then simply tapping your analog stick up or down to increase or decrease the setting is very intuitive and after a few laps you'll remember to do it by default without ever really thinking so that rounds up my recommended controller settings and hopefully these will kind of improve your lap time and more importantly how comfortable you feel racing f123 with a controller but do remember that so much of a controller setup is down to personal preference if some of these settings don't feel right simply use the settings that do feel good and adjust the others to your own personal preference using the tips that I've mentioned in this video can serve as a basis to adjust your f123 controller settings from now we're into f123 season I'm going to be releasing daily videos for car setups how to guide tips and tricks that sort of thing so if you're liking this and you kind of like our car set up hit that subscribe button and the alert Bell to be notified when a new video is dropped and let me know in the comments below what control settings you're using and whether you're basically the controller or a racing wheel for now guys I will see you on track

Channel: SimRacingSetups

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Keywords: F1 23, Controller settings, Controller, Settings, Guide, Force feedback, Steering Rate, Calibration

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Length: 16min 5sec (965 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 14 2023