F1 23 • Controller Settings Guide - Tips & Tricks, Calibration, MFD Shortcuts & MORE!

Racing with a controller in F1 23 is awesome. However, I have a couple tips, tricks and settings to make it even better. I guide you through selecting the right control scheme, being able to change brake bias and differential through MFD shortcuts, calibrating the controller buttons to fix issues, selecting the best vibration and feedback settings, which racing techniques you should use, and some controller specific tips and tricks.
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0:00 Control scheme
1:34 Calibration
4:10 Vibration & force feedback
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[@zuzuke..]

I just set a fast lap several laps in a row after this, I was pretty good at F1 22 but the car slides so much more in the back than I expected and this literally stopped any loss of control, and allowed me to shave a second off my time each lap

[@THOMB]

Great to hear!

[@Zinx543]

my car never stopped

[@applejacks8160]

Had to come back and just sincerely thank you for this. Absolutely made steering and throttle control much more immersive and less jerky.

[@THOMB]

Legend! Happy to hear that :)

[@Sergi_RockNRoll]

Good Lord thank you! I was having a rough time with traction control from a too much responsive throttle. And my tire wearing management has improved too since direction doesn't make the car turn that much now and I can trace smoothly.

[@maxplays8323]

thank you minimising the off track vibration was so helpful!

[@gtsportjeroenkerkhof8981]

Finaly dude a guy that knows the game keep going dude

[@Vliegmachinist]

Felt lazy to connect my steer so was trying with controller. These changes gained me a couple of seconds 😂 amazing tips. Thanks a lot!

[@SuperSaiyaGinge]

Hey Thomb. I watch you on Twitch as RedRune and I checked out these settings this morning and I would say it makes a difference. I play on PC and use a PS5 controller over a Xbox one I have as they don’t make good controllers for racing at all. So definitely recommend for controller users to have a PS5 or PS4 controller.

[@Grape_y]

Ty so much dude I had default settings with no assist except for racing line and still felt a little off good vid man 😮

[@lugesanreddy277]

Brilliant video. Thank you!

[@ridetheblinds8425]

Excellent, thanks! Really useful and straightforward content 👍👍🏁🏁

[@THOMB]

Glad it was helpful!

[@bigdavo77]

Your settings are perfect thank you 👌👌

[@nathand9992]

This video made me faster on my controller than my fastest laps on my wheel setup!

[@TheilDK]

I was looking for controller settings for my PS5 dual sense to see if it was possible to turn the controller left and right to stear left and right, just like in Gran Tourismo game. I really hate the L1 joystick stearing and I don't find the answer that I was hoping to find.

[@jamietolan44]

I just won the champions league with this on career mode good help thanks

[@Samtrix00X]

A very good recommendation (the best and most basic) is to deactivate the adaptive triggers of the controller, they do not work well and there are times that you get a very strong pull and other times that it does not even give the system time to activate, in short, the Triggers do not show reality since sometimes they are not activated or have lags and it only complicates things. I also do not recommend calibrating the control since this will cause us to lose complete control of the car, in fights with the AI ​​or in curves that we are too far past we will not have the opportunity to swerve and readjust the direction, or due to a very good hand that we have with the accelerator we will be able to start slowly due to the adjustments (It is very typical to go perfect on fast circuits with open curves and go to Monaco and eat all the walls)

[@chrismannrogos1]

Thanks for this. Keep up the gd work.

[@THOMB]

Thanks, will do!

[@300greeks2]

In f1 23 I have the problem when the wheels are locking I can't understand it early I don't know why For example in f1 18 in options has an extra vibration on my controller before the wheels lock so I can understand the limits of the grip

[@titojesusdesousa3014]

Each time I put the power on with full assists on tight corner s I loose traction. I need to make your changes.

[@indian_crocodile]

Finally a video that is right on the point and believable! Thx for the tips 🫡👍

[@boobrancher]

Thanks I appreciate you, you’re the 🐐 ❤

[@THOMB]

Happy to help!

[@Again-AGN]

Great video . Very helpful and straightforward. Keep videos simple and to the point.

[@Kingslayer7976]

Why is it that when I turn into a tight corner it always drifts. Can u tell me how to fix that?

[@filmkulubu]

what about the twitch sudden move on the little touch what about steerşng rate ?

[@castilloreyes]

Hey man. Could you please share how are you able to connect your PS5 controller with F1 23 game?

[@kaiser________]

How do you bind r3 and the arrows

[@lWAVEVISIONl]

Why does my throttle and break goes to a 100 every time I press it I’m a beginner and which to know so that I can fix it 😅

[@dwanestar]

🐐 top gedaan.. bedoel good job👏🏾

[@user-fy5ks4zd1p]

is it possible to play this game with a controller that without linear trigger, always spinning😢

[@sergiozabala6081]

Thanks for this video i have a lot of anger with a brake sisteme and you are the only person how made a tutorial

[@THOMB]

I hope it helped mate thanks for watching :)

[@sergiozabala6081]

@@THOMB The problem is that I hit the brakes hard and the car slows down very slowly. Any help?

[@joe_schmow]

Dang learned a lot here.

[@nasman52]

How do i turn off ray tracing off completely on PC?

[@VyeSpree]

already driving smoother after watching this video

[@SeapointRoleplay]

WHAT THE FLIIIIP ty for the vid :D

[@cristianocarvalho6321]

I have put throttle saturation to 100 😂 I am too slow after kissing the apex of a curve and trying to get back to 100% speed

[@romonatinka187]

Sorry guys, but i need ask something. When I open controls I dont have there Trigger Vibration and Adaptive Triggers. If somebody knows please help me. Thanks

[@Ghost-tr4nu]

f1 23 made me confused about the braking trough the corner. hard to play tho😢

[@Giusie79]

Nice vid but getting into the menus might be good to explain too.

[@saipierre5533]

Why can't we use motion sensor ps4 controller?

[@melvinjonathan6732]

Best settings so far My steering is so much better

[@Knsworth]

Idk why but my triangle for drs and my L1 for overtake don’t show up

[@boosted0079]

DRS is what f1 drivers use to overtake. So what you are saying is you have the same thing assigned to 2 different buttons?

[@Pavlo_Odesa]

What about sound? Why is the sound during the race so terrible? What wrong?

[@twisted7766]

Just tried out these settings and I can drive with medium traction on and not stack it on the first corner. Thanks 😊

[@THOMB]

Awesome! Happy driving

[@gwstyle9644]

I just did it

[@MarioP9511]

The car simply doesn't turn, I've already put steering rate to 160% and doesn't turn on heavy braking 90º turns. This with a Xbox series X controller.

[@Snottybag]

I'm on xbox series s and don't have the adaptive triggers any reason why ?

[@hectorcaceres99]

because youre on xbox. Only ps5 has that

[@IGG2002]

Please, do a keyboard guide, I really love to play with keyboard. :)

[@GlennSelkRacing]

Why?

[@IGG2002]

Because it's necessary.

[@JtheMitch]

nobody plays with keyboards unfortunately. u could make one yourself

[@mesh8349]

Keyboards in f1 23 is a horrible idea, controller is a must

[@joaomatos40]

@@JtheMitch yes there's people that played F1 2021 on a keyboard. Me! Level 65 I won every race with one exception: Monaco. My first F1 game was Grand Prix 1 and 2. People played in that time with a keyboard. There wasn't controllers. For F1 23 I admit is hard to play it on keyboard (tryed all configs i could) that's why i bought a ps5 dual sense controller. F1 23 is focused on controller gaming. I'm getting use to play with a controller. That's it! There are still people playing on a keyboard. You'll find out...just google it :)

[@AllAboutCars03]

Lets gooo

[@sparkyeagle1115]

Steering saturation just goes back to to 0 even if it's on 100

[@ballisticbobvlogs7209]

Does anyone know why all of a sudden every car that I drive just barely turns left and right it’s like the game just doesn’t register the input as much. My settings are all correct and controller works fine

[@user-iu2cj8pq5h]

It might be turning assist, if it's on it'll try to keep you on the natural racing line.

[@ballisticbobvlogs7209]

No I don’t use any turning assist the only assist I use is abs

[@Samtrix00X]

If it does not register the turn, it may be because you are going too fast or because you have an incorrect configuration, it is possible that it is incorrect and you have linearity above 0, that means that when you turn the steering wheel from 0 to 60 (in 1 sec) the game Calibrate that rotation speed and get you from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds, by the time you realize it your steering wheel is rotated to 48 in the 1.5 second and it will already be too late.

[@JMast]

Wouldn’t you say “sweet spot” is all based on personal driving?

[@stamkos33]

I"m usually a steering wheel nazi when it comes to racing games but I don't have the room in my current place so I might end up trying this one with a controller and see if it's fun

[@jaydenfawcett3298]

Do you have to do this for every track or just one track?

[@THOMB]

These are general settings that will apply across the whole game!

[@victorlund9501]

can i use my ps4 controller to f1 23

[@THOMB]

Of course

[@victorlund9501]

@@THOMB Can you do af video how to do it because i play on pc

[@liptoNNNNNN]

pad players really play with adaptive triggers in on?

[@THOMB]

Try it out and see if you prefer it!

[@leowilson3915]

Anyone know if this still helps ?

[@THOMB]

Yep!

[@leowilson3915]

@@THOMB thanks I’m doing F1 league racing now and I need to be quicker than what I’m going

[@gwstyle9644]

How do I buy championship edition for free on Xbox

[@officialseany4068]

how much worse is a controller compared to a casual sim driver?

[@THOMB]

It doesn’t have to be worse actually!

[@leejunxian7284]

do a wheel pls

[@THOMB]

Already up on my channel, go check it out!

[@leejunxian7284]

@@THOMB ok thx

[@nbecker]

never ever played a f1 game with worse controller traction in my 7 years of playing this game easily my least favorite one

[@THOMB]

That’s odd, that should not be the case at all, quite the opposite with this game

[@nbecker]

@@THOMB I play on controller, and every turn on the myteam gamemode I can’t do without having no traction and I tested it out and maxed out the car and same thing

[@haydenschuerr9589]

@@nbeckeri’m having the same issue i have zero grip