Controls / Setting up the wheel

This is the area where wheel and joystick users get to assign the axis. Again most of these options are largely click-and-set buttons.

Before you start

Please make sure your equipment is attached to the computer and Windows has found the device and it has been set up in Control Panel / Game Controller area. Run your profiler software if needed and deselect combined axis at driver level if necessary (for example: Logitech Profiler). Calibrate using Windows software before attempting to setup in LFS. It is essential you have the latest wheel drivers and DirectX version installed, or the wheel might not work properly.

1) Wheel settings

Set the controller mode to "wheel / js"

Set throttle and brake axes to "separate", or "combined" if your wheel doesn't support the former
(You may have to change this setting in the wheel software, too! See the "Before you start" section)
If you have a clutch pedal, set the clutch option to "axis", otherwise "button"

2) Verify axes are correctly detected by LFS

First, click on the "Axes / FF" button to open the axis assignment view

In the middle of the screen a list of functions, and on the right a list of available axes will show up. Start rotating the wheel and pressing the pedals on your controller. If everything has been set up correctly so far, the blue/yellow bars on the far right will begin to move, representing the current controller input. If this is NOT the case, the fault is somewhere outside of LFS - see the "Before you start" section above.

3) Assign axes

With the axes list still open, you can now start assigning the different functions to the available axes. To do this, first click on the function you want to assign (e.g. "Steer"), then click on the axis you want to assign it to (e.g. "X axis"). Unlike in many other games, pressing the pedal or rotating the wheel after clicking on the function button will NOT assign the axis automatically!
After all necessary functions have been assigned, check if LFS reads the input correctly by rotating the wheel and pressing the pedals again. Now the steering indicator and pedal bars will move, too. If an axis/function operates the opposite way it should, click on the "invert" button found to the right of the function in question.
See also: How to assign functions to controller axes.