Steering wheel: steering not working correctly

This article is part of Steering wheels: common problems and solutions.

If your wheel turns all the way left or right by itself, see Steering wheel turns all the way left or right.

Cannot get steering to work, car only veers to one side

• Make sure you have not added any wheel bindings to “steer left” or to “steer right”. If you have manually added any, remove them. Add one binding for “steering” instead.

Car steers to the opposite side it should

• Open the steering binding, click the “Inverted Axis” and then “Apply”.

Steering is too fast, car is impossible to control

• Make sure the wheel is in 900º or 1080º (or whatever steering angle your steering wheel supports).

In Logitech G25/G27 wheels, you can change that at any time during gameplay, by pressing the two middle red buttons on your H-shifter, while at the same time you press the bottom black button in the H-shifter. In other wheels, check their manual (you may have to close BeamNG.drive and open their drivers options in Windows Control Panel to adjust it).

Car steers slightly to the left (or right) when pointing straight

• Make sure you are not using a vehicle mod that may have altered the suspension design of the vehicle, or that the car you are driving doesn’t have a natural tendency to veer left/right under acceleration (it can happen with powerful vehicles, or with certain suspension types).
• Make sure to calibrate the steering wheel from the Windows Control Panel drivers window. Some wheels need to be unplugged and plugged again for calibration to happen.

Delay between turning the wheel and the response in-game

• Please first verify if the game is actually receiving the input correctly. Go to Options > Controls > Hardware menu and see if the slider is also affected there.

1. If not, please find the ‘Steering’ binding, click on it and make sure that the “filter” is set to “direct”
2. If it’s still delayed, try to increase your framerate as much as possible (100 FPS or greater is recommended). Sacrificing Graphics Lighting settings can help.
3. Try switching to full screen mode, this will remove a couple of frames of lag. Note that “borderless” mode does NOT necessarily provide any response gain, but actual “fullscreen” mode will improve responsiveness for sure.
4. Try turning VSync off if you can stand the screen tearing. This will remove a couple of frames of lag.

Still not working?

• Follow the steering wheel troubleshooter to check step by step that everything is set up correctly.
• See Steering wheels: common problems and solutions for other problems.