MOZA Pit House Force Feedback Guide - A Complete FFB Settings Guide

MOZA Pit House is the control software for MOZA Racing wheelbases, offering extensive force feedback customisation options.

While the number of settings may seem daunting, understanding each one helps you achieve the perfect feel for your driving style and most importantly, a realistic simulation of the car you’re racing.

Basic Settings

The Basic Settings tab is where you start configuring your MOZA wheelbase’s force feedback.

This screen contains the fundamental settings that have the most noticeable impact on how your wheel feels.

While the Advanced Settings offer deeper customisation, getting these basic parameters right is crucial for a satisfying driving experience. Think of these settings as the foundation – they determine how your wheel responds to the game’s physics, how much feedback you feel, and how the steering behaves across different racing situations.

Whether you’re setting up your wheel for the first time or fine-tuning for a specific racing discipline, starting with these basic parameters ensures you’re building on solid ground.

Let’s look at each setting in detail:

Preset Modes

MOZA’s preset modes provide excellent starting points for your favourite racing discipline.

Whether you’re racing GT cars, Formula 1, Rally, Drift or Trucks, each preset configures multiple force feedback settings specifically for that type of vehicle.

In testing, we’ve found the GT and Formula 1 presets to be particularly well-tuned out of the box, offering realistic feedback that closely matches their real-world equivalents.

Here are some settings that serve as an ideal foundation for further fine-tuning to match your personal preferences. Where possible, we’ve outlined how that particular setting is likely to feel to you while you’re driving.

Maximum Steering Angle

• 360° – Ideal for Formula-style cars
• 540° – GT and sportscars
• 900° – Road cars, rally, and drifting
• Synchronous mode ensures physical and in-game rotation match
• Higher angles provide more steering precision but require more arm movement

Road Sensitivity (0-10)

• Controls the overall strength of track surface detail feedback
• Higher values (8-10) – Great for feeling every track detail
• Lower values (4-6) – Smoother feel, reduces unwanted noise
• Formula 1 and GT cars benefit from higher settings as they’re fundamentally very stiff and sensitive cars with little roll
• Rally and drift can use lower settings to prevent information overload

Game Force Feedback Intensity (0-100%)

• Overall strength multiplier for game forces
• R3/R5/R9 users: Generally best at 100%
• R16/R21 users: Consider 70-90% for comfort
• Reducing this setting maintains detail while lowering overall forces

Advanced Settings

While Basic Settings handle the fundamental feel of your wheel, the Advanced Settings tab unlocks a deeper level of force feedback customisation.

Here, you’ll find sophisticated parameters that let you fine-tune exactly how your MOZA wheelbase interprets and delivers forces from your sim racing game.

These advanced settings are particularly valuable for experienced sim racers who want to replicate specific characteristics of real race cars, like steering weight, mechanical resistance, and speed-sensitive feedback.

Don’t be intimidated by these options – while they offer precise control, each setting serves a clear purpose in crafting your ideal force feedback profile. Understanding what the settings do will help you achieve exactly the driving feel you’re looking for.

Maximum Output Torque Limit

• Hard limit on peak forces
• R3/R5/R9: Usually fine at 100%
• R16/R21: Consider 70-80% for sustained racing
• Useful for reducing jarring impacts while maintaining detail

Natural Inertia

• Simulates steering column weight – some cars have a heavier steering column than others
• Higher values feel more like a real car
• Lower values offer faster, more responsive steering enabling rapid steering corrections
• GT cars benefit from higher settings (200-300%)
• Formula cars can use lower settings (100-150%)

Wheel Friction

• Adds constant resistance to steering
• Higher values simulate cars without power steering
• Lower values for modern GT race cars
• Particularly useful for historic car simulations

Speed-dependent Damping

• Automatically increases steering weight at speed
• Replicates how real cars feel heavier at higher speeds
• Start around 60% with activation at 200km/h
• Very effective in modern GT and Formula cars

FFB Effect Equalizer

The FFB Effect Equalizer is one of our most innovative features, offering a level of force feedback customisation rarely seen in sim racing hardware.

Much like an audio equalizer shapes different sound frequencies, this tool lets you precisely tune how different types of forces are delivered to your hands.

By adjusting specific frequency bands, you can enhance or reduce particular aspects of feedback – from the low-frequency sensations of weight transfer and suspension movement to the high-frequency vibrations of road texture and tyre slip.

This granular control means you can create a force feedback profile that not only matches your driving style but also compensates for any characteristics of your particular wheelbase model that you’d like to adjust.

This powerful feature really helps our professional sim racers “dial in” their wheelbases.

Low Frequency Effects (0-15Hz)

• Chassis movement, roll and weight transfer
• Suspension compression
• Generally keep around 100-120%

Mid Frequency Effects (15-40Hz)

• Kerb impacts
• Tire slip
• Try boosting to 150-180% for better feel

High Frequency Effects (40-100Hz)

• Road surface texture
• Tire vibration
• Usually reduced to 80-100% to prevent noise