Setting up Simucube 3 for iRacing and Marvin’s Awesome iRacing App

One of the best parts of owning a Simucube 3 wheelbase is discovering how good Force Feedback can feel once your Tuner 3.0 profile and Marvin’s Awesome iRacing App are dialled in. With Simucube, your “profile” is essentially the heart of the driving experience – how the wheelbase communicates grip, weight transfer, bumps, and the car’s behaviour back to your hands.

Force Feedback is extremely personal. Every sim racer ends up with their own carefully tweaked setup, uniquely tuned for the sim racing software they’re using and the car itself. Some prefer a smoother level of FFB and others like a grainier feel, with all the little bumps and vibrations of the track details felt through the wheel.

Simple or Advanced? Tuner 3.0 Gives You Both

Although Simucube 3 does have highly advanced tuning possibilities, in Tuner 3.0 you don't need to go into much detail to get great-feeling force feedback from iRacing.

Most drivers will need to find the torque level they are happy with, and in the Effect Shaping tab select the Effect Feel and Road Texture Boost.

For example, I usually run my Simucube 3 Sport at around 10 Nm of torque, with plenty of Road Texture Boost (30), so every bit of track detail is communicated through the steering wheel. Effect Feel set a bit smoother to 60 out of 100 – but with the new Simucube 3, it is still plenty so I clearly feel opposing forces which help me understand when my car is rotating.

New in the Simucube 3 wheelbases is Telemetry Force Feedback. For the best experience, don't forget to turn it on — I personally prefer the Immersive effect, with Road Texture, RPM and Gear Change all enabled.

What do those effects do?

• Road texture effect: Feel road surface details through the wheel
• ABS effect: vibration feedback when ABS activates
• RPM effect: vibration feedback of the engine
• Gear change effect: Tactile feedback during gear changes
• Cornering effect: Enhanced feel during cornering maneuvers

Currently, the Road Texture, ABS, and Gear Change effects feel great, but the Cornering effect still needs a bit more work, so let’s leave it off for now. The ABS effect is also best left off, especially if you’re using the ActivePedal Pro or Ultimate. However, if you don’t have ActivePedal, you may find it useful — particularly in GT cars.

Marvin’s Awesome iRacing App

Is made to control the force feedback effects on your steering steering wheel. It’s primary feature is to enhance the force feedback experience of iRacing. 

Here is a basic summary of features:

• Awesome force feedback experience
  • 360 Hz force feedback for all wheelbases!
  • Separate controls for overall strength and detail strength and parked strength
  • Oversteer and understeer effect generation (sine wave, sawtooth wave, constant force, pedal haptics)
  • Soft lock
  • Crash and curb protection
  • Adjustable force feedback output signal (minimum, maximum, curve)
  • Wheel auto centering when not on track
• LFE ⮕ FFB signal routing
• Support for Simagic Haptic Pedal Reactors (HPR)
• RPM lights on Logitech wheels
• SimHub Plugin

Awesome force feedback feature hooks into the telemetry data, which is broadcast by the iRacing simulator, reads the 360 Hz steering column torque signal, does some processing to it, and then sends the processed signal to your wheel.

Below are the settings that I’ve found work best for me (all other settings are left stock). But there is much more you can adjust, so feel free to experiment and enhance your force feedback experience even further!

You can download the Marvin's Awesome iRacing App 2.0 Beta version here. But don't forget that you must disable the iRacing simulator’s built-in force feedback feature before using Marvin's Awesome iRacing App.