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Microsoft Sidewinder Racing Wheel Software Installer
Microsoft Sidewinder Racing Wheel Software

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This page describes the basics of programming for Xbox One racing wheels using Windows.Gaming.Input.RacingWheel and related APIs for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP).

By reading this page, you'll learn:

how to gather a list of connected racing wheels and their users
how to detect that a racing wheel has been added or removed
how to read input from one or more racing wheels
how to send force feedback commands
how racing wheels behave as UI navigation devices

Racing wheel overview

Racing wheels are input devices that resemble the feel of a real racecar cockpit. Racing wheels are the perfect input device for both arcade-style and simulation-style racing games that feature cars or trucks. Racing wheels are supported in Windows 10 and Xbox One UWP apps by the Windows.Gaming.Input namespace.

Xbox One racing wheels are offered at a variety of price points, generally having more and better input and force feedback capabilities as their price points rise. All racing wheels are equipped with an analog steering wheel, analog throttle and brake controls, and some on-wheel buttons. Some racing wheels are additionally equipped with analog clutch and handbrake controls, pattern shifters, and force feedback capabilities. Not all racing wheels are equipped with the same sets of features, and may also vary in their support for certain features—for example, steering wheels might support different ranges of rotation and pattern shifters might support different numbers of gears. Infamous game pc.

Device capabilities

Different Xbox One racing wheels offer different sets of optional device capabilities and varying levels of support for those capabilities; this level of variation between a single kind of input device is unique among the devices supported by the Windows.Gaming.Input API. Furthermore, most devices you'll encounter will support at least some optional capabilities or other variations. Because of this, it's important to determine the capabilities of each connected racing wheel individually and to support the full variation of capabilities that makes sense for your game.

For more information, see Determining racing wheel capabilities.

Force feedback

Some Xbox One racing wheels offer true force feedback—that is, they can apply actual forces on an axis of control such as their steering wheel—not just simple vibration. Games use this ability to create a greater sense of immersion (simulated crash damage, 'road feel') and to increase the challenge of driving well.

For more information, see Force feedback overview.

UI navigation

In order to ease the burden of supporting the different input devices for user interface navigation and to encourage consistency between games and devices, most physical input devices simultaneously act as a separate logical input device called a UI navigation controller. The UI navigation controller provides a common vocabulary for UI navigation commands across input devices.

Due to their unique focus on analog controls and the degree of variation between different racing wheels, they're typically equipped with a digital D-pad, View, Menu, A, B, X, and Y buttons that resemble those of a gamepad; these buttons aren't intended to support gameplay commands and can't be readily accessed as racing wheel buttons.

As a UI navigation controller, racing wheels map the required set of navigation commands to the left thumbstick, D-pad, View, Menu, A, and B buttons.

Navigation command	Racing wheel input
Up	D-pad up
Down	D-pad down
Left	D-pad left
Right	D-pad right
View	View button
Menu	Menu button
Accept	A button
Cancel	B button

Additionally, some racing wheels might map some of the optional set of navigation commands to other inputs they support, but command mappings can vary from device to device. Consider supporting these commands as well, but make sure that these commands are not essential to navigating your game's interface.

Navigation command	Racing wheel input
Page Up	varies
Page Down	varies
Page Left	varies
Page Right	varies
Scroll Up	varies
Scroll Down	varies
Scroll Left	varies
Scroll Right	varies
Context 1	X Button (commonly)
Context 2	Y Button (commonly)
Context 3	varies
Context 4	varies

Detect and track racing wheels

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Detecting and tracking racing wheels works in exactly the same way as it does for gamepads, except with the RacingWheel class instead of the Gamepad class. See Gamepad and vibration for more information.

Append(racingwheel);}```### Adding and removing racing wheelsWhen a racing wheel is added or removed the [RacingWheelAdded](/uwp/api/windows.gaming.input.racingwheel.racingwheeladded) and [RacingWheelRemoved](/uwp/api/windows.gaming.input.racingwheel.racingwheelremoved) events are raised. You can register handlers for these events to keep track of the racing wheels that are currently connected.The following example starts tracking an racing wheels that's been added.```cppRacingWheel::RacingWheelAdded += ref new EventHandler(Platform::Object^, RacingWheel^ args){ // This code assumes that you're interested in all new racing wheels. myRacingWheels->Append(args);}```The following example stops tracking a racing wheel that's been removed.```cppRacingWheel::RacingWheelRemoved += ref new EventHandler(Platform::Object^, RacingWheel^ args){ unsigned int indexRemoved; if(myRacingWheels->IndexOf(args, &indexRemoved)) { myRacingWheels->RemoveAt(indexRemoved); }}```### Users and headsetsEach racing wheel can be associated with a user account to link their identity to their gameplay, and can have a headset attached to facilitate voice chat or in-game features. To learn more about working with users and headsets, see [Tracking users and their devices](input-practices-for-games.md#tracking-users-and-their-devices) and [Headset](headset.md). -->

Reading the racing wheel

After you identify the racing wheels that you're interested in, you're ready to gather input from them. However, unlike some other kinds of input that you might be used to, racing wheels don't communicate state-change by raising events. Instead, you take regular readings of their current states by polling them.

Polling the racing wheel

Polling captures a snapshot of the racing wheel at a precise point in time. This approach to input gathering is a good fit for most games because their logic typically runs in a deterministic loop rather than being event-driven; it's also typically simp

Microsoft Sidewinder Racing Wheel Software