GRID Autosport: Wheel Support and System Requirements

Last updated on January 16th, 2021 at 05:19 pm

A point of frustrated derision with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the GRID: Autosport team have been able to publish a useful chart of controller compatibility due to the new game arriving only on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

From gamepads to wheels, hardware support in GRID: Autosport is as comprehensive as we’ve come to expect from Codemasters. However the final game turns out, such compatibility is a strong point in its favour and it is a positive step for the company to make this sort of announcement in good time before Release Day. We’ll almost certainly still need control tweaks through an Advanced Settings menu, but at least we’re not looking at prematurely redundant hardware!

 PC Wheels

Fanatec Clubsport Pedals	Fanatec Clubsport Wheel	Fanatec CSR
Fanatec CSR Elite Wheel	Fanatec Porsche 911 Carrera	Fanatec Porsche 911 GT2 Wheel
Fanatec Porsche 911 GT3 RS V2 Wheel	Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo S Wheel	Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo Wheel
Logitech Drive FX Wheel	Logitech Driving Force EX	Logitech Driving Force GT
Logitech Driving Force Pro	Logitech G25	Logitech G27
Logitech MOMO Racing Wheel
Mad Catz Wireless Racing Wheel	Microsoft Wireless Xbox 360 Wheel
Thrustmaster 458 Italia Wheel	Thrustmaster F430 Force	Thrustmaster Ferrari GT
Thrustmaster RGT FF Pro	Thrustmaster T100	Thrustmaster T500 RS
Thrustmaster TX 458 Italia Edition
SPEEDLINK Drift O.Z. Racing Wheel	Xbox Wireless Speed Wheel

Furthering the wide-ranging wheel and pedal support, more portable options aren’t left out either. Many other pads will of course work; this is merely Codemasters’ customary ‘official’ list.

PC Controllers

Hama uRage ESS	Hama uRage Vendetta	Hama uRage Vendetta Cr
Hama uRage Vendetta Wireless
Logitech Dual Action Gamepad	Logitech Rumble Gamepad F510
Mad Catz MLG Pro Circuit
Official Xbox 360 Wired Pad	Official Xbox 360 Wireless Pad
SPEEDLINK Strike FX Gamepad	SPEEDLINK Torid Gamepad	SPEEDLINK Xeox USB Gamepad
Thrustmaster Dual Trigger 3-in-1	Thrustmaster GPX Series
Wildfire 2

PlayStation 3 Wheels

The PlayStation’s more open nature when it comes to hardware will serve players as well as it did in earlier games such as F1 2013 and Gran Turismo 6. Once again, there are plenty of choices with wheel and pedal sets. Thrustmaster, Fanatec and Logitech – the expected names are all included.

Fanatec Clubsport Pedals	Fanatec Clubsport Wheel	Fanatec CSR
Fanatec CSR Elite Wheel	Fanatec Porsche 911 Carrera	Fanatec Porsche 911 GT2 Wheel
Fanatec Porsche 911 GT3 RS V2 Wheel	Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo S Wheel	Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo Wheel
Logitech Driving Force EX	Logitech Driving Force GT	Logitech Driving Force Pro
Logitech G25	Logitech G27	Logitech MOMO Racing Wheel
Mad Catz MLG Pro Circuit
Thrustmaster F430	Thrustmaster RGT FF Pro	Thrustmaster T100
Thrustmaster T180	Thrustmaster T500 RS Racing Wheel

PlayStation 3 Controllers

DUALSHOCK 3	SIXAXIS	Official Sony Wireless Bluetooth Keypad
Hama uRage Vendetta Cr	Hama uRage Vendetta Wireless
Mad Catz Wireless Gamepad
SPEEDLINK Strike FX Gamepad	SPEEDLINK Torid Gamepad

Xbox 360 Wheels

Moving to Microsoft and the 360, the alternatives to the standard pad are fair as Codemasters has kept functionality going for mass-market products as well as the more robust Fanatec wheels that many gamers have considered an ‘investment’ in the last few years.

Fanatec CSR	Fanatec Porsche 911 GT2 Wheel	Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo S Wheel
Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo Wheel
Logitech Drive FX Wheel
Mad Catz Wireless Racing Wheel
Microsoft Wireless Xbox 360 Wheel	Microsoft Xbox Wireless Speed Wheel
Thrustmaster 458 Italia Wheel

Xbox 360 Controllers

Official Xbox 360 Wireless Pad	Official Xbox 360 Wired Pad
Thrustmaster GPX Series
Datel Wildfire 2

PC Hardware Requirements

Returning to computers, the ‘Minimum’ and ‘Recommended’ system specs have also been provided for GRID: Autosport. Looking at the wide chasm that is the performance difference between those two levels and considering that Codemasters games have repeatedly been system-friendly, we would expect all but those using built-in chipsets or running the weakest of graphics cards to have a comfortable experience.

Here’s the suggested hardware configs for the game:

Minimum

• Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.4Ghz or AMD Athlon X2 5400+ processor
• 2GB of memory
• 15GB available hard drive space
• Intel HD3000 or AMD HD2000-series or NVIDIA Geforce 8000-series graphics hardware
• DirectX-compatible sound card
• Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8 operating system
• Broadband Internet connection

Recommended

• Intel Core i7 or AMD FX Series processor
• 20GB available hard drive space
• 4GB of memory
• Intel HD5200 or AMD HD7000-series or NVIDIA GTX600-series graphics (including a minimum of 1GB RAM)
• DirectX-compatible sound card
• Windows Vista 64-bit, Windows 7 64-bit or Windows 8 64-bit operating system
• Broadband Internet connection

Supported Graphics Hardware

• AMD Radeon HD2000, HD3000, HD4000, HD5000, HD6000, HD7000, R7 and R9 ranges
• AMD Fusion A8 or higher
• Intel HD3000, HD4000, HD5000 chipsets
• NVIDIA GeForce 8000, 9000, GTX200, GTX400, GTX500, GTX600 and GTX700 series

So from operating system to hardware, the game is made to work with gear that’s been around for several years. Low end, the peaks of the top end and AMD’s intriguing APUs – it’s all included and from experience with both old and now middling-at-best hardware, it’s not only pleasing to see but inspires expectations due to how well the preceding Codemasters games have run.

Numbers and all that relayed, it will soon be time to see where GRID: Autosport is headed. We recently collated the multi-class car and track selection, so the next stop will be to narrow our focus on the features and experiences to come with the game’s many racing disciplines.