Marvin’s Awesome iRacing App (MAIRA) can “fix” the iRacing’s FFB

Or at least that is what many people seem to be thinking and talking about these months. This new program has been buzzing around for about a year, but the refactored version released a couple of weeks ago has brought some remarkable improvements, and we are going to show them to you.

The first thing: what is this?

According to its author and developer:

This is my iRacing app that I built to control the force feedback effects on my steering wheel. This app has been growing to include more features, but it’s primary feature will always be 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
• Improved spotter (experimental work in progress)

As you can see, there are some very interesting features that your wheel base might not support natively. Even so, many users are saying great things about this application, which replaces iRacing’s native FFB tuning and improves on it.

How do I test it?

You have to disable the native iRacing FFB for it to work properly. Then you can tune and configure your options in the MAIRA application to test it and get your own results.

You can install the new refactored beta version by clicking here.

Give me some guidance on what to do next

As the author says, there is no full documentation for this refactorized version yet, but you can find a brief guide on the official page by clicking here.

Of course, there are still some tasks and concepts carried over from the old program, so you can understand what you are doing by reading the original documentation. You can also install the classic version if you find it useful and do not want to play with beta software.

Show me some videos

Here you have Dave Cam testing the old version and sharing his impressions:

You can access the main page on this website:

• Marvin’s Awesome iRacing App

I will write a new post as soon as I have enough time with the refactored version to really understand the details. See you soon!