This is the Nitho Drive Pro One, Nitho’s new entrant in the steering wheel market.
This model has the gear shifter separate, so attach if you need it.
The Nitho Drive Pro One is supported on PC, PS4, Xbox one and the xbox one x/s
The wheel has a 270 degree steering angle, rumble vibration, zero dead zones and supports multiple usb standards.
This is how the steering wheel looks and I like the way the buttons are easily accessible on the wheel itself.
More features are marked on the side of the box.
I just love the box design, let’s open it up and look at what’s inside.
Play hard, Nithos tagline.
Here’s the first item: the gear shifter, the chrome finish gives it a nice premium look.
The gear shifts are only up and down, as you would have it in automatic vehicles in sport mode.
The front has this connector, which connects it to the wheel.
This is the cable you would use.
The screw opens up, to allow mounting to a table.
Here are the pedals, they look really nice.
We have this footrest too, which can be folded out of the way.
Here’s the Racing wheel, looks cool. The buttons seem to have the italian flag colors behind them. Very racey.
Gamepad buttons are also available on the face, for easy access. Below are home, settings etc which can be mapped as per the game you’re playing. The Nitho logo has this pearlescent colour to it as per how the light hits it.
Gamepad buttons are X or square, Y or triangle, B circle and A X.
The rubber grips on the side allow for a good grip and give a nice look.
We have a d pad and an analog stick also easily accessible.
This little red accent is a nice little touch. The wheel has a lot of nice little surprises, which help elevate the aesthetics and also the performance.
We have a 270 degree turning radius just like you would on a real car.
We have three ports at the back, first is for the pedals, second is for the gear shifter and third when you’re connecting to a console, a usb port for connecting a controller.
We have paddle shifters on both sides.
The wheel connects to the gaming device using a USB-A connector.
Also included in the box are a usb-a to usb-c cable and a usb-a to micro-usb cable, which you would choose between as per the controller you’re using.
Some screws to mount the wheel onto the Nitho Drive stand.
A customer service card, stickers, safety notice, suction cups.
This is where the suction cups would be installed, if you don’t want to use the provided table clamps.
This is how they work, insert and twist to lock.
I had problems with it not sticking to the table because of the mat, so I went back to the clamps.
These clamps open up by using these screws on top. One for each side.
It didn’t fit my table even at max, so you will need to unscrew these extensions. Make sure to keep the screws safe, if you need to install the wheel onto a smaller table.
And it worked perfectly.
Similarly if your gear shifter doesn’t fit, we can remove the top of the screw and now this fits too.
Nice and snug, it’s not going anywhere.
Now to install the pedals,
just connect this cable to the port at the back. Now the gear shifter, done.
Plug in the racing wheel to a usb port on your PC and it is ready.
You will notice this purple light here, the wheel is now in d-input mode.
Four led modes are purple d-input mode on pc, yellow a-input mode on PC, blue is playstation mode and green is xbox mode.
There’s even red for the nintendo switch.
I tried a few games on the PC, assetto corsa competizione, this game has a learning curve, you can’t just flat out drive at max speed.
This is how the pedals are, spacing felt a little too small for me and being used to an actual car I could not use one foot for both pedals and instead I used one per.
Forza 4 I had problems with the steam version as the wheel was not being displayed as a controller option.
I had an XBOX game pass, (not a sponsor) and that included both forza 4 and 5, and these versions had no problem.
The wheel is detected, and you do need to set up the mapping and here’s a video on how to do just that. And now the game is working really well.
If your game doesn’t recognize the wheel like Dirt 3, then you need to switch the wheel to x-input mode. This allows you to play the game, but you lose the precision that d-input mode provides.
Just hold down the home button here for a few seconds and the wheel switches to x-input mode.
Now dirt 3 works, with a considerable dead zone, but still playable. Do note that when the wheel is in d-input mode there are no vibrations or rumble feedback, but if you do switch to x-input mode you get the vibrations but the wheel is not as responsive.
There’s this deadzone which makes it tougher to play.
D-input is for more precision, and x-input is for arcade style play.
Now let’s check out how the wheel works on the PS4.
You will need to connect a controller to the wheel using the usb-a to micro-usb cable.
The usb-a cable from the wheel goes to the ps4.
Now turn the console on and use the home button which is equivalent to the PS button to activate,
The led glows in blue indicating it’s in playstation mode.
Now the wheel is detected and you can swipe through the interface using the d-pad or even the analog stick.
Here’s how we can control the interface within the Gran Turism, choose maps etc without needing to pick up the controller.
The controls are so responsive, it makes playing so much fun. Rumble feedback is also available in PlayStation mode.
So that was the Nitho Drive Pro One, a great new addition to the Nitho Steering wheel line. Nitho suggests playing in d-input mode on the PC, but if you want the rumble effects then you will need to switch to x-input mode. I felt precision is more important to me than vibration so I played in d-input mode.
The racing wheel worked really well on my PS4 and the PC. Do note it only supports vibration or rumble as it’s called and no actual force feedback where the wheel would lock up and fight back as in real cars. But force feedback racing wheels cost three- five times as much.
Games were fun to play, and the controls were stable and accurate.
The driving experience is just for fun and would not really teach you how to drive, a bit of steering control maybe but it’s not 100% like a real car. My wife also loved driving around in the virtual world.
If you want a racing wheel which is not that expensive and works with multiple platforms this would not disappoint. I’ve been using this wheel for more than two weeks now, and I really like how it looks.
