PC + 360 controller, anyone else discovered this?

I have a Wireless 360 controller on my main PC and a wired one for the gf on the secondary gaming rig. Both work great, and they really improve pretty much any game that was designed with PS3/360 controls first and PC second.
 
The wife and I are playing through TR w/ controller now. Such a great game, I hope it turns out to be a big success for them so we can get another one.
 
Bought one years ago. I bought it for emulators and it works great. Now that emulators are getting fairly big, you can buy replicas of the actual console controller, but USB (N64, NES, SNES, etc.). Still the XBox controller works excellent on a lot of games. Others, it's KB/M. I like options, though.
 
Is this guy trolling? How does someone JUST now find out about this? Very suspicious...

Either way, I use a PS3 controller via Bluetooth...works excellently using DS3 Tool. It even emulates 360 controllers in games, so it's just as plug and play as a Xbox controller. LOVE IT!
 
Ebernanut said:
Games for windows certification doesn't require that a game supports the 360 controller, it requires that a game supports the 360 controller if the game is going to support any controllers at all.
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Thanks for clarifying this.
 
Lucky for you it was a game that lends well the the analog stick. Just try to play a game that uses the D-PAD for movement and you'll see how horrific that controller really is.
 
I got one when the 360 came out, its terrible on the pc. gonna stick with kb and mouse.
 
I actually used JoyToKey to set up my controller to be able to play EVE Online while sitting in a lovesack. It was totally functional, though I'll probably be sticking w/ KB/Mouse on that.

After several hours of play though, I can safely say I much prefer a game like Tomb Raider w/ controller. The vibration adds a lot to the immersion. May have to go do round 2 of Batman games and Max Payne 3.
 
I know all about this. I mostly only play games anymore than I can use the wireless controller with because I don't like sitting at my desk anymore. I ran an HDMI cable through the wall to my 47" LED TV and I use my computer in the living room.
 
Like others mentioned, been playing like this for years. Some Source games also have native support you can enable, big picture mode is pretty much tailor made for controllers. Gamepad support can be spotty in games that should support it though (aka console ports) which can make things frustrating once you're used to the luxury of having it.
 
I have a Razer Onza TE that I use for PC. Actually two of them, one I use only on the XBox and another I use only on the PC. The only games I play with them for the most part are things that are more "console type" though. Hard to let go of the mouse & keyboard for most games.
 
So if you think that guy is late, I'm even worse.

I just got Tomb Raider on PC (NOT Steam) and I am trying to play it. I am trying to use a PS3 controller (original SIXAXIS one) via Motioninjoy but nothing is happening. My controller is working, in the Motioninjoy program, under the controller properties menu I can see all the buttons are firing correctly, but when I open TR it doesn't respond. When I go to the Options menu in game (on the start screen, haven't even tried to start playing yet) it just gives me options for a keyboard. Am I missing something? How are you guys doing this??? THANK YOU
 
Skillz said:
It's not the best ever. The D pad on the 360 controller sucks balls.
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Yeah I prefer the PS3 controller using motion joy driver in xbox emulation mode, which essentially means all the games think it is an xbox 360 controller and you don't have to map the buttons like it's some random PC controller. Just goes to show how long this has been known. :)

And yeah, since a lot of games you'll want to use kb&m still, a bad dpad kinds means, at least to me anyway, screw that thing... PS3 on x360 mode! Hoowa!!
 
I've had my wireless 360 controller for a long long time. I play mostly 3rd person and car games with it on PC, FPS i play Ky/mouse unless i feel really lazy LOL
 
Osceana said:
So if you think that guy is late, I'm even worse.

I just got Tomb Raider on PC (NOT Steam) and I am trying to play it. I am trying to use a PS3 controller (original SIXAXIS one) via Motioninjoy but nothing is happening. My controller is working, in the Motioninjoy program, under the controller properties menu I can see all the buttons are firing correctly, but when I open TR it doesn't respond. When I go to the Options menu in game (on the start screen, haven't even tried to start playing yet) it just gives me options for a keyboard. Am I missing something? How are you guys doing this??? THANK YOU
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So you've already paired the ps3 controller to the bluetooth device on your pc right? I used a little USB one myself.

Once it's paired you've selected the Xbox 360 emulation from the home screen, right?

What do you see when you click on Game Controller Panel? Does it say 360 Controller? If it doesn't go back to the home page and click that pink Enable button. Go back to the Game Controller Panel and see what it says, should be right now.

I found that for whatever reason I have to click enable before it will see it as a 360 controller. After that everything is fine.
 
Talk about late :)

I use my wireless 360 pad for MAME, Gens and sometimes XBMC.

Also for racing in RAGE.
 
Dallows said:
Once it's paired you've selected the Xbox 360 emulation from the home screen, right?

What do you see when you click on Game Controller Panel? Does it say 360 Controller? If it doesn't go back to the home page and click that pink Enable button. Go back to the Game Controller Panel and see what it says, should be right now.

I found that for whatever reason I have to click enable before it will see it as a 360 controller. After that everything is fine.
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This was it. Thank you so much for your help.
 
I have a PS3, I may have to try using that instead, I like the PS3 controller better.
 
Is there a decent 360 clone with a better dpad someone can recommend?
 
I'm probably the only one that thinks this, but I love using a controller for Battlefield. It makes flying a lot easier. It's just too bad I usually get killed while switching between controller and KB/mouse after getting shot down.
 
Is there anything that lets you operate your entire PC with the controller, though? It would be good to be able to navigate the desktop from the couch, such as switching from one game to another without having to get up. Yes I'm that lazy.
 
There's autohotkey. It's what I used to use to map 360 buttons to games that don't have controller support.
 
I too was late to the PC 360 controller, I had a Logitech Dual Shock controller but games slowly stopped supporting it.

Pretty much every game supports the Xbox 360 controller, which is great!
 
Plague_Injected said:
Is there anything that lets you operate your entire PC with the controller, though? It would be good to be able to navigate the desktop from the couch, such as switching from one game to another without having to get up. Yes I'm that lazy.
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Could try a wireless mouse or....

Oscar Meyer said:
Yeah discovered it about 7 years ago LOL. Well maybe not that long, but at least a few years now. You'll be even more psyched when you discover this http://nirklars.wordpress.com/xboxmouse/
It lets you use the controller as a mouse. You can even type using the virtual keyboard with it. Perfect if you have your computer hooked up to a tv.
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