Using joypad for Half Life 2 and others?

KNiVES · 16 Jun 2007 at 23:51

I have heard of a mod or small program where you can use the 360 controller to play Half Life 2 with. I can't seem to find it though, does anyone here have any experience with such? Would be great to try such.

edit: aha I found this

http://support.steampowered.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=421

If anyone else is interested like me, try that - I will post back in a minute with impressions.

Megahurtz400 · 17 Jun 2007 at 00:16

Why would you want to use joypad over KB + M?

Princey · 17 Jun 2007 at 00:22

Nice, I'd like to hear your impressions.

To the OP I like to play with the PC hooked up to my HDTV and sit on the bed/chair with a pad. Not really practical to sit on a chair with a mouse and keyboard.

Megahurtz400 · 17 Jun 2007 at 00:26

Fair do's

willhub · 17 Jun 2007 at 00:38

Princey said:
Nice, I'd like to hear your impressions.

To the OP I like to play with the PC hooked up to my HDTV and sit on the bed/chair with a pad. Not really practical to sit on a chair with a mouse and keyboard.

Move your desk in front of your sofa

or get some of those tables they use in hospitals and put your keyboard and mouse on that, sorted

Princey · 17 Jun 2007 at 00:40

I think you might be on to something there.

KNiVES · 17 Jun 2007 at 13:53

Well, I tried it - it's actually not as playable as I anticipated. It feels very sensitive - even if you aim the joypad slightly, you will turn very quickly regardless. So aiming is very difficult, especially without the auto-aim that is usually associated with joypads. I could not find a way to adjust the sensitivity from the game menus. Another small gripe is that with the 360 controller and the .config that Valve provides, there are no support for the triggers, so you have to use the bumpers. This can give hand cramps after some time.

It was worth trying out, and hopefully when the 360 version of the Black Box comes out, Valve may implement fully supported controls for those who like to play with controllers.

I do normally play my PC games with mouse/keyboard, I just felt like a change

AWPC · 17 Jun 2007 at 15:46

Been doing this for months on my HDTV. Very easy to setup.

I use a wireless X360 controller + MS crossfire wireless gaming receiver.

Just download this free app then you can configure keypresses to match the gamepad (works with any wired or wireless PC gamepad).

http://www.xpadder.com/

Played Prey, HL2, Doom3, Quake4, Farcry and many others which lacked native gamepad support is a joy on such a large screen. You can easily adjust how sensitive the gamepad is and even emulate a mouse with it and still configure the other gamepad buttons to emulate keypresses.

KNiVES · 17 Jun 2007 at 15:52

Nice, thanks for the link! I'll give it a shot. It seems very in-depth. Slightly off-topic question, may I ask how you connect your HDTV to your PC? Mine only has HDMI and component, no VGA

is it possible to do anything with the HDMI aspect, such as a convertor?

edit: it won't detect my wired 360 controller at all, only the keyboard. :/

AWPC · 17 Jun 2007 at 21:26

KNiVES said:
Nice, thanks for the link! I'll give it a shot. It seems very in-depth. Slightly off-topic question, may I ask how you connect your HDTV to your PC? Mine only has HDMI and component, no VGA is it possible to do anything with the HDMI aspect, such as a convertor?

edit: it won't detect my wired 360 controller at all, only the keyboard. :/

VGA but you can buy a DVI to HDMI cable. Some HDTVs HDMI inputs have overscan which means the image does not fill the screen as you cannot get 1:1 pixel mapping. Mine allows you to set an option called justscan which means you get 1:1 pixel mapping. Your wired controller should work as long as windows detects it as I can use a USB wired logic3 gamepad and that works fine.

KNiVES · 17 Jun 2007 at 21:33

Thanks for the advice mate.