I installed my 15 years old Logitech RumblePad 2 for the first time in 10 years or so, and I´m having some trouble to make it work. Win10 recognises it and I installed its old drivers. I had problems with the calibration of one of the joysticks, but it seems that I managed to solve that issue using Antimicrox. Progress. Good.

Next step, make games recognise the controller. It seems that Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, Saints Row 3 and Psychonauts work well with it. But other games like The Saboteur doesn´t let me configure the buttons (although I can move the main character in the game), or other games like Hob doesn´t recognise the controller at all.

Any tips?

It's probably Dinput; good for old games / not good for newer ones (Xinput). Try this: https://www.x360ce.com/

If it's direct input controller it might help to use 3rd party apps, for instance I use DS4Windows (+drivers Xbox360_64Eng.exe required) but I think it will not work under Windows 10.

And when I'm super lazy and I want to play some GOG game using my DS4 controller I just start and then close Steam or GeForce NOW applications, they load their in-house drivers and activate my controller, works like a charm. GeForce NOW even helped me to pair my DS4 controller via Bluetooth (in native mode the connection always break after 30 secs).

Maybe it's not the best option but I wasn't able to play e.g. Batman Arkhan Asylum from GOG any other way on my trusty direct input DS4 controller.

Hmmm, i have some old AHK scripts that will convert inputs to keyboard strokes and had a close to correct translation. This was back in 2014 or something when i was first getting on GoG and was trying to get Trine to work correctly with a controller. If you're willing to play with that i'd share the code.

I installed x360ce and it makes Hob work with my controller, and I´ve been playing The Saboteur with no issues.


Thanks for your answers.

Well, Antimicro lets you customize everything. So you could map the keyboard controls onto your controller and see if that works.

just buy a new one

If you have that much money to be able to do that, then you buy it for them...

oh you clearly love me
could you buy quern for me?

You seem a little confused, maybe getting some fresh air will help. Being stuck indoors in front of a computer for extended periods can have that effect...

I get that this isn't a helpful suggestion, but I will say getting an xinput controller will make your life a lot easier. Just plug and play. You don't have to get an overpriced Xbox one, there are cheaper alternatives from Logitech and others.

yep even the xbox controller isnt that expensive , or just get a ps5 controller that seems cheap too

Why buy another one, when an old one can be managed to work well with a little bit of effort? Specially, in my case, when the one I already have is very good quality.

Buying things unnecessarily; once and again; is a good way of gathering junk, waste money, and pollute the planet a little bit more. It makes no sense.

You're explaining yourself to a well-known troll. Nobody else here thinks that you should buy a new controller. ;-)

It might not be relevant for Windows users, where x360ce is king, but there is a similar utility for Linux called xboxdrv. It allows one to emulate an Xbox controller from any other type of controller that's plugged in.

I use the following mappings to emulate an Xbox controller from a DualShock 3:

sudo nohup xboxdrv --evdev /dev/input/$event --evdev-absmap
ABS_X=x1,ABS_Y=y1,ABS_Z=x2,ABS_RZ=y2,ABS_HAT0X=dpad_x,ABS_HAT0Y=dpad_y --axismap -Y1=Y1,-Y2=Y2 --evdev-keymap BTN_WEST=y,BTN_EAST=b,BTN_SOUTH=a,BTN_NORTH=x,BTN_TL=lb,BTN_TR=rb,BTN_TL2=lt,BTN_TR2=rt,BTN_SELECT=back,BTN_ST ART=start --mimic-xpad 1>/dev/null 2>&1 &

Where $event is the event associated to the existing controller. I also have a script here, for reference.

I'm hoping it may help other Linux gamers that land on this thread via forum searches and whatnot :).