Gamepad Support for Steam

[zcolbster]

I have made a wrapper for Steam using engine 1.7.36 and wrapper version 2.6.0. "wine control" shows my connected xbox 360 controller and responds to all buttons. However, when I load up BioShock, which has an option to use a gamepad, the game does not recognize that one is connected. Is there any way for games to recognize the gamepad?

[olivierfrdierick]

Joystick support for Mac OSX was added in Wine 1.7.39.

[zcolbster]

I am on 1.7.39 and I updated my engine to 1.7.39 as well. I booted up the game and it still does not recognize that the controller is plugged in.

[zcolbster]

UPDATE: I have completely removed wine from my system and I did a fresh install from the git source. I followed the instructions for setting up wine and the Steam from the AppDB. I installed BioShock through Steam and the game does not recognize that a controller was plugged in. I wanted to know if anyone has had success with an XBox 360 controller using 1.7.39 on Steam.

[olivierfrdierick]

xbox 360 controller is a XInput device.
Did you install xinput?

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$ WINEPREFIX=path/to/prefix winetricks xinput

this command will install Windows XInput component in the wineprefix of your choice (default is ~/.wine).

[zcolbster]

I am getting `zsh: permission denied: winetricks` and `sudo: winetricks: command not found`

[zcolbster]

I got the command to run, but it says that xinput is already installed.

[olivierfrdierick]

You may find more things to try in this discussion on GOG forums.

Link: Recommendations for gamepad - Mac/Wine