Gaming on PC

Decided to start a new thread about this.  As I mentioned in a previous thread, I have just started to expand my PC gaming.  Up until recently, the only game I played on PC was FSX and I play everything else on the PS3.. my fav games are the call of duty series, grand theft auto 4, resident evil, etc.  The first game I started playing recently, aside from FSX, has been Grand Theft Auto 4 and I have been using the XBOX Wireless Controller meant for Windows.  It works great and I have been enjoying the game a lot with this controller. 

Sorry bud I can't help you heh. I was born and raised on Atari and had almost every console system since but after going to keyboard and mouse I find it impossibly slow and unresponsive when I play my PS3 version of Battlefield. So I'm the opposite of you hehe.

That being said it sure doesn't seem right with today's technology and growing PC gaming community that such a simple feature as a controller wouldn't work for every game out there...

Hi Kane,

Glad to see you are still trying to expand your horizons.

BF2 has settings for a Joy Stick. Have you tried to use them for your controller?

Frank

thanks guys, thats terrible news for me that it does not have native support for a controller, but I guess I am willing to give the keyboard/mouse a chance at least... I still think its ridiculous to not even at least give us the option to play with a controller..

Middle Mouse Button????

but my mouse doesnt even have a middle button

kane...your scroll wheel doesn't click when pushed?  That's usually it.

Razer Naga is the end all be all of gaming mice, period 

Originally posted by bprat22 kane...your scroll wheel doesn't click when pushed?  That's usually it.

Well "gamepad" should mean it works with a controller it could just be that the 360 controller is not being recognized by the game.

What helps me in all games, FPS and everything else, is a special left hand keyboard called the Razer Nostromo. There are tons of them out there, like the Logitech G13 referred to by various names and some are even built right into actual keyboards like the Z-Board.

I first bought the old Belkin n52 a little of 6 years ago when I got my previous computer. I could not stand playing games on a regular keyboard due to the button layout and the ergonomics of the board. When I got my new DS system i had to upgrade to the latest version now called the Razer Nostromo in order to work with Win7.

Belkin first teamed up with Razer a few years ago and their hybrid creating the n5te "powered by Razer" was a failure so I never switched to it. Razer has since bought full rights to the item from Belkin and fixed the design and it's great.

The reason why I like it so much is it's formed to actually fit the shape of your hand, you are not left with a pressure point on your wrist while you awkwardly try to find the keys.

With a standard keyboard you can rest your hand for the traditional AWSD layout but with the buttons being off center you can find yourself pressing the wrong keys. Or you can slid your keyboard over and use the Num pad but that leaves you with a lack of usable keys that are in reach with out moving your hand.

So that's why I use my Nostromo. Fits my entire hand so it rests more comfortably on my palm. I have 14 easy to reach buttons, all lined up, for my fingers as well as a d-pad that I actually use as just 8 additional buttons for my thumb. (When you look at the pic you will see a thumb stick on the d-pad. The thumb stick is removable)

Many people try to use the d-pad on the Nostromo like a normal d-pad to move around with and they end up hatting it. When I tell them to set the regular keys for Fwd, Rev, Right and Left and then use the d-pad as normal buttons they end up loving it. For example in FPS games the d-pad is set to 1-8 to select my weapons, which leaves the other 14 keys to be my movement keys and what ever else I want.

It has it's own program that you set the key binds to what ever you want. You can set them to single keys or you can program macros. Back in my CS days I used to program one of the buttons to work as a burst fire macro to give me a burst fire on any gun. Program the key to same fire key I have set in game and set it to for one at time, three times in a row, 0.3 second a part, break for 1 second then repeat. It would keep firing until I pressed it a second time to stop.