[hms_84]

Hay, I just bought Call of Duty 2 for Mac
it's so good ,, but I want to play it using my XBOX 360 Controller
BUT it doesn't work, The game doesn't seems to recognize the controller
AND I've been playing Halo with it, with no problems , but it doesn't work on COD2
any ideas ???
I'm using Standard Mac Pro, with USB X360 COntroller

Cheers

[Janichsan]

Does the Mac (or PC) version of CoD 2 support joypads in the first place?

However: don't do it. The console versions of FPSs are optimised for controllers by offering auto-aiming by some extent. The Mac and PC versions usually do not have this. You won't be able to hit an elephant from three feet away and it will play like crap.

[teflon]

i dont think they do have joypad support...

its a shame, and its something that MS are working on with their Gaming on Windows or whatever its called campaign. Theyre trying to get all games to be joypad-able, and when you use a joypad, the game does a bit of auto-aiming for you.

until then... dont do it, as Janichisan said.

[Endymion]

Unfortunately, the 360 gamepad relies on DirectX for input, and functions a bit differently there than a standard USB pad, so no, you cannot use this pad with your Mac, sadly.

[Janichsan]

Endymion, on February 6th 2007, 05:49 AM, said:

Unfortunately, the 360 gamepad relies on DirectX for input, and functions a bit differently there than a standard USB pad, so no, you cannot use this pad with your Mac, sadly.

You can. Just not with CoD 2.

[Smoke_Tetsu]

I recently have been playing around more with thumbstick for moving and strafing and mouse for aiming and I've gotten the hang of it and it actually works pretty good. The main difference between doing this method and using the keyboard is you have analog movement. But I would not use a gamepad by it'self... and I have been mostly doing that on the PC since a lot of Mac FPS don't support gamepads at all and Halo doesn't let you use mouse and gamepad you can only choose mouse and keyboard or just gamepad. But I don't want to emulate the keyboard with the pad because then there wouldn't be analog control. On the Mac I mostly use this method with Doomsday playing Doom or Heretic. Each control method has its pluses and minuses though even Keyboard and Mouse.

There is also this driver for OS X. I wonder which is better? The other one looks like it has a better GUI. Wait.. this one has some force feedback support and the other one says it doesn't have it.

[Endymion]

Janichsan, on February 6th 2007, 03:09 AM, said:

You can. Just not with CoD 2.

Smoke_Tetsu, on February 6th 2007, 03:19 AM, said:

There is also this driver for OS X. I wonder which is better? The other one looks like it has a better GUI. Wait.. this one has some force feedback support and the other one says it doesn't have it.

The link Janischan provided was to the original XBox HID driver, not the 360 one. That will not work for the 360 pad. I'd read elsewhere that the differing mechanism had no USB/HID equivalent outside of DirectX and therefore could not be made to work without it, but Smoke Tetsu's link seems to show otherwise, although I have no experience with it.

[Janichsan]

Endymion, on February 6th 2007, 10:01 PM, said:

Janischan

Gargh!!

[Endymion]

Sorry, I was listening to Janis Joplin at the time.

[hms_84]

Thanx for Replies,
I think I did it,
using " GamePad Companion" , it's an app that let's you assign the keyboard & mouse buttons to you're GamePad
like , what I did is,
assigning the RT button to Left Click Mouse to shoot ,
and the LT mouse for G "Grenade"
and so on ,,, after that the game has began to be AWESOME,
and the 360 controller does work on Halo , I've playing it for a long time now
you can find the driver just by Googling "XBOX 360 Controller driver for mac" , you'll find it
but it has to be a USB one, the Wireless doesn't work only on Windows

Cheers

[Smoke_Tetsu]

And it gives you the same link that I already linked to.

BTW, don't get me wrong from what I said earlier I didn't say it doesn't work I said it won't let you use a mouse and it at the same time in Halo. I had been experimenting more with using a thumbstick for my left hand and mouse for my right hand. To get analog control (move the stick a little bit and walk move it a lot and run) which if you bind that stick to wasd you don't get that functionality I wouldn't think.

I'm glad it works for you though and that's what counts if you personally like it.

[StopDropBurn]

Janichsan, on February 6th 2007, 04:48 PM, said:

Gargh!!

Ha! Now you feel my pain!

[the Battle Cat]

Endymion, on February 6th 2007, 03:31 PM, said:

Sorry, I was listening to Janis Joplin at the time.

That's funny that you typed that accidently, I've called him Janis Chan several times on purpose.

[UmarOMC1]

WHY you'd want to play an FPS with a controller is beyond me considering if you decide to play the game against other players they will hand your ass to you... that being said, there are XBox 360 drivers for OS X you might want to try out with your setup: http://www.versiontr...fo/macosx/29122