Game Pads in THPS3 and other Games...

[sirius]

Howdy peeps,

Whilst Im buggering about, can I ask you a quezzy?

Ive just installed GTA3 and TonyHawks3 on winxp pro sp1. I have a cheap (well I got it cheap) InterAct 'Propad 8 Digital' game pad with a direction pad and 6 buttons.....

Its USB and installed automatic for me as soon as I put it in the usb slot. I have gone to control panel and checked it works on the trial thing (ie the cursor moves and the buttons respond on the screen).

I run THPS3 after setting the 'options' for the gamepad, and doubly check once in THPS3 game options that the device is a gamepad - but its always a keyboard!. Anyway the buttons work, but I get no direction. Ive tried to setting the 'options' for the buttons and what they do, but I get no response from thr gamepad device - yet I know its working.....

Any ideas how to get going on this thing?.

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I got GTA3, and I dont get any text on the game, its just a yellow box where the text should be.......the rest of the graphics is spot on...any ideas here?


Thanks,

Sirius.

[Myk]

Dunno about the gamepad question but for GTA3 if youre running on XP there are 2 updates needed for XP itself in order to get rid of the text problem..

Get it here :

http://www.playedthegame.co.uk/porta...0c3bb1e3f2c535

youll also need the latest drivers for your vid card

[sirius]

Cheers Myk! Im downloading now

Ive sussed the gamepad!. dunno what the hell I did, but its working now .

I was a star at THPS2 - I even completed the bugger which makes a change for me . Its been a year or two since I last played THPS, Im finding it all a bit hard to manouvre again lol.

Ive never played GTA in any form , so it will be intresting to see what its like.


Thanks again Myk bud.

Sirius.

[JAZ]

With THPS3 you have to set it to joypad in the box that pops up before you run the game