Half-Life 2 Forum

Hello,

I was wondering if someone could help me get my xbox 360 controller working for half life 2. I purchased the wireless adapter that allows it to work on windows. i installed the software in crossover and half life 2 does not seem to be able to detect it when it is plugged in. I have a driver that allows me to use it while in osx. i don't think this is affecting it, but I may be wrong. While installing the windows install disc it did not run very smoothly and did not install completely as well. If someone could please help me with this I that would be awesome as a couple of my friends would like to do this as well.

thanks in advace

First, installing Windows hardware drivers under CrossOver will almost never work. The drivers don't have the kind of direct access to the hardware that they expect.

In order for a device to work with Windows programs running under CrossOver, it must first be recognized by Mac OS X. CrossOver accesses devices just like any other Mac program, and requires the help of Mac OS X to do so.

I don't know what sort of events an Xbox 360 controller provides to Mac applications. I don't know if they need to be specially programmed to expect those events and respond to them. If that's the case, then CrossOver has not been specially programmed in that manner and won't respond.

On the other hand, if the controller appears to Mac applications as a sort of mouse-like device, then CrossOver will respond to the events. Unfortunately, CrossOver does not currently pass mouse buttons other than the first two through the X11 layer to the Windows programs. So, only a couple of the buttons will work. We hope to fix that in the future.