USB gamepad question

[Lara's Brother]

Hello All,

I am a new member and I want to introduce myself. I am Lara's Brother

I play the newer TR games on a PC running XP, and I am not good enough on the keyboard to keep Lara out of danger.

I think that a very good USB gamepad would help me (I do ok on the PS-2 gamepad), but I don't know which gamepads are good and allow Lara to use all her moves, and which are not.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thank you, Lara's Brother

[Andromeda66]

I'm not much of a PS2 person so I can't help you much there. But I can welcome you to the forum :)

[EscondeR]

Welcome to TRF :wve:

Generally you can use any USB gamepad. Remember to:

1. Configure it in Control panel > Gaming devices first.

2. Then use Joy2Key (http://www.tombraiderhub.com/download/jtk379en.zip) program.

Mind that USB gamepad can possibly bring you troubles in AOD/TRL/TRA.

[spikejones]

I played AOD and TRA with the Logitech Dual Action USB controller. It's basically a ps2 gamepad for computers. I actually found that it was easier to control Lara with the gamepad than with the keyboard, and I am pretty good with the keyboard. To each his own though. Anyways, I didn't need the joy2key program, not sure what it does. There is a program for the controller where you can assign different profiles for the games that it comes "compatible" with. Some games aren't in the list, but it still works and can be mapped out through the in game menu.

[SamReeves]

I use a PS2 gamepad with a Dreamgear USB adapter. Windows XP recongnizes it and there's no need to download any drivers such as Joy 2 Key. However the caveat is that Tomb Raider Chronicles has a serious bug that doesn't recognize any gamepad. You would need to mess with Joy 2 Key to get it to run on TRC, but that's not guaranteed.

[myrmaad]

For TRL and TRA I can use an Xbox controller (USB), the windows version comes with the Microsoft drivers, but I just used a standard Xbox Controller and downloaded the Xbox driver from the Microsoft website. Was up and running in about 5 minutes.