So today I was trying to play Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed with four people. we ran into a multitude of issued with the controllers not working properly forcing a restart of the pc and a bunch of time wasted, etc. Long story short, as it turns out PC may not be so great after all. Playing with four people is much, much easier on a console... Why can't the drivers just get along. My most consistently working controller is my Xbox Controller S... Maybe I just need to get some N64 usb adapters and use those instead of trying to use something more modern.
You've decided that PC isn't so great because one game doesn't work properly? What a weird conclusion to come to. I hope you don't see the state of Assassin's Creed Unity on consoles then.
It would have been any game with split screen capabilities. It wasn't the games fault but the PC and controllers fault. I think it was due to how you have to "trick" it into seeing a PS3 controller as a 360 so in device manager there is the PS3 controller and a 360 controller that is also the PS3 controller. Sure nothing can match PC graphically but if you are just trying to get into a multiplayer split screen game quickly with four mismatched controllers it's likely not going to be easy. I've spent more time fiddling with drivers instead of actually playing games on multiple occasions because controllers didn't want to work properly. Since I have an old Xbox controller S I have to use x360ce to get that controller to work but that software sometimes causes issues with the 360 and PS3 controllers I have. Sonic & All-Stars Racing works perfectly, except keyboard doesn't work, but other than that the game is great and nothing like AC or BF or any other crap AAA launch. Basically PC is only master race if you only use kb/m and avoid games like Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed that basically require a controller to be enjoyable, which is better than some games which require one to play at all (Van Helsing)
So basically the issue is that you insist on using controllers notorious for poor PC support rather than actual PC compatible gamepads....
I use what I have. I was a console player and switched to PC because console was becoming too stale and I was tired of paying for XBL. As for controllers notorious for poor support I'm not sure what you mean. The PS3 is the only one that really doesn't have proper support. Also you guys are thick as bricks. This is a joke, ya know how everyone is always saying PC master race consoles suck, etc, etc. I'm just showing that there are downsides to pc gaming like when things just don't work for what seems like no reason. Like RO2 crashing my entire PC because punkbuster B was not allowed through my firewall, or bridge project never closing and doing the same as RO2.
We're hardly "thick as bricks" when your issues are down to user error. Look at the Xbox Controller S for a second. Or rather, the connector it uses. (imported from here) Propietary. To even plug it into a PC, nevermind getting it to function, you need something unofficial and unsupported. Then on top of that, you mention that you need X360CE to even use it as a controller. It was never designed to be PC compatible to begin with, so I don't see why you're complaining that an unstable, hacky solution isn't working.
Never had issues with my genuine wired xbox 360 controllers which are natively supported for PC usage... Or afterglow as cheaper clone alternatives that work fine.
Maybe I didn't make it clear, idk. I can be an idiot. The Ps3 controller causes the most issues. If I'm using my controller s and 360 controllers I don't have any issues. The SCP drivers for PS3 controllers can be wonky from time to time. They work great most of the time though especially for Bluetooth. The problems come with how the computer tries to see them as specific players. The controller s is always one, the ps3 also tries to always be one but too which is where the issues come in. If I could figure out how to adjust the scp drivers to put it in another slot it should work better. It's SCP for DS3 not the XBCD for the controller s causing problems.
