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Posted July 08, 2018
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immi101: I think it is easier to look if the game in question loads any of the xinput dlls by running the game with WINEDEBUG=loaddll, ie. 'WINEDEBUG=loaddll wine game.exe'.
Then look in the output for "xinput1_1.dll", "xinput1_2.dll" or similar (there a few of those).
Thanks, I’m going to give this a try.
Posted July 08, 2018
Mirror’s Edge (2009 game, GOG version) is another game working out of the box. Looks like this one supports both DirectInput and XInput, and defaults to using DirectInput on my system.
Post edited July 08, 2018 by vv221
Posted July 08, 2018
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vv221: Do you have a rough estimate of when most games switched to XInput?

Overlord is another game working flawlessly with a controller, but being a 2007 game I think it might be using the same input method than Jade Empire (a 2005 game).
Probably shortly after the 360 took off. So post 2005.
Posted July 09, 2018
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immi101: * since XInput (for weird reasons) only supports gamepads, games still use DirectInput for Mouse/Keyboard support
XInput was built specifically for the XBox controller, and does not support configurations with more buttons and/or axes than that has (I assume it can support devices with fewer inputs, but I'm not entirely certain). DirectInput, on the other hand, supported an arbitrary number of buttons and axes.

I think the reasoning was that having a fixed number of controls would be easier for game developers as they'd always know how many buttons and axes the controller has, as well as knowing which logical input is mapped to which physical button (provided the controller wasn't manufactured to completely broken specs).

I don't know what fighting sticks for XBox do with the analogue axes, I'd assume they claim to have them, but always at 0 (or 50, or whatever the default is).
Post edited July 09, 2018 by Maighstir
Posted July 14, 2018
Ori and the Blind Forest is another game where my controller works without any tweaking around needed, it makes me hopeful it could be the same for all Unity3D games.
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