Hi there,

first, nice game. Had a Demo Disc back when I bought a Matrox Mystique graphics card.
Anyways, any chance I could play this game with a controller like PS3 Pad?

I'm playing with xbox360 controller.

Can't get a controller to work. Have an Xbox 360 controller, and XB1 controller

Tried both X-Input and D-Input. Neither works.
Maybe we should stick to AntiMicro/Joy2Key/Xpadder to play this game with a controller.

actually it does have controller support but of the very early variety (4 buttons max and analog stick input is movement controls cause early gamepads usually had the d-pad set to analog input in windows)

As is you would need to use Steam's Controller Config. options.

Add the game to Steam, then right click the game while controller is connected. You will see your controller and be able to assign keyboard inputs to buttons.

Going by the manual, here's what you should assign as (I have a DS4 so apply respectively to an X1 or other controller)

Arrow Keys to D-pad or analog stick
Morph/Ammo to O button
Attack to Square button
Jump to X
Quick Morph to R1
Teleport to L1
Enter to Start/Option button

If you did all that but controller input isn't recognized you may need to use dgvoodoo

this may sound strange but I find that using dgvoodoo will make the game responsive to Steam Controller settings, as it makes Steam and other software treat the game as a DX9+ game

Get dgvoodoo, Stable or WIP ver. and download it to your PC.
Extract the folder anywhere then copy the following files:
1- Copy dgvoodo.cpl and dgvoodoo.conf
2- Go to MS folder>x86>Copy all 4 dx files

Put these files into Cold Shadow's directory. Run dgvoodoo, but you won't need to change anything.
Once you've done that, assign controller settings via steam and when you run the game it SHOULD let you use your controller to play the game. At least that's what I amd oing now

EDIT3: It is best to play this windowed or if you can, set it to your screens' resolution then make it borderless windowed. The game can crash if you try to switch back to fullscreen or alt-tab.


EDIT4: Worse case scenario, run steam in big picture mode, go to settings>Controller settings>Desktop settings, and assign the game's buttons using this.
dgvoodoo will make steam controller config recognize it at least.

Your 4th edit managed to do the trick for me.

Great control scheme too so thanks for this.

THIS WORKS. I was fretting for hours. Thanks.
I know this post is really old but I had to says something ;-)

Just copying dgvoodo.cpl and dgvoodo.conf into cold shadow's directory was enough, then use steaminput to map.