#xinput

Players Can Use a Controller for Every Steam Game Soon

  Steam’s latest beta update has some interesting changes that could affect many players in a beneficial way. The update itself became available yesterday in Steam’s beta branch. The big news is that it will allow you to map keyboard and mouse controls to a gamepad, allowing you to use a gamepad even if the game doesn’t natively support it. This isn’t useful for all games as some titles are…

That’s great! But it doesn’t really help me much with a Dualshock 4 controller, though. I could add it to Steam and probably have Steam make SSF think I had a 360 controller connected, but it’s just easier for me to keep using Beetle Saturn, I think.

Disable touchpad under Ubuntu

This little tutorial shows, how to disable touchpad under Ubuntu (v. 16.04) permanently. The reason is, that I generally use only the red trackpoint of my Lenovo T530as a pointing device. I don’t need a touchpad anyway. But when working with the trackpoint, I accidentally touch the touchpad with my thumbs many times. That moves the cursor somewhere, what irritates me a lot. That’s why I had to…

In this section of progress, I would like to see if I’m able receive input from my playstation controller. This is how it appears to be -

This is visual representation of how Direct Input and XInput are reading input from the same game controller.