gamepad problem in ff7

[CloudXIV]

Recently my game pad stopped working (I have a usb dual shock connector). It worked just fine all the time, but recently it just ceased to work! I don't know what happened. Please help!

[RPGillespie]

Goto Start, control panel, Game Controllers, select yours, click advanced (it should come up with a window that says: select to use with older programs), then click ok. Now it should work. If yours isn't there to begin with, reinstall the drivers and it should work fine.

[CloudXIV]

Thank You very much for the reply. I did what you said. Still the controller doesn't work. It really worked fine. Maybe I messed something up ? I was trying to make my ff7 work with my new gpu (fx 6200) and it works fine now, besides the damn gamepad. I don't know what's wrong.

[RPGillespie]

Have you tried re-installing the driver/directX? Your gamepad should have come with a cd or something. Now, lets make sure your gamepad doesn't work on anything before we start blaming ff7. See if you can find a calibrate option in 'Game Controllers' in the control panel. Also if you have any emulators: ZSNES try and see if your controller works with that.[/url]

[CloudXIV]

Yes, I did reinstall the drivers. The gamepad works fine with znes, epsxe and other pc games. It just stopped working in ff7 all of a sudden. That's strange and I have no idea what else to do.

[RPGillespie]

Hmm, thats odd, have you tried re-installing FF7? (Keep your saves in a different folder)

[Phyltre]

Have you tried re-assigning the keys to your gamepad?  Or is it failing to accept input even when you try to reprogram them?

[Tain]

Once my gamepad refused to register any buttons but the X button. I went nuts trying to figure it out, buying a new pad and everything. No go.

I ended up having to uninstall a couple optical mice that were conflicting with the gamepad's connector.