Many of us love to play computer games. Someone is limited to simple solitaire games, and someone special for games collects quite powerful computers. And of course, many players are aware of the existence of game controllers. Usually they are called joysticks or gamepads. In this article, you will learn about the advantages of these devices, as well as how to connect the joystick to a computer.
Everyone who has ever played on Sony PlayStation or Xbox 360 consoles knows how convenient it is to control a game character using a game controller. Undoubtedly, the computer loses to the consoles in this regard, because using the keyboard and mouse as a controller is somewhat inconvenient. During the game, you constantly have to be distracted from the monitor to look at the keyboard. To control the gameplay, quite a few keys are used and it is impossible to remember their location in order to press the necessary buttons without looking at the keyboard.
A game controller has many advantages. Its main advantage is that all the buttons are at the player’s hand and you don’t need to look at the joystick. In addition, using the joystick to control the player can comfortably sit in a chair instead of sitting at a table with a keyboard and mouse. But, as you know, progress does not stand still and the game controller can be connected to a computer for a long time. Let's figure out how to connect a joystick to a computer.
When you purchase a joystick with it in the kit there is a CD with the necessary drivers. But such a disk may not exist. For example, for the controller from the Xbox 360 game console, you do not need to install any drivers, since they already exist on the Windows system. It is enough to connect the controller to one of the USB ports and the gamepad is ready to work. It should be noted that the USB joystick should not be connected to the card reader or to the port splitters - USB-Hub. Ideally, the joystick should be connected to a USB port located on the back of the computer.
If, in the controller kit, there is a driver disk, then before connecting the joystick to the computer, you must install the necessary drivers and programs. After that, you can connect the controller and enjoy the games. But you must remember that the game must support control with a gamepad. The greatest compatibility with many games is played by the PlayStation and Xbox 360 joysticks. But the undoubted leader is, of course, the Xbox 360 gamepad, since many computer games are compatible with it. This is due to the fact that the Xbox 360 console is the brainchild of Microsoft.
In most cases, connecting and defining a game controller runs quite smoothly, but there are times when the joystick is not detected by the system. This happens if before connecting the joystick to the computer, the drivers were not installed or there are any hardware conflicts. In this case, you can try to connect the controller to another USB port, in most cases this helps. If this manipulation did not help, then you should carefully study the instructions that are usually attached to the controller or contact the technical support service of the manufacturer of this game manipulator.
As practice shows, in most cases, the reason for the inoperability of the controller is an inattentive reading of the instructions. But there are times when game controllers do conflict with any computer hardware. In any case, regardless of what you connect to the computer - a joystick, steering wheel or some other controller, you must first carefully read the instructions. If you follow all the points of the connection guide exactly, then with a high probability you will succeed.