Help with XI on Windows 10

[Huntington]

The XIV forums are relatively always active compared to the XI forums and I need help with a controller issue and a lot of XIV players do still play XI so maybe I can get help with this.

I used to play XI on my Xbox 360, they shut that down, so I migrated to Windows 10, and everything is setup right in FFXI Config for the button layouts and everything, I checked files for a patch that was supposed to make a Wired 360 controller work, but I get no response for it in PlayOnline or XI itself. I'm not able to use my 360 Wired with the Play and Charge Kit when my PC recognizes it but PlayOnline and XI do not, and I'm not sure what to address for XI to recognize it. The Gamepad option is ticked and button layout is setup but it doesn't respond anywhere. Please help.

There's no recent info about this that I can find for anything after 2015 and a patch was supposed to have gone through but that hasn't helped me either so maybe someone else on Windows 10 whose tried using a Wired 360 controller knows what I'm not doing to make sure this works.

[Alaltus]

I think i had the same problem. Each button is assigned a number and i had to figure out which buttons had which numbers. When i went into the padconfig in toolsus there is a button config menu? Where you can manually select the button configuration. I went into there and assigned different buttons to different functions and pressed buttons on the 360 controller. I figured out which buttons were assigned to which number by what function lit up.

Select and confirm: button 4 - a

Cancel: button 1 - b

Active window/Window options: button 2 - y

Main menu: button 3 - x

Autorun: button 9 - L1

Macro Palette Ctrl: button 10 - L2

Macro Palette Alt: button 13 - R2

Heal/lock target: button 11 - L3

Change view: button 14 - R3

That should work i think, if it doesn't you might have to select a different preset before entering this configuration like set d or something. (I replied in the XI forum as well so hopefully people will see it looking for answers to this problem) I hope this solves your issue.

[Huntington]

I have seen a picture of all the buttons needed that would need to be matched up to what for it to match what the 360 version would natively work as, and I put in what needed to be what, but it hasn't helped me to be able to activate the controller unfortunately. I haven't gotten into toolsUS though, where is that? I've messed with the buttons in XI Config but that's about it.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

I know when I used PS3 controller on FFXI I had to use a program such as motionjoy to get it to work, it also had options for XBOX too

[Alaltus]

Wherever you put the playonline folder (programs by default) you should be able to go into the square enix folder and find a folder called toolsus i think which has ffxiconfig and padconfig in it. Select padconfig, also remember to select ok to apply your changes once your done.

[Huntington]

Wherever you put the playonline folder (programs by default) you should be able to go into the square enix folder and find a folder called toolsus i think which has ffxiconfig and padconfig in it. Select padconfig, also remember to select ok to apply your changes once your done.

Well I found the Play Online viewer config and it has a gamepad option there, but it also did not detect a gamepad/my 360 controller, and the light remains blinking. I'm really not sure how to find the padconfig and the ToolsUS thing my searches aren't showing anything for that.
Edit: Found it, set the button layouts like you and the default E setup suggested it be as, Xinput checked and ready for both the ToolsUS and ToolsEU just so they're both the same, gamepad should be allowed in FFXI config for both as well. My controller still has the lights flashing and no input is being received by my PC or the game itself, my PC sees the 360 Wired controller but no button input is going through anywhere.

[Huntington]

I know when I used PS3 controller on FFXI I had to use a program such as motionjoy to get it to work, it also had options for XBOX too

I've heard that using a PS3 controller is a lot more complicated for Windows PCs to get setup so I've tried to avoid it.

[Alaltus]

Well I found the Play Online viewer config and it has a gamepad option there, but it also did not detect a gamepad/my 360 controller, and the light remains blinking. I'm really not sure how to find the padconfig and the ToolsUS thing my searches aren't showing anything for that

It's in the final fantasy xi folder just looked it up. Also the controller doesn't work with play online itself, once you skip the opening cutscene the controller starts working.

[Huntington]

I updated my last post Alaltus

[Alaltus]

I was looking around and one suggestion that seemed to work for another person using a wireless controller was checking the files.

https://www.bluegartr.com/threads/12...nce-Windows-10

Check files is in the playonline menu before logging in. Probably should select Final fantasy XI to check.