controller not working properly with GTA games

[dave2164]

So I just installed GTA 3 and GTA Vice city, two games which I'm very familiar with and used to have on PS2. I have a problem though, with an xbox controller plugged into my computer's usb port, the right analog stick doesn't seem to work properly. This lets the character change directions and turn and is critical for game play. Is it normal for this not to work on pc and is there anything I can do to fix that?

[matthew]

The game has no native xinput supprt.

http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=24272
GInputVC 1.11 (for Vice City
GInputIII 1.11 (for GTA III

unzip where the exe is

Now, once installed, the mod will override the button config ingame, so you can't change the joypad buttons in the game anymore, but, if you read the mod readme, it will tell you the button config, and allow you to choose from 5 presets, also it has controller vibration, but if you don't like that, you can turn if off in the ini file as well.

I would also install the slient patch
http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=25368

as it fixes a lot of remainging bugs that were never fixed.

There are other mods, but those two above, I think are must haves.