How do I play this with a controller?

[NickGFX]

xbox or steam?

[TheSpeedofBadNews]

I'll be watching this thread. I just bought all three games from but the first and second won't be much good to me if there isn't a way make my controller work.

[McShave07]

You'll have to use the Steam Controller or use a third party program to use controllers like Pinnacle.

[NickGFX]

steam controller doesnt work tho

[The King Possum]

Originally posted by NickGFX:

steam controller doesnt work tho

did you play it in big picture mode?valve advertises that all games on steam work with the steam controller through big picture mode. I do not have the steam controller so I am just stating what I read on the store page and in articles.

[McShave07]

Yeh, I just tried it. It works in big picture, but that's one of the reasons I never use the Steam controller anymore. Big picture is awful.

[The King Possum]

Originally posted by McShave07:

Yeh, I just tried it. It works in big picture, but that's one of the reasons I never use the Steam controller anymore. Big picture is awful.

good to know it works though. also big picture mode is to make steam like a console so of course if you are a pc gamer and not a console gamer big picture mode will suck.

[жэф]

I actually kind of like Big Picture mode. A huge reason is because I use Comodo and TOR for most of my internet browsing, so having to fiddle with proxies every time I want to browse the surface web can get arduous. Big Picture mode has a web browser that I can use that works for this really easily :D

[NickGFX]

As soon as I boot the game in BPM the steam controller doesn't respond at all. Not even to move the mouse to start the game when the initial settings window pops up.

[Pangia]

You don't. You just die everytime you try to kill an enemy.

[NickGFX]

The steam controller support works for many, but I wonder why it doesn't work at all in my case. Are there unofficial patches that I need to download for this game to get steam controller functionality?

[retro_Ed]

Originally posted by NickGFX:

The steam controller support works for many, but I wonder why it doesn't work at all in my case. Are there unofficial patches that I need to download for this game to get steam controller functionality?

Max Payne supports only kb / m controls so do not try anything else in Big Picture mode for Steam Controller.
I bet it will work 100% if you make Steam Controllers desktop (kb / m) settings to match games bindings and dont use Big Picture at all. Just launch the game from desktop.

[mattcurliss1]

2024 and I still don’t know what to do

[Monkulasprime]

Play the OG Xbox versions, possibly through emulation if you don't have the console

[Pixelationist]

Originally posted by mattcurliss1:

2024 and I still don’t know what to do

Emulate the PS2 version, it runs perfectly in PCSX2 these days, has been for a while.

[peachypete]

Originally posted by mattcurliss1:

2024 and I still don’t know what to do

Just got it working (only in big picture mode, and somewhat by luck)
Highest settings 10210u i5 (<60w notebook)
Go to settings tick steam [whichever controller type] and steam controls Vs in game support choose steam.
Enter big picture mode, load MP2 press the controller's home button (Xbox,PS,steam etc)
Fiddle with some setting if still needed, but it's auto-mapped so shouldn't.
That's (almost) how it worked, but for me it was then more.. involved..

Microsoft game bar was conflicting a bit at first, behind game bar was controller map screen stating MP2 control which are automatically mapped to my generic controller as kB+ mouse using it's analogue sticks: WIN
It was however, extremely quick mouse sensitivity with the right hand stick and L/R triggers to "click"
So turned in game X and Y settings down, no joy, so repeated as above behind game bar to control map page and turned down sensitivity, with no obvious "accept changes" or dialogue I had to then repeat this for change to take effect, only diff I used "B" button instead of mouse exiting the menu.
It was then maaaaad slow as I put to lowest first... but the control map screen would not return!! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
Stuck slow.
Was just showing similar settings page as outside of bigpicture mode.
Thankfully if I turn the in-game X +Y axis to full again it is just about fast enough/playable... Wish I could find my way back to that menu though.

I love consoles but Bigpicture mode does not emulate experience successfully for me at all and found myself in different menus every time I pressed the same button.
Turning off in windows settings "allow controller to open game bar" seems to make no difference either.