FF7 7th Heaven 2.0 Gamestream Nvidia shield, Controller won't work

[violentdom]

Hi Does anyone know how to get the controller to work via gamestream for 7th heaven 2.0 so I can couch play FF7 modded?

Cheers

[ScrapMettle]

Alright so this probably wont be a real answer but I'll just mention my experience. I don't know about gamestream but I do know that I had an intense battle getting my controller to work with 7th Heaven recently. It does some weird stuff in regards to controllers, I don't even really know what's going on but I know my solution is stupid and shouldn't work and it makes me angry.

So what I did was went into the controller options on the computer and set the controller I wanted as the default controller. In the controller options there's an advanced option to select which controller is the default. Setting that made it work through 7th Heaven. For a little bit. The D-Pad wasn't working so I tried some various methods to get the D-pad working, and somehow that ended up making the controller not work anymore. Not sure why, I tried some Xpadder for simulating keyboard strokes and that didn't work and things just... broke.

But then I found out that the controller would work with the D-Pad active if I had ANOTHER controller turned on when I started the game. The second controller wont work or do anything, but the first one does. I reopened the game a few times with the second controller turned off/on and it always needed the second one on for the first to work.

What I'm trying to say is the 7th Heaven controller stuff makes no sense to me and you might be in for a really weird battle. I don't even know how the gamestream layer of things would interact with it all. But I assume it still interacts with the computers... drivers and whatnot somehow.

TLDR: I'd go under the control panel and controller options to set the default controller to the controller you're planning on using via the advanced button This was somehow involved with solving my problem. If you have multiple controllers perhaps plugging one in/unplugging one might make it work? Best of luck.

[violentdom]

Sorry your comment doesn't really help.

I have worked out how to do it however. So can advise anyone whom may need help with this.

[ScrapMettle]

Originally posted by violentdom:

Sorry your comment doesn't really help.

I have worked out how to do it however. So can advise anyone whom may need help with this.

Oh yeah no problem. I figured there was a decent chance it wouldn't.

[Donkey]

Originally posted by violentdom:

Sorry your comment doesn't really help.

I have worked out how to do it however. So can advise anyone whom may need help with this.

Hi violentdom, could you let me know how you did it? I've tried with both Nvidia shield and PS4, but no luck so far.

Thanks

[violentdom]

Originally posted by Donkey:

Originally posted by violentdom:

Sorry your comment doesn't really help.

I have worked out how to do it however. So can advise anyone whom may need help with this.

Hi violentdom, could you let me know how you did it? I've tried with both Nvidia shield and PS4, but no luck so far.

Thanks

Hi Donkey,

I basically worked around this buy doing the following
- Make 7th Heaven a Game to launch via the Nvidia Shield Gamestream using Geforce Experience

- Download Controller Companion £2.99 on Steam and then look for a Final Fantasy 7 profile

- Once you have done this it should map the keyboard commands on that profile to your xinput/xbox controller layout but treat it like you are using mouse and keyboard.

This was the only way around it I could find, sorry if it is not 100% what you want, but hope that helps. Was banging my head against a brick wall and this was the best solution.

Cheers