Xpadder or Pinnacle Game Profiler or other? (control-mapping program)

[mresc]

Hello, I'm looking to use one of the mentioned control-mapping programs so I can use a controller for PC games.

I never used a control-mapping program before but heard Xpadder and Pinnacle Game Profiler (websites below) were pretty decent. Xpadder is normally 10 bucks cheaper but Pinnacle has a 75% sale right now (I think for one more day) bringing it down to $5 cheaper than Xpadder. Also Pinnacle looks a bit more "professional" (if that matters). Has anyone here had experience with either of them? Should I be looking at another program entirely?

Xpadder ($10)- http://www.xpadder.com/

or

Pinnacle Game Profiler (Normally $20, now $5 for one more day) - http://pinnaclegameprofiler.com/

What I'm looking to do btw is just map controls for a gamepad (probably the 360 controller) for some games that have little or no controller support. (i.e Oblivion, Mass Effect, Dragon age, Bioshock...)

[Alpha]

Try them out. I'm sure they both do pretty much the same thing. You can probably use demo versions to test them like most software.

[mresc]

Xpadder doesnt have a free trial unfortunately, so I wouldnt be able to compare them myself. (unless I buy both)

I read around and I heard the mapping options in PGP are better than Xpadder or any other similar program, but there is noticeable input lag due to how some of the commands work. Xpadder doesn't have all the options as PGP does but it works alot better.

Can anyone confirm this? Never used a program like this before, so compared to less mapping options is input lag that big of a deal or does it really ruin the experience no matter how advanced mapping is?

[mresc]

Bump.

[Yirg]

I'm curious to hear what you chose eventually and do you find it useful?

[craigsters]

I bought Pinnacle Game Profiler year's ago and it supports several types of controllers and they have a forum where both members and staff upload files that are mapped for all types of games that where previously keyboard mouse use only and they have a request forum for mapped profile files too.

[AZM]

I use xpadder for all my games that don't have native controller support and I've never had an issue with it. Unfortunately I can't give you a comparison with pgp since I've never used it, but personally I think xpadder is pretty great so I recommend it.

[sr.D]

I'm on the same question, I was waiting for the steam controller to play games with no gamepad support like the ArmA games....but it's taking ages to see it, and there is lack of information about that, so I'm looking too to this 2 programs

[murolaks]

The author bought something or not?

[Electric Cupcake]

Are there no GPL-compliant gamepad mapper programs?

[chibilibi]

JoyToKey.

[[gg] Drill Instructor]

I'm using PGP for years now. It works flawlessly so far. The only gripe I have is, that you can't define a default profile and apply it. So you have to configure for each game a separate profile and this works only for the single game. Otherwise I never had any problems with it, and the interface is very easy to use.

[hexaae]

Do you know XInput Plus (free)?
You can remap everything, both XInput/DInput. You can even create for example a profile with DPAD -> DPAD+LSTICK at the same time (LSTICK working as DPAD and vice versa for some old games), and you can redirect old dinput8.dll games to use XInput devices or vice versa...

Doesn't even need to be running in background: once you create a profile it will save custom dinput8.dll + xinput DLLs in the game/emulator directory so you can just run the game/emu as usual with new settings...

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Pinnacle is really good. I had to buy that when just cause 4 came out cause I preordered it bad decision and they didn't allow you to rebind the keys. So it costed me 110 dollars for a 90 dollar game. 90 for the game and 20 for Pinnacle.

[ʙᴜɴ.ᴇ]

Wouldnt get Pinnacle Game Profiler, it wouldnt work on my computer for whatever reason, wanted it refunded but they ignored my emails. they don't deserve custom if they can't honour refunds made within an hour of buying it.

[sage2001]

I haven't needed either ever since Big Picture rolled out.