Programs that let you use a controller on a pc

[BeardFaceMan]

I use Controller Companion, its pretty good generaly and you can customize it a lot but I've run into a problem. When you assign functions to the thumbsticks, you can only do it in batches ie wasd keys, or the arrow keys, or mouse movement. What I need is something that allows you to assign different functions for the different thumbstick directions. Any other good options out there?

[Phil_A]

Pretty sure JoyToKey would let you do that.

https://joytokey.net/en/overview

[St_Eddie]

Pretty sure JoyToKey would let you do that.

https://joytokey.net/en/overview

This is what I use.  It does the job well.

[biggytitbo]

Steam let's you do this now too.

[BeardFaceMan]

Thanks, I'll give it a go.

Steam let's you do this now too.

Really? That would come in handy, I didn't know you could do that, thought it would just be useful for the Steam controller if anything.  I'll still need something for non-Steam games though.

ETA actually, if I have a non-Steam game installed, could I use the 'add non-Steam game to library' thing to be able to use the Steam control pad config?

[biggytitbo]

Ahh I've not tried that, just a few old games I have on steam that don't support controllers can load a profile a user has made to make them work, Hitman contacts was one I tried which worked albeit was a bit wonky.

[BeardFaceMan]

Yeah thats what Controller Companion does, you can download profiles from the Steam Workshop, it's just not being able to customise single thumbstick directions thats letting me down with that.

[Hecate]

Another vote for joytokey.

[BeardFaceMan]

This Steam config thing is actually pretty in-depth, it's really good. Only downside would be that there don't seem to be as many community configs to download as there are with Controller Companion and the Steam Workshop. But I tried adding a non-Steam game to Steam and you can still right click on it and edit controller configuration so that's going to come in very handy with GOG games.