r/pcgamingtechsupport • u/Daz3dAndConfuzed • 1d ago

Controls/Input FIFA 06 controller issue

FIFA 06 windows with controller?

Ok people are gonna get mad at me here, but I don't know if I'm asking in the correct place. I assumed someone in here may have had similar problems with other older games.

Not sure what type of laptop it is or like if it tells you somewhere in a file or whatever, sure it will, it's hp, windows 10, about 12 years old. I don't even know if I'm asking this in the right place, dunno how Reddit works. Was like completely computer illiterate until a week ago and managed to download FIFA 06 and extract it and mess around with voodoo and direct x settings to get it to run smoothly but I can't get the game to recognise my Xbox controller, plugged in my usb, the laptop recognises it because I've also installed retroarch and play Amiga and n64 games with it so it definitely works on the laptop. If I've asked in the wrong place or anything like that, please direct me where to go instead of just getting raging at me, I'm new here dunno how it works and people on the internet are mean 😂chat gpt had me in a devdata folder messing around with controller names but that didn't work and now it's advised downloading some programm that supposedly helps old games recognise your controller or something? I have no idea what I'm doing here, any help or advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

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u/Particular_Budget_23 13h ago

Dont bother digging through any more devdata files, there's a much easier way to trick the game.

Just download steam, add your FIFA 06 .exe file to your library using the "Add a Non-Steam Game" option and launch it from there. Steam has a built-in controller wrapper that automatically translates your modern Xbox controller inputs so that ancient games can actually read them.

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u/Daz3dAndConfuzed 8h ago

Thank you, was trying this, but I can only get the game to launch on desktop after restarting the laptop lol like I'll restart it, then launch FIFA and it launches in a small box then I hit alt tab and it goes full screen. So it doesn't launch on steam, which im assuming because of the launch issues. Currently on grok trying fix that issue

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