As a PC gaming elitist I proclaim this thread is gay. Seriously though, why are you fucking with shit in DirectX?

I remember Joy2Key. I had a JoyKey PS1 adapter, it worked pretty well. It works just as well for PS2 controllers also.

You can also use GlovePie, which is a generic controller interface mapper. It works for any controller type. You can program generic controllers or use its built in support for things like Xbox and Wii controllers (PS3 is supported, I guess, but Sony messed with how the BT shakes hands so you have to jump through some hoops) It's also a scripting language, so there's a whole community around it making scripts for it.

It allows you to not just do like a direct mapping (which you can do and it works well), but also more complex scripts for different behavior. So, you can, for example, make a PC game with Wii controls, I imagine the dude will work Kinect into it at some point ... Move is tougher since it'd need a server of some sort running to actually take care of the image data.

It's pretty neat, to be honest. I made a script for a friend a couple years ago so he could control Diablo 2 in the style of gauntlet, with a controller. It had some quirks (had to reposition the mouse sometimes, but I made it so you could hold an auxiliary button and reposition it easily), but it worked.

exactly why people don't like to google their tech issues.

the comic above does not make sense...i google my tech problems and they work like a charm, i ask around and if you're lucky not to get an indian dude in a tech forum it works well.

You'll find examples of this on a lot of tech forums. But the responses you get when you google have a lot to do with Luck, and how specific you are with the wording of your question, or issue.

You post saying that "My computer freezes up randomly" on a regular tech site and you'll get a bunch of different scenarios and fixes. You'll also get trolls who'll do just what this comic is showing. Also, If you're posting about an issue on something that's pretty new, I.E. a glitch with a game that just came out, you'll get a fair amount of trolls. Now, just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist for the rest of the world, but that should be common knowledge.

I work in I.T. and utilizing most tech forums is something a lot of I.T. professionals will do. So I run into a lot of false info, trolling and douche bags.

QFT

I'm pretty fucking computer illiterate and I've found all my answers by looking online. Never in forums, always on Google because it just leads you to forums anyways. I've found I'm never the first one to encounter an issue.

That being said I'm finding I'm having to solve a lot more issues now that I've jumped back in to PC gaming after however many years away. I know the first time I have an issue so serious it prevents me from playing and I can't solve it then fists are going through walls. Like a boss.

I guess it depends on where you post or ask then. I use the Cisco community forums mainly, they have a gaming section and tech section on there too. No trolls nor douchebags. You'll definitely get trolls and whatnot if you're too vague with the problem, like what lego said about the search queries and shiz.

I work in IT too.

Same thing happened to me when I tried to play LoL, so I just got into WoW instead.

If anyone is using Norton Firewall:

Trend Micro.

Yes Trend Micro's firewall is actually non-invasive. When you set something ... it listens to that setting. I know, it's an insanely new feature to have in firewall software on Windows, but ... maybe it'll just work ... maybe.