Right on Prepper!!!!!! It's like the old saying goes.....to cook a frog, put him in cold water and slowly turn up the heat....then he won't notice the water getting hotter. Pretty soon we'll have to code and support all of our own software....lol!

Thanks for the post. It'd have been nice if a manual explained it so well. Oh wait. They didn't print one for me (I just have the stupid e-manual). "Obvious"? Sorry. Not. What's obvious is Lucas games did a poor job of implementing this feature. They're forcing us to map our controllers instead of including some basic defaults for each model. What? They'd have to create a map for each and every model and force me to select from a list?!?! OMG. How is that harder than mapping ALL of the buttons myself!?! This is the first first-person shooter I've bought in 10 years and so far support has been sucktastic compared to old-school games. It wasn't always "Here's the software, goodluck!" But it is now and obviously a decade of incrementally lowering the bar has left the public with a lowered sense of entitlement for their hard-earned cash. Mapping all the buttons sucks and should have been done by someone being paid for it. My time is worth at least as much as theirs.

it takes time to remap, but then they would have to make a default setup for nearly EVERY joystick or controller out there. (horrible memories of consumed time by MS flight simulator on my joystick)

Update:

I updated BF II to v1.1 and now it will recognize the Rumblepad 2 and I can fire my weapon, launch my grenades, and I can change my weapon but it won't let me move around (forward & reverse), although I think I can jump up and down (and curse while I'm doing it @#$%!!!).

:o)

Any ideas why it will do some things, and not others? Am I not understanding how to configure the Rumblepad in BF II?

Also, someone suggested that there are too many inputs on the Rumblepad, so I should use a mouse with a lot of buttons instead of the keyboard. Any feedback, anyone, on this idea?

Thanks.

Hello,

I can't get BF II to even acknowledge the prescence of my Logitech Rumblepad 2. I have done the self test for it in Windows and it checks out fine, but BF II just won't acknowledge that it's connected and, therefore, I can't assign buttons as mentioned in this post. What can I do to get BF II to "see" that my gamepad is connected to my PC?

Thanks!

I would not assume to remap controls, as back in the days of 386 and 486 computers you load the driver plug in the joy stick and go. Now we need to map, so much for computers making life easier. Any way I have the problem of getting the joystick to work.

I did not know there was an option to map from the game, I was trying to map using the joystick software, which did not work for the game, but works on notepad from the example they give. Before I start the solution you mention when you say restoring defaults resets keyboard only do you mean to say the mouse does not work any control actions any more. As far as I know the mouse has controls that the keyboard does not support (ex primary weapon, secondary weapon, panning screen. etc.)

I would assume most people find it blindingly obvious that they need to remap controls to their joystick through the settings menu.