

Here, select the option “ Sticks” present in the bottom left corner of xpadder window, and now to configure the analog sticks – click on the first “ Enable” option marked by green color in the below image labelled analog configuration, and push the corresponding analogs(whose name is indicated on the pop-up) to the directions shown in the pop-up “left,up,down,right”, do the same for the other analog too (if present) on the controller.

Xpadder – selecting controller image fileNow, after loading the controller image file, you will be shown the controller image in the Xpadder window. Below is the screenshot of Xpadder, on running now, click on the settings icon which looks like a wrench, to load the xpadder joystick image file as shown below –. That’s it, Xpadder is now ready to function, in your latest version of Windows.Step – 4 Xpadder overview and adding Joystick image. You can also additionally checkmark the “run program as an administrator” option if you encounter any issues later. Now, go to compatibilty tab, as shown in the alongside xpadder compatibilty troubleshoot image, and in the section named “Compatibility mode”, select the version as “ Windows 7″ and click on apply, and OK. Simply, right-mouse click on the Xpadder icon, and select the “ properties” option.
#XPADDER 5.3 WIN 7 WINDOWS 8.1#
Now, when you first try to run Xpadder on your windows, it will give you an Unsupported Windows Version detected error on Windows 8.1 /10, and here’s the solution for the problem –. Make sure your gamepad/joystick is connected to your computer before you open Xpadder.Newbie alert –.
#XPADDER 5.3 WIN 7 INSTALL#
Now, simply install the above linked Xpadder, by clicking next. The above package also contains, sample 3 images which are required for configuring joysticks, and an example mapping profile just incase you’re too lazy to map keys:)Step 2 – Installing Xpadder. Xpadder used to be free until version 5.3, but now if you try to download it from its official site –, it won’t be for free! In our tutorial we will be using an older version of Xpadder, which is free to use for playing games with weak or no gamepad support.
#XPADDER 5.3 WIN 7 WINDOWS 10#
Yes its possible to do such actions by a small free utility – Xpadder v 5.3, Xpadder lets you simulate keyboard key presss, and mouse actions by mapping the keyboard keypress, and mouse actions to Joystick and Gamepad buttons! Let’s have a brief look into the following tutorial to configure xpadder for Windows 7/8/8.1/10 –Tutorial to configure Xpadder on Windows 10 / 7 / 8.1 (32-bit as well as 64-bit).

Or by someway we could have been able to simulate keyboard key -press or mouse control simply on our gamepads, which would make playing games much easier! Especially the online & DOS based games. Some games are very difficult to play on the normal keyboard + mouse combo and we feel that it would have been better if the game supported gamepads, joysticks.
