Windows 7: Gamepad is not working

first I am sory if its the wrong place to post this probleam.
yesterday i have bought a gamepad ( Frontech. model no:- JIL-1741)
i am unable to play any game with it. gamepads buttens are working but it's not
responding in any game. plz can anyone help me with it.

Have you told the game to use a gamepad instead of the keyboard/mouse? If not, you need to do that in the game's options. However, they don't always work the way you want them too (for example, Oblivion does NOT map the left joystick at all, so I have to use an external mapping program called JoyToKey to get that to work). Good luck.

yes i chacked all the settings in the game but nothing happen.
any more sugestions. plz help yar

So it's working in so much as the buttons are being read by the PC, but just not working in games? I'm not sure how that's possible for the controller to not work at all if you've told the game in the options menu to use a gamepad/joystick instead of the keyboard/mouse. In fact, I've never heard of that happening.

Are you sure the gamepad is working correctly (the buttons are actually being recognized by the OS - have you tested that with a mapping program/the driver utility that shows you what buttons you pressed to confirm that)? And are it's drivers even supported for Windows 7? Does the game itself actually support the use of a gamepad? Did you set the buttons up in the game's joystick options? And which game(s) are we talking about here?


Worst case scenario, I'd recommend that you give JoyToKey a try to map the controller independently of the drivers and the games themselves, to check it actually works if nothing else. That will always work if you leave it running in minimized mode in the system tray while gaming (this is what I do because the game's mapping doesn't always work properly). You can get it here (it's 100% free and safe).

Just note, the left and right joysticks are a slight pain to configure in there. I can help you with that if you want to try it out.

first thank you soo much for healping me. i've download joyTokey. but stll nothing happen.

can you please tell me how can i find out that gamepad is working or not, and other things.coz on the shop when i tested it, its responding when i'am pressing the buttens but now i dont know what happns to this stupid gamepad. plz plz plz help me how can i make it work on my pc.

Control Panel > Devices and Printers > Generic USB Joystick [it’ll have a picture of a gamepad] > Left-click > “Controller Settings” > “Properties”. Now press all 12 Buttons and use the D-Pad and both joysticks. If they’re all working the buttons will light up and the directional axis indicators will move around.


If it’s working, then go ahead and open JoyToKey and:

Click on “Blank” then “File(F)” and select “Create new configuration file(N)” after that, type in “Oblivion” to name the new configuration file.

From there, switch the tab on the far right named “Others” and:

Number of joysticks to configure (Max 16) [2 ]

Emulation method
[Check] Default (recommended)
[Blank] Try it only if default doesn’t work.

[Check] Use Axes other than X and Y.
[Blank] Handle diagonal input as special case
[Check] Use POV switches

Threshold input (Useful for analog devices)
Leave this slider at 0%


Now, go back to the “Joysticks” tab on the far right. You need to double-click on each of these to set each of the controls. Just switch the tabs in the new window to any which device you want the controller to act as – the choices are: Disable; Keyboard; Mouse; Command; Special (we’ll only be needing Keyboard and Mouse on this for Oblivion).

Set everything on your Oblivion settings just like this (BTW these settings are as close to the PS3 controller default settings as you’re ever going to get on a PC):

Button: Keyboard: Auto:

AxisX(<0) A OFF
AxisX(>0) W OFF
AxisY(<0) S OFF
AxisY(>0) D OFF
Axis3(<0) Mouse: Horizontal(-75) ---
Axis3(>0) Mouse: Horizontal(75) ---
Axis4(<0) Disabled ---
Axis4(>0) Disabled ---
Axis5(<0) Disabled ---
Axis5(>0) Disabled ---
Axis6(<0) Mouse: Vertical(75) ---
Axis6(>0) Mouse: Vertical(-75) ---
Slider1(<0) Disabled ---
Slider1(>0) Disabled ---
Slider2(<0) Disabled ---
Slider2(>0) Disabled ---
POV1: UP Disabled ---
POV1: RIGHT Disabled ---
POV1: DOWN Disabled ---
POV1: LEFT Disabled ---
POV2: UP Disabled ---
POV2: RIGHT Disabled ---
POV2: DOWN Disabled ---
POV2: LEFT Disabled ---
Button 1 E OFF
Button 2 Tab OFF
Button 3 Space OFF
Button 4 F OFF
Button 5 Z OFF
Button 6 C OFF
Button 7 Alt OFF
Button 8 Mouse: Left OFF
Button 9 T OFF
Button 10 Escape OFF
Button 11 Ctrl OFF
Button 12 R OFF

[Leave buttons 13 – 32 blank]


But, we’re not done here just yet. Now you have to go into Oblivion and to Settings > Controls. From here, you MUST click on the yellow “<” or “>” on either side of the “Keyboard” header until it says “Joystick”. Once you do that, change the buttons to reflect what we put into the JoyToKey file for this game (otherwise the buttons will try and do both at the same time – there’s no known way to clear these in the game so they are completely blank, which means we need to set them both (the game's and JoyToKey's buttons and functions) to the same keys on the controller, but note you won’t be able to put Esc and other buttons like that in the game's buttons so leave those alone for JoyToKey to handle). I would take a screenshot of this, but right now my Oblivion game is claiming it’s lost the .exe file and is having the dual-monitor crashing problem (since I changed my monitor config to display two different screens) and I don’t feel like screwing around with it right now.



Also, if your gamepad has a “Mode” button (as 98% of these 12-button ones tend too), press it once every time after you plug it in so that the (typically) green indicator light turns red (this will unlock the left joystick so you can move your character around (WASD), otherwise you won’t be able to move without physically pressing WASD on your keyboard – stupid design, but that’s how it is). And, I don’t know for sure how to program the D-Pad to function with keyboard buttons yet (to use the hot-keys and etc.) so you’re on your own for that one (Likely POV1 or POV 2). Feel free to mess around with it if using the D-Pad for whatever reason is important to you.


Hope all of this helped somewhat. But I really think the reason your gamepad isn't functioning in Oblivion, is because you didn't tell the game in it's control settings to use the Joystick (remember: click on the yellow "<" or ">" in the settings and controls in Oblivion to change the control device from "<Keyboard>" to "<Joystick>").