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The software is easy to install and also found easy on Thrustmaster's website. The amount of buttons to be used for a multiple of functions is outstanding. Thrustmaster makes a great product and I found this joystick to very user friendly. The force-feedback is great and adjustable. This joystick is very solid and offers a lot for the money.
From opening the box, to installing this pad it took me less than 2 minuites.I run windows 2000 and the pad works excellently with all the latest games, Even with emulators for obsolete consoles like the snes and megadrive.I am more than happy with the price of this customisable and comfy gamepad. And with over 10 buttons this gamepad means you can sit back and relax without having to mess about with the keyboard.
The feel and action of this controller are great but the install was a pain in the neck.I have Windows ME and it wouldnt recognize it as being connected,so I went into the little paper that comes with it(there is no detailed Instruction manual) and it stated that if this problem happened ,to uninstall the drivers and go to the Thrustmaster website.I had to download and install a NEW version of the Setup.exe and manually install the driver(which Ive done many times before but never with this much aggrivation).Finally after an hour(it would normally take 3 minutes to install this if they included the proper files)I got the thing installed and it's working fine. I would only reccomend this to those of you who are familiar with computers and able to manually install the drivers.Maybe they'll get a Setup.exe together before too long that will make this truly a "plug-n-play" controller.
And it took me a couple of hours just to figure out which driver I needed to download from the website (they probably could have put the driver(s) right on the cd-rom). The controller itself is good, but the documentation is poor and pretty confusing. The manual is on the cd-rom that comes with it, but it is hidden in a.html document a few folders in. There are many programmable buttons though, and if you're much better at this stuff (or much more patient), its probably a good deal.
Oh yea, dont drop it off your desk onto a hard floor -- instant product death. When it breaks, the pad can go in the trash because the analog pad is the only useable X-Y controller since the D-Pad is useless. My third Thrustmaster Dual Analog Gamepad just broke for the same reason -- the flimsy analog joystick. Still the overall shape is ergonomic and ideal for adults, and the force feedback is great (but with the three I have I've noticed variations in overall intensity of the shock from unit to unit). The buttons are Playstation layout, so the other reviews complaining about the button layout are probabily used to other pads. While otherwise a comfortable and precise pad, it's poor joystick design makes this a product ready for recall. This click will eventually go away (if your pad survives) after you break the plastic part which 'clicks', leaving a spongy feeling to the stick. Bottom line -- 2 stars.
If Guillemot can get there act together in vers. There are a lot of buttons, but most games don't use all them all. Unfortunately for me, I otherwise like this pad. Unfortunately, two of them are below the analog pad (another design mistake) so they have an annoying 'click' when you press down on the stick with your thumb (which, of couse, occurs each and every time you are about to shoot something and your reflexes kick in). 2.0.I'd get another.
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