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I enabled the controller in the settings but I am unable to move in-game using the control sticks. This controller works with most other games that have controller support on steam.

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    Commented Mar 13, 2015 at 12:20

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Against my better judgement I'm going to answer this and hope that one day you play this with the mouse and keyboard.

  1. Run Steam in "Big Picture" mode, which is Steam's attempt at making their interface more console friendly. (See bottom of post for information on how to activate Big Picture)
  2. Start a game of CSGO, choose your team and open up your console (~). (See bottom of post for info on how to activate your developer console if you haven't already done so).
  3. Type the command: "exec controller.360.cfg", hit enter.
  4. Type the command: "joystick 1", hit enter.

This should allow you to play CSGO with the 360 controller.

To activate Big Picture mode you need to look at the top right corner of your Steam pgoram and find the button that - you guessed it - looks like a video game controller. Click that then use the new-look Steam you've just activated to browse to your games and launch CSGO.

If you don't already have the console activated (you hit the ~ key and it doesn't open the developer console) you need to go to: Options>Game Settings and set "Enable Developer Console (~)" to "Yes".

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    I understand that CS is meant to be played with a mouse but, the game itself has settings to handle a controller. I really don't get why questions like this are almost never answered properly.
    – TheAce
    Commented Mar 13, 2015 at 12:08
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    Seriously. Have your own opinions, but "against my better judgement I'm going to answer this...", really?
    – Cloudy
    Commented Mar 13, 2015 at 16:15
  • @TheAce I imagine that the developers want to encourage people to use mouse and keyboard by making it difficult to play using a controller. It's not impossible, but merely difficult.
    – Ciaran Gallagher
    Commented Jan 26, 2016 at 21:44
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As someone with over 1,000 hours on CS GO with an Xbox 360 controller, I can tell you that you do not need to run joystick 1 or run steam in "Big Picture" mode for a controller to work.

The file controller.360.cfg already contains the line joystick 1 for you. (Although from my experience, CS:GO ignores this and still logs stats as KB/M)

All you have to do, is make sure your controller is plugged in before you start CS:GO, then (this was fixed in an update) when you're starting a game, open the developer console and type in exec controller.360.cfg.
Your best bet is to make yourself an autoexec.cfg file that will automatically set up your preferred layout each time you join a game.

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  • how do you navigate the main menu to find a game using the controller? i could only do this with a mouse
    – FistOfFury
    Commented Jul 1, 2016 at 13:26
  • @FistOfFury, I don't think the game supports this natively. However, you could reasonably find a program that lets you move the mouse and click using the controller which should allow full navigation and game starting.
    – Sebastian King
    Commented Jul 6, 2016 at 20:16
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The answer to this is quite simple.

  1. Go into Steam "Big Picture Mode"
  2. Run CSGO from there
  3. Navigate to Settings --> Controller
  4. Make sure Controller Enabled is set to Enabled
  5. Connect your Xbox 360 controller and make sure that steam recognizes it(you can do this in Settings --> Controller in Steam Big Picture Mode)
  6. Go back to Settings and click Controller, which will open up a steam interface which lets your control exactly what each input does in the game

I hope this helps.

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Its actually so easy. At the home screen go into options and then press controller. Then press enable. This worked for me.

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  • Didn't for me, not sure how it worked for you.
    – Ciaran Gallagher
    Commented Jan 26, 2016 at 21:45

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