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Its been on my desk used for all sorts of stuff.Gaming the most, but ive used it at work for laying out PCB drawings. and other things I cant recall right now.Software is stable, configuration is pretty easy as well.Ive never had a problem.
Too bad the seller never sent it to me. Great Product. I have owned 2 others before this one I bought. All I got was a copy of Crazy taxi for the PS2. bought it on 9/11 and today is 10/13.
So far the only issue I have with the controller is the wheel is hard to scroll up and down, and usually takes me shifting my hand so that I can carefully scroll and not click down on the button, but I find the scroll wheel on the mouse is much better suited for those actions and just use it as an extra button to press. So far has worked out great for World of Warcraft, I had decided to get it for that and then further use it for FPS games and maybe RTS games also. It seemed to work right out of the box, but there were a couple of issues with profiles; mostly not being able to set them and get them to load, but after a little searching found the newer drivers for 64bit and vista (but they worked on my windows 7 machine) on Belkin's support page. Because you can bind any key press or combination to the buttons you could use it for some sort of development that requires several hotkeys or drawing I suppose but it seems very easy to use it for just about anything that requires 15 or so keys. Nice product overall.
Unfortunately, while the main array of keys is higher quality, the D-pad and spacebar are the same. The D-pad will be next.
If the mouse wheel were replaced with another button, it would be perfect. This gamepad has the best key layout of any PC gamepad I've tried so far.
It'll start squeeking, then bind up in crucial moments. The software to set it up is pretty decent too (For the non-TE version only).The problem is that it's only going to last you 3-4 months of regular usage tops.
The spacebar/shift button will probably be the first to go. But the rest of the keys will all start squeeking soon enough.After mine wore out, I tried the TE version.
To make matters worse, the TE software is an abomination.It is worthy of three stars, simply because of it's fantastic layout, but if you're going to get one, get the non-TE, and plan on replacing it regularly.
Gave it to my buddy for Christmas last year - never heard more about it - think it may have been a bit more complex than was practical for the User. Seemed like a good quality product when I wrapped it up for him.
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