# Supporting weird gamepads with RawInput

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/supporting-weird-gamepads-with-rawinput/2679079>\
**Category:** Programming & Scripting\
**Tags:** gamepad, unreal-engine, Plugins, question\
**Created:** [November 26, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/supporting-weird-gamepads-with-rawinput/2679079 "2025-11-26T21:20:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alien\_impact](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/alien_impact/32/88708_2.png) [@Alien\_impact](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Alien_impact)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/supporting-weird-gamepads-with-rawinput/2679079/1 "2025-11-26T21:20:01Z")

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Hello everyone,

I’m trying to get gamepad support working with Raw Input plugin. I got the Xbox, Dualshock gen1/2 working, as well as a couple more models, but it seems like a lot of players have unconventional gamepad vendors/models. Those exhibit broken behavior by default.

I get “GenericUSBControllerAxis2” type readings, which is expected. However, by default those axis are not treated as gamepad sticks, so the values are in a weird range and can’t easily be fixed by math on blueprint/C++ side. Once I find out the gamepad ID it’s easy - I make a custom config for it in RawInput, configure axis, click the “Gamepad stick” checkbox where needed.

It seems like with RawInput, you need to know the gamepad vendor/model id precisely in order to make a config for it. But I cannot possibly account for every gamepad model in existence.

Ideally what I need is to create a “default” config for all unidentified gamepads, and specify something like “treat GenericUSBControllerAxis 1-4 as gamepad sticks because in all likelihood they probably are”. Is it possible to do? I can’t seem to find the default config in RawInput.

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**Author:** ![Alien\_impact](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/alien_impact/32/88708_2.png) [@Alien\_impact](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Alien_impact)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/supporting-weird-gamepads-with-rawinput/2679079/2 "2025-12-01T21:56:03Z")

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Bumping the thread. Hopefully somebody had experience with gamepad support and can point me in the right direction