can't configure controls

[ipconfig]

hey, i have looked all over mta's forums for a solution for this peoblem, and can't seem to find one, so i will post here.

my problem is that before i installed or even played mtasa, my controls were always configured so that i use a playstation 2 controller to drive and do everything else, but i use my mouse to do the shooting. now when I play mtasa and i have to fire weapons at someone (such as in a hydra battle) i can't. on my controller, one button is configured for primary fire, and for secondary fire, i have to use the mouse. as we all know, mose of the aircraft in san andreas that fire require usage of secondary fire just to shoot missiles out of the hydra, or fire the guns on the rustler, of fire guns out of the rc baron.

the point is that when i fly around in a hydra, such as in "airport dogfight", i have to use my mouse to fire, and i can't fly with keyboard and mouse very well at all. it is very annoying to have to switch between the two constantly.

i have tried starting san andreas up in single player, and going into controller config and configuring it from there. when i do so, is saves, and i can go in single player and it will work. now when i exit and go into mtasa, my controls are like they were before, and when i start gta sa single player up again, and go into control configuration, the buttons are set to what they were set at before. i have tried uninstalling mtasa, configuring controls in single player, then reinstalling mtasa. but this doesn't seem to work either. plz help me, it sucks flying around without even being able to fight back.

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Hi, I'm not sure but I think that the controls are only what is shown in the manual.

Your playstation adaptor is USB right? I have one for N64 controller and it's not working great for me either in MTASA, however I'm sure that this is only temporary and that later release will have better support for controls....

[ipconfig]

what is wierd, is that i was able to reconfigure controls for my controller on my laptop. but not on my desktop.

another wierd thing, is that on my desktop, if i press f2 during the game at all, the whole game crashes. but on my laptop, i can press f2 with no problems

I am gonna try reinstalling san andreas, i will get back with as to how it goes.

[ipconfig]

PROBLEM FIXED!!!!!!!

I managed to fix this issue the other day, so i thought i would post my solution just in case anyone else has this problem in the future.

Yesterday, I reinstalled gta san andreas thinking this would fix my problem. so after i reinstalled, i went into single player, reconfigured my controls, and installed mtasa and played it. realizing that my problem was still not fixed. i went back into san andreas single player and tried again, after reconfiguring controls. I started a new game, played a couple of missions, flew around in a hydra a bit, and my new settings worked just fine. then i decided to save my progress. I tried rewriting another save game, but it gave me an error. thinking the revious save game was corrupt, i loaded it. it loaded perfectly!!!

then I realized, well, i can load saved games, but not save to them. i also realized that my saved games were from a previous install of san andreas on another computer. and i had copied the user files folder over to my computer. so i right-clicked on the san andreas users files folder in my documents. and saw that it had read-only attribute enabled. so i disabled this. and BAM. problem solved!!!!!!!

this not only fixed my controller problem. but this fixed my pressinf f2and game crashes issue, and also fixed the issue i was having with loading my own music into san andreas, when i would try to, it wouldn't detect it. this little thing solved three annoying problems.

so if you are having any configuration problems of any kind, try doing this!!