How to use XBOX 360 Controller Emulator (x360ce) for NFS Rivals and other PC Games

As we know many of PC Games only supports XBOX 360 controller officially to play the game. If you have local pc gamepad controller then it might not work well with some pc games. So you have to use application called x360ce i.e XBOX 360 Controller Emulator. It emulate your non xbox 360 controller i.e gamepad as xbox 360 controller i.e. force non xbox 360 controller to work as xbox 360 controller. So in this article we will see how to configure x360ce to work with NFS Rivals.

HOW TO USE XBOX 360 CONTROLLER EMULATOR (x360ce)

1) Download x360ce and extract xbox360ce.exe in folder where you have installed NFS Rivals.

2) Now open the x360ce.exe from NFS Rivals folder.

3) You will see message like-  'x360ce.ini' was not found. Click on Yes to create ini file.

4) After that you will see the message- 'xinput1_3.dll' was not found. Click on Yes to create it.

5) Next it will detect your controller device. Now select 'Browse my computer for settings' to search settings for your NFS Rivals and click on Next.

6) It will automatically detect settings for NFS Rivals. You will see that 'NFS14_x86.exe' is listed on search result. Now click on Finish. Remember that it will only work with x86 i.e. 32bit version of NFS Rivals. So play the game using NFS14_x86.exe not with 64bit one.

7) You will see that it will automatically detected settings for your controller. You can test it by pressing your controller buttons.

8) Now go to Options tick on following check-boxes.

9) Now go to Settings Database. Under the Product/Game Name make sure that it has selected NFS14_x86.exe. If not then chose it and Save it.

10) That's it. Now save all the settings and Run the game with x86 version exe file. It will work fine.

Hope this will work with your PC. If you are getting any difficulties regarding this then post your queries below in the comment section. I will like to solve your problem. Thank you! :)