You might think that connecting an Xbox 360 controller to your PC is a simple task, and it really is… unless that’s a problem for you. Everything revolves around the version you have and especially that your operating system retrieves the drivers the first time, because if it is not, everything becomes complicated. For this reason we are going to see how to do it correctly so as not to miss anything and enjoy this command as soon as possible.
How to connect our old Xbox 360 controller to the PC
wired controller
If you have a wired Xbox 360 controller, not a wired wireless controller, and your computer does not recognize it, what you need to do is the following and in order. First, you will unplug your USB controller from the motherboard and restart the PC.
What we’re looking for is to isolate the issues so when you’re back on the Windows desktop you’ll change the USB port and plug it into another one, preferably a 2.0 one, which are normally delineated by a black color on the most modern motherboards.
This is done to avoid loading and connection problems or incompatibilities with higher versions. If you don’t know which USB 2.0 port is, the ideal is to go to your motherboard manual and choose. It is also true that the most common models are already missing USB2.0
In these cases they are the only ones that generally do not cause compatibility problems because the connection is direct and not via a secondary controller, which is precisely what we are trying to avoid. Once we have done this, Windows should detect the command and therefore install its corresponding driver.
This is an automatic process that Windows takes care of doing from its online repository, so the PC should be connected to the internet logically. Once you have finished installing the driver, we can use the command. We will know because Windows will tell us with a very clear message about it.
How to Fix Xbox 360 Controller Error
This message might not be satisfactory and give us an error, it is however not impossible, and it can be due to several factors that would really give for another article, so we will focus on fixing the error of the most common way possible. What you will have to do is go to Device administrator. Once there, you have to look Unknown device (if all the drivers are installed, the controller should be the only one with this name) and right click on it. When the tab opens, choose Properties. In the properties window we choose update the driver.
When the driver management window opens, click Find the driver software on your computer and in Choose from a list of drivers available on your computer. The list that will open next is quite long, we must go through it until we reach Xbox 360 Peripherals. We have finally arrived at the drivers that Windows stores on Xbox 360 controllers.
As you can see, there are three different types of controllers. When you try to connect our wired controller, we need to choose the first controller. behind this we will receive a warning that we must accept
It is true that once the manual installation is forced after a short time, Windows might install a more updated version through Windows Update, which shouldn’t be a major problem. We can also force this procedure by manually searching for Windows Update, as if we were looking for a normal Windows update.
Connect your controller with the Xbox 360 Play & Charge Kit
If you have it Play and charge kit for Xbox 360 controllers with battery, the procedure is exactly the same, except that the controller to choose is the one that corresponds to this Charge and Play Kit (the second in the list). However, we have tested this controller and the controller is still not recognized, although this does not mean that it does not work for you.
The steps to repeat here in the case of problems like the one we have are the same as those we have explained above, but in the event that the problem does not solve, we will have to resort to manually searching for the driver on the Internet and force install from disk, a procedure that we can see in the screenshots above where there is a button that attests to it and after which we would only have to go to the folder where the driver is located to select the .inf file which contains its guidelines. After that, the driver would be installed as if nothing had happened.
If you are unable to do so, you can follow the next procedure.
Remote
The case of the wireless controllers are specialIf you have the receiver that Microsoft itself sold to connect our command to the computer, you should have no problem getting it detected. Therefore, the procedure is similar to that used in the cable, since it is enough to connect it to a USB port (if possible 2.0 or 3.x if it is native in CPU) and let Windows do the work. However, if you don’t have it and want to do it, the first thing you need is an Xbox 360 Wireless Adapter for PC that you can find on Amazon.es.
It’s currently quite expensive and also hard to find in some cases, so other brands have picked up the slack by lowering the price a bit and offering the same benefits.
When it arrives you must connect it to the computer and follow the same procedure as in the first case, but choosing the controller Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows. When the sync is complete there should be a light on the wireless controller indicating that the unit is working fine and without issue, Windows should send a message stating that the driver has been installed correctly and after that everything should work without issue .
The best thing to do is to start our favorite game and check that all the buttons on the controller are working properly and if by any chance that is not the case we should check if the game does not have support or if the said or said buttons have no assigned function within the game.
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