xbox controller driver problems.

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » April 30th, 2010, 20:57

As a sort of follow up to my post on the disco board, and because I don't want to harass Berk with it, I'll throw this in the group.

I bought an xbox controller today, as many recent windows games don't support any other controllers. And while it is possible (with great difficulty) to make an other controller work, the results have hardly been worth it.
So I bought an xbox controller. But guess what? I can't get it to work!
Luckily, the problem seems to present itself fairly clearly: the driver.
I installed the driver from the disk, but windows will not run it. Instead I get this happy message:
"The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application."
I've looked around on the net and it seems many people have had similar problems, but I can't seem to find a specific one about xbox controllers.
Which leads me to the conclusion that all that fettling with my settings (to make my ps3 pad work) has broken things to such a degree that I can't use the xbox controller anymore. oops.
I've deleted and replaced all the files that had to do with my ps3 controllers, but no cigar. So besides completely reinstalling windows, what else can I try?
Cheers!

Akiakaiu · Post by **Akiakaiu** » April 30th, 2010, 21:17

When I tried to install my wireless 360 controller last week and I tried to use the disk it yelled at me. I had to download the drivers right from MS and that sorted it all out.

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » April 30th, 2010, 21:17

I tried that too, same result.

Post by **FatherJack** » April 30th, 2010, 21:25

I bought one today, plugged it and it worked straight away. If it came with a CD, it's in the dustbin with the plastic packaging and instructions in 25 different languages.

Under control panel, hardware, devices there should be a games controller icon. Right-clicking and choosing game controller settings gives you a list of controllers and their status, and Advanced lets you select a preferred device.

If you have some old drivers knocking about from the PS3 installation, they might show up if you right-click the games controller icon and choose Properties, on the Hardware tab. A 360 controller should show, plus a USB input device (it acts as a USB hub for the plug-in chatpad). I also had 'HID-compliant game controller' listed whcih I think was my old gamepad - but selecting it, choosing Properties, Driver, Driver Details shows me it has no drivers associated with it.

I don't remember installing a driver on this OS (Win7), I know I did in the past, but I don't think since a reinstall.
MS have a download page here: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/downl ... ory=gaming
and also an 'XInput' driver here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... ffb828ba4e

There are older versions of the driver here and here.

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » April 30th, 2010, 21:54

Oddly enough, I made it work by uninstalling my driver and resetting the controller to default in the devices menu. looks like I was concentrating on the wrong problem.