XBox 360 Pad, XBox One Pad or PS3/4 pad?

agnes · 5 Feb 2015 at 12:16

Cooners said:
PS3 but only because I'm too tight to spend money on a receiver for one of the 5 Xbox 360 I seem to have collected (instead I doom myself to having to remember how to install the PS3 driver every time I need to add it to a new machine).
I might get an Xbox One controller when they make a wireless version for PC.

Throw me a black wireless 360 one? Mine are looking... Tired lol.

cheesyboy · 5 Feb 2015 at 12:25

Cooners said:
PS3 but only because I'm too tight to spend money on a receiver for one of the 5 Xbox 360 I seem to have collected (instead I doom myself to having to remember how to install the PS3 driver every time I need to add it to a new machine).
I might get an Xbox One controller when they make a wireless version for PC.

It's less than £6!!

agnes · 5 Feb 2015 at 12:30

cheesyboy said:
It's less than £6!!

That's 3 special brews...

Cooners · 5 Feb 2015 at 12:38

cheesyboy said:
It's less than £6!!

Oh.....um I guess I'll buy one then, I swear they used to be £30 or something, many thanks

Cooners · 5 Feb 2015 at 12:39

agnes said:
Throw me a black wireless 360 one? Mine are looking... Tired lol.

I would but the only black ones is the wife's and I don't want to upset her lol

agnes · 5 Feb 2015 at 12:41

Cooners said:
I would but the only black ones is the wife's and I don't want to upset her lol

Bro's before... lol

I do need to buy some new ones, but don't want to simply as MS could release a XB1 wireless receiver any minute now!

cheesyboy · 5 Feb 2015 at 12:51

Cooners said:
Oh.....um I guess I'll buy one then, I swear they used to be £30 or something, many thanks

The official ones are about £20 now, from Amazon, but you can get cheap 3rd party ones on ebay (and probably Amazon too). I've had a cheap one for getting on for a year now, and it works fine.

arknor · 5 Feb 2015 at 12:56

ps4 pads should be native by now?

Smok3y · 5 Feb 2015 at 12:57

I use DS4 pad via bluetooth and the DS4Windows app.

Cooners · 5 Feb 2015 at 14:10

arknor said:
ps4 pads should be native by now?

PS3 pads still aren't native so I doubt they ever will be.

Glanza · 5 Feb 2015 at 14:32

On the rare occasions I use one it's my old faithful wired xbox 360 pad.

uK Cooki3 · 10 Feb 2015 at 17:51

Ricochet J said:
Hi,

Play some steam games now and then. I'm going through: Portal, Portal 2, HL, HL 2 and its various episodes. I'll be playing some more games later: Mortal Kombat, and racing sims.

I prefer to use a game pad. Which one do you recommend? Which one works best out of the box?

i use 360 Wireless.. you can get a cheap receiver off ebay, but out of box probz be better with wired 360

( fro my experience only own xbox360)

Swagger187 · 10 Feb 2015 at 18:00

Wired 360 controller for me like others. Works in most games I own

wellibob · 10 Feb 2015 at 18:55

I have a £6 knock off receiver. But I cannot get it to sync with any pads (installed the driver and it's listed as working but it's not. Ok it's six quid but it's driving me mad) window's 8.1 btw as I have got the device to run fine on win 7.

cheesyboy · 10 Feb 2015 at 20:29

wellibob said:
I have a £6 knock off receiver. But I cannot get it to sync with any pads (installed the driver and it's listed as working but it's not. Ok it's six quid but it's driving me mad) window's 8.1 btw as I have got the device to run fine on win 7.

I had to force install the driver through device manager. I forget the exact process, but I probably googled it. Win 8.1 here too.

Scotspaul · 10 Feb 2015 at 21:02

May be a dumb question but could I run a couple xbox 360 pads from a single receiver?

cheesyboy · 10 Feb 2015 at 21:49

Scotspaul said:
May be a dumb question but could I run a couple xbox 360 pads from a single receiver?

Yes. Up to 4 should work (I only have 2)

agnes · 10 Feb 2015 at 22:37

cheesyboy said:
Yes. Up to 4 should work (I only have 2)

4 do work, have done it multiple times. Works flawlessly.

wellibob · 10 Feb 2015 at 22:41

cheesyboy said:
I had to force install the driver through device manager. I forget the exact process, but I probably googled it. Win 8.1 here too.

I forced the driver in device manager. And yet the device won't sync with any 360 wireless pads. Plug in official and it's fine obviously. I've gone through googling the remedies but I cannot get the device to sync with pads. When I try it's as if the receiver isn't even connected (it is and the driver is present) It must be a driver issue but nobody can tell me what specific driver I need.

cheesyboy · 10 Feb 2015 at 22:51

I used the Microsoft one for Windows 7 64-bit. from here;
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-gb/d/xbox-360-wireless-controller-for-windows

Shows up as driver version 6.3.9600.17054 (dated 17/03/2014) in device manager.