are 360 controllers plug and play on win 7 64 bit

bigjimmyauk · 9 May 2010 at 19:46

thinking of trying my sons controller on a few games just wondered how easy it is.

P:S it's a wired controller

ins0mn1ac · 9 May 2010 at 19:48

Mine was.

chaparral · 9 May 2010 at 19:51

Should be plug in & play...

The 360 wireless one is..

Tombo · 9 May 2010 at 20:00

Yes it is.

Dark_Angel · 9 May 2010 at 20:11

Mine is and was. That's a wired controller BTW.

Works fine with games and whatever.

asim18 · 9 May 2010 at 20:12

Yes, windows recognises it in seconds.

apatia77 · 9 May 2010 at 20:14

Yes it is.

bigjimmyauk · 9 May 2010 at 20:28

thanks for that peeps i'll give it a go later. might make splinter cell a bit easier to control it's a pita with keyboard even with my G13 it feels awkward

MeMeMeMe · 9 May 2010 at 22:02

I think I needed to manually download a driver from the microsoft site, here.
If yours isn't recognised, use that link.

Memphis · 9 May 2010 at 22:07

No driver should be needed on Vista or Windows 7.

andy_mk3 · 9 May 2010 at 22:53

Mine was installed by the time I had chance to look at the screen after plugging it in.

bledd · 10 May 2010 at 11:05

plug it in, then run windows update and it will install the newer driver that adds rumble to it

roadie · 10 May 2010 at 11:51

MeMeMeMe said:
I think I needed to manually download a driver from the microsoft site, here.
If yours isn't recognised, use that link.

Yeah, I had to use this on my system.

Steveo1982 · 10 May 2010 at 13:09

Yes. Plugged mine in, installed and was playing GTA with it within 2 minutes.

colzboppo · 10 May 2010 at 15:57

Just got mine this morning, 360 controller for windows (wired). Tried my buddies wireless controllers connecting using the charge and play adapter without success (its not possible). But you can buy a PC wireless 360 reciever.
Apparently not all controllers (wired or wireless) are PC compatible, but the drivers should automatically install and the device recognized in windows and any games you start up immediately, if the controller is compatible.

Ksanti · 10 May 2010 at 18:31

All GFWL games are plug and play, other games including some big ones like CoD4 aren't though.

Sycho · 10 May 2010 at 18:53

Anyone here know how to enable trigger buttons for it for San Andreas? if so can you provide a link please, thanks.

trentlad · 10 May 2010 at 19:02

You could try xpadder if the in-game control config doesn't allow you to select the triggers.

That would definitely work and it's free too.

Sycho · 10 May 2010 at 19:17

Says it's not free, i do not mind paying for it but do not wish to use Paypal, any other ideas? thanks for the suggestion though.

trentlad · 10 May 2010 at 22:11

Wow! I have a very old version and they didn't charge for it back then, looks like the new version has some fancy features.

I'm sure if you google around you can find the free version legally. I use version 5.3 which... yep here's a link to download it but I only flicked through it quickly. Just double check if that's all above board.

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Xpadder/1148671810/1