Wired xbox 360 pad changing to player 2 mid game

Karathez

Karathez

Karathez

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As the title says, my 360 pad is changing to player 2 mid game, & the only way to put it back to player 1 is to reboot the pc, this is extremely damn annoying, & stops me from playing anything competitive that needs a joypad, like rocket league.

I've googled and cannot find any solution, tho there are a good few posts from others with this problem, tried uninstalling the joypad, cleaning out all entries in the registry, installing xbox accessories, no joy, its random, can sometimes play several games before it happens, sometimes like just now it happens half way through my first game of the day.

Just wondering if anyone had fixed this themselves or had any ideas, its only started happening recently, & my best guess is that it was something with a win10 update thats messed it up (which is the exact reason I wish auto updates could be turned off), although avast has also been minimising my games occasionally even with silent mode on, so not 100% sure.
 
Had this. Its a break in the cable. It will eventually stop working so id grab a wireless if i where you.
 
Had the same issue, bad cable.

Switched to a wireless 360 pad, never looked back.

I find it a far better pad than the xbone controller for Rocket League.
 
You're right, didnt have another pad to test, but ran my fingers along the cable & sure enough the lights went, damn annoying as I havent even had it that long, bought it to replace another one that did something similiar, dodgy connection at the pad itself.

So going to go wireless as you suggested, I will need a reciever too obviously, does the wireless 360 pad come with a cable for charging?
 
Had this happen with my wired controller a few weeks back, dodgy cable like others have said. Amazed it's lasted this long tbh, the controller was half chewed to bits by my old housemate's dog and had been tangled up many a time! Ended up getting a wireless Xbox One controller since my wireless 360 controller I had was broken and beyond repair... or so I thought. Bledd's link made me think and recheck it, I'd thought all the contacts were corroded over - turns out it's just the battery cover part. Bodged some batteries in with a paperclip across them and found the controller is still fully working. Could have spent £4 on a replacement cover instead of getting a £60 new one controller. lol. I guess I have a wireless player 2 controller now...
 
You can buy a replacement lead if you want to fix it as long as you can solder, that's what I did and it worked okay after. Plenty of videos on youtube showing how to do it.
 
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