Wireless 360 Controller on PC Possible?

[Yatta]

Is there a wireless receiver I can install on the computer so I can use the wireless Xbox 360 controller on my PC? I know the one with the chord works, but I never heard someone getting their PC to work with the wireless version.

[8IronBob]

Well, I'll quote what I read on Amazon's Product Wiki insider regarding the wireless controller, here's what this says:


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I have read in several sources that the Xbox 360 wireless controller does not work for PC's at all, but this may change in the future. Is the wired version the best pc controller for racing games and others requiring variable controls?

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This seems to answer a question or two about the controller when it was first released, as far as right now, that may be a different story...

I can also see that someone was asking that exact same question here too:

http://gaming.engadget.com/2005/09/06/microsofts-doing-an-xbox-360-controller-for-the-pc-too/

IMHO, if there are any drivers that make the PC use the X360 wireless receiver act like the X360 receiver, then I'd say it would work, if MS is willing to reveal some drivers for Win XP, but I doubt that at this time, I searched Microsoft's website, and no can find...

You might get some pointers in my thread, too, even tho this regards the regular XBox controller, and some stuff about the wired X360 controller, but I haven't looked through anything on the wireless controller at all yet...

http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=16176

[Yatta]

Dang, well thanks. I was either going to get that or a wireless mouse + keyboard. Looks like I have to go for the latter.

[Phayzon]

AFAIK (could be wrong)360 controllers are Bluetooth. So if you get one of those USB Bluetooth thingies (looks like a thumbdrive, my Dad has one) and turn on you controller (be unplug your 360, since itll turn that on) and see ifit connects.

[8IronBob]

Never thought of Bluetooth, I was always thinking they were RF (since most keyboards and mice are RF controlled). If that were the case, then I would probably say that RF controlled devices do require a lot more on your part, but that is a better wireless technology.

[helious]

No the Xbox360 Controllers are NOT bluetooht!

Hopefully the Xbox360 joypads are real GHZ Wireless, and not the much slower bluetooth standard...

[Destroyer]

Whats the use of this

[Yatta]

Whats the use of this
So I can acquire sexual pleasure from the vibration created by the controller. What other use is in a Joystick?

[Shielder]

You could try this;

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0e989b12-576b-42f2-b7c1-2a17ce25188b&DisplayLang=en

Apparently, its a Microsoft released x86 (and a link to a x64 driver further down the page) driver that allows the use of the Xbox360 controllers on both the said console and Windows XP SP1 and above.

[Yatta]

You could try this;

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0e989b12-576b-42f2-b7c1-2a17ce25188b&DisplayLang=en

Apparently, its a Microsoft released x86 (and a link to a x64 driver further down the page) driver that allows the use of the Xbox360 controllers on both the said console and Windows XP SP1 and above.
Except the thread concerns wireless controllers...

[Shielder]

I assume it should work with wireless controllers. Although, without testing this, I am unable to say for absolute certainty whether it will work or not.

Alright, no it won't work with wireless xbox360 controllers.

[Hudson]

Dang, well thanks. I was either going to get that or a wireless mouse + keyboard. Looks like I have to go for the latter.

You can still take a regular xBox controller, slice off the end and mate it with one from a USB cable, and then just shrinkwrap the two parts together.

There's drivers online for it online and it works with every game i've used it on.

It won't be wireless (unless you get a wireless USB HUB), but if you like the controller it's a solution.