I hate you. You just solved a problem I've been having for a while, with my xbox controller not working. i was using the charger cord on a wireless controller.

....Dammit.

Oh whitty... *CUE LAUGHTRACK*

OMG FAILS

User was warned for this post. -D

pointing this out here

yup. common problem. well at least it was cleared up. damn Microsoft and their need to make a dongle for something like that.

the wired controller "just works" (though you might need to run windows update with it plugged in).

I don't know about every1 else, but i think its better to save all this trouble by doing it my way, go to The Source, or sum other game/ technology shop and buy a new computer usb controller, make sure to get plug and play, no installation works fine. And if your wondering if the $5 dollar remote works, it does, i got mine a year ago and it still works.

sadly people are lazy nowadays, even to order online. but i mean it's worth a couple minutes to get an xbox controller working too, because i love the feel of it. or at least that's my opinion.

Though you've undoubtably tried this:

My software in any circumstance doesn't recognize the wireless Controller (Xbox 360) unless the controller is on and ready before loading up the game.

Try running the joystick/gamdpad configuration utility in Windows before the game.

3 things you need for this to work properly if you want an alternative..

1: XBox 360 Controller
2: Your Play and Charge Cord
3: DS3 Tool (It says a whole bunch of PS3 stuff but it covers XBox controllers too)

If you want to try this then PM me for more instructions or I can post them here if you want.

There are many ways you can do it , i just plug it in and the blue light turns on.

And if you asking blue light? i change the lights because i didn't like the green.

Once you have the drivers working, you might want to map the buttons to keys, grab a copy of Joy2Key (If you didn't know this by now) http://www.electracode.com/4/joy2key/Jo ... ersion.htm this basically makes your controller act like a keyboard, you can assign keyboard and mouse movements. Anyway, It works great, and I always seem to prefer it over built-in controller functions.

DS3 tool pretty much does all of that and more

I did that a long time ago, it was pretty boss.
But then I would need to type something, and I'd have to not lay back anymore and reach oh so far away for my keyboard.