Four months after the launch of the console, Microsoft still hasn't released a PC driver for the Xbox One controller. Someone else has finally done it for them. With a few caveats, YouTube Lucas Assis has ed video instructions and a driver that will make your Xbox One controller work with your PC. The video is 11 minutes long, so it's not exactly a plug and play solution, but if you really like the Xbox One controller this will get it talking to your PC.
Assis' solution uses a combination of a generic USB driver, controller emulating software vJoy, libusb (which allows applications to access USB devices), and his own application, which s up to 16 (!) controllers. All of these are included in the .
Basically, after ing it you'll need to:
- Open your device manager and plug in your Xbox One controller
- Install the WinUSB device driver (a Windows driver)
- Install vJoy
- Open vJoy and use it to detect the controllers
- Install libusb, launch its filter installer wizard and use it to install the two WinUSB devices that are your controllers.
- Open Assis' app.
Assis does a good job of walking you through these steps in the video. They're are little involved, but nothing you need a computer science degree for.
From there you'll probably want to install XPadder or x360ce (included in the ) to make it work with games as if it were an Xbox 360 controller. As you'll see in the video, x360ce is a little problematic, and Assis still has some issues with the d-pad, but until Microsoft offers something better, we'll have to make do with homemade solutions. And it took Assis all of a day to make his application. By the time Microsoft gets around to fully ing the controller, this utility may have ironed out all the kinks.
