2 wireless xbox controllers on PC, please help! One works, the other doesn't

[Dr. Badger, PhD.]

Hi everyone, I wanted to ask if anyone has found a way to deal with this.

I have 2 wireless xbox controllers for my pc on a single wireless receiver (so, naturally, one controller is player 1 and the other is player 2).

Now everything is fine and dany with only one controller is connected, but I wanted to play local co op with my bro and that is where things get weird...

Not only is the second controller not recognized, but when I try to set the key bindings for player to, it lists xbox controls for a player 3 (as in, 3-x, 3-y as opposed to 2-x, 2-y).

Anyone experience something similar? If yes, did you manage to solve it?

Thanks in advance!

[Dr. Badger, PhD.]

I apologize for the bad grammar :/

[philosophyzer]

i see issues as well. i hope someone has a solution for this.

[Gerardo]

Do you connect any other controllers to your computer other than the xbox ones? I had a wii controller connected and it messed everything up even with my first controller. I had the same thing instead of controller 1 in mapping it would say controller 2. I disconnected the wii controller and everything worked fine with me but I never connected 2 xbox controllers. I will try when I get home though.

[Dr. Badger, PhD.]

Thanks for the response. I "kind of" got it to work...but it was more by adding a different controller than anything else. To answer your question though, I only have the two xbox remotes connected over one receiver. Occasionally I have a logitech attack3 joystick (for bf3) connected, but I'm uncertain if this is a factor, since it uses Dinput instead of Xinput.


I finally got it to work by installing a friend's logitech F710 on the system (so F710 = P1 and the others are now P2 and P3), but in essence now P3 has P4's key bindings, and one xbox remote still doesn't work (the one that has become P3). It's all very silly and weird, but at least now I can play coop with my brother.

This is very disappointing. Multi-controller support seems to be very lackluster on the PC (for obvious reasons). I think the only thing that frustrates me is that MS released a bloody driver for the remote, including multi-controllers...but you can not set the quadrant manually (like on a ps3). Doesn't help Ubisoft probably put the least amount of effort into controller support anyway (See Assassin's creed series).

[2LambBuna]

weird, ive got a PS3 arcade stick, which i thought would never work, but it does.

its normally the xbox controllers that are the least tempremental on windows.

[philosophyzer]

Found out this DOES work with xbox wireless controllers. I just ran it with 4 controllers and it works fine.

I posted this on another thread and will repost here:

Essentially go into the game with all controllers powered on, then go to options and select the controller to configure (ex controller 2). The using controller 1, select the button to program, then hit that desired button on controller 2. Repeat this for every button and every controller.

Be sure to hit accept and it'll store this in the game options.

Terribly unintuitive ...but it works.