Xbox One is a line of eighth generation home video game consoles developed by Microsoft. As a well designed controller, Xbox One Controller can provide gamers excellent experience when playing a game. But it has problems sometimes. Keeping your Xbox One Controller driver updated is an important thing you need to do to maintain good performance of Xbox One Controller. Here are three ways you can use to update this driver.
Methods:
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Method 1: Update Xbox One Controller Drivers in Device Manager
Updating drivers in Device Manager is a very common and simple one among the three ways. Here are steps to do that.
1. Press Windows + R key and input devmgmt.msc. Then click OK.
2. Expand Xbox Peripherals. Right click Microsoft Xbox One Controller and select Update Driver Software.
3. Select Search automatically for updated driver software.
Then it will search and install Microsoft Xbox One Controller Driver of new version for you.
Method 2: Download and Update by Driver Booster
Driver Booster is a professional tool that can help you download and install updated and missing drivers. If you want to update several drivers at the same time, using this application is a good option. More importantly, Driver Booster affords you tremendous game components. It can perfectly fix Xbox one controller not working issue as well.
1. Download Driver Booster and install Driver Booster in your computer.
2. Run Driver Booster and click Scan to look for Xbox one Controller driver for Windows 10.
3. Locate Microsoft Xbox One Controllerin the list and then click Update beside the driver.
Then Driver Booster is able to install the updated Xbox One Controller driver on Windows 7, 8, and 10.
Method 3: Update Xbox Driver from Windows update
Xbox One Controller Driver Download Windows 7
When you want to download Xbox One Controller Driver in Microsoft’s official website, you will find a message saying: “Update: Run Windows Update and it will automatically pick up the latest drivers, therefore I am removing the links below.”
Therefore, you can update this driver by performing Windows update. You can go to Settings > Update & security > Windows Update > Check for updates.
Then your computer will check and download available updates automatically. After the process is completed, your Xbox One Controller Driver should be updated.
These three ways are all not difficult, so you can choose any one of them to update Xbox One Controller Driver. Remember to make sure this driver regularly so that you can get better experience when you use Xbox One Controller.
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My issue was that when I was plugging in my XBox One controller in my Windows 7 PC, the error was popping up that the 'USB Device could not be identified.' Good job Microsoft.
The sad thing about this is that on Windows 7, the drivers for the Xbox One Controllers specifically are supposed to download automatically when the device is plugged in. Obviously, since the Device Manager cannot identify the device in the first place, it doesn't know what drivers it needs to automatically download.
Unfortunately for all of us, the solution to manually download the drivers on the support website (http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-on-windows/accessories/connect-xbox-one-controller-to-pc) is, at the time of writing, obsolete.
The webpage instructs you to follow these instructions:
- Navigate to the Xbox One Controller results page on the MicrosoftUpdate Catalog
- Download the correct version of the driver for your operating system(64bit vs 32bit)
- Extract the contents of the .cab into a file directory.
- Right click on the xb1usb.inf file, click install, and click yes.
However, users will find that when doing 'Right Click/Install' on the 64bit version of the drivers that the method of installation is no longer supported in the file. It throws the following error:
Xbox One Controller Driver Download
The INF file you selected does not support this method of installation
3 Answers
Instantly I wanted to do some dirty edits to the file to add the flags and lines required for it to be supported, however before I did something so absolutely and utterly stupid as to make manual edits to driver software without any knowledge whatsoever on the subject, I decided to take the device manager for a test run.
Here's what I did:
- Load up Device Manager
- Find the unidentified device on the list (will have a yellow errortriangle)
- Click, 'update driver'
- Click, 'browse my computer for driver software'
- Click, 'let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer'
- Then Click, 'Have Disk', and instead of selecting a disk drive,click browse
- Find the IMF file that you downloaded from the Update Catalog,select it, and click Open.
The device drivers should install correctly now, and you'll be able to play your nerdy games with no dirty edits to the file.
On my Windows 7, my Xbox One controller works both, via USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports, however, the controller's icon will show up in the Devices and printers menu only when I connect it via the USB 3.0 port! Hopefully this will also work on your PC.
I know this question is almost a year old, but there is an easier way to get the drivers. Although Microsoft removed the standalone driver installers from their website, there are still archived versions thanks to the Wayback Machine. It's as simple as using the installer and restarting your PC.
32-bit: Download
64-bit: Download
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