PC gets official Xbox One controller drivers
Microsoft has released official drivers to use Xbox One controllers on PC.
Just as promised, you can now officially use your Xbox One controller on PC. The drivers will be coming in a Windows update soon, but you can grab them early and get started.
They're available from the Major Nelson Blog. You can use the XBO controller with any game that's compatible with the Xbox 360 controller. As we get more PC games that appeared on Xbox One, like today's announcement of Dead Rising 3, those are likely to work natively with it as well. The blog notes connecting a USB cord as part of the process, though, so these drivers seem unlikely to work with the existing 360 wireless receiver.
An unofficial solution has been available for a few months, for those users who didn't want to wait for the Microsoft support.
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Same. 360 controller is still good enough until they release one.
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How's the D-Pad on One compared to the 360? I'm not seeing much reason to replace it.
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It's an improvement but people still complain.
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Way, way better dpad. I could do wall jumps in Super Metroid with the XB1 controller whereas I could not for the life of me get out of the goddamn pit using the 360 pad.
Overall higher quality feeling and hefty weight. Better analog triggers.
I would say the only disadvantage (which you get eventually used to) is that the XB1's analog left joystick is a tad tall, requiring your thumb to stretch a bit to stay on top. The 360's analog joystick height is less strenuous. But I got used to the XB1's taller height.-
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That's probably because they are pressing the shoulder buttons like buttons with their fingers. You're supposed to just bump them with the trigger fingers never taking your fingers off the trigger.
The new shoulder bumpers are much easier to hit doing it that way and it works very well.-
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It's more that people assumed doing the same thing before would work the best. I didn't like the new bumpers at first since I used to take my fingers off to press them like the 360 or PS3 controllers but then I took my time studying it and realized the idea of the updated design and it made sense.
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