20-05-2021

Xbox One Controller Driver Windows 7 X86

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.

If you're still using Windows Vista (like me) and would like to play games with the XBOX One Controller, then you're pretty much out of luck.

Methods:

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.

Xbox One Controller Driver Windows 7 X86

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

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.”

Xbox One Controller Windows Microsoft Driver

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.

After the Windows 10 Anniversary update Xbox One Controllers may start showing up as two XInput devices in Steam, and button presses occur twice.

To fix this you need to patch in the xinputhid.sys file from an earlier Windows 7 driver.

Note: This fix only works for connecting the controller via USB cable or USB wireless adapter, the new Bluetooth controller when paired still doesn't work.

Download the Windows 7 Driver

Head to the Microsoft Catalog in Internet Explorer (it won't work in any other browser) and download Microsoft - Generic Controller - Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows version 6.3.9600.16384.

Make sure you download the right version for your machine (X86 or AMD64). You can check by clicking the package name to view the details.

Add the driver to you basket and checkout. Once you have the file, extract the zip inside the directory. You should see xinputhid.sys and xinputhid.inf in there.

Patching Existing Driver