What controllers work with Windows 7 64 bit?Follow

Hi, I recently 'upgraded' to Windows 7 64 bit, and my controllers have stopped working. I'm pretty sure it's not a problem with the controllers as they work with all other games, even the FFXI config and I've tried two.

So my question is, does anyone have any controllers that work with Windows 7 64 bit?

PS2 Controller with USB Adapter works like a charm. Same goes for Wireless Logitech PS2 Controller, again with the USB adapter.

Ps3 sixaxis also works using the MotioninJoy drivers, but it's a pain in the **** as you have to disable driver signing upon every boot.

Logitech Rumblepad 2 worked without any special configuration, and I wouldn't recommend using a 360 controller unless you want to wrestle with the XBCD drivers (not sure if they are even updated for 7). I don't think that the triggers are mapped properly.

If it doesn't work in the game itself, I'd suggest trying to toggle the *analog* button - some controllers have a button to manually turn on the analog sticks. Also, in the FFXI config make sure that enable hat swtiches is toggled to *on*, and you are configuring it in the FFXI config rather than the Playonline Config.

Other than that, I don't know why it would work in everything except FFXI. Is the window *in focus*? If you aren't using the third party windowing solution, you need to make sure the window is always in focus.

For people using 360 controllers, what drivers are you using?

I got my PS3 controller working over USB...but the process is kind of annoying, so I wouldn't really recommend it.

Main problem is likely that with 64-bit you need signed drivers unless you F8 at boot and tell the system to ignore that requirement...every...single...time...

(or you sign the drivers...)

Edited, Apr 12th 2010 1:57pm by Isiolia

Microsoft's original drivers. Wireless receiver with wireless controller. I don't have access to my triggers with it but so far I haven't missed them.

I use the 64-bit version of XBCD and disable driver signing enforcement.

I disable driver signing by using a 512k USB stick with a boot loader that automatically selects advanced boot options and then disables driver signing. You can also just hit F8 and select it manually every time you boot but I found that annoying.

You have to put the OS into test mode for that to work, and then you get a watermark in the corner of the screen that says "TEST MODE" which will annoy the hell out of you as if your desktop is shining a laser beam directly into your eyeballs.

You can remove that but it involves hacking Windows and MS might do something in an update in the future which might make Windows explode if you have done this.

The bootable USB stick method is the most convenient way IMO. Just stick it into one of your rear USB ports and forget about it.

Edited, Apr 12th 2010 6:23pm by Lobivopis

Yeah, I didn't do it, but I remembered there being a method for modding the driver so you didn't need to do the F8 thing.

I edited it in because I figured, gosh, if I don't, then someone will be all like, you can mod the driver.

Long story short, I just figured it was a PITA, and that if I -really- wanted to play games with a pad on my PC (was messing with my on-clearance copy of SFIV), I'd just go buy a Logitech PS2 clone and be done with it.

Any reason why the right stick won't fully work for movement or camera? It just defaults the + to the bottom left and will only move between the bottom left and the top right of the box.

The left stick however, will work with both for some reason.

I use a cheap old Nyko Airflow, and I didn't even bother loading the drivers that came with it; Windows 7 64 went and found an acceptable set of drivers on its own, and I've had no problems with it other than having to reprogram the camera (for some reason the analog ended up upside down.)