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I sold a 360 but kept one of the controllers a while back. I just put together a new to me xp rig, and bought a 3.50 plug n play wire to hook it to the motherboard. I've installed microsoft's driver for the controller, and i see some sort of basic program centered around the xbox live button, but the controller has yet to stop flashing it's green lights, when it hooks to a 360 I know it lights up the left top corner for beign player one, only flashing when it's not connected.
Going in windows control panel and trying to calibrate a controller like i've done before with joysticks, there's no option for a 360 controller and it's not recognizing that the usb device that brings up the icon in the lower right taskbar saying it's recognized a usb device with the proper driver installed, whereas before it was an unrecognized usb device. But windows isn't programmed to put this usb device in the options to select a gaming controller or joystick for properties management and calibration.
I've got some splinter cell games that would work great with the controller, as well as free combat arms, and maybe more, a couple old flight sims too. But I dunno how to make a new tech controller work on an old tech computer rig. THat's what you get from corporations, multiple generations of similar but uncompatiable products, designed to ensure more total number of products sold. New tech's gotta be better than old tech to make more demand, whereas the old tech is considerably censored technology since humans are capable of much more sophisticated produtions, but the evil strangle hold on this world has only allowed inefficient tech and products to proliferate. But enough microsoft outdated conspiracies. I shouldn't stay up all night and think about them, so tell me how to think about a video game??/
lol, anyways, if anybody knows how to use a 360 controller on xp, some help would be nice, despite my best efforts to turn everyone away with rambling.