Unofficially install Xbox One controller on PC

Microsoft sure are taking their sweet time bringing their Xbox One controller to PC, so being the impatient lot that we are a workaround has been developed. The instructions and driver come from Lucas Assis.

He has concocted a fiendish way of getting the XO pad to work, using generic USB drivers, emulator vJoy, libusb, and his own application. He’s provided a walkthrough video.

All the stuff you need is located in a single download so you don’t need to go on a scavenger hunt. Naturally this workaround is a bit involved.

PC Gamer sums up the steps:

▪ Open your device manager and plug in your Xbox One controller

▪ Install the WinUSB device driver (a Windows driver)

▪ Install vJoy

▪ Open vJoy and use it to detect the controllers

▪ Install libusb, launch its filter installer wizard and use it to install the two WinUSB devices that are your controllers.

▪ Open Assis’ app.

There are still issues to be worked out as the D-pad can be troublesome. Using XPadder is recommended to try and smooth things over. Until Microsoft get their dev coding finger out we’ll have to make do with this jerry-rigged method, or gasp keep using the Xbox 360 controller. I know I’m sorry, that was going too far.