I have one but it's easier to just bind it with the Bluetooth adapter since I don't have to open my PC case to do it (I have the dongles inside on an internal USB hub).
Other bluetooth devices don't have problems so it's nothing to do with the adapter or its configuration, but there's a few seconds several times an hour on average where the controller starts blinking and reconnects. It also spuriously warns the controller has 0% power sometimes when it does it.
I use some $3 dongle I picked up on the way home from the post office with my xbox one controller and the only issue I had was after a while if I had the dongle plugged into one of the back IO ports it'd drop and hang inputs but works fine if it's plugged into the front.
my A button double inputs so i skip dialogue sometimes
had the problem on two controllers so i think its just a windows thing
im getting a playstation controller, frick it
it pairs up with my controller when i plug it into my laptop but not my main PC. really dont understand how it just stops working like that and i dont have the energy to troubleshoot anymore. i think ill just get like a 12 foot long usb c cable and be done with it.
3 years ago
Anonymous
heres a really moronic one i did one time when i was having this problem
plug the controller into a usb that goes into a phone charger while resetting the pairing
i have no idea why this frickin worked for me but it did with the same problem years ago. i think the controller needs a lot of power to search for channels properly or something
when you used the adapter on two different computers it probably established a different channel for each one, i dont know if theres any way to look at or reset that
(this feature is so you can use the same controller on xbox series console and pc without having to set it up back and forth)
thanks for the suggestions but neither worked. it's honestly baffling how unreliable this piece of shit is.
3 years ago
Anonymous
damn, i used to have troubles with them but they honestly havent given me any issues in years. though I use a different dongle and controller for each PC just to avoid any issues like this.
youve frickin rebooted 50 times right?
and it actualyl works on the laptop? it doesnt just appear to pair it actually works?
>Nah, the dongles are pretty foolproof, people have problems on them with win7 which theyre not supported under
moronic shill, this is on Windows 10. It's no secret, you'll find reviews on every store complaining about the frequent disconnects on bluetooth, and every video covering the controller on bluetooth has a lot of people talking about the problem. It's nothing to do with the firmware, it's nothing to do with powersaving, dualshock controllers work perfectly on the same setup that xbox controllers flake out on. Microsoft just made yet another dud wireless controller, like their 360 wireless controller where the F1 fuse burns out because they couldn't figure out how electronics work.
okie dokie youre free to use whatever you want personally i cant stand them and cant stand using a controller that doesnt have drivers
3 years ago
Anonymous
>youve frickin rebooted 50 times right?
yea >and it actualyl works on the laptop? it doesnt just appear to pair it actually works?
yea it works just as it used to on my PC. whats funny is i used a bootleg Xbox 360 wireless receiver for years with my 360 controller and never had a single issue yet this microsoft wireless receiver is giving me trouble after less than 3 months.
Oh there's a fix for it, but yes it involves lying to the controller about what your pc is. Bluetooth does feed device information between devices, usually it doesn't matter, and I'm aware people have made drivers for it.
I just think they're shitty for making it not work on purpose when even nintendo doesn't do that with their new controller.
>Oh there's a fix for it, but yes it involves lying to the controller about what your pc is.
nah, just simply doesn't work this way
I looked it up and you are wrong, and confused about what you're talking about. The controller is agnostic to things like this, and microsoft hasn't done anything to make it not work in linux. the controllers work readily over bluetooth in linux.
>Nah, the dongles are pretty foolproof, people have problems on them with win7 which theyre not supported under
moronic shill, this is on Windows 10. It's no secret, you'll find reviews on every store complaining about the frequent disconnects on bluetooth, and every video covering the controller on bluetooth has a lot of people talking about the problem. It's nothing to do with the firmware, it's nothing to do with powersaving, dualshock controllers work perfectly on the same setup that xbox controllers flake out on. Microsoft just made yet another dud wireless controller, like their 360 wireless controller where the F1 fuse burns out because they couldn't figure out how electronics work.
works for me 🙂
I have one but it's easier to just bind it with the Bluetooth adapter since I don't have to open my PC case to do it (I have the dongles inside on an internal USB hub).
>what a fricking piece of shit
you dont have that many soijaks
It has less lag than a normal bluetooth dongle because that's using a microsoft proprietary wireless connection
how do I get that shit on my bluetooth headphones (it's my backup pair for when I need ANC)
*blocks ur path*
Works perfectly for me :^)
Microsoft's shitty controllers disconnect all the time on bluetooth, they force you to buy their proprietary garbage.
Just update the firmware
I did that, still disconnects once every 30 minutes or so.
isn't there a way to make it so the computer doesn't automatically shut off bluetooth things to "save power"
Other bluetooth devices don't have problems so it's nothing to do with the adapter or its configuration, but there's a few seconds several times an hour on average where the controller starts blinking and reconnects. It also spuriously warns the controller has 0% power sometimes when it does it.
Mine does that on my beefy gaming PC, but it never disconnects on my work laptop. It's terrible.
I use some $3 dongle I picked up on the way home from the post office with my xbox one controller and the only issue I had was after a while if I had the dongle plugged into one of the back IO ports it'd drop and hang inputs but works fine if it's plugged into the front.
bluetooth limitation especially with really cheap adapters. it doesn't like to be around signal/em noise at all.
for a technology that was really strongly heralded when it came out, bluetooth sucks dick as far as i can tell
Yeah that's about what I figured, still weird that it was running fine plugged into the back for months beforehand though
Probably metal piece of shielding glued onto the chip slipped.
Plausible, I had to take the entire pc in for repairs once and didn't bother to unplug the dongle
Works completely fine for me with less latency than Bluetooth. You must be moronic.
>microjunk
>quality
my A button double inputs so i skip dialogue sometimes
had the problem on two controllers so i think its just a windows thing
im getting a playstation controller, frick it
I think this is a problem with the first Xbox series controllers. I have been using them since 360 and mine is doing it also
I wonder if they've already fixed it, they don't like to sit on issues like this
i ordered one last tuesday, got it on friday, and used it over the weekend
the A button was double tapping so i am returning it
Huh? They work fine I have two different ones
mines just stopped working one day. doesn't wanna pair with my controller and reinstalling drivers doesn't work. i fricking hate pc gaming so much
are you using win7 because theres no reason to and those things dont work right with win7
windows 10, considering installing 11 just for the off chance this shit might work properly
reinstalling OS or drivers has nothing to do with it
just try to re pair them close to each other and put new batteries in if you didnt already. if it doesnt work it possibly failed, get a new one. shrug
it pairs up with my controller when i plug it into my laptop but not my main PC. really dont understand how it just stops working like that and i dont have the energy to troubleshoot anymore. i think ill just get like a 12 foot long usb c cable and be done with it.
heres a really moronic one i did one time when i was having this problem
plug the controller into a usb that goes into a phone charger while resetting the pairing
i have no idea why this frickin worked for me but it did with the same problem years ago. i think the controller needs a lot of power to search for channels properly or something
when you used the adapter on two different computers it probably established a different channel for each one, i dont know if theres any way to look at or reset that
Also there is a new feature on these controllers where if you double tap the sync button it will switch between devices you have sycned to. try that
(this feature is so you can use the same controller on xbox series console and pc without having to set it up back and forth)
thanks for the suggestions but neither worked. it's honestly baffling how unreliable this piece of shit is.
damn, i used to have troubles with them but they honestly havent given me any issues in years. though I use a different dongle and controller for each PC just to avoid any issues like this.
youve frickin rebooted 50 times right?
and it actualyl works on the laptop? it doesnt just appear to pair it actually works?
okie dokie youre free to use whatever you want personally i cant stand them and cant stand using a controller that doesnt have drivers
>youve frickin rebooted 50 times right?
yea
>and it actualyl works on the laptop? it doesnt just appear to pair it actually works?
yea it works just as it used to on my PC. whats funny is i used a bootleg Xbox 360 wireless receiver for years with my 360 controller and never had a single issue yet this microsoft wireless receiver is giving me trouble after less than 3 months.
>This shit is intentionally designed to not work on linux
>Xbone controllers refuse bluetooth handshakes to linux OSs
hate it
>>Xbone controllers refuse bluetooth handshakes to linux OSs
I seriously doubt that it should be agnostic to that.
Also
https://github.com/medusalix/xow
dongle driver
Oh there's a fix for it, but yes it involves lying to the controller about what your pc is. Bluetooth does feed device information between devices, usually it doesn't matter, and I'm aware people have made drivers for it.
I just think they're shitty for making it not work on purpose when even nintendo doesn't do that with their new controller.
>Oh there's a fix for it, but yes it involves lying to the controller about what your pc is.
nah, just simply doesn't work this way
I looked it up and you are wrong, and confused about what you're talking about. The controller is agnostic to things like this, and microsoft hasn't done anything to make it not work in linux. the controllers work readily over bluetooth in linux.
There's no fixing them, they're just fricking broken. Lots of people have the same problem. Playstation controllers work fine over bluetooth.
>Lots of people have the same problem.
Nah, the dongles are pretty foolproof, people have problems on them with win7 which theyre not supported under
xbox controllers work about the same over bluetooth as playstation do. its not a great technology and gets interference and line of sight issues
There are morons still using Win7, a decade old OS. Such contrarianism.
they don't want to be subject to all the tracking
which was added, unremoveably, to the windows 7 kernel like 5 years ago
>Nah, the dongles are pretty foolproof, people have problems on them with win7 which theyre not supported under
moronic shill, this is on Windows 10. It's no secret, you'll find reviews on every store complaining about the frequent disconnects on bluetooth, and every video covering the controller on bluetooth has a lot of people talking about the problem. It's nothing to do with the firmware, it's nothing to do with powersaving, dualshock controllers work perfectly on the same setup that xbox controllers flake out on. Microsoft just made yet another dud wireless controller, like their 360 wireless controller where the F1 fuse burns out because they couldn't figure out how electronics work.
Just use a fricking cable you autist
>doesn't have a motherboard with built in BT