And there is such a think in this case.Ĭolin Munro, at TattieBogle, released a driver as early as 2006, which appears not to have been updated since 2012. So we require a driver created by another party.

Unfortunately, Microsoft, doesn’t feel the need to supply drivers for Mac users for their hardware, which is unfortunate and leaves the user with the mess to solve by themselves. The bad news? If you plug the receiver into a different USB port, it might forget about everything and require you to go through this whole process again.MacOS X does not natively come with drivers for the XBox 360 controller, which makes sense, it’s not their responsibility to provide hardware drivers for 3rd party hardware manufacturers, especially when they choose to swerve away from standards … When this finishes, both sides will stop blinking. The xbox controller should start blinking too.ġ2) Wait for both to pair.

The green light will start blinking.ġ1) Press the wireless/pair button on the front of the xbox controller (if you have the charging adapter plugged in, it might be covering it up). Time to pair the controller.ġ0) Press the button on the wireless receiver. At this point, the receiver should be up and running. Let Windows try to find the right driver for it… and fail.ģ) Open Device Manager and locate the device (usually located under the Unknown/Unidentified Devices category).Ĥ) Right-click on the device and choose the option to update drivers for it.ĥ) Choose the option to Browse my computer for driver softwareĦ) Choose the option to Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computerħ) Browse to Microsoft Common Controller for Windows ClassĨ) Choose the option for XBOX 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows.ĩ) Click OK/accept/continue regarding the driver warning (informing you that it might not be a perfect match). Restart Windows if/when prompted.Ģ) Plug in the wireless receiver. Here’s the steps that got it working for me (on Windows 7 64-bit):ġ) Download the XBOX 360 Accessories Software (latest version as of this post is 1.2). The provided installation steps were, um, less than ideal. I recently purchased an HDE USB Wireless Receiver for use with an XBOX wireless controller.

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