Xbox Controllers

[FrankJ]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

A couple of common causes:

• Keep your PC plugged into the power outlet at each Player Station to avoid having the laptop start power saving because it's on battery.
• Turn off power saving for the USB ports (and everything else for that matter)

Device Manager -> Universal Serial Bus controllers -> USB Root Hub -> Power Management
unclick "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power"

+1. This should be in the DS set up instructions if it not there already.

[techplex]

Consider strain refiling the USB cable. We had a similar issue where the driver would notice the controller being intermittent or disconnect altogether.

We used a wire tie and a sticky wire tie mount.


This makes sure that if the driver pulls on the cable the USB port does not wiggle or see the strain.

[Addison4300]

We had our laptop's power saver mode disabled.

Team 3310 said the Xbox controllers "burn out" a lot. (today our controller wont work at all now)

team 3310 also suggested to use a logitech game pad which we might try and see.

[BitTwiddler]

Originally Posted by Addison4300

We had our laptop's power saver mode disabled.

Team 3310 said the Xbox controllers "burn out" a lot. (today our controller wont work at all now)

team 3310 also suggested to use a logitech game pad which we might try and see.

Team 1726 is experiencing a similar issue with our Logitech gamepads "disappearing" from the DS during the matches. I don't think it's the Xbox controller per se (unless it's defective of course).