Even when its used on the 360 the pad is still wireless, the charge kit is just a power cable. To play the wireless pad on your PC you need the wireless gaming receiver.

By • 6:00 am, October 29, 2012 • After we reported on coming to the Mac, we got a reader question that I figured it’d be good to write a tip on. Playing games on your Mac is great fun of course, and all of them use the keyboard and/or mouse to control the games being played. However, with AirPlay mirroring, HDMI cable support, and a bunch of new games showing up for the Mac platform along their Windows brethren, there are times when a console style controller is a better alternative. Being able to sit on the couch and play our favorite Mac games has a lot to recommend it, and using an Xbox controller is fairly easy to set up.

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First of all, you’ll need an Xbox controller, wired or wireless with the Microsoft wireless adapter. I used a wired controller, but you should be able to get a wireless controller (with the wireless receiver you can get on ) to work just as well.

Secondly, head over to TattieBogle, and there. This driver will let your Mac talk to the Xbox 360 controller, and vice versa. Once downloaded, mount the disk image with a double click on the.dmg file and then double click on the.pkg file that’s on it. Follow the prompts, just like any other OS X installer, to install the driver software. You won’t need to restart. Now, plug in the Xbox 360 wired controller.

The green lights around the middle Xbox button will light up, but then will go dark. Unlike when connected to an actual Xbox 360, the controller will not light up when connected to your Mac.

Now, pull up System Preferences, either from the Apple Menu or from within your Applications folder. There should be an Xbox 360 Controllers preference icon in the lower right, now. Click on that, and you’ll see a control panel like the screenshot above.

Pressing the buttons will darken them on the control panel, so you can see that the controller is working. Now, launch Steam, or other controller-enabled game, on your Mac, and get to gaming! You can send your Mac screen to your Apple TV or use an HDMI cable to get it up on your HDTV. I recommend the cable, as Airplay can have a little bit of lag between a button press and the effect, depending on your router’s wi-fi signal.

MrHelmut, the wireless XBox One Controllers should work without additional drivers. That said, I did try installing the 360Controller driver but unfortunately it did not help. Exalted Waffle, I actually did not have this enabled, thanks! But while enabling it changed some behavior, it didn't fix the problem. I noticed that when I add two players (one gamepad, one keyboard), half of the gamepad's controls control the keyboard player.

And when I pull the triggers, the wrong player shoots! Perhaps related to this problem, I noticed that in the controller settings of Steam's big picture mode there are 2 gamepads listed when I connect the controller (1 XBox One Controller, 1 generic). Originally posted by:MrHelmut, the wireless XBox One Controllers should work without additional drivers. That said, I did try installing the 360Controller driver but unfortunately it did not help. Exalted Waffle, I actually did not have this enabled, thanks!

But while enabling it changed some behavior, it didn't fix the problem. I noticed that when I add two players (one gamepad, one keyboard), half of the gamepad's controls control the keyboard player. And when I pull the triggers, the wrong player shoots! Perhaps related to this problem, I noticed that in the controller settings of Steam's big picture mode there are 2 gamepads listed when I connect the controller (1 XBox One Controller, 1 generic). I would like to agree, but neither Xbox gamepads or Mac OS are made to collaborate correctly without any driver.