How can I hookup 24 Xbox One controllers on my PC? What is the limit?
Once a month, I host a LAN where we play various titles, but our 2 hour "warmup" with snacks and social interaction is spent on a desktop playing >= 8 player games. I've had great luck with Regular Human Basketball and Splody, and then also countless 4 player games. I own two Microsoft Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows 10 (new version supporting 8), and was hoping to have both hooked up for 16 controllers. However, only one works at a time. Even with 1, many of these games that have "8 player local multiplayer shared screen" don't register past 4 controllers.
I've been trying to read on DirectInput vs XInput, so I guess I'm looking to confirm that XInput has a cap of 8, DirectInput is (sort of) unlimited, but if the game developer doesn't implement DirectInput, then you're out of luck? Is there anything I, as the user, can do to ensure I have all the controllers properly synced whether it's wired via USB, wireless via dongle, wireless via Bluetooth, etc.?
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How many Xbox One controllers can connect to PC?
Option 1: USB With USB connections, you can connect 8 Xbox Wireless Controllers at the same time, or 4 controllers that have Xbox Chat Headsets attached. If the controllers have Xbox Stereo Headsets, only 2 can be connected at the same time.How many controllers can you plug into a PC?
You should be able to connect up to 4 controllers to your computer without any issues.How many controllers can Windows 10 support?
Windows version note: On Windows 10, you can connect up to eight Xbox One controllers, while on Windows 7 and Windows 8, you can connect up to four. On Windows 10, you can only have four controllers connected if you also connect an Xbox chat headset to the controller or two with the stereo headset.Can you connect more than 4 controllers to PC?
You can connect them, and all the controllers will show up as devices on your PC, but you won't actually be able to use more than 4 controllers. XInput (the API that Windows games use to interface with Xbox 360 controllers) only supports a maximum of 4 controllers.How to Connect Xbox Controller to PC - ALL METHODS
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