Xbox Controller Switching to Player 2

RacAtat007

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About a month ago my wired Xbox controller started switching to player 2 randomly. This only seems to happen when I play Rocket League and in the past week it's gotten to the point that I can't play 1 match without this happening. The worst part is the only way I can fix this is to restart my whole PC so it makes RL unplayable. I have tried uninstalling the drivers which didn't seem to work. Any ideas on what else to try or what's causing this
 

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No only 1. It will work as player 1 for a few minutes then randomly switch to player 2. I get the beep when you plug or unplug a device then it will switch to player 2. Only restarting the PC will switch it back
 

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go to control panel- devices and printer. there are two types of controllers. one is xbox 360 controller for microsoft controlle and the other only "xbox 360 Wireless Controller" just delete the first one. now disconnect your controller marked withe player two. At last connect your controller again. Now your controller is set to player one

go to Control Panel->"Game Controllers" (In Vista/7, just type Game Controllers into the start menu search).

Once there, click "Advanced", select the 360 Controller from the drop-down, and then hit Ok both times. That should set the 360 controller to "Primary".

Then launch the game, go to Options, and switch "Player 1 Input" over to the 360 controller.
 

RacAtat007

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In control panel and drop down I only had 1 controller (Win 10). I'm not sure how to set input to first controller in Rocket League either.

I don't want to Jinx it but I might have found my issue. I clicked troubleshoot this device in control panel and it said it was an older device and might have issues with USB 3 so I plugged it into the 1 USB 2 port on my motherboard and it seems to work so far. I have played about 5 minutes with no switching yet. My fingers are crossed
 
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Hey, I've looked everywhere because I had the same problem.
Do you have Nvidia Geforce Experience installed on your PC? Beause if you have that, and you are logged in and it's running in the background, shut it down! Geforce Experience has the possibility to stream, therefore it will somehow set as Player 1 when the program is running.
It worked for me!

Dunno why Nvidia or Microsoft does not inform us about this;)

Greetz
 
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Hi, i have the same issue and Geforce Experience is not installed. I tried everything i found in Google, but nothing works. Only restarting the PC helps. I'm using Win10 and a friend of me has the same issue with a diffrent xbox 360 controller on win 7. We both are using a wired controller, so NOT a wireless controller.

The truth is that Microsoft is not able since 10 years, to get proper working drivers for this issue. I guess you have to deal with it.
 

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Buy new controller the problem is the cable off your controller ;)
 

RacAtat007

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It's not the cable. After a Windows update the problem stopped happening so it was something to do with Windows