Budget gamepads for PC

[Chicken Chaser]

Ive had Xbox's for years and not had one for a year now. I do have a reasonably quick laptop though and wouldnt mind a controller to play a few games on - Fifa, a couple of old FPS' etc. I'm not good with mouse and keys so fancy a cheap gamepad. Any recommendations on what will play on Win10 without issue? I dont want to be faffing about too much with trying to get drivers to work!

[grumbledoak]

Logitech F310?

[davepoth]

Chicken Chaser said:

Ive had Xbox's for years and not had one for a year now. I do have a reasonably quick laptop though and wouldnt mind a controller to play a few games on - Fifa, a couple of old FPS' etc. I'm not good with mouse and keys so fancy a cheap gamepad. Any recommendations on what will play on Win10 without issue? I dont want to be faffing about too much with trying to get drivers to work!

An Xbox 360 wired controller plugs right in and will work flawlessly.

[Chicken Chaser]

davepoth said:

An Xbox 360 wired controller plugs right in and will work flawlessly.

£25 for a wired one. I think thats probably the best bet if I dont want to have too much hassle with it. Cheers.

[SirSquidalot]

I got one of these for forza, http://www.argos.co.uk/product/5065514 really good pad!

[funkyrobot]

Not Windows 10 specific, but I use a wired Xbox One controller on my Windows 7 machine and it works with pretty much everything.

One odd thing I did find though was the fact that the vibrate function crashed some of my games. Don't know why and didn't really look into it. Just turned it off as I don't need it anyway.

[Ste1987]

I've got a 3rd party Xbox-style controller which I got for a tenner off eBay. Works pretty well, I think

[Foliage]

I have an xbox controller for my pc, think it was £10 from argos, I use it for rocket league and a few other games that are more console style stuff.

[TommoAE86]

Agree with the above, xbox360/one controller is the cheapest way.

I tried one of these and it was terrible, felt horrid and the auto-shut off just refused to turn off so every 10mins it would turn off even if buttons where pressed.

clicky

I also use a PS4 controller just because I find them more comfortable, d-pad above analogue stick!!!

[Chicken Chaser]

The Xbox one wireless controllers are expensive. At the prices they're pushing the One S for with a couple of games, it almost makes sense to just buy a console! I'm trying to keep away from buying one though as I've got too much other stuff on at the moment and it'll just distract me! Getting a cheap controller for the odd pc game (probably Fifa or an old Battlefield so that it'll play on my laptop) just to fill a gap when I want it. I was going to buy a cheap xbox wired copy but I've read about driver issues hence looking at the official thing.

[TommoAE86]

Go get a 2nd hand one, I got mine from CEX for £7 and that is a white wireless xbox360 one. As I said above, they're uncomfortable for me so I only use it for games that don't like the PS pad (currently only Mafia 3 and FH3)

[FunkyNige]

grumbledoak said:

Logitech F310?

That's what I use when I want to play a game that needs a controller, never had any issues with it.