GameMaker Studio games not detecting Xbox360 wireless gamepads about xpad

[paroj]

probably the controller just needs to be added to the SDL2 gamecontrollerdb:
https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/0052384f717f/src/joystick/SDL_gamecontrollerdb.h

we can not arbitrarily change the device names as other existing software might expect the name to be as it is now.

[ghallberg]

I understand you can't change the device name, and I don't really have a good solution for this, however I don't think GM:S (http://www.yoyogames.com/studio) uses SDL2?

When looking through the file you linked I don't see any of the related device names mentioned either.

[ghallberg]

I'm sorry for posting this here, since it's actually a bug in the closed source GameMaker: Studio. I'm going to try to report the bug to them as well, however they aren't very responsive it seems.

I understand that this is not a simple fix but I wanted to highlight it since the cause seems to be clear, and quite a few popular games are affected.

[ghallberg]

I reported this to the GameMaker people, and they seem to be responding quite well. Hopefully that will work out and no work will be needed on your part :)

[ghallberg]

I'll just close this issue, there's not much to do from your end. Thanks for the civil response to my frivolous issue.