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I wanna use the RPi as an emulation machine, thanks to RetroPie this is not a big problem. To control everything I want to connect multiple Xbox 360 wireless gamepads. This is possible by using xboxdrv.

It's easy to establish a connection via sudo xboxdrv -s -wid x. The problem now is the performance. The system is receiving any pushed buttons very slowly and sometimes won't recognize if the button is still pressed.

It gets worse if I try to connect more than 1 controller. The emulator seems also to be slowed down.

I've overclocked the RPi to 1000MHz for testing purposes, but that did not change anything.

I guess that it must work with at least 1 gamepad anyhow, since there are different articles online showing how to connect such a controller (all of them do not really help with my problem unfortunately)

*NOTE: I'm not allowed to create tags yet, so I needed to take existing ones which do not fit very well. Would be nice if someone with editing access could alter them to make more sense. I would suggest the following: retropie gaming gamepad xbox360 emulation *

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Try to execute xboxdrv directly from a interactive shell.

Some users experience dropped events if they start xboxdrv from rc.local or another script. But if you start xboxdrv from a shell, it seems to work well.

Now, the big problem is the reason for that to happen.

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  • I usually start the driver via ssh shell from another computer. That way I can run RetroPie on my TV and control driver-related things via my PC. Does that qualify as an interactive shell? – MOnsDaR May 29 '13 at 6:50
  • Yes :) Last night I played Super Mario for a couple of hours without any problems. I booted my Pi, waited for Emulationstation to start, exited it, executed: xboxdrv --trigger-as-button --wid 0 --led 2 --deadzone 4000 --silent & sleep 1 – brgsousa May 29 '13 at 11:44
  • Rewriting my comment, I couldn't edit the previous one: Yes :) Last night I played Super Mario for a couple of hours without any problems. 1.I booted my Pi 2.waited for Emulationstation to start 3.exited it 4.executed: xboxdrv --trigger-as-button --wid 0 --led 2 --deadzone 4000 --silent & sleep 1 5.and then started emulationstation again – brgsousa May 29 '13 at 11:53
  • Just followed your steps and it's still laggy :/ After searching a lot and reading through various pages I'm starting to think that something is wrong with my USB-ports... – MOnsDaR May 30 '13 at 18:27
  • MonsDaR, maybe the problem is because it is overclocked. I reinstalled the OS to start from scratch, and it seems to be working now. It wasn't working well when my raspberry pi was overclocked. – brgsousa Jun 3 '13 at 14:08

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