jaggerzz

no it is a wireless with a plug and play wire on it. so guess that is the problem. I'll have to look into getting the wireless receiver or the wired controller. Thank you all for all the help

no i don't have any other controllers plugged in. and won't work with any game.

It won't give me the option in game to switch to game pad. Just keyboard.
I just tried using a different port but still won't work

I want to try and play this game with xbox  wired controller. But I can't figure it out. I downloaded and installed the drivers from microsoft, but the game doesn't give me the controller option. The controller shows up in device manager and says it is working properly. But it don't show up in control panel.  But after installing the drivers and plugging the controller into my computer it says xbox controller something like plug and play kit is ready.
  any help would be appreciated.  
 
Thanks