HOW-TO:NVIDIA SHIELD controller on Windows 7

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The first time you press a button on the NVidia Shield controller, Kodi asks "An unknown controller has been detected. Would you like to setup the controller?"

To fix this, select No in the dialog. If you select Yes, the dialog will be shown again.

The NVidia SHIELD controller shows up as two devices. To fix double button presses, remove the button map for the second device.


Symptoms

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The NVIDIA SHIELD controller is compatible with Windows 7 and should work out of the box.

However, there is a bug where the SHIELD controller is detected as both an XInput device and a DirectInput device. In the peripherals list, it will appear twice.

A button map exists for the Xbox 360 controller (XInput), but not the NVIDIA Shield controller (DirectInput). As a result, the controller is usable in Kodi, but will give an error message on first use that you can safely ignore:

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