If you see any of the following issues when your Mac is started from Microsoft Windows, use the steps in this article to reinstall or update your Windows support software:. An error message says that Apple Software Update has stopped working. One or more screen resolutions are missing or unavailable for your display in Windows. You can't adjust the brightness of your built-in display in Windows. Your Apple mouse, trackpad, or keyboard isn't working in Windows. (Note that isn't designed to work in Windows.). You don't hear audio from the built-in speakers of your Mac in Windows.

The built-in microphone or camera of your Mac isn't recognized in Windows. To download and install the latest Boot Camp drivers for Windows, you need a 16 GB or larger USB 2 flash drive. (USB 3 flash drives don't work when installing Windows with Boot Camp.) It will be erased, so back up any of its data that you want to keep before continuing. If you're currently started from Windows, click the Boot Camp icon in the system tray and select the option to restart from macOS. Connect the USB flash drive to your Mac. Open Disk Utility, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.

Select your USB flash drive from drives listed in the Disk Utility window. Select the drive name, not the volume name that appears beneath it. Click the Erase button or tab. Choose MS-DOS (FAT) as the format. If you see a Scheme menu, choose Master Boot Record as the scheme. Click Erase to reformat the drive, then quit Disk Utility.

Make sure that your Mac is connected to the Internet. Open Boot Camp Assistant, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. In the Boot Camp Assistant window, look for a checkbox to download the latest Windows support software from Apple. If you see the checkbox, make sure that it’s selected. Then deselect all other checkboxes and click Continue. If you don’t see the checkbox, choose Action Download Windows Support Software from the menu bar.

Make sure that your USB flash drive is shown as the destination drive. Then click Continue and enter an administrator name and password, if prompted. Boot Camp Assistant then downloads the Windows support software to that drive: Experiencing issues?. If the assistant doesn't see your USB flash drive, click Go Back and make sure that the drive is connected directly to the USB port on your Mac—not to a display, hub, or keyboard.

Disconnect and reconnect the drive, then click Continue. If the assistant says that your USB flash drive can't be used, make sure that it's. Also make sure that you're using a USB 2 flash drive, not USB 3. If the assistant says that it can't download the software because of a network problem,.

If the assistant says that the Windows support software could not be saved to the selected drive, make sure that your USB flash drive has a storage capacity of at least 16 GB. After the Windows support software has been downloaded or copied to your USB flash drive, quit Boot Camp Assistant, then follow these steps to install the software. Make sure that the USB flash drive is connected to your Mac. Choose Apple menu System Preferences, click Startup Disk, then select the Windows volume from the list of drives:. Click Restart to start up your Mac in Windows, then log in if prompted. Open the Boot Camp folder (or, on newer versions, the WindowsSupport folder) on the USB flash drive.

Then double-click Setup (or setup.exe) to begin installation. When you're prompted to allow Boot Camp to make changes, click Yes. Click Repair to reinstall or update the Windows support software installed by Boot Camp.

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Why Would I Need to Do This? Although many gamepads, like the Xbox One or Xbox 360 controllers, are usually calibrated for gaming on a PC right out of the box, others may need you to calibrate them before the system recognizes all their movements with complete accuracy.

For example, if you use a Nintendo 64 controller with a USB adapter, it will almost certainly need to be calibrated before you can use it. In other cases, you may just have an old controller that needs a little help. For example, maybe you have a button that’s sticking and you aren’t sure just how much the computer is able to read from it on each press. Or perhaps your gamepad has a worn down thumbstick that doesn’t seem like it’s tilting as far as it could. The calibration tool can help you dial in your controller so it’s as accurate as it can be. We’ll be using an Xbox 360 controller for this guide, since that’s what we have, but it should work pretty much the same for any gamepad you plug in. Open the Calibration Tool To find the Calibration Tool, begin by going down to your Start Menu, and selecting “Settings”.

Once in Settings, click on the tab for “Devices”. After the next window, scroll down to the link that reads “Devices and Printers” inside the “Printers and Scanners” tab, and click on it. (You can also get here by going into Control Panel Devices and Printers in all versions of Windows). RELATED: From here, the controller should pop up as long as it’s already connected. If not, make sure you have all the latest drivers installed for the controller of your choosing.

Find the controller, and right click it to bring up the following drop-down menu. From here, click on the option for “Game controller settings”. After you click this, the following window should automatically pop up. From there, click on the “Properties” button. The window that follows will contain two options: “Settings” and “Test”. To start, choose the Settings tab, and then click the button in this window that reads “Calibrate”. From here, the Calibration Wizard will automatically begin taking you through the process to get your controller set up properly. (This window is also where you’ll find the button to “Reset to Default”, in case you want the tool to automatically reset any changes that were made during a previous calibration run.) Calibrate Your Controller Again, we’re using the Xbox 360 controller here, so you may see slightly different windows depending on your controller, but most of it should be very similar.

Click Next to start the calibration. The calibration tool will start off with the “D-Pad” calibration, which on the Xbox 360 controller is actually the left thumbstick. At first, it will ask you to leave the thumbstick alone so it can find the center point.

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Let go of the thumbstick and click “Next”, at which point you’ll be taken to the next screen. Although it’s not necessary, we recommend selecting the “Display Raw Data” box, which will show you exactly where the resting point for the thumbstick is with quantifiable numbers.

This data is valuable because it will tell you if either of your thumbsticks are starting to wear down due to overuse, and can help you to diagnose any reasons why your in-game accuracy might be slipping. From here, swing the left thumbstick all the way around its full range of motion a few times. You should see the small cross hit all four corners in the box above, or at least touch all four sides of the box. Next, you’ll run through the same set of tools for any “axes” on your controller. These could be pressure-sensitive buttons like the Xbox’s left and right triggers, thumbsticks, or they might just be regular buttons on some gamepads. In our case, the Xbox 360 triggers are measured along the Z-axis, and should register anywhere from 100% (resting) to 200% (pulled down completely).

The X-axis calibrates the Xbox’s right thumbstick for horizontal movement, so for that, you just need to pull the thumbstick all the way to the left and the right, and see if the full range of motion is being appropriately registered. The same goes for the Y-axis (vertical movement). Swing it up and down, and as long as you see the numbers “0%”, and “100% at the extremes of both the top and the bottom of the thumbstick’s range of motion (as well as resting in the middle at 50%), your controller is properly calibrated. As you can see in the example above, the X-axis of my right thumbstick actually rests around 52%, the product of old age and a lot of intense rounds of Halo Online.

RELATED: Unfortunately, while the software side of calibration does help you to find out how well your controller is responding to your movements–and even course correct for a faulty thumbstick to an extent–the only hardware fix when it starts to get worn down like this is to head down to the store and pick up a new controller altogether. Or, if you’re feeling handy, you can buy parts like thumbsticks online and replace them yourself. Once you’ve run through all four calibrations, you can click “Finish” to move on to the testing portion of the process. Test the Calibration Once the calibration process is finished, it’s time to test out the results. In the same window you started from (with the “Settings” and “Test” tabs), now you’re going to want to click on the “Test” tab. From here, any movements or button presses you make will automatically appear on-screen. This is a good way to determine exactly how quickly the buttons are registering–if they’re registering at all–as well as making note of how close (or far away) the thumbstick is resting from an even 50% after you move it around a bit. Once you’ve finished your tests, make sure to hit Apply before you close out the window, and you’re done!

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Although most modern controllers will come calibrated out of the box to work flawlessly with Windows, it never hurts to go in and re-calibrate once every few months just to be sure you’re not missing any headshots due to a controller that’s out of whack. Image Credits.