Is There Any Way To Calibrate An Xbox Controller On Windows 11?

You have found the gap correctly. The standard Xbox Wireless Controller has no stick calibration you can run yourself, and the Xbox Accessories app does not offer one for it. The calibrate button in joy.cpl does exist, but it stores its result in Windows for DirectInput, the older input path. Apex and almost every modern PC game read the controller through XInput, which ignores that calibration. That is why nothing changed.

The good news is that your numbers are mild. A resting value of 0.04 to 0.05 sits at the edge of normal sensor noise for this controller. It becomes visible in Apex because a low deadzone turns tiny constant input into slow camera movement. Two things help, in this order.

First, clean the right stick. Light, steady offsets in that range are often grime rather than wear, and a clean can bring them back to 0.02 or below.

Second, set a deadzone that matches your measurement instead of guessing. Use the deadzone test to find the real resting value, then set the in-game or Steam Input inner deadzone a touch above it. Not double it, just above it. That removes the drift without costing you fine aim.

If the reading keeps climbing over the coming months, that is wear and the stick module is the long-term fix. An Elite Series 2 adds adjustable stick sensitivity curves in the Accessories app, but it still uses potentiometer sticks, so on its own it does not solve drift.