What to do now that ds4windows is dead again?

3 years ago by Moonrise2473 to c/pcgaming

By surprise and without any announcement (maybe I missed it?) Ryochan7 archived their ds4windows project with a final EOL release

Vigembus (the driver) is also discontinued due to a trademark issue by an unrelated company that has nothing to do with gaming

What will be the path forward to easily use non-xbox pads on windows?

the_q 7 points 3 years ago

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Albbi 4 points 3 years ago

Yeah, it does. This can sometimes require launching steam in Big Picture Mode first, then select the game you want. A bit annoying to take that extra step but Steam has upped their ps5 controller support lately.

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Moonrise2473 3 points 3 years ago

But I play mostly from gog, and my Intel GPU doesn't play nice with the steam overlay (transparency becomes black and everything becomes 5 fps)

Also it means I have to waste 15 precious minutes troubleshooting the game. Pad isn't recognized, try via steam, add it manually, see if it works via xinput, and so on.

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umbrella -1 points 3 years ago

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the_q 4 points 3 years ago

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M137 -2 points 3 years ago

How do you not know you can add any game or program to steam?

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