ps4 controls not showing up! help.

[dantespara]

I've been playing for a bit and the game is always showing Xbox controls. is there anyway to get it to show Playstation controls, i have steam setup to use a Playstation controller and when the game boots it sees a Playstation controller but all the icons are still Xbox.

[The Weirdist]

That's because Steam is telling the game that you are using an Xinput device due to you having Dualshock support enabled.

[Rekta]

Something tells me it’s like Yakuza Kiwami 2 where it requires to be hard wire with a micro usb cablebefore it will show PlayStation prompts a lot of games I have on steam seem to be this Tales of Vesperia is guilty of this also

[Zeikar]

Or a mod could swap the prompt images
Maybe a modder can do this

[Chaos Residue]

Originally posted by Zeikar:

Or a mod could swap the prompt images
Maybe a modder can do this

It'd take more than just swapping the icon textures I think. I spent two hours renaming the PS4 icons to the Xbox icons and vice versa thinking that would solve it. It works when you use L2/LT+R3, but in the actual game it still uses the Xbox icons. Obviously I missed something, but I have no clue what it was.

[Zeikar]

Originally posted by Chaos Residue:

Originally posted by Zeikar:

Or a mod could swap the prompt images
Maybe a modder can do this

It'd take more than just swapping the icon textures I think. I spent two hours renaming the PS4 icons to the Xbox icons and vice versa thinking that would solve it. It works when you use L2/LT+R3, but in the actual game it still uses the Xbox icons. Obviously I missed something, but I have no clue what it was.

I would think the images could be swapped. Maybe there is more than one image reference, you'd just have to swap those images too... I dunno. Were you using that tool that extracts the zzz files?

[dantespara]

soooo no fix then :P oh well thanks anyways!

[yoship]

Originally posted by Dante:

soooo no fix then :P oh well thanks anyways!

Think I saw someone commenting the following solution worked for them. The reason is Steam's controller API makes every controller appear as XBox 360 controller to a game.

Open Steam's Big Picture Mode with DS4 controller plugged in. Now go to FF VIII's controller settings and disable Steam's controller support (i.e., disable in per game setting, not global setting). This allows a game to recognize the plugged in-controller as somethings different from an XBox 360, like a DS4 or a Switch controller. Now launch the game, preferably from BPM itself for the first time. Now FFVIII would know a DS4 is plugged in, now it depends on the game devs if they implemented DS4 support or just vanilla XBox icons and prompts for the PC port. Just check the controller settings option just in case if the DS4 icons don't show up by default. Good luck, and let us know.

[The Weirdist]

Originally posted by Dante:

soooo no fix then :P oh well thanks anyways!

Did I not give information how to fix it? Turn off PS4 controller support in Controller Configuration under settings. If you are also using DS4Windows set it in the profile to Dualshock 4. Worked for me with Final Fantasy XII. I can't imagine why it would not also be the same here.

[dantespara]

Originally posted by yoship:

Originally posted by Dante:

soooo no fix then :P oh well thanks anyways!

Think I saw someone commenting the following solution worked for them. The reason is Steam's controller API makes every controller appear as XBox 360 controller to a game.

Open Steam's Big Picture Mode with DS4 controller plugged in. Now go to FF VIII's controller settings and disable Steam's controller support (i.e., disable in per game setting, not global setting). This allows a game to recognize the plugged in-controller as somethings different from an XBox 360, like a DS4 or a Switch controller. Now launch the game, preferably from BPM itself for the first time. Now FFVIII would know a DS4 is plugged in, now it depends on the game devs if they implemented DS4 support or just vanilla XBox icons and prompts for the PC port. Just check the controller settings option just in case if the DS4 icons don't show up by default. Good luck, and let us know.

This fixed it, Thanks all!

[Freya_Vance]

Originally posted by yoship:

Originally posted by Dante:

soooo no fix then :P oh well thanks anyways!

Think I saw someone commenting the following solution worked for them. The reason is Steam's controller API makes every controller appear as XBox 360 controller to a game.

Open Steam's Big Picture Mode with DS4 controller plugged in. Now go to FF VIII's controller settings and disable Steam's controller support (i.e., disable in per game setting, not global setting). This allows a game to recognize the plugged in-controller as somethings different from an XBox 360, like a DS4 or a Switch controller. Now launch the game, preferably from BPM itself for the first time. Now FFVIII would know a DS4 is plugged in, now it depends on the game devs if they implemented DS4 support or just vanilla XBox icons and prompts for the PC port. Just check the controller settings option just in case if the DS4 icons don't show up by default. Good luck, and let us know.

Hats off to you, i had the same problem and saw your reply to the other guy and it worked perfectly for me too, i think it is because the steam controller itself actually uses xbox buttons on the controller obviously not same colour but the letters are in the same position as they would be on a xbox controller

[yoship]

Originally posted by grey.fox24974:

Originally posted by yoship:

Think I saw someone commenting the following solution worked for them. The reason is Steam's controller API makes every controller appear as XBox 360 controller to a game.

Open Steam's Big Picture Mode with DS4 controller plugged in. Now go to FF VIII's controller settings and disable Steam's controller support (i.e., disable in per game setting, not global setting). This allows a game to recognize the plugged in-controller as somethings different from an XBox 360, like a DS4 or a Switch controller. Now launch the game, preferably from BPM itself for the first time. Now FFVIII would know a DS4 is plugged in, now it depends on the game devs if they implemented DS4 support or just vanilla XBox icons and prompts for the PC port. Just check the controller settings option just in case if the DS4 icons don't show up by default. Good luck, and let us know.

Hats off to you, i had the same problem and saw your reply to the other guy and it worked perfectly for me too, i think it is because the steam controller itself actually uses xbox buttons on the controller obviously not same colour but the letters are in the same position as they would be on a xbox controller

Welcome, grey.fox. Appreciate your posting a feedback. Valve should make it clearer to users on how to use its Controller settings, but for some esoteric reason, they don't.

What I outlined is a general approach to Steam games, in fact. If someone buys a new game on Steam that they expect to support their DS4 or Switch, or even Steam controller, they should first open Steam in Big Picture Mode (BPM), and disable custom Steam support first, then fire up their game. If the controller is recognized fine and works perfectly, great. Else, enable Steam API support and play that way- most likely the game will now treat the controller as an XBox 360 pad and show corresponding prompts.

Case in point: I bought Dark Souls remastered recently (it didn't run well on my system, and I had to refund). On a simple plug-n-play with my DS4 controller, the game showed me XBox prompt. Went to BPM, disabled Steam Controller API support, and the game properly recognized the controller as DS4 and worked perfectly.

[Just Chill]

Originally posted by yoship:

DS4 controller

What... what is this?
Donkey Station 4 controller?

Hey, I have a Donkey Station 4 Pro, haha. ^^


If you mean Dual Shock... Even PS1 had Dual Shock controllers (at least the newer models).
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DualShock#/media/Datei:PSX-DualShock.png

I rather would call them PS4 controller in that case, especially as every new generation of consoles brought either a new dual shock / playstation controller with it.
Even though the PS1 and PS2 dual shock controllers look pretty similar except their color, they still called it Dual Shock 2 for PS2.

[yoship]

Originally posted by Just Chill:

Originally posted by yoship:

DS4 controller

What... what is this?
Donkey Station 4 controller?

Hey, I have a Donkey Station 4 Pro, haha. ^^

:) you are giving Nintendo ideas!

[Just Chill]

Like a console in the shape of Donkey Kong's head and you insert the discs into his mouth? oO