How to get Playstation Button Prompts

[Taliehoe]

Just in case anyone needs help with getting Playstation Button prompts to show when using a PS controller. What worked for me was going into my Steam settings, under controller, I turned the "Enable Steam Input for Playstation controllers" off.
All the other controller settings are turned off as well.
Hopefully this helps someone.


Edit: Here are two mods that will give you Playstation button prompts
PS4 Button Prompts: https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/640
PS5 Button Prompts: https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/861

If you don't want to use mods though, you still need to have Steam input turned off I believe if you want Playstation button prompts.

[Wooddawg]

Thank You!!! This has been bugging me all afternoon. This should be stickied as I'm sure this question is bound to come up many more times.

[Taliehoe]

Originally posted by Wooddawg:

Thank You!!! This has been bugging me all afternoon. This should be stickied as I'm sure this question is bound to come up many more times.

You're very welcome! It always bugs me when I can't get PS Button prompts when using a PS controller. lol I'm glad I helped at least one person.

[FishSouls]

Originally posted by Taliehoe:

Originally posted by Wooddawg:

Thank You!!! This has been bugging me all afternoon. This should be stickied as I'm sure this question is bound to come up many more times.

You're very welcome! It always bugs me when I can't get PS Button prompts when using a PS controller. lol I'm glad I helped at least one person.

Make that two people helped. Thanks muchly.

[Taliehoe]

Originally posted by FishSouls:

Originally posted by Taliehoe:

You're very welcome! It always bugs me when I can't get PS Button prompts when using a PS controller. lol I'm glad I helped at least one person.

Make that two people helped. Thanks muchly.

Glad to hear that! You're very welcome!

[Definitive]

so why doesn't the game indicate that it has controller support on the store page

[Taliehoe]

Originally posted by Definitive:

so why doesn't the game indicate that it has controller support on the store page

Not sure tbh, but so far the PS5 controller has worked fine for me.

[Khetti_Satha]

That just made the game not recognize my controller

[Taliehoe]

Originally posted by Khetti_Satha:

That just made the game not recognize my controller

Which controller are you using exactly? Also, are you playing wireless or is your controller plugged into your PC?

[meamea11]

Using edge controller and still won't show ps5 buttons

[Taliehoe]

Originally posted by meamea11:

Using edge controller and still won't show ps5 buttons

Wonder if it has anything to do with today's hotfix. Just tested some things out and after the hot fix, I was able to turn PS controller setting back on in steam settings and it was showing PS buttons for me now.

[Call Sign: Raven]

You get playstation prompts by playing on playstation 5.

You're welcome.

[Taliehoe]

Originally posted by Eldin:

Heard mixed things. Do controls match in game with what is shown for a PS5 controller?

Some say that some buttons that are supposed to do one thing do something totally else.

For me, all the buttons seem to work correctly so far. Hopefully that doesn't change.. lol

[Riony]

I still can't get the playstation prompts..

Dualsense controller. Nothing else plugged in. Tried both bluetooth and direct with cable.

Turned "Steam input for playstation controllers" on and off as well, and I still get XBOX icons..

Any other suggestions? :(

/edit

I installed it on my laptop to see if it does it there, and funny enough, it works right out of the box via bluetooth and shows Playstation prompts.

Something on my desktop is causing it.. I'm not running any third party controller programs, though..

[Wooddawg]

I've been testing out the controllers that I have.

Using a PS5 Dualsense controller I can still only get Playstation prompts by unchecking ALL the "steam input for X controllers" buttons. However, when I get those prompts I lose the force feedback vibration in the controller. When rechecked even if it's just the Playstation box the prompts revert back to Xbox controller prompts, but the vibrations are back. Also I have been able to use the controller both plugged in and via blutooth and both ways yields the same results.

Using an Xbox 360 controller with the ALL boxes checked everything works great, wired and wireless, have the correct prompts. Also have vibration functions working fine also.

I think I will use the Xbox controller for now since I enjoy the force feedback in the game (makes the dice rolls feel powerful like they have weight behind them) until Larian fixes the vibration issue with Playstation controller. Hopefully by the time of the PS5 release it will be better and also take full advantage of it's haptic feedback.

[JC van DMG]

I was also having this problem: DualShock 4 via BT, but still showing Xbox button prompts. I turned off all "Enable Steam input for x controller" options and now it's working (i.e. showing the correct button prompts).