I can't play Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation with a PS4 Controller

[stefano.lalla]

Hello Steam community,
I recently buyed the good old Tomb Raider games of the playstation era and am trying to play them with a regular PS4 controller starting from my favourite: The Last Revelation.

Unfortunately The Last Revelation is not getting any input from the PS4 controller. The controller does not shut down, it just doesn't work inside the game. I am using Windows10.
The controller works fine in Steam in big picture mode. The "Playsyation configuration support" button is active, in fact I regularly play other Steam games with this controller.
The in-game input settings are set to "joypad" but only the keybord is recognised.
There are three PS4 controller configurations from the community for this game. I tried all of them with no results. I also tried configurations from other games with no luck.
There is a little configuration screen that appears when I launch the game but it doesn't contain any input devices option.

With DS4Windows the controller works inside the game but it is recognised as an XBox controller. The buttons are all wrong and should be remapped. Of course I could use a software like JoyToKey to map the controller as a keyboard but I would prefer a simpler solution.

Did anibody have the same problem?

[Calmly Frenetic]

The old Tomb Raider games don't support the input standard used by modern controllers, so they will not work if you change the in-game input settings to "Joystick".

Leave the in-game settings on "Keyboard", and then use one of the many key mapping options.
Steam Input and JoyToKey both provide these keyboard mapping functions.
(Do the Steam community configurations work with the game set to "keyboard"?)

You could also try creating your own configuration in Steam, or I could give you more specific help using JoyToKey. For example: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=644307505

[stefano.lalla]

Hello and thank you for your answer!
I am using steam community configurations that actually map the keyboard on the controller keys but they don't work inside this game. I tried to create my own configuration but nothing changes.
The in game option is set to keyboard, the configuration support is on... I don't know what to think of.

[Calmly Frenetic]

Try disabling the Steam Overlay for the game.
(right-click on the game in your Library list, select Properties, then un-check the option for "Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game")

The Steam Overlay does not work properly with these old Tomb Raider games (which use an old DirectX version). This apparently prevents Steam from using the game-specific controller configuration, and may instead cause the game to respond to Steam's "Desktop Configuration". Turning the overlay off seems to fix this problem.

If you want to actually fix the overlay, try using dgVoodoo2.
(described here in another discussion)

[Neil]

Calmly Frenetic a écrit :

Try disabling the Steam Overlay for the game.
(right-click on the game in your Library list, select Properties, then un-check the option for "Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game")

The Steam Overlay does not work properly with these old Tomb Raider games (which use an old DirectX version). This apparently prevents Steam from using the game-specific controller configuration, and may instead cause the game to respond to Steam's "Desktop Configuration". Turning the overlay off seems to fix this problem.

If you want to actually fix the overlay, try using dgVoodoo2.
(described here in another discussion)

Excellent!

[Nazsta]

Followed the instructions here, and the TR4 is working at last!!

[Philosopher]

I'm using an xbox one controller & had to disable steam overlay to get the steam controls to work & now it works fine. Does disabling steam overlay fix your controller?

[HeavensFang]

i am also having this problem but it looks like steam overlay is disabled by default and i cannot change the option tried using DS4 to fix it but still not working

[Calmly Frenetic]

HeavensFang a écrit :

i am also having this problem but it looks like steam overlay is disabled by default and i cannot change the option tried using DS4 to fix it but still not working

There have been problems recently with the Steam Overlay (and also Steam Cloud), where the Steam user interface is incorrectly showing the game-specific setting as being disabled when the global setting is disabled.

The fix is to enable the global setting for Steam Overlay (Steam > Settings > In Game),
then toggle the game-specific setting to make sure it is disabled,
then disable the global setting again.

[HeavensFang]

Calmly Frenetic a écrit :

HeavensFang a écrit :

i am also having this problem but it looks like steam overlay is disabled by default and i cannot change the option tried using DS4 to fix it but still not working

There have been problems recently with the Steam Overlay (and also Steam Cloud), where the Steam user interface is incorrectly showing the game-specific setting as being disabled when the global setting is disabled.

The fix is to enable the global setting for Steam Overlay (Steam > Settings > In Game),
then toggle the game-specific setting to make sure it is disabled,
then disable the global setting again.

you are a saint thank you kindly for your help

[Clavatura]

this is annoying af.. cant do this ♥♥♥♥..

[Davide Irksome]

Calmly Frenetic a écrit :

The old Tomb Raider games don't support the input standard used by modern controllers, so they will not work if you change the in-game input settings to "Joystick".

Leave the in-game settings on "Keyboard", and then use one of the many key mapping options.
Steam Input and JoyToKey both provide these keyboard mapping functions.
(Do the Steam community configurations work with the game set to "keyboard"?)

You could also try creating your own configuration in Steam, or I could give you more specific help using JoyToKey. For example: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=644307505

thank you very much!!!

[Barfenrir]

HeavensFang a écrit :

i am also having this problem but it looks like steam overlay is disabled by default and i cannot change the option tried using DS4 to fix it but still not working

I am also having the same issue. Did you manage to solve it somehow? I Am using an unofficial controller, a mockup for playstation. Any ideas?