PS5 contoller not working in game

[Shadowbrains69]

i have just downloaded descenders and was bale to skip past the loading menu using controller but as soon as i enter the actually game my controllers input just stops and nothing happens if i press any butttons. its almost as if it is stuck onto kbm as its main input.
i dont have this kind of issue with other games as my controller works fine for fc25 etc
(i dont have anything else plugged in such as steering wheels and other controllers)

please help
thanks

[JustyourbasicJoel]

I was having the same issue. Try Unplugging any other USB Devices

[Awkeye]

Hey, there are few different things that can solve this, from another thread:

In steam settings, go to "controller" and click on the "enable steam input for xbox controllers" then restart the game.

You may also be able to solve it via:

Going into Windows Device Manager -> Human Interface Devices -> Disable the "HID-compliant game controller"

You may need to restart your PC after this.

[Shadowbrains69]

that still hasn't worked i've tried both ways and even changed the cotroller and still hasn't worked. i even tried unplugging my kbm and that still hasn't resolved it.

[xiR0/Z'Ero]

Have you gone into the controller tab in Steam settings? Personally I use DS4windows with my DS5, but I just tried using steaminput and that works fine too.

May just be that every other game you've used it with has native DS5 support, but Descenders was released before said support was available (or at least a common feature) so its input needs to be converted to xinput (or whatever the XBOX controller driver is called these days), which is what steaminput can do.