Steam doesnt detect PS4 controller

[dapoka]

I have been using a PS4 controller to play games for a while but I have always relied on using DS¤windows to disguise it as an xbox controller, however I want to use the PS4 controlle directly through Steam so that I can see PS4 controller inputs rather than xbox controller inputs(triangle, x square, circle rather than a b x y ) but steam is not detecting my controller.

[Reggaejunkiedrew]

Did you enable PlayStation support in the controller settings? That's all you should need to do.

[Supafly]

Pretty sure that for the vast majority of games you won't see PS style prompts whether it goes through Steam or DS4Windows as games would need to code the prompts. Even Playstation ports don't have PS style prompts. Not all but enough.

Still using DS4Windows as Steams support was buggy at the start plus I use DS4Windows for games I don't run through Steam and rather stick to a setup I've already got how I want.

[dapoka]

Originally posted by Reggaejunkiedrew:

Did you enable PlayStation support in the controller settings? That's all you should need to do.

Yes, I have enabled Playstation support in the controller settings

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by dapoka:

Originally posted by Reggaejunkiedrew:

Did you enable PlayStation support in the controller settings? That's all you should need to do.

Yes, I have enabled Playstation support in the controller settings

That won't get PS prompts in games when games don't actually support PS prompts. Game devs have to code them in and most don't. Most game devs merely add support for Xinput, which is native to Windows and is used by the Xbox controller (and the Logitech controllers as well). If game devs don't add specific support for the PS4 controller & prompts, they won't show.

[crunchyfrog]

Yeah, this question commonly comes up and sadly it ain't going to happen.

Playstation controllers are not officially supported on Windows machines. Their drivers are based on the Xbox framwork, so the best you will ever get is Xbox prompts popping up (or worse).

And even worse, it depends on the games in question too. Far too many modern PC games have poor coding for changing the displayed icons to press when controllers are plugged in.

So yeah, as Crazy Tiger says, unless the game in question has specifically had PS4 baked in, you aren't going to get it and the best you can hope for is the Xbox prompts.

[casper148]

nice

[dapoka]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Originally posted by dapoka:

Yes, I have enabled Playstation support in the controller settings

That won't get PS prompts in games when games don't actually support PS prompts. Game devs have to code them in and most don't. Most game devs merely add support for Xinput, which is native to Windows and is used by the Xbox controller (and the Logitech controllers as well). If game devs don't add specific support for the PS4 controller & prompts, they won't show.

Yes I know that, I was just a little unclear in my question. I meant for those games that do have PS4 controller support.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by dapoka:

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

That won't get PS prompts in games when games don't actually support PS prompts. Game devs have to code them in and most don't. Most game devs merely add support for Xinput, which is native to Windows and is used by the Xbox controller (and the Logitech controllers as well). If game devs don't add specific support for the PS4 controller & prompts, they won't show.

Yes I know that, I was just a little unclear in my question. I meant for those games that do have PS4 controller support.

Remove your DSWindows. As long as it is installed, it will grab all PS gamepads for itself, passing them on to the rest of the system as XInput. To get the games' native PS gamepad support, the games need to be aware of the PS gamepad's existence. You, obviously, don't get that with DSWindwos.

So uninstall that, install Sony's official driver and things will look better.

[dapoka]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by dapoka:

Yes I know that, I was just a little unclear in my question. I meant for those games that do have PS4 controller support.

Remove your DSWindows. As long as it is installed, it will grab all PS gamepads for itself, passing them on to the rest of the system as XInput. To get the games' native PS gamepad support, the games need to be aware of the PS gamepad's existence. You, obviously, don't get that with DSWindwos.

So uninstall that, install Sony's official driver and things will look better.

Isnt it better to just not have the DS4windows application not running? yesterday I was able to play with my controller without DS4windows however I am not sure why steam detected my controller suddenly

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by dapoka:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Remove your DSWindows. As long as it is installed, it will grab all PS gamepads for itself, passing them on to the rest of the system as XInput. To get the games' native PS gamepad support, the games need to be aware of the PS gamepad's existence. You, obviously, don't get that with DSWindwos.

So uninstall that, install Sony's official driver and things will look better.

Isnt it better to just not have the DS4windows application not running? yesterday I was able to play with my controller without DS4windows however I am not sure why steam detected my controller suddenly

If I had a PS gamepad, I would go with Sony's official driver and then use Steam if an input mapper is needed (and disable it's input mapper when in fact not needed).
But from your wording, you got it solved, didn't you?

[dapoka]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by dapoka:

Isnt it better to just not have the DS4windows application not running? yesterday I was able to play with my controller without DS4windows however I am not sure why steam detected my controller suddenly

If I had a PS gamepad, I would go with Sony's official driver and then use Steam if an input mapper is needed (and disable it's input mapper when in fact not needed).
But from your wording, you got it solved, didn't you?

Some what solved, I dont know what caused steam to detect my controller and I dont know if I could do it again

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by dapoka:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

If I had a PS gamepad, I would go with Sony's official driver and then use Steam if an input mapper is needed (and disable it's input mapper when in fact not needed).
But from your wording, you got it solved, didn't you?

Some what solved, I dont know what caused steam to detect my controller and I dont know if I could do it again

The important question here isn't Steam, it's the games.

[dapoka]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by dapoka:

Some what solved, I dont know what caused steam to detect my controller and I dont know if I could do it again

The important question here isn't Steam, it's the games.

Ingame the controller worked flawlessly (atleast the game that I played)

[crunchyfrog]

The only thing I will add here is that I use a variety of different controllers. For the last year or so I've kind of stuck with the Xbox One controller or a modified controller, so I can't exactly comment on what the current state is of DS4 controllers.

However, in the past, I've made sure to have a few different drivers for them. There's DS4Windows, which I disliked, and there's a few others whose names I can never remember offhand.

Armed with these few, if I ever got a situation where the controller wouldn't register or do it properly, I simply switched and found one of the others worked.

[dapoka]

I dont know what I yhave done but my issue seems to have been resolved by itself. Thanks for all the help