controller isn't working for some games

[Thecoolestree]

I recently finished building a new pc and have been trying to play games on it but my controller doesn't work for some games (Final Fantasy VII Remake, Sekiro, Dark Souls III) but my controller works perfectly on my laptop and it was working before. I don't know what to do, any help would be appreciated

[Arg0n]

Which controller are you using? And is it connected wireless or via cable?

[Thecoolestree]

Dualsense, via cable

[Arg0n]

Controller support in games is weired. There's a multitude of different ways to support different kind of controller APIs in the game.

Dualsense is a relative new controller and when Dark Souls III was made it didn't even exist.

Here's are the controller APIs used for the games

Dark Souls III - XInput
Sekiro - XInput 
Final Fantasy VII Remake - XInput

XInput is very common, because it's baked into Windows for XBox controller support. So there seems no native support for DS4 or DSX controllers out of the box for these games.

Steam has support for multiple other controller input APIs and will then do the magic to map the custom controller to the XInput stuff and the game should just workd fine (often with XBOX button prompts). That what should happen ^^

So I guess you can control the Steam UI with your controller and the games not?
Do you you have PlayStation Configuration Support enabled in your Steam controller settings?

[Thecoolestree]

yeah it works in big picture but not in those games, also I turned it on and dark souls III is working again but sekiro and Final Fantasy VII Remake still aren't, thank you

[Arg0n]

Final Fantasy 7 should support the DualSense Controller natively. To get it working you have to disable "Steam Input": https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1462040/view/3316353291699662406

For Sekiro I couldn't find a good solution. You can disable Steam Input for this game too and use a third party tool like https://ds4-windows.com/

[CZI]

I'm not sure if Steam Client is already supported PS5 controller (DualSense).
When I checked before it was only supporte on Beta version of Steam Client.
So I wondered you had beta version on the laptop, but not on your new PC built.

[Arg0n]

Originally posted by CZI:

I'm not sure if Steam Client is already supported PS5 controller (DualSense).
When I checked before it was only supporte on Beta version of Steam Client.
So I wondered you had beta version on the laptop, but not on your new PC built.

I've also read this with the Beta Client, but I also saw guides explaining how to use the DualSense not mentioning the Beta Client. And that Dark Souls III is working shows, that Steam is at least capable of mapping the basic inputs. The adaptive trigger stuff might not be functional through Steam though.

Some games are just a b*tch when it comes to controllers. I own a DS4 controller and I've frequent problems with some games. Mostly I'm trying:

* Does the game have native controller support for DS4, by disabling Steam Input for the game
* Does Steam get the controller right, by launching it through Big Picture and messing with Controller Configs
* And my last hope is always DS4Windows, but this also has it's limits ^^

[tintingaroo]

DualSense support was in Steam beta Nov 2020, was in stable client at least Dec 2020.

[Thecoolestree]

Originally posted by Arg0n:

Final Fantasy 7 should support the DualSense Controller natively. To get it working you have to disable "Steam Input": https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1462040/view/3316353291699662406

For Sekiro I couldn't find a good solution. You can disable Steam Input for this game too and use a third party tool like https://ds4-windows.com/

I tried disabling Steam input for Final Fantasy VII Remake but it didn't work, same with sekiro, thanks for all the help though

[Cats]

update drivers, then open steam big picture and create a custom controller profile for each game that deosnt work.

[Arg0n]

Did you try using DS4Windows?