PS3 controller on PC?

[Whiskey Maria One Flamey Boye]

I'm not sure if a PS3 controller will work for my PC. I know that they work for Macs, but I have only seen XBox controllers used on a PC. We do not own any XBox controllers, but we do have a PS3. We only have wireless controllers, and I'm not sure if they have to be wired or not. Thanks!

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

Publicado originalmente por _Combat_Chicken_:

I have a ps3 controller but i used to use xbox, now all my games are showing me xbox controlls, i can adjust but its annoying
Can anyone help??

Ny now Steam have native support for both the DS4 and 3 I think and the Xbox One and 360 controllers. There's third party Nvidia Shield controller for Windows so maybe that will happen too? Generic Xinput controllers is supported at-least.

Pinball FX2 and Volgarr show Xbox icons with my DS4 controller too. I assume that's something the game does so maybe there's no way around that. I know Hammerfall or what is it called used the correct buttons for the Nvidia shield controller at-least so maybe it depends on whatever Xinput or DirectInput or whatever the 360-stuff was called when a 360 controller was emulated. I don't know what those two games use. I haven't tried with any other game so far since those two showed it wrong and were my test-cases.

Also I've learned that was it DirectInput or Xinput can't do the different rumble effects so I assume that's why my Nvidia Shield controller had less rumble functionality than the DS4 and Xbox One controllers in Awesomenauts.