weird controller bug

[ThrillKill]

so the situation is:

i have a ps4 controller. till yesetrday i had the original ps4 wireless adapter from sony. just plug and play and it recognizes the controller. turning off steam-input for the games usally does the trick of NOT showing xbox prompts.

NOW however my stick broke after years.. so i tried connecting it via bluetooth ( i have an inbuild bluetooth in my PC-Setup).

so going into WIN10 "Bluetooth" Options under system. pressing share button + PS home button, controller is in pairing mode, adding "wireless controller" to bluetooth devices in windows. fine.

Going into Steam, under menu --- controllers (in the Main menu, not controllers und properties of the games) ---it shows PS4 Controller, clicking the testing controller button it shows a PS4 controller and every button is working, it shows the ps4 prompts + its working in real time, highlits the pressed buttons..

PS4 controller support is ticked enabled...

NOW it gets weird...

when i go into Tekken, Cyberpunk or whatever game ive tried, it shows the Ps4 prompts, but its not working.. means im clicking the buttons but it doenst recognise the input.

i ttried all option under game properties, controller, steam input support but then i either get xbox prompts (working) or ps4 prompts and not working.

Cyberpunk f.example detects nothing (just KB+M) if i disable steam input...

pls help, im confused as hell... thx in advance and have a nice week folks.

[tintingaroo]

Things first depend if the game supports the BT DS4, some are USB-only. Then there's how it supports the BT DS4.

Set PlayStation Controller Support to either 'Not Enabled' (or to 'Enabled in Games w/o Support' and control Steam Input via the per-game setting), then connect the controller, and then try the games.


Over BT the DualShock 4 (also DualSense) will be operating in one of two states. One state is as a basic controller and is compatible with DirectInput, the other state supports the full features of the controller (touchpad tracking, gyro, rumble, lightbar control etc).but isn't DInput compatible.
When PlayStation Controller Support is set to 'Enabled', Steam will switch the BT DS4 to it's full feature state. Some games also switch the controller to its full feature state.
Once in full feature state you want to power-cycle the controller to return it to the basic state.


Some people use e.g. DS4Windows to emulate a wired DS4. This would give a result close to using the adapter (won't have the wireless audio support the adapter provided).

I had the reWASD trial installed and it took care of the BT state factor for my DualSense - don't know how (don't think it was virtual PS output, maybe it created a virtual DInput device???), but it provided DInput support when the controller was in full feature state. DInput support remained even after the trial expired (in fact I only noticed it after it had expired...).
Didn't think to try if it did anything for games that were USB-only (it can, but mean with how I had things configured :D).