What to do now that ds4windows is dead again?

By surprise and without any announcement (maybe I missed it?) Ryochan7 archived their ds4windows project with a final EOL release

Vigembus (the driver) is also discontinued due to a trademark issue by an unrelated company that has nothing to do with gaming

What will be the path forward to easily use non-xbox pads on windows?

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the_q@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (5 replies)
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Albbi@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y

Yeah, it does. This can sometimes require launching steam in Big Picture Mode first, then select the game you want. A bit annoying to take that extra step but Steam has upped their ps5 controller support lately.

Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y

But I play mostly from gog, and my Intel GPU doesn't play nice with the steam overlay (transparency becomes black and everything becomes 5 fps)

Also it means I have to waste 15 precious minutes troubleshooting the game. Pad isn't recognized, try via steam, add it manually, see if it works via xinput, and so on.

umbrella@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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the_q@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
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M137@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 2y

How do you not know you can add any game or program to steam?

bfg9k@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Steam Input can handle this now I thought?

canis_majoris@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y

Steam handles all of the drivers now.

Vinny_93@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Check out reWASD, by Daemon Tools. I paid 7 dollars for it once and it's great.

SimplyASpeckOfDust@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

reWASD is brilliant, great suggestion!

wccrawford@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Daemon Tools

Holy crap! They still exist? I haven't heard that name in forever, but I loved their stuff back when I needed it. Wow.

emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y

Just keep using the old version? I haven't updated it jn ages and it works fine.

NOOBMASTER@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

ds4drv was working last time I checked

Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y

It's for Linux, not windows

Bluetooth controller support on Linux is much better