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?

emeralddawn45,

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

Vinny_93,

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

SimplyASpeckOfDust,

reWASD is brilliant, great suggestion!

wccrawford,

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.

bfg9k,

Steam Input can handle this now I thought?

canis_majoris,
@canis_majoris@lemmy.ca avatar

Steam handles all of the drivers now.

NOOBMASTER,

ds4drv was working last time I checked

Moonrise2473,

It’s for Linux, not windows

Bluetooth controller support on Linux is much better

the_q,

Doesn’t steam have native support for ds4?

Albbi,

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.

umbrella,
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what if the game isnt on steam?

the_q,

You can still launch games through steam and use steam’s assets.

M137,
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How do you not know you can add any game or program to steam?

Moonrise2473,

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.

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