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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 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Doesn't steam have native support for ds4?

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

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 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

what if the game isnt on steam?

[–] the_q@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

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

[–] M137@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago

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

[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

Steam handles all of the drivers now.

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] wccrawford@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] SimplyASpeckOfDust@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

reWASD is brilliant, great suggestion!

[–] bfg9k@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Steam Input can handle this now I thought?

[–] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] NOOBMASTER@lemmy.ml -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

ds4drv was working last time I checked

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

It's for Linux, not windows

Bluetooth controller support on Linux is much better