DA:I PS4 Controller Not Recognized

@cajunco 

A possible workaround might be to add the game to Steam as a non Steam game and use Steams controller configuration.

@cajunco Actually your statement regarding "it is supposed to work anyway" is completely wrong because DA:I doesn't support direct input as far as I am aware (someone correct me if I am wrong but there is no indication of direct input support online). And thus it is safe to assume it only supports xinput.

The way Steam handles this issue is that it operates precisely like DS4Windows itself! Both Steam and DS4Windows tries to take direct input and feed the game as xinput instead, assuming that the game has no native direct input support. 

xinput is an xbox standard whereas direct input is more general and PlayStation controllers uses it as a base. Hope this helps clearing out the situation as you will REPEATEDLY encounter this in most of your gaming journeys. New games tends to support PlayStation (or direct input in a generalised sense similar to games from pre-Xbox 360 Era), but this wasn't a big practice back then.

Side Note regarding controller support: Since xinput is an xbox standard, most pre-xbox 360 era games can theoretically work with a PS controller as there was nothing but direct input back then. However these weren't implemented with PS in mind, so they will show numbers instead of PS prompts and you'll have to understand/memorise which number corresponds to which PS button.

@cajuncoThe number thing was for pre-xbox 360 games (pre-2007) in case you venture out those era of gaming in the future. For DA:I, you will have to this with xbox prompts as the game as you feed xinput to a 2014 game. So it thinks that you use an xbox controller even though you use PS... and this is your only chance as the game only supports xinput. (DS4Windows will transform your direct input controller's output into xinput standard so the game works with it)

So basically the sitatution is that you'll memorise numbers for pre-2007 games. Play them mostly with PS prompts for games that came out in recently. And play most games with xbox prompts (this is where DA:I fells)

: D My numbers part was more like a historical note.