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10 years ago
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need for speed ds4 controller not working correct

I have been playing the free trial as I love the need for speed. I use a ps4 controller on my pc with ds4 and I have no problems playing on any other game. when I play this the controller does not wo...
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    EA_David
    10 years ago

    @jolley86 The trial and the full game are functionally the same, so nothing should change with controls. 

    Unfortunately there's no official fix, but there are a plenty of 3rd party/unofficial programs out there that will make a DS4 pad look like a 360 pad to the PC. I've tested it myself with a 360 pad and it works fine. 

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10 years ago

@jolley86 Hey, only the Xbox One controller is officially supported, but I'd be very surprised if it's not possible to get this running anyway. 

I think if you used a ds4 to xinput wrapper* the pad should work as normal. All the button prompts will be for Xbox One, but otherwise I imagine it will work fine. 

Good luck. 

* you seem savvy enough about the APIs in question, but for anyone else who encounters this, DS4 is a certain type of system for controllers on PC, and xinput is a different type.
Xbox 360 and Xbox One pads use xinput, so in many cases pads will use xinput in games with support for Xbox pads. 

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    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    hi David,

    Thanks for the quick reply. I'm still having issues trying to get my ps4 controller working. I know ds4 is not officially supported but I went from ps4 to pc it just made sense to use what I have. I should just go out and buy an xbox one controller but if there is any other info you can give that might help get this working that would much appreciated.

    Also will the trail version of the game be any different to the full version of the game. I have both.

    I really didn't think that a big triple A game would have these problems with controllers. I have call of duty black ops 3 and that works fine with ds4.

    Any help would be appreciated

    thanks

    Sean

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      EA_David
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      10 years ago

      @jolley86 The trial and the full game are functionally the same, so nothing should change with controls. 

      Unfortunately there's no official fix, but there are a plenty of 3rd party/unofficial programs out there that will make a DS4 pad look like a 360 pad to the PC. I've tested it myself with a 360 pad and it works fine. 

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        10 years ago

        can you please link one, i have the same problem but cantt find one that works

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