Using Dualshock 4 ... works, yet doesnt

[Kayo]

When I read that the DS4 works on both PS3 and Windows out of the box, I went ahead and got one a little early. Well that compatability is only partly true.

Well not only does it not work on some PS3 games like GTA5 (NOOO!!) for some mind boggling reason but its shady on PC as well. Oh it works on FFXIV (PC version) ... however many of the buttons are flipped. Triangle is X, 'Start' is now R3, etc.

No problem right? Just recalibrate it ... nope, once you click the recalibrate button, it doesnt work anymore. Haha, and now while writing this it seems that alt+tab'ing completely disables it ... doesnt even turn back on now at all, restarted the game, unplugged controller and everything. Shows up on the PC settings and works perfectly there. WTF .... (o_0) Ill update if a system restart changes anything.

Guess ill have to wait for 3rd party drivers again. Dammit Sony!

Anyway, just an FYI I guess. Hopefully someone will pass this along to the devs to fix. Or maybe there is already a work around.

(Love the controller BTW, big improvement over the previous ones)

Update: Restart didnt help. Still wont work. In hindsight, I might have screwed up the controller from working at all since I skipped everything when I recalibrated.

I believe this is the controller driver programmers job. Not SE

Yup, seems that way ... doesnt seem to work on other games either. Only seems to work well on my emulators. Well, at least itll be useful once I actually get the PS4 ... next year :"(

[Mushy]

I believe this is the controller driver programmers job. Not SE

[Kayo]

Ok so I got it working finally. As I thought, in my attempt to fix the button configuration (and the fact it doesn't work!) I accidentally removed all the bindings.

If you want to play FFXIV with Dualshock 4 open up your FFXIV.cfg file (default location: (C:\ ... Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn") with a text editor and replace every instance of "Alias {.......}" with the code below.

Alias {90,91,88,89,41,40,32,33,73,72,48,49,3,2,1,0,4,6,10,5,7,11,9,8}

Obviously the part that says Antialiasing doesnt count. Do not try to configure it through the in game settings, it will not work, and you might end up completely unbinding the whole thing (I think I clicked "skip" on all the steps).

[ferretwraith]

Thank you very much for this fix. The game requires far too many button presses for my cheapest-buyable logitech gamepad. As someone attached to the playstation controller since Tekken 2, the new and highly praised dualshock 4 was the obvious solution (ds3 triggers were far too terrible).

I just assumed that this game, with otherwise great controller support, which is also specifically coming out on ps4, would be immediately compatible. I can't remember the last time I felt quite as hopeless as when I clicked "Calibration," and the very controller I was just running around with failed to register any inputs.

[Kayo]

I just assumed that this game, with otherwise great controller support, which is also specifically coming out on ps4, would be immediately compatible. I can't remember the last time I felt quite as hopeless as when I clicked "Calibration," and the very controller I was just running around with failed to register any inputs.

Haha, I remember thinking the same thing. DS4 has some very odd problems when it comes to using it on other platforms. Doesnt make any sense why itd work on FFXIV but not work at all when rebinding. Similar problem for PS3 (and just as annoying).

Hopefully Sony will fix it. Id usually not expect any support from them but this is the only time they actually officially said itd also work on PC and PS3.

P.S. Youre welcome

[IgnatiusCrumwald]

I'm going to go ahead and assume that as the PS4 version comes closer to reality, probably in the vicinity of the PS4 BETA, the PC version will get similar DS4 support.
Also, I'm sure Sony has a patch ready for the DS4 on PS3, they're likely just dragging their feet on dropping it till the PS4 launch.

[amnie]

oh neato. I didn't preorder a controler since I figured I can wait until the end of the month (european here so 29th for me until I get my new shiny) but definitely good to know in advance. guess I'll have to bookmark this topic