

There are a few games that require usage of Steam’s controller options to have working or full DS4 controller support (e.g.: Horizon Zero Dawn).Real or virtual Playstation controllers won’t be able to control the Big Picture interface (emulated Xbox controllers work as normal).The downsides to this Steam behavior are: Steam ignores DS4 or DualSense controllers (real or virtual) if it detects DS4Windows is running on the user system, which makes no difference for most users as games will still detect the controllers as normal.For more information on this, check the Steam related information page. A really small amount of Steam games require the usage of Steam’s controller options to have working or full DS4 controller support (e.g.: Horizon Zero Dawn).Your controller will work as normal in the vast majority of games regardless of Steam’s controller related options being disabled.To avoid conflicts, it’s recommended that every Steam controller related option is disabled so only DS4Windows is being used as a remapper Steam and DS4Windows both have what is called “controller remapping” functions.To prevent or fix this issue it’s necessary to hide the real controller in order to make only DS4Windows’ virtual controller visible to games. Usually happens because the game detected the real controller first while being simultaneously unable to read its inputs.Do not respond to any controller command.Usually happens because, even though the game is correctly reading the virtual controller, it is also incorrectly reading the real controller’s inputs at the same time.Respond incorrectly to the controller’s inputs.Ignore the virtual controller because it picked the real controller first.Detect every command twice, making it unplayable.If the game detects both the real and the virtual gamepad at the same time then it will receive commands from 2 different devices at every button press and stick movement, which can lead to the infamous double-input issue that can make games unplayable.
