Best Alternatives to DS4Windows to Use Your PS4 Controller on PC

Gaming Controller Mapping Gaming Tools

DS4Windows Landing Page

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DS4Windows

DS4Windows is an open-source gamepad input mapper and virtual emulator designed to use and connect your PlayStation controller (DualShock 3/4 and DualSense 5) to a Windows 10 & 11 PC.

SCP and DS4Tool are both great alternatives to DS4Windows. Neither is as easy to use and both are more prone to crashing than DS4Windows. However, SCP lets you use legacy Dualshock devices and DS4Tool gives you control over more input settings like touchpad sensitivity and rumble intensity. From personal experience, we consider Steam Big Picture Mode to be the best solution: It’s straight from Valve, so there’s official support. And besides, motion-controlled aiming and driving in-game (which you can set up using this), never get old.

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Steam Landing Page

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Steam

NOTE: Steam has been discontinued.

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Big Picture Mode and controller functionality are intrinsically tied to Steam. This isn’t a system-wide DS4 driver so it’ll only work within Steam. This isn’t a huge deal, though. Steam gives you the option to add non-Steam games and support for these is a lot more reliable nowadays than near launch. But this means that you’ll have to set everything up to route through Steam. Moreover, you can only open your games in Steam Big Picture Mode if you want full controller support. You can’t just click on a desktop icon and have the controller work in-game. There is a desktop mode setting but it’s not as reliable as you’d want it to be. It’s not without its flaws but as long as you’re using Steam anyways, Big Picture Mode’s DS4 support is just fine.

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ScpToolkit Landing Page

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ScpToolkit

Windows Driver and XInput Wrapper for Sony DualShock 3/4 Controllers. SourceForge is not affiliated with ScpToolkit.

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Pinnacle Game Profiler Landing Page

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Pinnacle Game Profiler

Pinnacle Game Profiler enables the use of virtually any game controller (gamepad, joystick, etc.) with any PC game. It's preconfigured for most game titles and controllers. Just download and play.

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DS4 Tool Landing Page

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DS4 Tool

DS4 Tool is a simple and reliable utility that allows you to pair your DualShock 4 controllers with your computer.

DS4Windows’ greatest feature is also its main weakness: It’s very easy to use. It’s a plug and play solution that might not offer all the customization that a real power user would want. Granted, it lets you set lightbar color and it has some control mapping function, too. However, DS4Tool is the best choice if you want access to deeper input customization. DS4Tool gives you fine-grained control over a range of input settings, such as rumble intensity and touchpad sensitivity for general touch, tapping, and scrolling. It lets you remap buttons, too. Best of all, the real-time changes switch allows you to makes these tweaks and see how they work in real-time.

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