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Does it work if you use Steam?
Specifically inside Steam you can click Games - Add a non Steam Game then browse the .EXE that launches the game.
What this does is allows you to launch the game through Steam, which means you get access I believe to the overlays as well as the controller configurations that can be loaded.
I tried this with my ds5 and it did not work. The only thing that managed to work for a second was ds4windows and checking "hide ds4" in the settings to try and treat it like a 360 controller.
I say worked for a second because after like an hour of playing It started bugging out and just getting constant Camera rotations. I will say the add non steam game seems to have worked for some people so maybe I did it wrong....but I'm about ready to get up and buy the thing full price.
The game needs to live inside the
steamappsfolder like a normal Steam game despite being pirated, and then Steam’s input stuff will work fine when you add it as a non-Steam game.Took me a couple of hours wrestling with fitgirl’s RDR2 to figure that out.
ooooo thank you, this is a breakthrough
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oh shit!!! I never would have thought of that in a million years! Gonna try that after work.
EDIT: Serious question...is there any risk of adding a pirated game to steam? I blocked the game in my firewall to be safe but I'm worried i'll lose access to my library or something.
EDIT EDIT: IT WORKS!!! Bless you Comrade git!!!!! God why could nobody else say this!??!!?
There's 0 risk. I've had pirated games in my library for at least a decade.
If you buy a used Xbox one controller (which I think is even from Gamestops fuck you pricing is still half the price of elden) you can plug that directly into a PC with a micro USB cord and that should be a 100% working solution.
Then you can use the controller for more than just that game as well.
Yeah...I'm kinda regretting not getting a Xbox controller. When my PS4 pad died I had a choice and I went PS5 cause I do see a future where I own that console...but man the support on PC is frustrating.
what a minute... DS3 did this for me! i'm just now remembering. that shit was so annoying lmao camera just constantly rotating in a circle, I thought my joysticks were just fucked but nope. do you remember if you were able to fix this, or did you just give up?
Gave up, but what u/git said below worked! Screw ds4, put the game in your steamapps folder like a normal stream game and add it as a non steam game! Controller finally works!
awesome! thank you comrade git <3 and I finally got ER and Sekiro to work using some dumb DS4 hack, if anyone ends up having controller issues DM me! ty comrades
so... aside from making the UI stupidly huge, what does big picture mode actually do/why do i need it on? i see tons of vids recommend this but im like
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It like, overwrites system control to recognize controller input. I think. Idk, its definitely worth a shot. Most pirated games i add on steam dont work with a controller until I do this, in my experience - and I exclusively play with a controller
Big Picture mode enables a lot of controller stuff cause it's the UI you use of you wanna use Steam on a TV sized screen
Never had an issue with controller support in pirated games but I use the xbox controller on windows so it's almost always seamless. Never used a PS4 controller but I had a lot of issues with my previous shitty of brand one (but tbh it probably doesn't have a lot do with the game being piated)
No, because I stick to mouse and keyboard like your weird grandfather who still refuses to get a cellphone in 2022 AD
Sekiro and Elden Ring had the same problem IIRC.
My tinfoil hat theory is they release their games with easily fixable controller issues specifically to dissuade the people who understand how to torrent an exe and run it, but not how to resolve any tech issues otherwise.
There are two ways to resolve the ER controller error. The first being unplug any USB inputs that ARE NOT your controller while the game boots and once you've determined your controller is working, plug them back in. The slightly more technical way is to update your version of the game to the latest patch, which can (kind of) suck if you don't know what you're doing because you don't have steam to do it for you.
I downloaded the fitgirl repack, the patches and instructions for that version can be found here. It's the first "Featured Comment" I'm not sure if this will work with any other pirated copy.
my theory is that they just don't put as much resources into hunting and fixing PC-specific bugs because it's not as big a market in Japan. Also Sekiro was published by Activision and ATVI QA is conducted by literal children.
I think if you can invest in an xbox controller or any kind of pc compatible controller. DS4 is a finicky thing
Are people who torrent games able to use online features, or justppay totally offline?
A good resource for games is cs.rin.ru , occasionally depending on the game and how the matchmaking and multiplayer works they will post Online cracks that actually allow you to play online.
Its usually few and far in between though and definitely not normal to allow online if its cracked.
oh cool ill check this out
the only game i play online aside from carball is left 4 dead because it was 5 dollars and somehow it will never not be fun to shoot all those zombies and listen to zoey spam laugh
if the game has LAN, then it's typically possible to use that to play online (via a P2P VPN service like Hamachi, Tunngle or GameRanger). If it allows dedicated servers, those can also be used (as long as the game's popular enough for someone to host them).
However, if multiplayer can only be done through the centralized servers of the devs/publisher, it gets a lot more complicated - in some cases people figure out how to essentially emulate the server connection with their own private ones, but for a lot of games it's not possible to play them online.
So most older PC games are perfectly viable, since having LAN and dedicated servers was pretty much mandatory back in the day, but a ton of more modern multiplayer games had those features stripped out.
yeah most of the time i play story-focused games rather than MMO, plus i suck at online play anyway
I use a magic-ns switch to use my PS4 controller on my computer, it makes the computer think that your PS4 controller is an xbox controller
