Posted August 25, 2011
Does anybody know of a good program for running a ps3 controller on Windows 7. I had one for XP but I haven't been able to find one for windows 7.
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swizzle66
Never Nude
Registered: Sep 2009
From United States
Roberttitus
Only 50% Wasted
Registered: Sep 2010
From United States
Posted August 25, 2011
Nope... I don't think there is one. I had the same problem & eventually just caved in & bought a wired 360 controller. I was better off in the long run anyways, because many newer games automatically recognize it.
Garugo
Call Me Gar
Registered: Apr 2010
From United States
Posted August 25, 2011
I haven't tried it since I use a wired 360 controller, but a friend of mine uses MotioninJoy for his PS3 controller and it works somehow. So you might be able to try that and see if it's what you need.
Gersen
New User
Registered: Sep 2008
From Switzerland
Posted August 25, 2011
It also the supports feature wireless if you have a compatible Bluetooth dongle and if you have a Windows 7 64Bits it is signed so you won't have to use some dirty trick to install it.
Personally I uses it for the PS2 emulator, but I prefer using the xBox pad for "PC" games.
Post edited August 25, 2011 by Gersen
Rohan15
The Joe
Registered: May 2009
From United States
Posted August 25, 2011
Xpadder?
Roberttitus
Only 50% Wasted
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From United States
Sleix
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Registered: Aug 2011
From United States
Posted August 25, 2011
MotioninJoy
-Install this program (don't start it up yet, should be labelled DS3 tool or something like that)
-Plug in PS3 controller
-Start the program up
-Move over to the driver manager tab
-check the box on the left and select "load driver"
Successfully installed
Everything below this point is what you need to do every time you start up MotioninJoy.
- go to the Profiles tab (if you just started it up it should automatically be there)
-Select a mode
"Playstation 1 (Dpad, without joystick)" I wouldn't use this since the one below is basically a direct upgrade... otherwise pretty self explanatory.
"Playstation 2 (POV,joysticks)" is better for emulators (in case that's your sort of thing) since R2 and L2 aren't analog in this mode.
"Playstation 2' (POV,Joysticks,Analog Trigger)" has the analog triggers which are probably better for regular (more modern) PC games.
"Playstation 3" is the same as above but with sixaxis support (I think)... I never had any use for this so you can probably just ignore it.
"Xbox 360 Controller Emulator" is probably what you should use if said game has native 360 controller support.
"Custom" Self Explanatory... I never needed to use this but if you want to tinker with it then go ahead.
-Once the mode you want is selected click the "enable" button below all of the modes and you're done.
Keep in mind that under certain circumstances when you unplug, the controller will turn on/connect to your PS3. It's a minor annoyance (I don't know how to fix it) but just completely turning it off before you use it will avoid this problem.
Also if it doesn't seem like it's working properly, turn off MotioninJoy, unplug/replug your controller, and try it again. If it doesn't work after that (sometimes did it to me) then it doesn't like you and I don't know how to fix it.
Hope this helped.
-Install this program (don't start it up yet, should be labelled DS3 tool or something like that)
-Plug in PS3 controller
-Start the program up
-Move over to the driver manager tab
-check the box on the left and select "load driver"
Successfully installed
Everything below this point is what you need to do every time you start up MotioninJoy.
- go to the Profiles tab (if you just started it up it should automatically be there)
-Select a mode
"Playstation 1 (Dpad, without joystick)" I wouldn't use this since the one below is basically a direct upgrade... otherwise pretty self explanatory.
"Playstation 2 (POV,joysticks)" is better for emulators (in case that's your sort of thing) since R2 and L2 aren't analog in this mode.
"Playstation 2' (POV,Joysticks,Analog Trigger)" has the analog triggers which are probably better for regular (more modern) PC games.
"Playstation 3" is the same as above but with sixaxis support (I think)... I never had any use for this so you can probably just ignore it.
"Xbox 360 Controller Emulator" is probably what you should use if said game has native 360 controller support.
"Custom" Self Explanatory... I never needed to use this but if you want to tinker with it then go ahead.
-Once the mode you want is selected click the "enable" button below all of the modes and you're done.
Keep in mind that under certain circumstances when you unplug, the controller will turn on/connect to your PS3. It's a minor annoyance (I don't know how to fix it) but just completely turning it off before you use it will avoid this problem.
Also if it doesn't seem like it's working properly, turn off MotioninJoy, unplug/replug your controller, and try it again. If it doesn't work after that (sometimes did it to me) then it doesn't like you and I don't know how to fix it.
Hope this helped.
Post edited August 25, 2011 by Sleix
Rohan15
The Joe
Registered: May 2009
From United States
Sogi-Ya
<- OLD.
Registered: Jul 2009
From United States
Posted August 26, 2011
http://code.google.com/p/x360ce/
sort of redundant because it seems like it's covered by MotionJoy, but this is for the standalone xInput emulator (AKA Xbox 360 controller pc emulator: thus "x360ce")
what it does is emulate DirectInput controller commands into xInput; it's not going to solve your PS3 controller driver problems, but once you do find a driver for it you can use this program to emulate any controller using DirectInput into a xInput one (driving wheels, joysticks, gamepads ... pretty much anything).
as I said: apparently it's kinda redundant in light of that MotionJoy thing because seems to cover it as well as provide the driver for the controller, but MotionJoy lists it as a beta feature and could cause BSODs ... so maybe it would be better to trust in a proven program.
... I'm guessing that 360 emulation support is your main issue, it's the only thing that gets pissy about what kind of controller your useing.
sort of redundant because it seems like it's covered by MotionJoy, but this is for the standalone xInput emulator (AKA Xbox 360 controller pc emulator: thus "x360ce")
what it does is emulate DirectInput controller commands into xInput; it's not going to solve your PS3 controller driver problems, but once you do find a driver for it you can use this program to emulate any controller using DirectInput into a xInput one (driving wheels, joysticks, gamepads ... pretty much anything).
as I said: apparently it's kinda redundant in light of that MotionJoy thing because seems to cover it as well as provide the driver for the controller, but MotionJoy lists it as a beta feature and could cause BSODs ... so maybe it would be better to trust in a proven program.
... I'm guessing that 360 emulation support is your main issue, it's the only thing that gets pissy about what kind of controller your useing.
Sleix
New User
Registered: Aug 2011
From United States
Posted August 26, 2011
sort of redundant because it seems like it's covered by MotionJoy, but this is for the standalone xInput emulator (AKA Xbox 360 controller pc emulator: thus "x360ce")
what it does is emulate DirectInput controller commands into xInput; it's not going to solve your PS3 controller driver problems, but once you do find a driver for it you can use this program to emulate any controller using DirectInput into a xInput one (driving wheels, joysticks, gamepads ... pretty much anything).
as I said: apparently it's kinda redundant in light of that MotionJoy thing because seems to cover it as well as provide the driver for the controller, but MotionJoy lists it as a beta feature and could cause BSODs ... so maybe it would be better to trust in a proven program.
... I'm guessing that 360 emulation support is your main issue, it's the only thing that gets pissy about what kind of controller your useing.
Sogi-Ya
<- OLD.
Registered: Jul 2009
From United States
Posted August 26, 2011
it's honestly ridiculous how clean and flawless this program works, ridiculous in that the open source community can put this together but Microsoft just couldn't find the time to not screw over every peripheral manufacturer that had been supporting them by using Microsoft's own Directinput software.
swizzle66
Never Nude
Registered: Sep 2009
From United States
Posted August 26, 2011
Wow, MotionInJoy works great! Thanks for the guide!