Dual Shock 4 Gyro Headlook support on PC

[DestinHalfman]

I've searched, looked, tapped, digged, etc. to find an answer to this question.

Has anyone been able to get the DS4 gyro/accelerator working for headlook on PC?
And if, by all means illuminate me to what black magic you've summoned to make that work.

Good day ED's

NOTE:
I've been through Input mapper and the steam ps4 configuration to no avail. Everything else is working just dandy thank you

 

[Kaltern]

Well, DS4Windows almost works. Unfortunately, for reasons I am not entirely sure of, you can look up/down as you would expect, but tilting left/right doesn't work at all - somehow it expects you to literally turn your DS4 to face the direction you want to look at - which I don't think is a lot of use! Shame, as up/down worked flawlessly.

Edit: The original DS4Windows fork seemed to have been abandoned, but someone else has taken up the cause, and is actively developing it - I've added a feature request to reassign Mouse X to Gyro Tilt X - hopefully he'll sort it out.

https://github.com/Ryochan7/DS4Windows

 

[metatheurgist]

DS4 windows is now InputMapper. Not that there's much need for it since windows will drive a DS4 natively now, it just doesn't support the gyro functions.

 

[Kaocraft]

Steam Big Picture Mode supports the PS4 controller. If you use Steam, you should be able to get the gyro to work and even configure it to mimic mouse movement or some other input mapping in case Elite doesn't recognize the Gyro data all by itself.

 

[Kaltern]

DS4 windows is now InputMapper. Not that there's much need for it since windows will drive a DS4 natively now, it just doesn't support the gyro functions.

You should probably know that InputMapper is absolutely not the replacement for DS4Windows - it is a separate fork that the guy has decided to try and make money from, and is to be avoided.

The link I gave is the CURRENT version on DS4Windows, forked by someone who took the original source, updated it with some extra features for the gyro, and apparently rewrote some of the mouse/gyro code.

ALL of the above software uses the ScarletCrush (SCP) XInput wrapper for XBox controllers, and that has it's own development fork - without the DS4 touchpad or colourbar customisations.

And I would REALLY like to see where you found Windows 10 supports the DS4 natively over Bluetooth, as I have never heard about this. (Steam DOES support PS4 controllers, but naturally you have to launch it via Big Picture - which is not always ideal)

 

[Kaltern]

Steam Big Picture Mode supports the PS4 controller. If you use Steam, you should be able to get the gyro to work and even configure it to mimic mouse movement or some other input mapping in case Elite doesn't recognize the Gyro data all by itself.

I just tried it for giggles, and yes it does work, although HOW this is something PS4 players like I don't think I'll figure out - it's horrid lol!

It's irritating having to use Big Picture... but it's all there, including yaw/tilt X axis control. So there you go.

 

[metatheurgist]

You should probably know that InputMapper is absolutely not the replacement for DS4Windows - it is a separate fork that the guy has decided to try and make money from, and is to be avoided.

The link I gave is the CURRENT version on DS4Windows, forked by someone who took the original source, updated it with some extra features for the gyro, and apparently rewrote some of the mouse/gyro code.

ALL of the above software uses the ScarletCrush (SCP) XInput wrapper for XBox controllers, and that has it's own development fork - without the DS4 touchpad or colourbar customisations.

OK, that was just what the interweb told me.

And I would REALLY like to see where you found Windows 10 supports the DS4 natively over Bluetooth, as I have never heard about this. (Steam DOES support PS4 controllers, but naturally you have to launch it via Big Picture - which is not always ideal)

Don't know about win 10. But I had it running wireless on BT on win 7. Of course, things being what they are, some time between the last time it was working and when I tried it recently it stopped working and now refuses to pair the controller. But I know for a fact that it did work at one time.

 

[DestinHalfman]

I just tried it for giggles, and yes it does work, although HOW this is something PS4 players like I don't think I'll figure out - it's horrid lol!

It's irritating having to use Big Picture... but it's all there, including yaw/tilt X axis control. So there you go.

Wut?

I just tried it, it does not work at my end. Is there a specific setup/profile you used?