how to play elite dangerous on pc using ps4 controller

Lucan Orion

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I decided to migrate my ps4 profile to PC, since I play that character a lot more. I'm much more accustomed to using the ps4 controller than m&kb, so I thought I could set up my ps4 controller to use on PC. It's supposedly doable. ED is recognizing my ps4 dual shock controller as an option. When I look at control presets, it's not at all laid out how it is in on ps4. I guess I should not be shocked. Remapping the controller schema is pretty straight forward...or at least it should be.

The problem is on ps4 (it has to be the same on x-box), you hold down the buttons (triangle, square, circle, and x) while pressing another control (direction pad or R&L pads) to control certain functions of the ship. PC doesn't seem to recognize the hold down button part. To the PC, pushing the button is pushing the button, regardless if you're pushing another control at the same time. Another thing is when I remap the control to match how it was in ps4, the PC is adding a third control to be pushed, and sometimes those third buttons are kb buttons (like SPACE, L-ALT, R-CTRL). That obviously won't work.

Has anybody run into this and have a workaround?

Thanks
 

MickyG1982

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Lucan Orion said:
I decided to migrate my ps4 profile to PC, since I play that character a lot more. I'm much more accustomed to using the ps4 controller than m&kb, so I thought I could set up my ps4 controller to use on PC. It's supposedly doable. ED is recognizing my ps4 dual shock controller as an option. When I look at control presets, it's not at all laid out how it is in on ps4. I guess I should not be shocked. Remapping the controller schema is pretty straight forward...or at least it should be.

The problem is on ps4 (it has to be the same on x-box), you hold down the buttons (triangle, square, circle, and x) while pressing another control (direction pad or R&L pads) to control certain functions of the ship. PC doesn't seem to recognize the hold down button part. To the PC, pushing the button is pushing the button, regardless if you're pushing another control at the same time. Another thing is when I remap the control to match how it was in ps4, the PC is adding a third control to be pushed, and sometimes those third buttons are kb buttons (like SPACE, L-ALT, R-CTRL). That obviously won't work.

Has anybody run into this and have a workaround?

Thanks
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Use "default context" that should match the console OG controls.
 

Lucan Orion

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I'm still having trouble getting a ps4 controller to work on pc. I think the issue is probably that it's a ps4 controller and not x-box. But also that the controller relies on button combos to perform ship control functions, (e,g., FA Off = circle+R1, Headlight/Nightvision = right arrow pad + circle, Supercruise = triangle + up arrow pad, etc). The game on my PC is not recognizing the difference between momentarily pressing a button vs holding down a button and using in combo with another button. So I'm getting a lot of undesired results, like boosting either before or after switching FA on or off, or switching nightvision on or off. I've played around with a couple of different remappers and those don't seem to be helping either. Still have the issue with the PC version of the game not differentiating between a pressed button vs a held down button.

I notice the keybinds file is in xml. I feel like I'm going to have to go into the xml file and go through line by line and rewrite it. Is there any resources out there for that? I've been searching, but I don't know how to phrase the search properly. I keep getting results that aren't even closely related to what I'm actually looking for. Thanks in advance for anything you can offer.
 
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no1baggiesfan

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Lucan Orion said:
I'm still having trouble getting a ps4 controller to work on pc. I think the issue is probably that it's a ps4 controller and not x-box. But also that the controller relies on button combos to perform ship control functions, (e,g., FA Off = circle+R1, Headlight/Nightvision = right arrow pad + circle, Supercruise = triangle + up arrow pad, etc). The game on my PC is not recognizing the difference between momentarily pressing a button vs holding down a button and using in combo with another button. So I'm getting a lot of undesired results, like boosting either before or after switching FA on or off, or switching nightvision on or off. I've played around with a couple of different remappers and those don't seem to be helping either. Still have the issue with the PC version of the game not differentiating between a pressed button vs a held down button.

I notice the keybinds file is in xml. I feel like I'm going to have to go into the xml file and go through line by line and rewrite it. Is there any resources out there for that? I've been searching, but I don't know how to phrase the search properly. I keep getting results that aren't even closely related to what I'm actually looking for. Thanks in advance for anything you can offer.
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Did you ever get sorted ?

I moved from PS4 to PC a while back to play oddy, I was using win10 iirc, plugged in my PS4 pad and used DS4, I had zero issues playing, it played exactly the same as the console version (but I used KB+mouse for ground)
I took a break (July 2023) and started back up last week, there was an update (or a few?) logged in, still using DS4, but now the game has magically lost all the bindings, I did not set any custom ones, I used the default ones in the settings menu "DUALSHOCK" but now when I select it, none of the context menus work (hold triangle, square etc)
even deleting all the bindings and copying in my backups does not work, its exactly the same, so have they goofed something in one of the updates ? as even their settings dont work now.
 

STRONTIUM DOG

STRONTIUM DOG

Visual cues gone

After my last night session, I can't get visual cues to work. I mean, when you press a button in your hotas, keep it pressed and a cross appears showing what you do pressing certain direction in the HAT switch. Some of these actions still work (like square+direction to look into the several...
forums.frontier.co.uk forums.frontier.co.uk
probably related to the bugs above thread
btw if you hover the mouse over the user pic you can see when they were last active on this forum
 
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no1baggiesfan

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STRONTIUM DOG said:

Visual cues gone

After my last night session, I can't get visual cues to work. I mean, when you press a button in your hotas, keep it pressed and a cross appears showing what you do pressing certain direction in the HAT switch. Some of these actions still work (like square+direction to look into the several...
forums.frontier.co.uk forums.frontier.co.uk
probably related to the bugs above thread
btw if you hover the mouse over the user pic you can see when they were last active on this forum
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:) yeah, think I should have realised this thread was 2 years old lol, been trying to google this issue, but in 24 google is now bloody useless.

TY Strontium.
 
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