How To Connect Your PS5 Controller To Your PC – SlashGear

Besides just being generally comfortable to hold and use, the DualSense controller is well-known for its various additional features, including its touchpad, motion controls, and haptic feedback. If you want to use those features while it’s connected to a PC rather than a PS5, then we have a bit of good news and bad news for you.

The good news is that it is possible to use all of a DualSense controller’s advanced features while playing PC games. The bad news is that whether or not you can use those features is heavily reliant on a handful of factors, the biggest one being whether there is already DualSense feature mapping for the game you’re trying to play.

Generally speaking, if you’re playing a game on your PC that is also available on PS5 (“Marvel’s Spider-Man,” “Death Stranding,” “Final Fantasy VII Remake,” etc.), and you have any external input modifiers like Steam Input disabled, then the advanced features should work as they’re supposed to. If you’re playing other games or software, though, then the features won’t work, at least not natively. You’ll need an XInput wrapper like DualSenseX to enable the features manually, and even then, it still may not work.