DS4Windows VS DS4Windows

Since Valorant has strict anti-cheat that disables the mouse movement of the Steam Deck, I was wondering if its possible to make a driver that does it like DS4Windows with their FakeInput Driver

the Github post link is here--->https://github.com/Ryochan7/DS4Windows/issues/3065

- if you have the game on Xbox app, you will need a 3rd party app like DS4Windows. It will install some custom drivers and the controller will work like a PS4 controller.

https://github.com/Ryochan7/DS4Windows (its an open source project)

Fixed it by installing version V 3.1.12 and updating manually (https://github.com/Ryochan7/DS4Windows/issues/2946)

And there was also a fork available in the last year while the original dev was on a hiatus.

Personally I use CircumSpector's DS4Windows. It has restored rumble and lightbar passthru on my end. The lightbar passthru is kinda buggy but it kinda works.

Thankfully, Jibb already redirects the newer fork if you look at the Release page or literally the first Paragraph of README.md. So unlike DS4Windows (which took 6-7+ years to tell folks to move over to Ryochan4 fork...which said fork been discontinued and someone else took over. Welcome to FOSS. 😋), it should be easy enough to head over to Electronicks fork.

Final note: DS4Windows hasn't been updated since August 2021. Another group forked it and they're rewriting a lot of it. There is no release yet and no release date planned.

A couple of FOSS enthusiasts and myself have taken over the decade old game controller remapping tool DS4Windows (https://github.com/CircumSpector/DS4Windows) with the goal to rewrite major parts using latest dotnet patterns and technologies. There's still months worth of work left but despite being an ambitious task, it's quite doable and fun figuring out your way around someone else's massive code base. Join us if you like!

The DS4Windows project is not dead. There is a new team working on it called CircumSpector, but it may take a while for a update to be released since they are focusing on "modernizing" the code so it's easier to maintain it in the future. There are lots of changes going on under the hood, but "user visible" changes for now.

This is not exactly true. Check CircumSpector's DS4Windows.