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    Atheist Douchebag.
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    PS4 Wireless Adapter for PC - Questions

    Hey fuckers

    This just released

    I was looking an easy way to get my GF set up for playing FFVII via Steam. Will this work for that? Along with a standard PS4 controller?

    I could also grab an XBOX controller but I have no experience with this and figured PS controller for PS game?

    Any help would be awesome.

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    I doubt anyone has any experience with that yet, but honestly you can just use any old bluetooth receiver (I use this) and use a PS4 controller wirelessly. Or you can just plug the charger cable in. Both take a tiny bit of fiddling with DS4Windows, but nothing that takes more than 10 minutes to figure out.

    Not sure if that includes better drivers to circumvent the workaround.

    EDIT: After looking at those Amazon reviews for the official ones, it seems like shit. Doesn't let you use it on anything but remote play and PS Now.

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    From my experience, most games run out the box just fine with a standard USB bluetooth dongle and DS4. And for the few games that misbehave (*cough*Dark Souls 1, 2 AND 3), DS4windows usually fixes it up a treat with minimal tweaking, often no tweaking needed at all.

    I've even found that using some bizarre niche setups such as emulation, in home streaming, and streaming to a tablet, the DS4 just works, leaving me kind of perplexed as to why that Sony branded dongle exists in the first place.

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    Well...after reading the reviews, I ain't swapping. What I got works and I see no reason to. ^^

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    Wireless Xbox requires dongle. Wired xbox (obviously doesn't).

    PS4 Controller can sync via bluetooth (I do this with my lappy that has built in bluetooth) and work right off the bat without any modifications. Though some games might not like it. (Everspace supports xbox but tells my PS4 controller to suck it.) Meanwhile games like Trackmania Turbo and the PPSSPP emulator has no issues detecting and using the PS4 controller.

    I'm not 100% sure but I think PS4 controllers can talk through the USB as well.

    Also both dongles are really fucking big.


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    After reading all this I'm gonna go with an XBOX controller and save myself the headache.

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