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Controller back up is limited on Windows PCs. While the latest generation of console controllers will work out of the box with Windows, fifty-fifty last-generation gamepads like the PlayStation 3's DualShock 3 crave custom drivers.

A previous version of this article detailed the apply of MotioninJoy to employ your Sony PS3 controller as a joystick on your Windows PC. Unfortunately, MotioninJoy was a proprietary piece of software that turned into malware over the years.  Luckily, you don't have to infect your figurer, as there is an open up-source alternative in ScpToolkit. Don't use MotioninJoy.

How to Install ScpToolkit

ScpToolkit has to modify some organization drivers to make the controller work, so it'southward not the safest install process. Proceed with caution, follow our instructions, and don't click annihilation you don't sympathize.

Download the latest release of ScpToolkit from the project's Github page, open upwardly the setup programme, and concord to the Terms and Weather condition—if you read them, of class. You lot'll be shown a dialog with a list of install options:

ScpToolkit install screen

You probably don't need the Gamepad Analyzer and Debug Info Collector, merely you should install everything else.

The installation procedure volition take a few minutes. Y'all should have this time to find your PS3 controller and plug it in with a USB cable. Later the utility is done installing the toolkit, it volition inquire you to run the driver installer. Click "Run," and y'all'll be shown a listing which should now include your controller.

Initialize Controllers

Click the "Initialize All Connected Devices" button (don't skip through with next button), allow it install, andand then click "Next." This will configure the controller to be recognized as a PS3 controller, and install some drivers.

The adjacent screen is for Bluetooth support, which y'all may not want because it requires a dedicated Bluetooth dongle to be "sacrificed." Rightly so, at that place's a huge "Alert" label on this screen, considering installing it to a wireless mouse dongle on blow volition cause you to take a very bad time.

ScpToolkit Bluetooth support

If yous really want wireless support, yous'll need to plug in the sacrificial dongle,make sure it's the Simply device in the listing, and then click "Initialize All Continued Devices."

Otherwise, feel free to striking "Side by side" and skip this process.

The next step is installing a virtual Xbox 360 Controller driver, which will flim-flam Windows into thinking your PS3 controller is an Xbox 360 controller. This will make information technology work for more games.

Install virtual 360 controller driver

To install the commuter, click "Install virtual Xbox 360 Controller driver" and click "Next."

After that, ScpToolkit volition want to install a Windows Service to handle communication with the controller.

Install Windows Service

Click "Install Windows Service" and click "Side by side." You're now done, and you should be able to use your PS3 controller in any game that supports Xbox 360 controllers. That's practically every game that supports a controller, so become nuts. Yous can too remap the controller's buttons to arrive work in other games.

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