How To Connect PS5 Controller To PC Using DS4Windows - Full Guide

we'll guide you through how to connect your PS5 controller to your PC using DS4 Windows DS4 Windows is a great application for helping you use your PS5 controller on your PC and with games and just before we get much further if you find this guide useful consider subscribing and also liking the video now the first thing you need to do is go and open up a web browser I'll just use Chrome but you can use any browser you'd like and then just go and search for DS4 Windows like so and the official website is ds4-windows.com come here and then just go to the top right and go and tap on download and then just go and click on download again and it will then go and start downloading after it's finished downloading go and close off your browser like this and open up your file explorer and go to the downloads folder I'm now my downloads and here's the file here it's a zip file so what you want to do is just drag this onto your desktop like this then just go and double click on the zip file like this and what you want to do is go and click on extract all or you can right click on it and also press extra tool as well and then it's automatically going to go and create this folder for you and you can then go and tap on extract like this and just like that it's now extracted it to this folder on your desktop and then what you can do is double click on the folder then go into DS4 windows again and then what you want to do is locate ds4windows.xe and double click on it like this and then it's going to go and say pick where you want profiles and settings to be saved I put program folder we're getting the first launch so you can close off your file explorer and what you want to do is go and tick the controllers you want to go and use so for PS5 we want the second one here dual sense device support and you can then go and tap on close and then you're going to go and get a Windows security pop-up which you need to go and agree to and then we're going to have this list of things we need to do here so we need to go and install the driver here so just click on it and it's going to go and download it and it will then go and open up the installer I'll click next I'll agree to the license terms I've read them before and then press install again so wait for this to finish if you're on Windows 7 you'll need to do something else but I'm not so I can scroll down and click on finish just like so there's also an update so I'll just go and quickly update it now as well and just like that we've now gone and installed DS4 windows and what you want to do is go to the bottom right and go and press start and then what you want to do is it's now started we now need to go and connect our PS5 controller to our PC there are two different options for connecting your controller to PC you can either use the wire or Bluetooth I think it's best to use the wire when first doing it just because it's the simplest way so all you need to do is grab the cable that your controller and console came with and what that cable is is a USBC to USB a so this end here plugs into the top of your controller up here and the other end will go and plug into your computer and just like that after you plug your controller in it's now appearing in DS4 Windows if you want to connect your PS5 controller using Bluetooth then all you need to do is go and open up your Windows settings so go and click on the Windows button at the bottom or just tap on search and type in settings otherwise I'll just click on settings here then go over to the left and tap on Bluetooth and devices and then click on ADD add device like this then click on bluetooth and then what you need to do is put your controller into pairing mode to do that go onto your controller and you need to hold this top button in the left and in the PlayStation button so hold them just like that and then your controller will start flashing blue and this means that it's in pairing mode and it will then appear on your computer and you can then go and click on it like this and it should shortly go and say connected like that and then if we come back to DS4 Windows as you can see it's now appearing here so after you've connected it either using Bluetooth or with the wire you're now ready to go and start using it inside of games and as I said before DS4 Windows is just really good it's just a really good driver for using your PS controller on your computer so yeah get into games and it's important to know that you can go and change the controller settings in certain games as well so make sure you check that out if you found this useful then please leave a like

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Length: 4min 23sec (263 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 09 2023