Double input

If the game detects both the real and the virtual gamepad at the same time then it will receive commands from 2 different devices at every button press and stick movement, which can lead to the infamous double-input issue that can make games unplayable.

Double Input issue may:

• Detect every command twice, making it unplayable
• Start 2 player mode randomly
• Ignore the virtual controller because it picked the real controller first
• Respond incorrectly to the controller’s inputs
  • Usually happens because, even though the game is correctly reading the virtual controller, it is also incorrectly reading the real controller’s inputs at the same time
• Do not respond to any controller command
  • Usually happens because the game detected the real controller first while being simultaneously unable to read its inputs
• Other non-obvious issues

To prevent or fix this issue it’s necessary to hide the real controller in order to make only DS4Windows’ virtual controller visible to games.

For a guide on how to do this, click here.