Comments on: Using PS3 Controller in Windows (Wired)

By: Davies

Davies — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:14:18 +0000

Method B works for some games not all. Unfortunately, nothing works for every game but the Jap drivers have proven to be most successful so far. Many people are using it to play emulated PS games on PC.

By: Vohn

Vohn — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:51:03 +0000

ON second though, I give up. I’ve tried three of the four ways to connect, and none of them work. The ones that ask you to update your drivers, they tell me the device is in use by another process, which doesn’t show up on my process lists and I can’t change anyway.

Method B brings up that spify “Load Driver/Exit” dialog box, which is real pretty. If it actually did something when you clicked “load driver,” that’d be real useful. But the universe hates me so I was stupid for trying. OH well, I didn’t really want to do anything those two hours I spent on futility.

By: Vohn

Vohn — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:53:27 +0000

Using method A, what do we run as administrator? When I double click on the installer, it installs. That creates a folder in my program files, and a spot in my start menu. There are about five thousand nine hundred eighty four different things in the folder in the program files. They all look like they work together,and nothing appears to be a specific driver that I’d click on and select “run as administrator” on.

The folder in the start menu allows me to run a test, or uninstall. I’ve tried running the test as as administrator and with windows compatability mode as well. I’ve ran the other thing once and then did everything step by step, and it will show that I have a controller, but I can’t calibrate it or do anything else with it, no matter how many times I press the ps button. However, when I began to play the game of life, I accidentally chose “hard mode.” So it could just be that the universe hates me. Please advise.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:28:16 +0000

yeah, there was no luck there, ended up re-installing win7 :/ but I guess if I set a restore point and only try one method ata time, shoiuld be ok?

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:31:21 +0000

Cool man, I’ll give it a shot – thank god for dual operating systems! And I’ll keep you updated :)

By: Davies

Davies — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:41:12 +0000

Most likely the Libusb drivers are the one causing all the problem. Uninstall it and clear all the remnants of it. There might be libusb0.dll file in your Windows folder. It should fix the problem.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:03:39 +0000

Hey Davies, I’m having a few issues. Well. One big one it would seem. I was going through Method C, Wired on Windows 7, but when it got to the point of installing the libusb Kaspersky fired up, and then my mouse and keyboard just wouldn’t respond. At all. I tried resetting my pc a couple of times, but when it boots up the keyboard and mouse are still frozen, plus I noticed it seems to have disabled my sound and network drivers? Any idea’s man? I don’t raelly feel like re-installing Windows 7 when it was all working so lovely before.

By: Roomy

Roomy — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:40:00 +0000

This looks great, but I have one question. What bluetooth USB receiver would you other users or the author of this site recommend for this that I can know for sure would work? And if you guys recommend a type of something to get, could you guys also provide a link to something that you may have that worked or something that you'd recommend to me to be cheap, small, and effective for this? This would pretty much be the only thing I'd be using with it, so I'd like it to be small hardware. Thanks!

Also to the author of this blog that answers so many questions so thoroughly, thanks for hosting it =).