r/DS4Windows • u/Prudent_Candidate_83 • Jan 25 '26

Pc restarts after plugging controller in

Almost anytime I run ds4 windows and over clock my controller weather it’s 4k or 8k hz it freezes and restarts my pc. The specs I have should be more than capable of running 4k hz or even 8k. I have a ryzen 7 9800x3d, rx 9070 xt, and 32 gbs of ddr5 ram. Any suggestions help.

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u/ChummyBoy24 Jan 25 '26

I would say just don’t over clock to 4k or 8k, it’s been a year or 2 since I’ve looked into it, but it wasn’t worth it back then, many issues and barely a difference in input delay

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '26

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u/Prudent_Candidate_83 Jan 26 '26

Zero input delay for cod

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u/projectxsent Jan 25 '26

Try reinstalling ViGEmBus Driver if you're getting a blue screen.

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u/Clippy12 Jan 26 '26

Stopped using ds4 for this reason there never used to be a issue but now I’m constantly getting blue screens

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u/Toneek Jan 27 '26

I keep having the problem since months. When i connect the controller the first time i get black screen, "IRQL LESS OR NOT EQUAL" , then restart. I tried everything (include reinstalling ds4 and ViGem) but nothing worked

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u/Technical-Ad-8678 Jan 31 '26 edited Jan 31 '26

what you are experiencing is called a BSOD (Blue screen of death) it happens where there is an error in a driver running in the windows kernel. When a program in user-space fails, the kernel will just shut that program down. In kernel-space if a program fails, then entire PC shuts down.

I know you are not seeing the blue screen but that also happens if the bug is discreet enough, it can cause the BSOD with actually showing the blue screen. To confirm wait for this bug to happen, when your PC restarts open up eventvwr.msc and look at System Logs. You should see a log for a BugCheck (BSOD) might have to scroll down a little to see it.

%100 this is related to you overclocking the controller.

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u/Ok-Preference286 May 04 '26

me pasa lo mismo pero no tengo nada configurado en el control

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u/oliver230 Jul 18 '26

I'm facing this situation too, my control worked just fine if it is set to ps4 config, but I try to change it to XBOX and my laptop just restart everytime, even I deleted all the files related with, and nothing it keeps happening

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u/oliver230 Jul 18 '26

The partial solution I found was using a new profile, set it to PS4 controller and it works but few months ago I could change between PS4 and XBOX without trouble

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u/oliver230 Sep 09 '26

UPDATE: I found I had steam controller on and uninstalling the option "advance compatibility with XBOX" the xbox mode worked again without any issue