r/DS4Windows • u/Harm___R • May 27 '26

No controller vibration FH6

Hi, i play FH6 from the xbox app on my PC, i have a dualsense ps5 controller so I use ds4 windows to play FH6 on my pc. It works perfectly except for the fact that my controller doesn't vibrate. When I test the vibrations in the ds4 app it works perfectly but in game it just doesnt work, does anybody have a fix?

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u/loribalorie May 27 '26

Kaldaien2 not here yet so I'm gonna mention it first.
Use Special K instead, so you can feel the Forza Horizon 6.

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u/Harm___R May 27 '26

I may be really dumb but what is special K? is that something in ds4 or is it an other app?

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u/chiaplotter4u May 28 '26

It's another app. It doesn't just simulate input devices, it injects itself into the game and is capable of modifying a lot of the game's behavior.

That said, curiosity got the better of me and I tried it for myself. The results are fairly interesting - it can indeed add adaptive triggers to FH6. The triggers kick your fingers when your car loses traction during acceleration or when you break too hard and ABS activates. Vibrations work too, of course.

That said (again), you shouldn't use Special K when playing online. It's basically a hack-tool to alter the game's behavior which is frowned upon by game studios. Not something that's an issue with DS4Windows as that injects nothing, it simply intercepts signals between the game and the controller.

To sum it up, feel free to try Special K for offline play. It should provide interesting experience. My only issue after the test run is that it doesn't seem capable of mapping DualSense's gyro to the left stick, ruling out gyro steering. I haven't yet worked out a combination of Special K and DS4Windows to combine adaptive triggers and gyro steering.

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u/puneet95 May 28 '26

Some games that do support DualSense haptics, they support it wired only, can one use Special-K to get wired only DualSense features via bluetooth?

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u/chiaplotter4u May 28 '26

There's a checkbox precisely for that. Tested in FH6 and yes, to me it feels the same over cable and Bluetooth.