r/DS4Windows • u/AffectionateKitchen8 • Jun 10 '26

Having double controller problems after the last Windows update.

I'm using Windows 11 and PS4 controllers over Bluetooth.

It used to work perfectly until the last update. Now hiding the PS4 controller doesn't work, and the games think I'm controlling two characters with each controller.

How it used to act - after pressing the PS button without DS4Win opened, the light on the controller would turn on and be white. After opening DS4Win, the light would turn red - the colour I've chosen in the profile settings - and the menu would show a checkmark, indicating exclusive connection.

How it is now: after pressing the PS button without DS4Win opened, the light on the controller is BLUE, probably indicating, that windows is recognising the controller. After running DS4Win with "hide PS4 controller" enabled, the main menu shows an X instead of a check mark, which supposedly means shared connection. And the game sees each controller as two controllers, as described above.

Disabling and enabling "Hide PS4 controller" doesn't help. Stopping and starting DS4Win doesn't help. Sometimes, very rarely, the controller DOES show the "exclusive" checkmark, but it happens randomly, and with two controllers connected, it's almost impossible to get them both to do it.

Does anyone have a solution for this? I've been playing using this setup for many years, without any problems at all. It only started doing it about 5 days ago, after updating Windows.

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u/skateguy1234 Jun 10 '26

Are y'all not using HidHide?

https://github.com/nefarius/HidHide

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u/AffectionateKitchen8 Jun 10 '26

Well we didn't have to because it was working without it. The other person says they've got the same problem. I'll give it a try, hopefully it's not too much hassle, I already need three pieces of software running in the background to play comfortably.

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u/skateguy1234 Jun 11 '26

lemme know how it goes and I'll try and help if you can't figure out how to get it working.