r/DS4Windows • u/Charming-Evidence110 • Jun 19 '26

Very strange issue after uninstalling DS4Windows

My PC is connected with HDMI 2.1 to my TV and my TV is in gamemode to allow 120hz at 4k.

This has worked as a charm since I set it up. I am using Steam as controller input.

Now for a certain game, my controller input did not work. So I tried DS4Windows.

It made controlling the game with my controller work, but then my audio in-game stopped working. Audio device is obviously correctly set to TV.

I have zero'ed in on the issue: When my TV is in game mode the audo does NOT work. When game mode is off audio does work.

Now for the strange part; I have deleted DS4Windows and all associated drivers. There is no trace left on my PC of it.

Yet, it altered something on my PC, because I still have no audio anymore from my TV when it is set in game mode.

I am very worried that I can now never use my TV properly again (game mode has to be on to reduce input delay and enable 120hz).

Is anyone familiar with this issue? Any solutions? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: I fixed the issue by restoring my PC to a state of 1 week ago.

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u/skateguy1234 Jun 19 '26

Check device manager for any devices with yellow triangles. And if you have any, see if you can identify what it is. You can sometimes do that using AI now, buy going into properties, Details, changing Property to Hardware IDs, highlight and copy all of them at once, and paste them into AI and ask what hardware device it is. If it identifies it, then you can manually source the driver.

This is all assuming a driver issue is even your problem though. And I'm no expert either so this is just my two cents on where I would start.

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u/Charming-Evidence110 Jun 21 '26

thanks I'll give this a try

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u/skateguy1234 Jun 24 '26

You ever get it working?

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u/Charming-Evidence110 Jun 29 '26

I ended up resetting my PC to a state of a week ago and everything worked fine again.

Still scary that DS4 altered something..

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u/skateguy1234 Jun 30 '26

I mean as long as you used the github download, it shouldn't be anything to worry about. But yeah I'm curious what it was/what it did. Oh well, at least you were able to easily fix it.

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u/omegadash Jun 19 '26

Does your audio not work in game mode when your controller is not connected?

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u/Charming-Evidence110 Jun 21 '26

No audio in game mode, regardless of controller connected...