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What is up everyone? My name is Ken, also known as Wiltshire and welcome to this video
tutorial. In this video tutorial, I'm going to show you guys how to connect and use
your PlayStation 4 controller on your PC
Okay so the very first step for this tutorial is you're gonna need to go
into the description below and download the driver package
that is linked. Now the driver package contains all the files that you
are gonna need to follow this tutorial. Now you may also notice that I already have
the driver package on my desktop
and I've already extracted it. Now if you don't know how to extract the zip folder, I'm going
show you guys how to do so right now.
To extract a zip folder, what you need to do you need to right click on it and go
to extract all
Now this will open up the windows zip folder extractor and this is built into all
versions of Windows so you don't need to download a third-party programs such as
WinZip or WinRar. Just go ahead and click the extract button and it will extract the files
for you in a new file folder.
So, what we're gonna do is open up that new file folder we're going to go into the SCP DS3
driver package file folder and I've already extracted the SCP service
or server, excuse me, that is the program that we use to connect our PS4
controller. I've already extracted it, however you will not see that.
You will see 5 things instead of 6. Now we want to install four things. The four
things that we're going to install are;
the Xbox 360 controller drivers, the dotnet framework 4.0,
DirectX 9 web setup and the Microsoft Visual C++
2010 setup. Now if you're running Windows 8, you do not have to install
the dotnet framework 4.0 version because
it is already integrated into Windows 8, so you don't have to install that. But if
you're running Windows 7 Vista or XP, you do have to install that.
Now I'm not gonna show you guys how to install everything because it'll take
away too much time
and it's pretty straight forward to install things on your computer. You just open it up
and click Next. Then agree
and it will install everything for you and do its job
So I'm gonna skip right over to installing your PlayStation 4 controller
and your Bluetooth dongle on your PC by using the
SCP DS3 Tool. So I'm going to open up the file folder here.
We're going to open up the bin folder, at this time you want to plug in your PlayStation 4
controller and/or your Bluetooth dongle. Now Bluetooth dongles
is not required for this to work. You can use the controller perfectly fine through
USB
However, you want to use the controller wirelessly, you are going to need a
Bluetooth dongle
So, after that's said, we're gonna go to the Zadig file folder
and we're gonna open up Zadig and run it as administrator. You have to run Zadig
as administrator. I know it's a little bit of a funny name, but this program
works wonders for connecting controllers
So once in Zadig, we're gonna go to the Device tab and load a preset device
now the preset device configuration file we're after is the Dualshock 4
So we're gonna open that up. Now the next step we need to do is we need to go to the
Options tab at the top here
and list all the devices. Now this list all the devices that are connected to your computer
Now, the device name for the PlayStation 4 controller is called wireless
controller. Why it's called that I don't know. It should've been called
PlayStation 4 controller, but it's not.
So, go to the drop down menu and select wireless controller and go ahead and
replace the driver
Now it's gonna warn us and ask us if we want to replace this driver and we're
going to say yes. Yes, we want to replace this driver
So, there we go, its install the PlayStation 4 controller driver
and we're good to go for using our Playstation 4 controller.
Now, if you stick around for a little bit, I gonna show you guys how to install the
Bluetooth dongle driver
and if you don't have one, you can feel free to skip this step.
So, it's fairly similar to the PlayStation 4 dongle,
rather driver setup. So, what we're gonna do is go to Device again,
load preset, but this time we're going to select Bluetooth configuration file.
Now, Zadig has a little bit of a glitch where it won't show the drop down menu
anymore
even though we have list of devices checked off. So, we can fix this by
un-checking it and then going back in and rechecking it off. For some reason, I don't
know why, but it does that, but it can be easily remedied by doing that
So, we're gonna go to the drop down menu and we're gonna find our bluetooth dongle.
Mine is called Qualcomm Atheros Bluetooth dongle 3.0.
Uh, this should work with built-in Bluetooth now. I've heard it works quite
well with built-in Bluetooth
I'm using a Bluetooth dongle that is USB is the ASUS BT-211
dongle, That's the one I recommend that you use. So, what we are
gonna do is we're going to replace the driver here
going to install a driver for us perfectly fine. There we go, we can exit Zadig
We're not finished with it
Now, the program we're gonna open and install things with is
SCPDriver. We're gonna run that as administrator. I can't stress that enough, you always have
to run everything in this tutorial
as administrator. So, once were in the SCPDriver
installer, what we need to do is we need to unchecked the bluetooth driver
because Zadig has installed a newer version of the Bluetooth Driver and we don't
want that to overwrite it with an older one.
And we want to check out the Configure Service because that's what we're after
and if you're on Windows 7 or 8 leave force install unchecked. If you're on
Windows Vista or XP, you are gonna have to check that
off, like so. Now, I'm running Windows 8 so I'm going to uncheck that and all we're
gonna do is we're going to click the Install button
and this will install the SCP DS3 Service for us.
And now we're good to go. So if you're using a controller via USB,
you can pefectly use your controller now. I'm just going to open up the
SCPMonitor just to show you. So, there you go. Our Playstation 4 controller is
connected via USB,
However there's just an extra step for us to do if we wanna connect our PlayStation
controller via
Bluetooth now what we need to do is we need to open up command prompt
and we are gonna need to run command prompt as Administrstor
if you don't run it as Administrator, you will get an access denied message
and you will not be able to continue pairing your controller with your
Bluetooth dongle.
Now, what we want to do is we want to stop the service that we just installed.
Now, we can do this by typing in net space stop
space quotations SCP space DS3
space service end quote
and hit enter. Now we've stopped the SCP service and now we can continue to pair
our PS4 controller to our dongle. Now, you can unplug your PS4 controller from the USB cord
and now what we're going to do is we're going to hold the
share button and the PS Button for about five seconds
and this will put the controller into pairing mode and it will Flash a white light
really really fast on the back. I don't recommend looking at that if you're epilecptic.
Now, what we can do now is open up the ds4 pair tool
run that as Administrator. It will automatically start doing things.
Now once that has stopped, hit the start button in the bottom right hand corner,
give it about five to ten seconds and make sure the installer has stopped showing things
and it looks like it's almost about done. There we go, it's now finished
pairing our Bluetooth dongle with our controller.
So, now you can feel free to exit that
and now I'm going to go into the SCPMonitor again.
Now, as you can see, it says the host monitor or host address, rather, and Pad
are disconnected
that is because the SCP service is not started. Now, we have to go back into
command prompt and we have to start that again. Now it's fairly similar to the
same code that we typed before but we're gonna type net
space start space
quote SCP space DS3
space service and we're gonna put the quotes on end again,
hit enter and are bluetooth dongle should be recognized
However, our PS4 controller is not because I haven't hit the PS button
on my controller. I'm going tohit that now and give it about 3-5 seconds
and it should connect to your computer, like so.
And there you go, your PlayStation 4 controller is perfectly connected to your
computer via bluetooth
or USB, depending on which method you prefer.
Now, in this version on SCP DS3 there has been a change were you can change the light bar
brightness on the back of the controller. Say if you are sitting in a darkly lit room and the
and the light bar on the back of the controller is bugging you, it's too bright and you don't
want it on,
you can go to the SCPMonitor in the taskbar here
right click it, go to configuration and all you have to do is take this slider bar
where it says DS4
light bar brightness, slide it all the way down 'till it says it's disabled,
click OK and it's now disabled. It's now off and there you go
So, we're now done with command prompt. You can feel free to close everything else
except for the SCPMonitor, because I wanna show you guys something else
Now, if you want to disconnect your controller, because the battery life on
the PS4 controller is not as great as the DualShock 3's,
so you don't want to really leave it on. So, you can disconnect your controller
by holding the L1
and R1 buttons, as well as the PS button at the same time
Make sure you hold it for about five seconds and it will show
reserved. That means is now disconnected and there you go.
That's how you connect your PlayStation 4 controller to your Windows PC.
I hope you guys enjoyed this video tutorial. I hope you found it very very useful.
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I want to thank you guys for watching and I will see you guys, as always,
in the next video. See you later!