[OLD] Dualshock3 Windows Drivers Released

**SC7639** · May 7th, 2009, 22:43

I keep getting: "Windows has determined that the driver software for your device is up to date" Any idea what i can do to still over right the driver?

**bevoer** · May 8th, 2009, 07:49

thanks!good !!

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**d2dak87** · May 27th, 2009, 18:47

im using a laptop with vista installed an iv followed all the instructons for this app an its still not working. my device manager spots my controller as usb hid. an in the control panel computer controllers bit it recognises the controller as a ds3, yet all my efforts have prevailed! anyone got any ideas? this would work with a snes emulator right?

**ac0lyt3** · June 5th, 2009, 08:02

First up, for anyone failing to install this for Vista x64, there is a simple reason for this. These drivers are unsigned and as such will never be allowed to be installed by that OS. Even if someone writes an x64 compatible driver, it will only ever load into XP x64 as Vista 64 will not allow it.

For everyone else having difficulty who is not running a 64bit OS, many systems have multiple HID entries in their device manager. They can be anything from a keyboard, mouse or fancy game pad. There are other devices that come under this category as well. The easiest way to find the right entry is to do the following.

1. Open Device Manager. The most universal method to do this is to open Control Panel, then open System. If you are running XP, click the tab called Hardware. From this tab there is a button marked Device Manager. If you are running Vista there will be a link on the left side of the System window.

2. From Device Manager, open the view menu and click "Devices by connection". This will rearrange the device tree into the hiearchy of device connections.

3. Expand the ACPI x86-based PC tree, then the Microsoft ACPI-compliant System, PCI bus tree.

4. From that view you should see a number of entries that have the term USB Universal Host Controller in their titles. Make sure that the DS3 is NOT plugged in and then expand each USB UHC entry. They will all have a USB Root Hub which may or may not be expandable. Expand the ones that are and make note of the devices listed under them.

5. Once you have noted the existing HID devices attached to all of your USB Root Hubs, plug in your DS3. Depending on the version of windows you have, you may need to click the refresh button at the top of the screen (or press the F5 key) to see your DS3 added to the root hubs. On Vista it comes up as a USB Human Interface Device with a "HID-compliant game controller" nested under it, I suspect that XP will have a similar description.

7. Once you have located the CORRECT HID entry, right-click it and select "Update driver software". Under Vista click Browse my computer for driver software. Then click "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer". Click the "Have Disk" button then browse to where you extracted the driver to. Click on the dualshock3.inf then click Open. Click ok then click next on the Update Driver Software wizard. You should see the message "Windows has successfully updated your driver software". Click close then check for the DS3 in your game controllers under control panel.

You may need to press the PS button on the DS3 before it will register responses from the Game Controllers test screen. I hope this explanation helps a lot of the less computer literate out there.

**Johnnaris** · June 6th, 2009, 01:34

simulation credit

Thanks for sharing. It's great.

**dcdood** · June 9th, 2009, 07:04

does it pickup sixaxis?

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**gmery** · June 28th, 2009, 04:42

hello id like to know if there is an english translation of the SDDriver setting file, since i play racedriver GRID and the left joystick seems way too sensible for that, it used to run perfectly on sensibility when i was using the lilhub usb driver could anyone help me? thankyou.

**mon_diesle** · July 19th, 2009, 20:57

I'm using vista 32 bit os.

I went to device manager, right clicked on usb human interface device, clicked update driver. I can only select which folder windows will search for a new driver, and it (windows) always determines that it already posses the best drivers. So therefore, I cannot update to these drivers. Please help.