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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
You must have done something wrong then. I have used my PS4 controller on multiple PCs and notebooks to the point of it having no rubber left on the sticks. It's really just installing DS4 and plugging it in.
gpt
Hell, unless you're playing some crazy obscure games you shouldn't even really need DS4 anymore. I've clocked in thousands of hours on PC games and don't have it installed.

The only fault isn't the controller itself, but that games almost always default to Xbox prompts and that's always an adventure to correct.