PS3-Hacks.com / SIXAXIS PS3 controller on your PC

yuriy · 2008-03-15 14:41:51

I realise this has been posted already but my tutorial will show you how to use the controller on vista, not just XP like the other tutorial.

Your controller won't look like this ^

Ok here we go..
1)Download this package (click)
2) Extract the package somewhere on your PC using WinRAR
3) Plug in the controller to your PC using the USB cable that came with the PS3.
4) Press the PS button.
5) Go to the extracted package and run libusb-win32-filter-bin-0.1.10.1.exe
6) Wait for it to install, at the end uncheck the "run test app" option and press finish.
7) run the ps3sixaxis_en.exe
8) Press the home button.

Ok your all done, your controller should work, even on windows vista. If you want to test it do these additionnal steps:
1) Go to start>settings>control panel.
2) Then press Game Controllers.
3)Select PLAYSTATION(R) 3 Controller and press properties.
3) press the test tab and press the PS button.
4) When you press diferent buttons or move the analog sticks, different numbers will light up and the bars will move up and down, like this:

Last edited by yuriy (2008-03-15 14:49:01)

NEMESIS0744 · 2008-03-15 17:20:50

So much easier on Vista because it automatically detects it as a gamepad.

ZiiRo3 · 2008-05-05 21:38:29

sorry to ask this but can i do this without having to confirm the installation program that it is safe on vista?

ThaRealness · 2008-07-09 05:33:18

I tried this, and I even tried putting the ps3sixaxis_en in the system 32, and I keep getting an error message from windows. Anybody know how I can fix this?

gazzer-2k8 · 2008-07-09 21:47:11

great tut thanks for putting the vista version up

DarX_Nor13ert · 2008-07-27 01:28:36

Is there away using it with bluetooth?

Zip · 2008-08-11 03:00:04

i still cant get it to work with my 64-bit vista. i want to be able to use it for project 64, n64emlation, cuz that would just be sweet. but i just cant get this to work. any help would be great

spacewiz · 2008-08-12 17:48:31

Zip wrote:
i still cant get it to work with my 64-bit vista. i want to be able to use it for project 64, n64emlation, cuz that would just be sweet. but i just cant get this to work. any help would be great

i get the same problem on vista x64. i installed the package but it doesn't change anything. it is under the game pad section and is listed as OK status but it doesn't do anything when you try to test the button or calibrate it.

t0mmyr · 2008-10-20 08:17:00

has anyone gotten this to work on Windows Vista 64 bit?

Mick · 2008-10-20 08:26:48

no need to ask it twice

t0mmyr · 2008-10-20 08:28:54

sorry, hey Mick, this is probably off topic but are you the developer of red kawa server? whats the latest version? i'm using version 1.0 and its great but was just curious if theres a newer version out

Mick · 2008-10-20 08:37:49

lol naw i jus posted the info first. you can get the latest here im not sure what it is. iv got a 500gb external HDD since i posted it so i havint followed it http://redkawa.com/fileserver/

ERIFNOMI · 2008-10-20 22:57:48

64bit support would be golden. Some of us like going balls to the wall and have Vista64 and this seems to be the only downfall.

Turabdin · 2008-10-28 20:09:17

spacewiz wrote:
Zip wrote:
i still cant get it to work with my 64-bit vista. i want to be able to use it for project 64, n64emlation, cuz that would just be sweet. but i just cant get this to work. any help would be great
i get the same problem on vista x64. i installed the package but it doesn't change anything. it is under the game pad section and is listed as OK status but it doesn't do anything when you try to test the button or calibrate it.

Same problem here. Running Vista Business 64. Automatic driver installation, the comp finds the controller, but pressing the PS button does nothing, and like you said calibrating or testing buttons does not work.

ERIFNOMI · 2008-10-28 20:59:30

Turabdin wrote:
spacewiz wrote:
Zip wrote:
i still cant get it to work with my 64-bit vista. i want to be able to use it for project 64, n64emlation, cuz that would just be sweet. but i just cant get this to work. any help would be great
i get the same problem on vista x64. i installed the package but it doesn't change anything. it is under the game pad section and is listed as OK status but it doesn't do anything when you try to test the button or calibrate it.
Same problem here. Running Vista Business 64. Automatic driver installation, the comp finds the controller, but pressing the PS button does nothing, and like you said calibrating or testing buttons does not work.

We know it doesn't work. You did not have to register just to tell us that.

Comrade4 · 2008-11-02 22:42:57

So I know i just registered and you guys are going to jump at me for reporting the same thing as the people above and blah blah blah... but I have Vista Home premium... and with my understanding that is 32 bit, yet I'm having the same problems. I get it to recognize but once i test it nothing lights up, yet it says its ok. So go ahead and yell at me for reporting the same problem... but I like I said I have 32 bit vista, so its a different situation. All help is appreciated, and I have been fiddling around with this forever, so please save my time of posting how dumb I am or just to unplug and replug or just press PS button...

Thank You,
Comrade

ERIFNOMI · 2008-11-03 22:47:26

completely uninstall the drier and try again. That's how I had to get it to work on my WinXP 32 bit

Comrade4 · 2008-11-03 23:58:33

Is uninstalling it from the programs list acceptable means? Cause I've done that many times also... but never though of searching for the driver in my devices manager. Though actually I'm doing that right now, and cant find the LIB in any of the devices. Like I said I've done it many times through the programs and features list, is there maybe a different way?

-Comrade

MJAldridge6 · 2008-12-31 22:12:14

Hi, new to the forum BTW.. but I was able to get a controller to install with my vista but now I'm wondering if I can use it in such a way as a mouse.

ERIFNOMI · 2009-01-02 18:50:59

Go to device manager and uninstall the driver from there.

togusa_9890 · 2009-01-28 18:59:36

a tip for anyone who is having problems with trying this on vista. try pressing the ps button before hooking it up and pressin the button to sync it. thats how i got mine to work on my vista basic laptop.

hope it helps.

Sanlock · 2009-02-14 18:19:41

very good gay
thank you

solidsnakker · 2009-04-23 15:49:12

ERIFNOMI wrote:
Go to device manager and uninstall the driver from there.

Is it listed under something else because i cant see it in the device manager.

NEMESIS0744 · 2009-04-23 20:22:39

^^^ Can't be, if it's not in Device Manager than it must not be installed.

mikahgiacchetti · 2009-08-14 17:58:37

Hey guys.

How about posting a solution that doesn't take out my usb and that actually provides me the ability to use the sixaxis ?

because that's exactly what this DOESN'T DO

I install the libusb and my USB stops working, external HDD gone, no mouse, no lights on the sixaxis.

I have tried the motioninjoy as well, but ... no analog support. no point in playing any game on my laptop, if I can't even get the controller working right.

Guess I'm going back to soldat. That's better than Goldeneye and Ocarina of time anyway

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