The ultimate driver for PS3 pads!

asim18 · 29 Jun 2009 at 23:21

After hours of failed attempts with manually installing drivers I stumbled on this website: http://www.motioninjoy.com/download-index-1.html

The drivers have support for motion sensing, vibration and everything works perfectly including the L2 and R2 triggers! It also works with both USB and Bluetooth!

Just been playing some street fighter on snes9x, bloody awesome, much better than the X360 dpad. Cant wait for SF4 now!

I have yet to test the motion sensing in game, but you can see it working well in the driver settings. Cant wait to test it with FSX when I get my 4890XT tomorrow!

FrenchTart · 29 Jun 2009 at 23:25

*bookmarks

asim18 · 30 Jun 2009 at 01:57

Now i just need a usb bluetooth dongle.

Sem · 30 Jun 2009 at 03:48

asim18 said:
Now i just need a usb bluetooth dongle.

i would love to be able to use my ps3 pad on my pc but im confused about something

how do you stop the ps3 pad "connecting" to the ps3 when you use it and make it only connect to the usb dongle

CliffyBiro · 30 Jun 2009 at 03:51

Sem said:
i would love to be able to use my ps3 pad on my pc but im confused about something

how do you stop the ps3 pad "connecting" to the ps3 when you use it and make it only connect to the usb dongle

Turn the PS3 off at the switch?

Streeteh · 30 Jun 2009 at 03:55

Really good find, thank you

Margaret · 30 Jun 2009 at 04:04

PS3 pad is still dire for SF4 btw but nice find.

pull2808 · 30 Jun 2009 at 07:54

Does this work with 64bit vista?

Streeteh · 30 Jun 2009 at 09:32

Margaret said:
PS3 pad is still dire for SF4 btw but nice find.

Far better than a 360 pad though

me227 · 30 Jun 2009 at 10:02

Aw too bad I sold my PS3. I was considering keeping one of the controllers but didn't bother because there were no 64 bit drivers about.

Jamesbcd · 30 Jun 2009 at 10:04

pull2808 said:
Does this work with 64bit vista?

there's another mirror for 64 bit, so i assume so

spookywillow · 30 Jun 2009 at 10:10

i'm just installing the 64 bit drivers now

uv · 30 Jun 2009 at 10:24

Does the PS3 pad have the same D-Pad as the PS2 Dualshock?

Streeteh · 30 Jun 2009 at 10:37

uv said:
Does the PS3 pad have the same D-Pad as the PS2 Dualshock?

Yes, it's pretty much identical but wireless.

Jamesbcd · 30 Jun 2009 at 10:38

anyone having trouble connecting the pad? i've followed the quick step guide but when i remove the usb cable, the pad doesn't sync with the pc

spookywillow · 30 Jun 2009 at 10:41

i cant even get the driver to install properly on vista x64

asim18 · 30 Jun 2009 at 10:58

You need to disable driver signing enforcement for 64bit.

You can do this manually by pressing F8 at bootup.

Or to do this automatically, get ReadyDriverPlus. This automates the F8 process for you and adds just 2-4 seconds to your boot time.

If you want to use ReeadyDriverPlus on Windows 7, follow these steps, it worked perfectly for me:

ReadyDriverPlus 0xc000000f error on boot - Windows7
Windows 7 RC1 installs a hidden 200mb partition purely for booting the OS. ReadyDriverPlus needs to be installed there. This is tricky and I'll add screenshots later, but here is how you do it:
Start Menu -> Right click Computer (or My Computer) and select Manage. You'll now be at Computer Management screen
Click Disk Management
There will be a blank 200mb drive (partition) without a letter attached (or maybe it does have a letter, i think i removed it so it didnt show in windows). This is where ReadyDriverPlus needs be be installed.
Because it doesnt have a drive letter, we need to assign it one, this is easy.
Right click the blank drive. Click "Change Drive Letters and Paths..."
Click "Add"
THen choose a letter beside Assign a new drive letter or path for 200Mb NTFS Simple Volume..... Click OK
Now install ReadyDriverPlus to this partition and you'll be good to go.
You can remove the drive letter but to uninstall ReadyDriverPlus, you'll need to assign the partition the letter again.

spookywillow · 30 Jun 2009 at 11:05

i have disabled it and i have also signed the driver with dso, my usb driver is modded and that loads fine :/

Jamesbcd · 30 Jun 2009 at 11:45

here's what i've done;

1. disable driver thingy
2. plugged pad in via usb
3. installed usb driver
4. installed bluetooth driver
5. tick the options and clicked enable
6. unplugged usb cable and pressed the ps button

but i get no connection, i have bluetooth built in but when i search for the pad manually.. it doesn't come up either

Dutch Guy · 30 Jun 2009 at 11:50

I used a PS3 pad on my pc for a while but even though the pc is in the loft it still managed to turn on my PS3 2 floors down which annoyed me so I bought a pc controller for 20 euro that does the same as a PS3 pad.