Cleaner hand-off with Steam
PadSense hides your physical DualSense while it is bridging, so games see only the virtual controller. Two rough edges in that hand-off are fixed:
- Starting PadSense while Steam already had the controller left Steam holding the physical pad — it still showed up in Steam, and could fight the virtual controller over rumble and lighting. PadSense now detects this and takes the controller back.
- Quitting PadSense did not return the controller to Steam until you restarted Steam. It is handed back immediately now.
The controller is also released properly on exit: microphone off, rumble, trigger effects and lighting cleared. If a previous session was interrupted, leftover hidden-device entries are cleaned up on the next launch.
Serving over the network
- Starting up already in network mode now shows the connection details and the exact
usbip attachcommand straight away, instead of only showing them when you switch modes from the menu. - More reliable detach when a remote machine disconnects, so a stale connection no longer keeps trying to re-attach in the background.
Install
Download the installer below and run it. It checks for and upgrades its prerequisites (usbip-win2 and HidHide) if they are older than the bundled versions.
Windows 10 (1809+) or Windows 11, 64-bit.