A reimagination of DS4Windows.
☣️ Highly unstable, work-in-progress, constantly changing, incubating software ahead ☣️
⚠️ Might crash your system (BSOD)!⚠️ May or may not launch/work/crash!⚠️ Use at your own risk!⚠️ No support provided whatsoever!
👉 Very sporadically updated development blog.
Over its lifespan of of nearly a decade DS4Windows has seen many contributors, changes, fixes, feature additions and has grown and kept relevant to gamers who'd love more control over their beloved peripherals. Beginning with the PS4 Controller (DualShock 4) it nowadays also supports its successor the PS5 DualSense and even the Nintendo JoyCons. With age and popularity come new challenges. The code has become more powerful, but also more troublesome to maintain and carries a lot of legacy design patterns and restraints from an outdated .NET universe. Here's where we step in.
CircumSpector is a collective of enthusiasts craving to see DS4Windows continued. We attempt to rewrite major sections of the dated code segments to make maintenance and new feature additions fun again. This will take some time and a lot will probably break - intentionally or unintentionally so sooner or later we need a bigger test squad. For now, the issue tracker and discussions remain collaborators only to avoid bug reports for things we already know so we can focus on the code and nothing else.
In October 2022 we started a rebranding which includes an intermediate project name change to further distance this work from the current dominant and maintained DS4Windows version(s). An official new app name is yet to be settled on.
There are none. Until this message changes, the rework is in constant motion and there is no value for us to provide binaries at this point. Feel free to clone and build yourself if you're brave 😜
If you are a developer looking to join the team just drop @nefarius a message! ⌨️
If you want to see this project succeed give it a GitHub star to show interest! ❤️
- Get Visual Studio 2022 (Community Edition is fine)
- Install ".NET desktop development" workload
- Install latest .NET 6 SDK
- Build the solution in Visual Studio
- Dependencies are pulled in automatically via NuGet
- To create a production release, use the command line:
dotnet publish /p:PublishProfile=Properties\PublishProfiles\release-win-x64.pubxml
⚠️ this will fail when triggered via Visual Studio due to a pending issue⚠️
