Overview
Shows you how to play with more than 4 players on one machine.
Intro
Hey, do you wanna play a 6 player match, but are having problems getting the last two controllers getting detected? If so, I hope this guide can be of some help.
Fix
Scenario A) -> My setup:
4 x Xbox One S controllers + Wireless Adapter
2 x PS4 Controllers (Bluetooth)
Steps:
1) Go to steam Big Picture -> Settings -> Controller Settings
2) You should be at this screen:
3) This is the tricky step. In my config my xbox controllers are going to use xinput, and the rest are going to use direct input (Don’t worry you don’t have to understand these terms to fix it).
Xinput (the default controller API on windows) has a max of 4 controllers on its current implementation (to my knowledge, take it with a grain of salt). Because of this, any other controller will have to use directinput.
Directinput (an older controller API for windows) lacks some feature xinput has, but supports many controllers.
TO MY KNOWLEDGE the steam controller configuration support above (in the image) basically makes any controller that has the configuration support enabled be in xinput mode. As stated above, this is a problem because xinput has a max of 4 controllers. To mitigate this, in my setup I disabled the Playstation configuration support (as seen below) to make the controllers be in direct input mode. I leave the xbox controller option checked because I WANT to use xinput on them (vibration support). So because this game is programmed in such a way that enables us to connect a controller in either API (xinput and directinput).
In summary play with the controller settings until all the controllers are detected. if your setup is similiar to mine it enables you to have 8 wireless controllers! (4 with the xbox wireless dongle, 4 with bluetooth capability (controllers don’t have to be PS4, they can be switch pro controller, or any other bluetooth controller detected by steam.))
No worries all controllers can be wired too, but everything applies here.
Scenario B) -> Unchecked scenario because I don’t have the amount of controllers
You have 6 xbox controllers and all are recognized by steam (Bluetooth, wired, wireless dongle, etc.) Because we run into the same problem as above (xinput has a limit of 4 controllers) and the controllers are of the same type, we get the same problem as above: 4 controllers are detected, the rest are not. is also an easy fix.
Fix Steps:
1 – 2) Do steps 1 and 2 from above
3) uncheck the Xbox controller support option
*** This should work, if not please say so in the comments so I can update this guide!
Scenario C) -> Also unchecked
You have a combination of lots of controllers and have the same problem (only 4 controllers appearing)
Fix Steps:
1 – 2) Do steps 1 and 2 from above
3) Uncheck Playstation, Xbox and Switch pro Controller. Check generic gamepad configuration support.
*** This should work, if not please say so in the comments so I can update this guide!
Thanks!
Thanks people in the discussions from this game and others to make this possible!