One of the PlayStation 5 DualSense controller’s most important features has only worked properly on PC through a wired connection, but the new DSX beta now bypasses a limitation that Sony has shown little interest in fixing.

The PlayStation 5 DualSense controller is fully supported in several PC games, but only when players connect it with a cable. That has been an awkward limitation, especially when one of the controller’s biggest strengths on console is comfortable wireless use together with advanced haptic feedback. Sony has not exactly rushed to fix that gap, but the DSX v3.2 Beta 01 update now addresses the sore point directly, and it does so in a way that finally makes PC players feel less like second-class DualSense users.

According to the official update notes shared on Steam, developer Paliverse has added Virtual DualSense with Audio support, allowing games to send native DualSense audio and haptics through DSX over Bluetooth or USB. The feature still requires DSX+, since creating a virtual DualSense has always depended on that add-on. The important part is simple: the fuller controller feature set is no longer automatically locked behind a cable.

This matters especially for players who use a PC on a television, play from a couch, sit far from the machine, or simply do not want to deal with a USB cable just to access the haptic experience the controller itself is capable of delivering. The situation was even more irritating for owners of the more expensive DualSense Edge, where a premium controller still came with this PC-side compromise.

• Support has been added for launching DSX manually without Steam, using a 28-day ownership cache before Steam is required again.
• The Home page, LED page, Haptics | Rumble page, and Profiles page have been redesigned.
• Profiles have been overhauled with a new card-based UI, profile color tags, color filtering, recently used sorting, profile details, usage information, and easier apply, configure, share, duplicate, and reset actions.
• Button Mapping has received a major overhaul, including a new mapping workflow, better action filtering, advanced mapping improvements, passthrough controls, Action Block support, and many shortcut, hold, toggle, and switch fixes.
• Controller skin improvements have been added, along with more gamepad artwork and skins, controller color feedback, and better controller-view persistence.

DSX is available only as a paid app on Steam for $7.99, with an additional $3.99 DLC required for the virtual DualSense creation option. It is not a free fix, but for many PC players, that may still be a small price to pay for finally using the fuller DualSense feature set over Bluetooth. The strangest part remains unchanged: this was not delivered by Sony, but by a third-party PC application.

Source: WCCFTech