The Last of Us - Part 1

[Steff833]

EDIT: Problem solved at last post

This emulator finally fixes the huge deadzone of the original Xbox 360 Controller for this game. Now I can finally proper Aim and it feels now exactly like aiming in Part 2 without Ds4 Emulator. But it introduces a big problem. I dont know why. When the Emulator is active. The game has Audio cracks and some SFX audio, especially the menu audio appears much delayed. Sometimes the audio completely disappears. Any solution? Also changing audio latency to low medium or high dosnt change anything.

Edit:
I made a short video to illustrate with and without DS4 Emulator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrvBB3GcErg

Without = no audio problems. With the DS4 Emulator = audio cut outs. I already tried different versions of ViGEmBus. No difference. I tried changing the process priority of the Ds4Emulator.exe and also let the exe only run at 1 core. Hiding the original device with hidhide also dosn`t help.

I hope you the creator can help.

[r57zone]

Maybe the button presses are being detected twice? Because of this, the sounds are trying to play two times. Try downloading the HidHide utility and hide the Xbox controller, but add the DS4Emulator utility to the exceptions (so it can still see the controller).

(Instead of DSAdvance.exe, specify DS4Emulator, and instead of a Sony controller, use an Xbox gamepad.)

https://github.com/nefarius/HidHide/releases

[Steff833]

Thx for reply
I tried that immediately like you showed. The sound glitches are gone. Yuhu But now the big but....

When I hide both devices,( the Virtual Gamepad and the real Controller), The Last of Us uses again only the hidden Xbox360 controller not the wanted hidden virtual gamepad. I know this because the button layout ingame is again the xbox type. Not PS4. And the more important thing. The deadzones are like without DS4Emulator shitty / unplayable again.

I have a guess what these sound glitches are.
I noticed something interesting. Everytime when that sound glitch happen, when the sound disappears, The Windows Sound mixer Volume turnes up to 100 percent. I turn it back to my desired value. After a short time playing, again. Always in that moment the sound glitches like shown in the video. It seems to happen on all buttons. For example when I press the dpad, it happens when I press Left shoulder (aim), it happens when I press some buttons (X,A,B,Y). So I guess the sound glitches comes from this. A user described the exact same thing. But you closed this issue.

#70
Looked like he managed to fix his issue But I dont know what he ment.
What in the hell is a monopoly mode?

[r57zone]

The sound glitches are probably due to processing two controllers instead of one. Unfortunately, I have no idea what can be changed to fix this. Let's ask that person.

[Steff833]

Plz dont close this thread. Maybe we or someone else find a solution. In the meantime I also tried an older driver for the "Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows" xusb21.sys from 2009 (Windows 7 version). But unfortunately same result like with xusb22.sys win11 version. But I dont wanna give up. The aiming is too perfect and precise in compare to vanilla xbox 360 ingame to let this great Emulator go.

Something interesting I also captured. The symbols constantly changing. As you suspected. It looks like two inputs at the same time. That DS4 somehow controls keyboard or mouse commands or windows hotkeys? But how? It is blocked by hidhide. Like windows in the background command to put the volume up. = Audio glitching. I dont clearly see if the button symbols changes to keyboard layout or Xbox Layout. Its to fast.

--> But plz look yourself at the symbols bottom right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC2KVUffS2o

If no fix is possible. Maybe you can help me translate the DS4 Controller deadzones to import into this program.

Or another idea. Could you make me a Last of Us Profile cfg. Where nothing of the special controller features are active. Only raw gaming? So i mean only Dpad, Sticks, shoulder button / triggers and action buttons plus back and start. Without special things like gyro, mouse, mouse pad pressing, no controller speaker or what ever the DS4 Controller has to offer. So only raw gameplay not the rest of the DS4 Controllers special features? Maybe that would help.

[Steff833]

The game defenitely gets inputs from two devices. In this options menu you can clearly see it switches between xbox and PS button layout when I scroll up and down via dpad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJVJWweHTE

Makes no sense. It comes from DS4Emulator. The the Xbox device is blocked for the game via hidhide. I dont get it how is this possible? Whats the point of blocking a device when the game still can read its existence?

[r57zone]

Perhaps HidHide can't block Xbox controllers, unfortunately I don't know. In your video, the game is reading two controllers, so that's likely causing the issue.

[Steff833]

Looks like Im not alone nefarius/HidHide#39 (comment)
Seems a combination of hidhide and Windows 11 and Xbox 360 Controllers

[Steff833]

Ok I think I got it. Looks like hidhide even in the latest version has problems to completely hide the xbox controller. Thats why the game is still capable of reading the hidden xbox 360 controller. At least the client version has problems with that. I successfully blocked everything with the cli version of hidhide. Very uncomfortable way.

After this tutorial nefarius/HidHide#39 (comment)

After that I was able to play the game as "DS4 - Fake Controller" with the good sensitivity via your Emulator without the annoying sound glitches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndp4WZMjd-s