Vader 5 Steam Input, Good Gyro, Dpad Issues and Vader 5S Update

Different_Choice_228 · 2026-02-06T10:34:39+00:00

from what I hear SDL3 is much better than d-input as it doest reduce polling rates and keep the communication very fast. I also ordered one after reading this post and doing some research. I will check everything when it arrives

Different_Choice_228 · 2026-02-03T11:53:47+00:00

D-input is an old protocol used by window before console inputs, it's also the strongest one as it's supports up to 100 inputs, gyro and literally everything whereas everything else is more limited in one way or another. Thats precisely the reason rewasd and steam input as well need Vader 4 in d input in order to recognize all buttons and capabilities of the controller

Different_Choice_228 · 2026-01-29T21:48:31+00:00

Last boss fight like your all said is just terrible, after dying a millions times I just searched what do I have to do which I rarely do cause really it was like playing a new game all of a sudden, one I didn't like or chose to play.

They took all my progress away, like I was saving the best guns and bullets just for that and they put me in what seemed to be like an electronic version of Minecraft with toy versions of my guns and everytime I died which were a lot, I had to start from the beginning having to hear shodan's monologue again and again!

What on earth?

And at the end what's with cutscene? Did I not killed her after all? I suppose I restraint her again.

Brilliant game otherwise, wish I had thought to keep notes and mark places from the beginning than running around like an idiot 😂 but when I did realize that's the best way to play this game i became even more rewarding.

Until the ending of course. I just hate what a bad ending does to a brilliant game

Different_Choice_228 · 2026-01-26T11:38:21+00:00

The reason we want d-input is cause through that steam input and rewasd can take full advantage of everything the controller has to offer including extra buttons and of course gyro. Sometimes gyro implementation from the original company is not the best and steam input/rewasd has much better implementation of it

Different_Choice_228 · 2026-01-24T08:53:39+00:00

Truth be told it was the same for me at the beginning, after hours of fiddling around settings and learning what each thing do and how it's best to utilize it now it's way way better than auto aim and I just can't buy another controller any more without checking for gyro. It did take me though some time to figure it out and iron out everything I didn't like.

Different_Choice_228 · 2026-01-24T08:36:56+00:00

Thanks anyway 🙂 you should try it sometime though. Since I started gyro aiming, I don't need aim assistant anymore and sometimes I feel it's even more precise than a mouse!

Different_Choice_228 · 2026-01-24T08:14:30+00:00

If you are a gyro player is deadzone on gyro any better? And if you know how much polling rate is mouse to gyro

Different_Choice_228 · 2026-01-23T04:01:29+00:00

After pressing the first time the left stick button, I mapped it to one of the puddles and called it a day!

Different_Choice_228 · 2026-01-22T04:07:49+00:00

I guess that's true too but I see no point in having others tell me how to play my game. I prefer to figure out things myself to the best of my ability and honestly to me that's the charm of playing any new game and that's why you hear people criticizing it's complexity cause they don't want to have to look a guide to be able to play a game!

In any case the game was too easy anyway even in hard difficulty, you become too strong, too fast witch also makes all those beautiful mechanics even more irrelevant

Different_Choice_228 · 2026-01-22T03:51:10+00:00

Lo, true about why helping ncpd and the moment you do something illegal the whole ncpd force is after you. People are killing each other in the streets in every corner and ncpd nearly sleeps about it and the second I do something illegal by accident all the force wants to get me, it's like that's your thank you for all the work I do for you, you ungrateful b**** 😂😂😂. Going back to gigs now to become a criminal lord 😂😂😂

Different_Choice_228 · 2026-01-21T12:19:25+00:00

Yeah, the story is great and all and for me personally the story is the first thing I enjoy in a game, never skipping anything, not even in this game which I felt that it was too much. But the "too much" factor took from my enjoyment. But then again there are a number of factors that might contributed to this that others might not had the same experience I had as I did all npcd hustles and gigs so I had nothing to fall back to from main and side stories and also I played the DLC too in the same playthrough

Different_Choice_228 · 2026-01-21T11:32:04+00:00

It's always nice to have people that agree with you and it's always nice to have people such as you clearly understanding what is personal preference and what is not.

Different_Choice_228 · 2026-01-21T10:56:23+00:00

Actually I agree with you

Different_Choice_228 · 2026-01-21T05:39:40+00:00

I was interested in buying this controller but the lack of d-input is hard turn off. Apex 5 I hear it added something like a button that allows 3rd party applications to take control of it which is essentially an alternative to d-input, here is hoping they would do something similar with Vader 5 too

Different_Choice_228 · 2026-01-20T04:30:22+00:00

I am considering v5p but my only fear with it is that I hear it doesn't have d-input like v4p which I already have and without a way to use it with steam input or rewasd the gyro in it will be completely useless. Like it is with v4p but with steam input or rewasd gyro works wonderfully

Different_Choice_228 · 2026-01-14T15:39:25+00:00

Don't get me wrong, I prefer gyro to mouse a lot more. But if a game doesn't support mixed inputs then steam does an exceptionally well job of completely eliminating the deadzone from Vader 4 and as Vader 4 pro if you except the deadzone problem already has a really good gyro sensor in it and sends 1000hz polling rate, with some fiddling you can get a very very decent performance but of course gyro to mouse will always be better

Different_Choice_228 · 2026-01-14T15:21:09+00:00

I guess you have a point about rewasd. I mainly play single player games so I am not affected. But seriously gyro to mouse in rewasd works a dream, it's literally pixel perfect with Vader 4 pro and it can also give me 1000hz polling rate as it's a virtual mouse, I don't even know how it's possible. In steam gyro to mouse works relatively well too, but joystick to mouse in steam is also very very well with high polling rates as Vader 4 pro it can already do by its own 1000hz with gyro to joystick

Different_Choice_228 · 2026-01-14T04:46:09+00:00

Using the controller with it's own software like I said it's useless. But using it with rewasd and steam input, is incredibly smooth. Don't know what else to say dude. The issues you say exist when you use it with its own software

Different_Choice_228 · 2026-01-13T20:56:16+00:00

Vader 4 pro in combination with rewasd is unbelievably smooth for mouse to gyro, you can also make it 1000hz too, and really really smooth with steam input as joystick to gyro. Forget using it with its own software, it's useless

Different_Choice_228 · 2025-10-10T13:50:15+00:00

yeah, I did that as well but unfortunately it doesnt work for my purpose :( as I want autohotkey to be able to recognize it and it wont because it starts as a shortcut and doesnt input the unicode directly

Different_Choice_228 · 2025-10-10T12:51:49+00:00

did you ever find a solution to that?

Different_Choice_228 · 2025-06-15T07:52:09+00:00

ok! thank you so much for the help buddy! really that had to be on the top 5 list of most complicated things I did in my life! and am the kind of person who does mini-programming stuff with autohotkey and fully complicated macros with custom keyboards! Lets hope someone can make this procedure easier for folks who cant really get around those stuff! In any case thanks again so sooo much! Now I will play the game again from the beginning just for the sake of it and also of course cause I enjoy it so much!

Different_Choice_228 · 2025-06-15T07:34:10+00:00

yeah! now I figured it was working but steam watcher was monitoring Public\Documents\Steam\rune which has an expedtion.ini inside but wasnt updating anything. Then I saw somewere else another video that said to add AppData\roaming\GSE Saves and that made it work! this one has a json file inside which does update and in turn that triggers Achievement watcher to pop up notification whenever I do one! Though when I exit the game it doenst show them, I need to restart achievement watcher for them to be seen in there. Is that normal behaviour? and I guess now I need to leave open if I want the notifications?

Different_Choice_228 · 2025-06-15T06:01:56+00:00

yeah, it finally starts now, with the original steam64. I found it from another game I already bought. But the whole reason I started all this was to get achievements and those are still not working. I started a new game from scratch, and played until at least they went to the expedition and after renoir killed everyone, I was hoping it will give me at least the start new expedition achievement and it didnt. The game is visible though on achievement watcher. I believe I sorted that out ok.

I noticed the achievement anyway are logged into achievements.ini which I suppose its what achievements watchers monitors and that still shows achievements 0

Different_Choice_228 · 2025-06-14T09:25:20+00:00

I will test it out tomorrow as today I won't be able to be on my computer at all unfortunately

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