Gamepad type per application

[Bonaducci]

Sunshine allows emulating PS and Xbox gamepad inputs but the setting is global. Although it may seem reasonable to match this setting to the gamepad used by the client, some games may not support certain gamepad type forcing users to switch emulation to something else. Setting emulated gamepad per application would make it easier to configure the best type for the application in use.

Current workaround I'm using is emulating PS controller via Sunshine (as I'm using DualSense 5) and if the game does not support it out of the box, I'm launching the game through Steam with custom controller settings that will emulate xinput. This workaround works but forces me to add non-Steam games to Steam and configure controller settings separately from the application settings in Sunshine which is suboptimal.

Nice option would be to have the capability of overriding the emulated controller directly (eg. set global gamepad to PS and if the app does not support it, just override it per app).

[ld892012]

Maybe add possibility to change gamepad type directly into Moonlight can be a better way, some users launch their desktops or their game launchers (Playnite/GOG Galaxy) instead the game directly.

And it's work if you start DS4Windows (or x360ce) as PreCommand for games who don't support PS ?

[davidspiess]

x360 setting is the best option for older games, which don't have native DS support, but in-game hints show the xbox controller layout. Newer games usually also support DS, so it would be nice to overwrite the global x360 setting with DS on application basis.

[Bonaducci]

That's pretty much what my original request says. This setup should be minimal with no additional apps, wrappers or other hacks. The only plausible roadblock I'd see is changing the controller emulation on the fly. I don't know if Sunshine does that on startup or on program launch.

[kurac338]

@ReenigneArcher any plans to implement this feature?
I believe it is a valid use case for PS controller users (DS4/DS5) when launching (older) apps that only support XInput natively.
Personally I believe a simplest implementation would be an option as a application prep-command to tell Sunshine server to switch the emulation type (per app), but it needs to be supported with some CLI (flag) or ENV variable?

EDIT: after the reply I've found the roadmap ticket

[ReenigneArcher]

It's on the roadmap