Load up OnLive and you should be able to navigate the menus and use your controller fully in games. Some more drivers will load, and your trusty DS3 will now act exactly like a 360 controller!įrom here, it’s up to you. You’ll see an option above called Xbox 360 Controller Emulator – select that and click Enable. If it looks like this, you’ve gone wonky somewhere… In the Profiles section, your controller should be loaded into the Connected Game Controllers box. Now plug it back in and load the software back up. Unplug the controller and close the software. The next step is a bit odd but takes seconds.

Make sure you tick the device below the blue box and click Load Driver. Go to the Driver Manager section which you’ll see in the image below: Load up the software you’ve just installed. Run the file you downloaded, and allow it to install the signed driver. You’ll hear the Windows “badump” sound telling you it’s recognised. Plug in the Controller with a USB CableĬonnect up the controller. Grab the latest version (currently ) from the MotioninJoy site hereĢ. You’ll need a small piece of software to get this working. Interested? Follow this guide below which will get you set up and using your PS3 controller on OnLive before you can say “blimey, that’s clever…” It turns out I was only one step away from success. I found an excellent tutorial on which helped to get it working in Windows, but firing up OnLive received a message saying the controller wasn’t supported. I decided to have a play around to try and get my PS3 controller running with OnLive on my PC. We’ve been spending plenty of time on our review console and will be back soon with our definitive judgement, but believe me when I say it’ll blow your mind… the problem some people will have is using the PC client, and considering OnLive has limited controller support, unless you’ve got a Microsoft approved controller (such as a wired 360 pad) you’ll be stuck with keyboard and mouse controls. OnLive is the new on-demand streaming game service that launched recently in the UK.

Onlive wireless controller driver