Before you ask.

No. Games that do will use HD haptics and adaptive triggers through TridentSense as they would on a cable. Games that do not still get rumble, and Trigger Studio can give their triggers a feel of your choosing.

Yes. HD haptics, the controller speaker, the headphone jack and the microphone are carried over Bluetooth by TridentSense itself, which is what Windows does not do on its own.

No. TridentSense hides the real controller from games and shows them one virtual controller in its place, so each controller is seen once.

TridentSense sets up two drivers it relies on: one that provides the virtual controllers and one that hides the real ones from games, and a small Windows service so that TridentSense itself never needs to run as administrator. For streaming, a PC that hosts also uses a virtual display driver. System > OS shows their state.

TridentSense can listen for the trigger and light instructions that game mods written for DSX send, and it can provide motion data to emulators that use the cemuhook protocol. Both are switches under System > Integrations. TridentSense also has mods of its own, which watch the game's screen: see Controller > Profiles > Mods.

Yes. The PC's sound can be sent to every connected controller at the same time, each through its own speaker or headset, and a controller's microphone can be played on all the other controllers.

For most things, no. Every controller starts with chords for an on-screen keyboard, the stick as a mouse, switching window, toggling full screen and closing the game in front. You can change or remove any of them.

A few buttons held and one pressed, doing something none of them does alone. You build your own in three steps, or record the buttons from the controller. Games do not see the buttons of a chord while it is held.

Steam, Epic Games, GOG, Xbox (with Game Pass), Ubisoft, EA, Battle.net and itch.io; the cloud services GeForce NOW and Amazon Luna; your own Xbox and PlayStation consoles; the games Moonlight offers from another computer; the games installed on your other PCs; and folders of your own. Each has a tab, and All puts them together, one card per game however many stores it is in. Switch off any you do not want.

It does the same job, built into TridentSense: hardware encoding up to 4K at 120 frames a second on the PC you join, and a native player where you sit. What it adds is your controllers going with you, each with every feature and its own settings, starting a game on the other PC straight from your library, and a Couch where several people watch one game.

TridentSense on both PCs, on the same home network, and the PIN of the PC you join. A wired connection gives the best picture; Wi-Fi works too. For a phone or TV, install the TridentSense app on it.

No. TridentSense runs as you. The jobs that need more, such as hiding a controller from games, are handed to its own Windows service, which only takes them from TridentSense.

For Steam: your Steam ID and a Steam Web API key, which Steam gives you free, with your profile's game details public. The other stores need nothing for installed games; to list games you own but have not installed, sign in to Epic, GOG or itch.io once. Amazon Luna needs you signed in once, in the window TridentSense opens; GeForce NOW, in its own app or in Microsoft Edge. It needs the internet for cover art, scores and trailers. A free SteamGridDB key adds covers for games Steam does not know.

Steam games, yes. For Epic, GOG and itch.io it hands the install or uninstall to that store's own launcher and watches for it to finish, then tells you the game is ready.

No. It is optional. If RivaTuner Statistics Server is on your PC, TridentSense can install its own overlays into it and drive it from a chord or the wheel. Without it, nothing about TridentSense changes.

Hold the middle button of the controller and a wheel of up to eight shortcuts comes up, with the full list of that controller's shortcuts beside it. You choose what is on it, and can keep several.

You do not have to. Hold the middle button of the controller for a moment and the wheel comes up with every shortcut that controller has listed beside it, in its own button names. In the games overlay, the bar along the bottom says what each button does where you are.

Windows 10 and Windows 11.