TridentSense
The full list
Everything TridentSense does.
Every feature, by area. The documentation says how to use each one.
Controllers and identity
- DualSense, DualSense Edge, DualShock 4, Xbox One, Series and Elite, Xbox 360-style, Switch Pro and Joy-Cons: up to eight at once, on Bluetooth or USB
- Appear as a DualSense, DualSense Edge, DualShock 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Elite, Xbox Series or Switch Pro, whatever the controller really is
- The real controller hidden from Steam and games, so each is seen once
- Two Joy-Cons merged into one controller; each controller remembered by what it is, not by the port it is in
- Raw mode: games drive a cabled DualSense exactly as plugged straight in, with remapping and profiles still working
- Other gamepads through SDL (experimental), and controllers paired to a phone or TV, lent over the network
Haptics and rumble
- HD haptics over Bluetooth, with a gain up to 2x
- Classic rumble from 0 to 500%, in the newer accurate mode or the older mode that is twice as strong
- Audio Haptics: the PC's or the controller's sound turned into vibration, added to the game's or instead of it, with bass focus, response, attack and release
- HD Rumble for Joy-Cons and the Switch Pro Controller, from games and from sound
- All four motors of an Xbox controller, the triggers' own included, over USB and Bluetooth
Adaptive triggers
- Trigger Studio: L2 and R2 each with their own effect, felt as you set it
- Resistance, weapon click, vibration, bow, galloping and machine effects: 17 in all, with 11 ready-made feels
- Trigger intensity from 0 to 100%, and whether games may drive the triggers
- Trigger Studio in every game that has no trigger effects of its own, except the games you list
- Game mods written for DSX work unchanged
Sound
- The controller speaker, headphone jack and microphone over Bluetooth
- Speaker volume and hardware boost, a Create + D-pad volume shortcut, and a volume games cannot overwrite
- A headphone equaliser with presets; headphone volume and mute
- Microphone level, built-in or headset microphone, pass-through to the PC, and what the mute button does
- Whatever the PC plays, on as many controllers as you like at once, with the PC still playing
- One controller's microphone played on all the others: party chat with no app
- Xbox headsets plugged into the controller; speakers and microphones matched to their own controller, never by a shared name
Light
- Light bar on or off, brightness, colour, restored after a reconnect
- Override so games cannot repaint it; player lights you choose, kept the same way
- The light bar as a temperature gauge, blue to red, from HWiNFO
- A warning you can feel, and see, when the PC runs hot
- Every RGB device in the PC, through OpenRGB
Sticks, buttons and motion
- Remap any button to another, to a key, to several keys at once, or to a mouse click, on a picture of your controller or by pressing the button itself
- Turbo, toggle and long press on any button, and a shift layer of second actions while a button is held
- Deadzones up to 90% with the travel left stretched to full, anti-deadzone, response curves (Linear, Precise, Fast, or four points of your own)
- Gyro aiming as the mouse or the right stick (which works in any game, and on a lent controller), or only while a button is held
- Touchpad as a mouse; stick as a mouse; DualSense Edge paddles and Fn buttons, with its profile switching blocked if you like
- A game's Steam community controller layouts, brought in as your own remap, per controller
- PS opens Game Bar; PS wakes the PC's display
Chords and macros
- Hold up to four buttons and press another: built a page at a time, or recorded straight from the controller
- Keys, key combinations, mouse buttons, media keys, and macros of several steps, such as typing into game chat
- 23 controller settings switched on or off and 13 sliders turned up or down, each shown on screen as it changes
- 22 named Windows and overlay shortcuts: switch window, move it to the next monitor, restart the graphics driver, HDR, choose the display or sound output, record the last 30 seconds, screenshots, Task Manager, and the Steam, Game Bar, NVIDIA and AMD overlays
- Programs launched or closed; Steam and Moonlight games started
- RivaTuner, OBS, Afterburner, REAPER, Home Assistant, OpenRGB and launcher-overlay commands
- While a chord is held, the game does not see its buttons; and every chord can be said as a voice command
Voice commands
- Hold PS + L2 (or your own chord), speak into the controller or a PC microphone, let go: it is done
- Everything a chord can do, by name: "HD haptics off", "speaker volume up", "record the last 30 seconds", "open games"
- "Play" and the name of any of your last 60 games; any program you have added; "next track", "louder"
- Home Assistant by device, room or floor: "lamp off", "living room lights off", thermostats to the degree, warmer and cooler
- "RGB red", "RGB rainbow", "RGB profile" and its name; "Afterburner profile two"; your own RivaTuner overlays by name
- A live transcript and level meter, a confidence level below which it asks again
- Windows' own recogniser, on your PC: nothing you say is sent anywhere or kept
The wheel, and no keyboard needed
- Hold the middle button: a wheel of eight shortcuts, with every chord that controller has listed beside it in its own button names
- Choose what is on it, save wheels by name (one for the desktop, one for a game) and switch between them with L1 and R1
- Couch Rescue, Handy Extras and Performance wheels to start with
- An on-screen keyboard driven by the controller, typing into whatever is in front
- Close a frozen game after asking; bring TridentSense's window down over a game, driven by the controller
- TridentSense's whole window works like a console's menus: sections, tiles, a trail of where you are, and a legend of what each button does
Profiles, Auto Profiles and power
- Every setting of a controller saved as a profile, its full button map included; profiles shared by controllers of the same family
- Auto Profiles: a profile per game and controller family, applied while the game runs and put back when it closes
- All your profiles exported to one file, and imported on another PC
- Auto power-off when idle, power saving that caps haptics, rumble, triggers and light at 50%, a sleep shortcut, Bluetooth controllers switched off when TridentSense closes
- Battery and signal at a glance; warnings when low, critical, charged
Mods
- TridentSense's own game mods: rumble, light bar and triggers that follow what is on screen
- Mark a health bar, a counter or your character, and pick what happens: a colour as health falls, a rumble when ammunition runs out
- A character followed as it moves; rules suggested for whatever you mark
- An offer to make a mod when a game with none starts; nothing reads the game's memory
Games library
- Steam, Epic, GOG, Xbox and Game Pass, Ubisoft, EA, Battle.net, itch.io, GeForce NOW, Amazon Luna, PlayStation, Moonlight, Chairs and Manual folders, each with its own page
- One card per game: a strip down its cover for every store it is in, and every way to play it on its page
- Over any game on a chord, sized for a television across the room, and gone when you start a game
- Steam's details, reviews, Metacritic, tags, playtimes and How Long to Beat on every store's games, cached on your PC
- Search, A to Z, and filters from genre and controller support to install size; installed, not installed or streamable
- Install and uninstall from the controller; games owned but not installed listed too; add-ons left out
- Steam collections and folders, dragged and multi-selected, or switched off so Steam looks like the rest
- Covers from SteamGridDB, fixed or replaced in a few presses; games hidden
Cloud, consoles and overlays
- GeForce NOW: your own library, in NVIDIA's app or Edge, straight into the queue or to the game's page
- Amazon Luna: your library, in a signed-in window of its own
- Xbox Cloud Gaming for Game Pass games; your Xbox console from xbox.com; your PlayStation 5 through Remote Play or chiaki-ng
- Hold Circle / B or Escape to close any cloud game
- Every launcher's overlay listed in one place, each given a chord, and the choice of what the middle button opens
- Bring to Front for games that start behind another window
Joining another PC
- Chair (yours alone, made to your settings) or Couch (one game, everyone watching); a Join video switch to sit in without the picture
- The picture you ask for: up to 4K at 120, H.264, HEVC, AV1 or PyroWave, 4:2:0 or 4:4:4 for sharp text, HDR
- Frame pacing for the least delay, balance or the smoothest motion; a VRR mode for G-Sync and FreeSync displays
- Full screen with every key passed through, or a floating pop-out window; decoding on the graphics card or the processor
- Stereo, 5.1 or 7.1, the other PC muted or not, quiet while in the background
- Your controllers lent with their own settings; keyboard and mouse with swapped buttons or reversed scrolling; the pointer locked to the picture
- Network figures over the picture; Remote settings to change the other PC's Chair from here
Hosting
- A virtual display made for each viewer at their resolution and refresh rate, beside your screens, as the main one or the only one, in HDR10
- Encoder speed or quality, keyframes only when needed, intra-refresh to heal losses without a burst
- NVIDIA tuning (two-pass, larger rate buffer, adaptive quantization) and driver options (realtime GPU priority, highest clocks)
- Variable or constant capture, games capped at the stream's rate through RivaTuner
- Error correction, adaptive bitrate, packet pacing, encryption on your network and over the internet
- Windows prompts, the lock and sign-in screens sent and answered from the stream
- A Couch sends each viewer an encode from one capture, capped to a tenth of your measured upload
- Sessions: who is watching, who has the PIN, revoked with one press
Lending, phones and TVs
- Mark a controller Shareable and a PC with your PIN takes it at once; it comes back when they let go
- Sync sends the controller's whole set-up and wheels with it, asking first when the other PC has its own
- Voice chat between linked PCs through the controllers' headsets, and the clipboard shared both ways
- Wake a sleeping PC from the list of PCs to join
- Android phone and tablet: watch any PC, lend the controller paired to the phone or use an on-screen one that rumbles; Remote Control for every setting of a PC
- Android TV: the stream, laid out for the remote. Xbox on its way; iPhone and iPad after
Integrations
- RivaTuner: four TridentSense overlays, an overlay builder of your own (what it shows, in what order, columns, colours, font and size), frame limits and recording
- OBS Studio: record, stream, save the replay buffer, change scene, mute the microphone
- MSI Afterburner: its five profiles, next and previous
- Discord: your activity on your profile, a Join button for your Couch, announcements to a channel
- MIDI: the controller as an instrument, notes, controls, program changes and pitch bend, with Learn
- REAPER: play, stop, record, loop, markers, tracks, mute, solo, arm, metronome, undo and save
- Motion server for Cemu, Dolphin, Ryujinx and Citra; DSX mods; Moonlight; a web version on this PC
Home Assistant, OpenRGB, HWiNFO
- Home Assistant: devices, scenes, scripts and buttons brought in, rooms and floors switched together, thermostats by mode and degree
- A dashboard under System, by floor, room or kind: switch, run, raise and lower lights, fans and blinds, read the sensors
- OpenRGB: motherboard, memory, graphics card, fans, strips, keyboards and mice; every device at once or one at a time, with mode, colours, speed, brightness, direction and zones
- OpenRGB profiles on chords and voice, a temperature gauge across every device, and OpenRGB started when it is needed
- HWiNFO: temperatures, fans and power as bars and graphs, highs and averages since start
System and help
- No administrator prompts: TridentSense's own Windows service does those jobs
- Pair Bluetooth devices from TridentSense; Windows Firewall ports checked for you; the drivers' state shown
- System info: Windows, processor, memory, graphics card and driver, screens, drives, network, and the settings that bear on games
- Nine themes (Dark, Light, Midnight Purple, Crimson, Emerald, Sunset, Graphite, Sand, Mint) and a builder for your own; sized for a handheld or a 4K TV
- Start with Windows, minimised to the tray
- Help that can recover a stuck Chair host, clear every virtual controller, and restart Steam cleanly when it lists a controller twice
- Notifications over the game, 13 kinds; a log by area, with copy for support
Compare
With TridentSense, and without.
What a controller does on a Windows PC by itself, next to what it does once TridentSense is running.
| Windows by itself | With TridentSense | |
|---|---|---|
| DualSense HD haptics over Bluetooth | No | Yes |
| DualSense speaker, headset jack and microphone over Bluetooth | No | Yes |
| Adaptive triggers in games that have no trigger effects | No | Yes, with Trigger Studio |
| PlayStation, Xbox and Switch controllers set up in one place | No | One window, a tab for each |
| Remapping, chords and macros on any controller | Xbox controllers only, in a separate app, without chords or macros | Yes |
| Settings that change when a game starts | No | Yes, by game and by window |
| The PC's sound on your controllers | No | Yes, on all of them at once |
| Stick as a mouse, and a keyboard you type on with the controller | No stick mouse | Yes, on any controller |
| Browse, filter and launch your games from the controller, over any game | One store at a time, by switching to a full-screen mode | Every store together, in an overlay, one chord away |
| Frame rate, 1% lows and a frame limit from the controller | No | Yes, with RivaTuner Statistics Server |
| A wheel of shortcuts on one held button | No | Yes, as many wheels as you like |
| Hints written for the controller in your hands | Xbox names for everything | PlayStation, Xbox or Nintendo names, whichever you hold |
| Close a frozen game from the controller | No | Yes, after asking |
| A DualSense that switches itself off when left idle | No | Yes, after the time you choose |
| Use a controller that is connected to another PC | No | Yes, with every feature |
| Deadzones for a drifting stick | No | Up to 90%, per stick |
| Stream your games to another PC, a phone or a TV | No | Yes, with your controllers' every feature |
| Start a game on another PC from your library | No | Yes, a tab for each PC |
| Cloud gaming in the same library as your installed games | No | GeForce NOW, Amazon Luna and Xbox Cloud Gaming |
| Your lights, heating and RGB from the controller | No | Yes, with Home Assistant and OpenRGB |
| Voice commands from the controller's microphone | No | Yes, recognised on your PC |
What sets TridentSense apart.
Every brand, one app
A tool built for one make of controller stops there. TridentSense takes PlayStation, Xbox and Switch controllers together, up to eight at a time, each remembered by what it is.
Nothing held back wirelessly
Haptics, speaker, headset and microphone are carried over Bluetooth by TridentSense itself. No cable and no dongle.
It reaches past the game
Keyboard, mouse, window switching, screenshots, closing a frozen game, launching the next one from any store: the things around a game are a chord away too, not only what happens inside it.
Each controller is its own
Its own tab, settings, profiles and idle timer, and its own speaker and microphone, matched by the device they belong to and never by a shared name.
You can see it working
Live input, one-click feature tests, a Playground, a meter on Audio Haptics, and an on-screen note whenever a chord changes something.
Every PC in the house is in reach
Lend a controller to another PC, or join that PC's game from wherever you are sitting, with haptics, triggers and sound intact.
The table compares TridentSense with Windows 10 and 11 and the software Microsoft provides for them. Other controller tools are not named here because what they offer changes; the cards above say what TridentSense does.
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