You may well have DSense specific issues I don't know about. I just wanted to say I had similar issues with DS4. Ultimately, I gave up. I use a short wired USB cable for my regular use, and got a longer 15 foot cable for TV use in the same room. There was a weird set of circumstances I really should have documented, but iirc it was something like this. To get Steam (or other app) games to use PS icons, the games must support those icons, and you don't want Steam Input running for that game (disable in its settings) or have DS4W disabled if it's another apps game. Then the game recognizes the wired controller itself, and you get PS icons, e.g. MK11. However for wireless, I think I then needed to have Steam Input on (if Steam) or DS4W running (if other app), which conflicted with getting PS icons in-game? Sorry it's been a while. But anyway, the main issue was, and this may have been specific to my PC I don't know, on wireless the controls would start to drift after about 15 minutes and that became untenable, so I got a longer cable.
