Some other known issues that can block your controller are having multiple controllers plugged in as DS3 will choose a controller at random to take input from. I right clicked on HID Compliant Game Controller chose properties>Driver Tab>Update Driver>Browse my Computer>Let me pick from a list>Selected XINPUT compatible HID device>Next and had my controller working for DS3 again. Once I was absolutely sure windows was up to date I went to control panel>(small icons)Device Manager>HUman Interface Devices> where I saw HID Compliant Game Controller ( Which was a chore using windows 7 because updates are broken and need another update service I found the info to do this at sevenforums searching for windows 7 update stuck at checking for updates, the solution I used was on page 3 written by Tyler1118 ) To resolve the issue I made sure that windows was up to date.
What went wrong was I had neglected having a fully updated windows computer which was blocking the driver for my xbox controller (XINPUT Compatible HID Device) saying that this driver was unverified. Hi, I had a problem with my xbox one controller on a new PC but not my old one and saw MANY threads about this issue even a post on reddit claiming that this was unfixable for some people.
