Hello! So, as the title says I'm having a headache setting up x360ce. I recently bought a new controller, spawn's Proplay 4, which doesn't support some games I want to play.

Here's my problem; I want to play Left 4 Dead 2 split-screen, and I have downloaded a mod for it, however the problem is Proplay 4 doesn't work on Left 4 Dead 2 without Steam input, but I can't use Steam input, because the mod I use locks one part of the screen for joystick usage, and the other one for keyboard and mouse, and what Steam Input does is just changes the buttons on the controller, for the computer to read them as regular keyboard or mouse input, so that way only one part of the screen moves.

I tested it so many times, I put that in_lockuser command in the console and it locks the screens the way it's supposed to for about 10 seconds, then it goes back to regular. I know the joystick works because I played FIFA 23 with it without a problem; so I went on the internet looking for a solution and I found out about this program called x360ce; I set it up and it seemed to work fine with L4D2 at first, then I wanted to check out the settings a little bit more, tweak them, so I played around with them, clicked auto mapping and screwed everything up.

I redownloaded the app about 5 times, setting it up manually always, not even using the remap all option (because that seems to bug it too). Now in the app, the control does seem to read everything fine, but when I open up Steam, I notice that it detects and reads two controls at once upon usage, a Play Station and an Xbox controller. I don't think that happened the first time, but I do not know what and how it changed.

Another problem I have is that, even tho Steam now somewhat does recognize the controller, another program I use for split-screen play sometimes, Nucleus Co-Op, doesn't even recognize any of those "two" controllers (the virtual simulated Xbox 360 one, nor the "play station" one).

Now Playpro 4 is a dual shock controller and I don't know what even that is or if that's supposed to be making any issues. But I don't know if i screwed something up forever in x360ce, especially because I not only redownloaded it, but went in ProgramData and deleted it's root folder there for generating files, and why won't Nucleus read it when I keep it on open in the background, like I'm supposed to, and why does Steam read two input devices!

When I play the game it's fine I think, I didn't test it for too long, but I also need it for Nucleus and it's not working at all. Does anyone know any tips, or fixes or alternatives I could use in stead of x360ce? Just any help at all would be appreciated.