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EGS sucks, but the problem here is the ps5 controller. Sony very deliberately makes their controllers a fucking nightmare to use on PC and Valve had to do a ridiculous amount of very dodgy hacks to even get any of them to work a little bit with steam games. Turning the "PlayStation controller support" button on in steam literally only works by injecting code on the fly to make the computer think it's an Xbox 360 controller so that games will even see a controller present, and you still need ds4windows and other tricks to get it to even show up to steam half the time.

This sucks because you're using a controller with not only no PC compatibility, but negative PC compatibility because the controller's manufacturer has put in active effort to make it unusable. If you want to use a PC controller, you'll have a better experience with almost any other option. I can't speak for really weird knockoff controllers from brands nobody's ever heard of, but I'd imagine at least some of them have windows compatibility.

Unfortunately, if you want a PC controller that works, you're going to have to buy a different controller.

It's hilarious how bad the Epic launcher is at virtually everything. I will get notifications sometimes because I forgot to exit out and will try clicking on it to check for free games, it never opens, also gets frequently stuck booting up.

USB xbox 360 controller users stay winning, supported by every piece of software under the sun including excel

have you tried rewasd? I personally dont have a ps5 controller but it works well for remapping my controllers even with their weird input methods. you should be able to remap your ps5 controller to be detected as any other controller (such as xbox 360). biggest downside is it's not free, I paid for it but iirc there is a crack floating around for it.

Steam Controller obviously still works fantastic, either emulating a 360 controller, keyboard and mouse, or a blend of all of those. Don't even need Stream, open source configurator works fine.