DS3 suddenly stopped working (PC)

[Necrox]

(12-24-2015 10:17 PM)HXDastardly32 Wrote:  i think in device manager you would have to uninstall it. but another tool that can make it work again is MotionInJoy.

I've tried MIJ; what would be an alternative?

So I uninstalled/installed the driver again. Still not working. I don't know where it went before, but the device is under the unspecified category (Win 8.1 if relevant) without much way of doing anything. Troubleshoot doesn't bring anything up.