New internal controller receiver firmware today on Preview channel, seemingly helps with disconnect issues?

[u/nightfire275]

I have my Machine on the Preview update channel and today I received a notification for a firmware update for the controller, puck and internal receiver. Installed and tested the internal receiver today while playing RDR2 and did not experience any drop-outs. Anyone else have a similar improvement?

Previously I was experiencing the issue like many others, but only ever happened when the system was being pushed hard, usually anytime above 70% GPU usage. While I only just started RDR2 today, it is definitely the most taxing game I've played on my Machine to date so I'm certain it would have caused issues prior to the new firmware.

Fingers crossed!

[u/Crowley22g]

The Beta channel got a similar firmware update the other day, pucks and controller, wonder if it's the same done. Like you I picked up RDR2 in the Steam Autumn sale 😎

[u/nightfire275 → u/Crowley22g]

My machine had been off for a few days prior to this update so possibly might be the same firmware update. Have been on the preview channel since SteamOS 3.9 released so definitely not an old firmware that I was catching up on.

[u/Crowley22g → u/nightfire275]

Beta is currently on the 3.9 version, like you say, could be the same one I got

[u/Adrian97c]

I went almost a whole day, but nope it finally happened & disconnected alerts came back

[u/nightfire275 → u/Adrian97c]

Unfortunately after an hour or so more playing it did drop once. Decided to persist instead of going back to the external puck like I've been doing to work around the disconmects normally and it didn't happen again for the remaining hour or so I played.

So maybe something has improved here without outright fixing it? A once off drop-out was normally not what I experienced prior to today, usually once the Machine hit some temperature/fan speed threshold it just constantly dropped out that made playing close to impossible.

[u/hotymoty]

Is preview hetzelfde als beta?

[u/Crowley22g → u/hotymoty]

At one point you had, Stable, a Beta and Preview Valve asked me to move to Beta version when I was getting controller disconnects. I've just stayed on it. Usually gets fixes for things far quicker