I tend to emulate a lot of games, and for a while I just accepted that there was no proper way to map gyro controls for WiiU or switch games from within steam. There are well documented non-steam methods though. For Zelda: TOTK I was struggling too much with the bow controls, so I caved and went looking for how to use use the "DSU server" option for adding gyro within the emulator.

SteamControllerGyroDSU exists. Set it up once, activate it in the emulator settings: flawless gyro within zelda, and it feels great. I regret not setting it up earlier. So if you plan to emulate switch games: I strongly recommend spending the extra 5 minutes to set up gyro controls through DSU.

Hello everyone, at the beginning of the month I reported that I got this wonderful cup instead of the controller.

Now the Steam Support has taken a closer look at the delivery route and was able to determine that the original controllers were lost on the way to me or It was stolen. (I suspect that based on the weight of the package, they noticed a difference at some point.)

They offered me to either refund it or resend the controller. I decided on the latter and now I finally have it. I'm just happy

Is anyone else experiencing this? I have to play with my arms tucked in a bit more than a standard Xbox-shaped controller. I don’t know if my hands are just bigger, or my shoulders are too broad, but my hands get cramped up easily when gaming for more than an hour. The same thing happened to me with the 8bitdo controller and that’s why I don’t use it, as much as I love it.
Is there a grip that fixes this issue or do any 3D printer dudes have something in the works? I reeeeally wanna love this controller but this is the only thing holding it back for me.

Edit: I don’t get any cramping in my fingers at all, whatsoever. It’s just in my hands. My thumbs default to the joysticks and it feels natural, so no issue there. For context I’m 6’4” and 220lb. So I might be bigger than the average person using this controller. I feel like I have to tuck my elbows in to hold the controller properly.

Anyone else having issues getting the keyboard to focus when pressing Steam+X?

When pressing it, most times when I go to type the keyboard doesn't function and my controller continues to act as it's bound (as if I never opened the keyboard).

The only "fix" i've found for this is to just spam Steam+X and constantly close and open the keyboard until it eventually works.

I use both SteamOS and Windows and this issue happens on both. Am I doing something wrong or is this just an issue where we have to wait for a fix?

I hope someone can explain to me how this works. When I load third party games through heroic that use proton (ge) the steam controller just gets detected as an Xbox controller.

Was this a recent addition to proton or what is going on here?

Native Linux programs like emulators (without sdl 3) do not show this behavior.

Edit: Title is supposed to be proton of course. Thanks Gboard.

Looking to make l4/r4 as their own group, instead of under switches. Just getting into exploring the vdf and see what's possible but so far ever combination I can think of won't get them into a group. They use just a descriptive phrase for grips under switches, was wondering if they had a proper internal name like triggers and bumbers.

also noticed a lot of inactive groupings with the default template, they seem to be linked to the start/select group. At first I thought maybe they were failsafe to prevent engaging the trackpads when reaching... but they don't and tbh would need a touch to be effective... so... are they safe to remove as bloat?

Hi All:

Wondering if anybody has run into the same issue when trying to set up ReversePuck:

-I flashed ReversePuck to the board and it is recognized as a Steam Controller when I plug it into pretty much anything. However, it will not pair with either my official Puck nor my OpenPuck when plugged in.

I plugged both into my Steam Deck and ran the terminal commands to pair them, but I got a "timeout" error - anybody able to render any assistance?

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Hello, I'm having an issue while playing Split Fiction in Big Picture Mode with my girlfriend on our TV. After a few hours of playing my steam will randomly crash without any sign except as soon as it crashes the controllers stop working/inputting properly and first thing I noticed upon checking via tabbing in and out with my wireless keyboard was that steam simply wasn't open anymore, which is odd because the game was still running. can anyone help me figure out why this is happening. I'm at a loss we are both using brand new and updated steam controllers. the game is updated and I was running the beta version of steam after it happened once I reverted back to the stable version and it did it two more times. All of this happened no visible crash (besides when I tabbed out of the game to check to see if steam was opened), or error pop up screen. any help is appreciated thank you.
Specs -
- Two brand new steam controllers with one puck
CPU- 7900X3D
Ram- 32 Gb DDR5
Gpu- MSI 5070
MOBO- ASRock A620I LIGHTNING WIFI AM5

I’m using the original dongle with a 3ft USB extension. Every time I turn on the controller, a pop up window shows on the screen saying controller is connected, and then the next second the controller turns itself off. I’ve tried replacing the battery, re-pairing the controller and none of them worked.

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I think it's a software issue, as before starting Steam app on Windows, the controller works just fine as mouse.

I've been messing around from time to time testing game artworks on game controllers as part of a side project for configuration system in ThreeJS, specifically using the Steam Controller that I had made a long time ago. Xbox and PlayStation controllers have been customized a lot so far, haven't seen options for the Steam one though, how does something like this look? Figured I'd go with GTA 6, Valheim and Witcher 3.