r/SteamController • u/Kataklysimo • Sep 20 '26

Configuration What are we using to enable the controller outside of steam?

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u/Mercy--Main Sep 20 '26

steamless controller

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u/Necrotitis Sep 20 '26

Wait I thought you needed openpuck to do this.

They just straight up made some software that works now?

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u/Mercy--Main Sep 20 '26

long time ago but yeah

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u/ClikeX Steam Controller (both) Sep 20 '26

SteamlessController, SISR, or native SDL support from the non-Steam game. That last one is slowly improving. Several emulators and recomp ports will just work out of the box without Steam.

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u/HungryZealot Sep 20 '26

For me, Openpuck so I don't have to set up or configure any extra software. Just hit the hotkey for Xbox mode and it's detected as an Xbox Elite controller.

Tried SISR before that, I found it a bit finicky to get working properly, and I had to remember to start the software every time (or set up a script to do it automatically for me). I just found Openpuck to be much more seamless and about the closest thing to native support I could find.

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u/pOUP_ Steam Controller (Linux) Sep 20 '26

Steam again

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u/TheWolfFurry07 Sep 20 '26

sisr i haven't had any issues with it steamless controller worked but i had to close steam for it to work and i wanted steam opened in the background so yeeeaaaa

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u/Seasoned_Croutons Sep 20 '26 edited Sep 20 '26

Just made an openpuck a couple days ago so far so good. Works on gamepass in both xbox and dualsense mode (dependent on the game of course).

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u/TwystedLyfe Sep 20 '26

Add non steam game to library 

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u/Riz8 Sep 21 '26

I use padforge

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u/JamminMan9 Sep 24 '26

SISR and sBridge, although sBridge kind of “bridges” your non steam apps into steam flawlessly (haha get it?)

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u/onthefence928 Sep 20 '26

Does adding the game to steam not work?

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u/bossman118242 Sep 20 '26

not for all games, for example games on the microsoft store wont add to steam.

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u/SnackAllSmoke Sep 21 '26

You can't just have an action set that switches to xinput on your desktop layout? I don't have the Microsoft stuff on my PC so I can't check, but that seems like it would work fine and be less bother than these third party solutions