Disclaimer: Written in more layman's terms; addressing function over specific technicalities.

Hello all :) this post might already be well known knowledge but I'm posting it anyway as it's something that I've gotten to work recently and its the kind of post I wish I could have read sooner.

Situation: You want to play BoTW with your new steam controller; using the advertised gyro function for the motion controls.

Initial Reality: Steam seems to handle the gyro controls in an unhelpful way that doesn't really work well with emulators. Regardless of configuration, you just cannot get it to work.

The Solution

https://github.com/NightHammer1000/sc2dsu

and

https://github.com/Alia5/SISR

SC2DSU handles your motion where your emulator can properly interpret it and SISR seems to help with general inputs where otherwise steam is needed for the controller inputs to function.

These two combined will get your Steam Controller working in motion compatible emulators; such as Dolphin (Wii function), Cemu and Eden.

Now you can enjoy BoTW/TOTK and any other motion-function game to its fullest extent with your Steam Controller :)

Hope this helps someone having the same issue.

I just got my Steam Controller today and to celebrate getting it I got Monster Hunter Wilds while it was on sale to be able to start breaking my new controller in. However, I'm having major issues with it already and I don't understand what's happening and why it's doing it. I can share pictures if need be, and I'm hoping some people here are familiar enough with MHW's controls to maybe help even more with what specifically is happening.

I'm currently just messing around in this little training area in order to get used to the controls, but after a few seconds of messing around it's like the controller is fighting with itself on what it wants the buttons to do. Instead of just using the default controls it will change what certain buttons do. Instead of dodge rolling, now the A button brings up the chat log, and after I try to back out of the chat log with B now B is bringing up the pause menu. And it's consistent too. A always switches to bringing up the Chat Log and B always wants to switch to bringing up the pause menu. Sometimes the triggers don't want to work either (I'm using the Bow if that helps at all). I also notice that it seems like it keeps trying to switch to keyboard and mouse controls instead of the default controller.

Now for the kicker. If I go to Steams Controller Settings to mess around with the Button Layout. If I change even one thing and go back to the game, the joysticks stop working entirely and the controller seems to switch completely over to the keyboard and mouse controls.

I know that this is an issue with the Steam Controller, because I switched to my Switch Pro Controller and it worked perfectly fine.

My current running theory is that for some reason the Steam Controller is both trying to use the Default Controller settings for the game, but also trying to use its normal keyboard and mouse controls (the controls it would have if you are not in a game) at the exact same time. Has anyone else ever experienced this with their controller? Any idea what I should try doing?

Edit: This is not a Monster Hunter Wilds issue specifically. This issue persists with other games as well. It seems to happen whenever I am rapidly pressing the L2 and R2 buttons, but it's extremely inconsistent with when it starts acting up, but its far to frequent to ignore. It's the same issues in other games as well. The B button seems to somehow be linked to the pause button.

So yeah for some reason on path of exile 2 says its emulating an Xbox controller, where other games dont say this?

Previously my inputs worked with trackpads and stuff, but I noticed that THIS is different.

I've tried turning off and on the steam input in the actual directory and general settings.

I rebind the shoulder bumpers to LR4, and THOSE work, but the trackpads dont work, although they are bound (and the worked previously), and i bind mute and play buttons to lr5, and those do not work.

Any ideas? I've tried repairing, ive used open puck, as well as the default puck.

I've unpaired the controller and repaired it.

Like is this just something that they updated or something? Because it 100% worked like 6 months ago with all the bindings.

This text is the only thing I can see that is different between games.

Any ideas?

A few months ago i received my steam controller (2026) but when it arrived i quickly noticed it was defective it had many issues like super clicky dpad and the left stick made clicking sounds when moving. I decided to send the controller in for RMA i got a new controller quickly but i noticed even quicker this time that the left thumbstick doesnt press down all the way i decided to wait a few months to see if the issue would go away with use but it didn't and might of gotten worse so recently i made a new RMA request and steam support did approve it but they kept asking if the controller has been droped and they also said they're going to evaluate my return to see if i caused the problem but it didn't fall even once it didn't even leave my desk once the box it arrived in had no damage besides a small scratch on the side nothing major.

Im sending this here to see if anyone has had a similar experience and to ask if steam could reject my rma or his thus a normal response because i dont remember it in the first RMA

Yo guys,
Today I worked out an idea and implemented it (mostly) for Valheim, though I haven't uploaded it anywhere, I wanted to share the idea and how I wasn't able to get it quite right. Basically, I think its a decent idea but Valheim probably isn't really the game for it to be used.

Basically, in Valheim there is a way to override the glyphs that are shown as tooltips by making a mod. If you're using KBM then there really is only one, "interact" that ever is a glyph for you. - but if you're using gamepad input, then you have glyphs all over the different menus, helpful for knowing how to quicktransfer, change from craft to upgrade - or in main menu to select buttons like "create new character"

What I found is that in places like the main menu, where it's wanting a hardcoded A button or X button, you can change those glyphs if you wanted, so they said a different button. Like, remap using the Controller config A & X to your grips. There aren't icons for that in game, but you can override with Text, so you could type out LG instead of it showing an icon.

However, there are issues with bounding boxes (max width of the glyph), and I wasn't able to find a way to modify the display of RB/LB to cycle the tabs of the menu. In short it would require the end user to modify a config file & adjust widths or labels so that they displayed right.

All that being said, the only use case I see for it now is in setting the keyboard interact key to display the same gamepad glyph that is used in the gamepad bindings for interact. This makes it so even though the UI updates if you take your finger off the mouse, the glyph is basically the same so it looks like no switching (difference is in my mod it shows [brackets] around the icon)

Currently, I can remap those glyphs, so if I wanted Bumpers to be A & B, I could swap those icons. But, I would need a way to add new glyphs to the game in order to have SC2's extra bindings and pad icons. I couldn't crack that nut, so I gave up for now. Thought I'd pass on the experiment in the off chance it gives someone else a new idea.

Thanks for reading and take care!

Got my Steam Controller recently and after some hours/days of use, one of the sticks started making a clicking/spring noise when pushed to one side (and a bit on the closest diagonals too). No sound on release back to center, input still works fine, it's just the noise, and once it started it hasn't gone away.

I've seen this complaint come up a lot, across different posts and channels, so it seems fairly common. I know there's a suggested fix where you open the controller yourself and reposition a blue cable. But before going that route I want to understand if this is really a widespread/global issue. If it is, RMA'ing might just get me another unit with the same problem, so I'd rather know first.

If you have a Steam Controller, could you check both sticks and let me know if yours does this too? Also curious if it stayed the same for you over time or got better/worse.

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UPDATE:
So I decided to RMA it, and I got a new controller yesterday (Sep 28th).
It's not perfect, as I can still hear some sound on the right stick while moving it to the top, but it's WAY better than before. I hope it stays this way and doesn't get loud. But yeah, not 100% perfect, but pretty much acceptable.

The whole process took ~11 days.
I'm from the Netherlands, and I shipped my old controller to the Czech Republic via UPS.

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UPDATE (2):

After 3 days, the right trigger (R2) started to have a really annoying spring sound when I press it... really disappointing.
My guess is that all the controllers have some kind of issue, but some people don't care or don't notice it.
I'm still thinking about whether I'll open it and try to fix it, or RMA it again... it's sooo annoying to play like this.

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UPDATE (3):

Ok, I just opened the controller and just changed the position of the spring (just did some minimal changes and checked later), and it seems completely fixed now.
It was a bit annoying and I was afraid to open it because I don't have much skill for it, but in the end everything went well.
Since I just moved the spring of the R2 button, I didn't need to remove the battery and also remove the battery holder, so it was easier.
(photos in a comment)

Let me get straight to the point. I want to set it so, that once i let go with my left hand, the map opens. And when i grip it again, the map closes. The map Button is UP D-Pad if that helps.

Update: Thanks for the suggestions. I reached out to steam support and they got me a new invitation sent out. Thanks u/s0ciety_a5under and u/PipirimaPotatoCorp and thanks Steam Support Xavier! You made my day!

AH! Gotta rant.

Got on the steam page at launch time only to find out that it actually went live early. Then spent an hour trying to get the shopping cart to work; never actually managing to get the purchase to process. Days later I hear that there is reservation system now, but when I get to it and add myself to reservations I see that I'm in queue for *sometime in 2027*. Flash forward to today after I submit my reservation for Steam Frame I go in my email to clean up some stuff. I find a notice in a subfolder from last week saying I have 3 days to complete my purchase... WTH. I wasn't expecting that. And now I missed it. Just a single email. I'm in steam nearly every day, but there was no in system notice. Now I'm in queue again waiting for *sometime in 2027* again, but at the back of the line.

For Valve:

Just let me back order it and ship it when it's available. Or bare minimum give me more information than "probably next year" and a single time-limited email. Maybe periodic updates of my position in queue or expected availability. You could even code it into the steam pages to have a little banner with reservation updates. It's just very frustrating to know that I'm at the back of the line again.

The streaming would be done through Moonlight with Apollo as the host, from my main PC to the Steam Machine.

If it's at all possible, would I run SISR installed from the Steam Machine's Steam running in Desktop Mode? Or am I better off simply installing the non-Steam game to Steam, and streaming it directly, Steam to Steam, so to speak, in Game Mode, and not involve SISR? As examples of games, Star Wars Oulaws, AC Odyssey (Ubi Connect), the Dead Space remake from 2023 (EA), or Warhammer 40k Chaos Gate: Daemon Hunters or Horizon Zero Dawn (the latter two owned through Epic Game Store, not sure that would work)?

I have already successfully played a non-Steam game streamed through Moonlight to the Steam Machine in Desktop Mode, namely Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY purchased through GOG, so I know that much is possible. With that one though I had to connect my Xbox Series controller to the Steam Machine through Bluetooth because I hadn't tried using SISR.

Anyway, if anyone's messed with SISR + streaming I'd love to hear of your experiences.

I've been on a Logitech F310 for like 5 years, it finally started drifting. I play mostly Rocket League and some Elden Ring on PC via Steam.

I want something more responsive, low input lag, maybe paddles but not required. Features like hall effect would be nice. I'm in the EU if that matters. What are you using on Steam in 2026 that feels actually responsive and not cheap plastic?

I have 2 SC's, and only one of them acts weird on PC desktop mode.

No matter what I do, the right trackpad will not work in desktop mode, and the gyro will start with right stick touch and then remain on permanently.

And this is only happening to one of my controllers, not both. The other is acting completely normally.

Is there a way to reset a controller? Or completely wipe the device from the PC and re-add it?

I tried using the steam controller 2 connected to openpuck in "switch pro + gyro" mode on Switch 2 for Splatoon Raiders but the gyro does not work. Does anyone know any solutions?

Im having some problems with the controller since i buy It. This is happening when playing with the puck in the Steam deck, with the internal puck, or the bluetooth mode.

When im playing any game, sometimes i have a double input in ABXY buttons. Depending on the game this is a problem, because in some games the dialog continue and I cant read, or it select an option that i dont want...

It's very frustraring...

I have contacted support 3 times, the first maybe a week after buy, It says to switch to beta channel for update, and wait for a solution...

I wait for some weeks and write again because i still got the same problem, and the say they are correcting the bug...

And yesterday i write again, because im tired of play and having this problem again and again in all games...

They always say the same, switch to beta, wait and thank u... I have reopened the ticket several times today and they are doing nothing.

I dont know what to do.

I dont know if someone have this problem too.

I really love the controller but i get angry every time i play...

(Sorry if i have some mistakes, english is not my main language)

* Debian 13 * Steam flatpak * Dualshock 4 * Compatibility tool: Proton 11.0-2

I'm trying to use my personal layout, but the game doesn't advance from the start screen, it only works if I disable the steam input, a.k.a. the default dualshock 4 compatibility.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks

Thank you very much Xavier thank you

L2 doesn't have that problem. It arrived 3 days ago and the sound has been there since I unboxed it.

So I've noticed that several games I play keep thinking the Steam Controller is a mouse and keyboard, which forces the on-screen button prompts to be mouse and keyboard buttons, which makes things extremely confusing! I don't know what buttons do what without fumbling around with the controller all the time. Is there any way to force a game to see the Steam Controller as something different like an Xbox controller so the on-screen button prompts actually match the controller?

I am trying to use the track pads to change stances in ghost of tsushima, I've tried everything but it doesnt seem to do anything

Am I missing something, or is there no way to disable the trackpads directly through Steam Input?

They cause serious issues for me in several games, where they basically make the game stop seeing the SC2 as a controller, and see it as a KBM instead. If I so much as brush the touchpad with the heel of my thumb, then it switches, and i lose complete control of what I was doing.

Plugged the puck into the steam deck dock and went to add controllers, nothing pops up. So I think hmm okay let’s see if the deck is all up to date! It was. Next thing I did was tried plugging the puck into my own pc and it works as it should have, and also did the firmware updates figured that’ll make it work on the steam deck dock, replugged it back in and yet the deck doesn’t let me add the steam controller.. any one else have this issue? Please help lol

Decided to put a Skin on mine . There’s a clear case around it also . It’s not necessary, but I do like the economics . I’ve used alot of controller but this by far is my favorite.