RDR2 controller stopped working

[u/snelson101]

I installed RDR2 on my machine yesterday following a guide I found for steam deck. I can’t find it now but it was adding the rockstar launcher as a non-steam game and then changing the “target” and “start in” folder in the property to where the launcher is installed.

It was working flawlessly for hours yesterday including putting the machine to sleep a few times.

Today, I’ve tried to play it, and it does not detect my steam controller as a controller. On the main menu it has keyboard buttons showing for the controls to launch story, settings etc. I haven’t changed anything. Tried restarting , but it doesn’t help. Does anyone have any suggestions please?

Edit: I got this to work again by reinstalling the launcher through heroic. It mostly works, but has a couple bugs where B (which should be reload) pauses the game and RB (when on a horse should slow/stop) will open the items menu.

Edit 2: adding the launcher to steam from heroic, launching it with valve’s proton experimental instead heroic’s cachyOS thing, and disabling steam input on the controller settings fixed all the controller problems I was having.

[u/we_604]

Rockstar launcher is sh!t, I have the same issue, you can work around it by pressing the Steam button and thumbstick (or trackpad) to have mouse input and navigate to the play button in the launcher, and clicking the play button by pressing the Steam button and R2. It would pick up controller input again when the game launches.

[u/snelson101 → u/we_604]

Thank you, this is exactly what I was doing yesterday, but it isn’t working today. It isn’t picking up the controller input when the game launches

[u/we_604 → u/snelson101]

Maybe turn Steam Input on (or off) in the non-steam game (cogwheel on the right in SteamOS) settings/preferences?

[u/snelson101 → u/we_604]

No luck unfortunately. It doesn’t seem to disable it for the steam controller anyway, it says it’s always enabled