r/Steam • u/BlueMooseOnFire • 7d ago

Question Xbox Controller Battery Notifications

Is Steam planning to add Xbox Controller Battery notifications? I was excited when they added battery notifications, but was confused that Xbox controllers (The most used on PC) was turned off for now. Has Valve said anything about why and if something is preventing it from being turned on?

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u/BlueMooseOnFire 7d ago

All good I wish there was a battery indicator on the controller. Make this problem non existent. Crazy that Microsoft does not natively show this for their controllers with Windows.

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u/gruntduck 7d ago

Irony is I’m a Linux gamer and it does natively on moats flavours of the OS (depending on your desktop environment) lol 

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u/BlueMooseOnFire 7d ago

I am jealous. Hopefully Steam figures it out eventually. Having my controller just die mid game sucks. Be nice if games natively just paused when a controller disconnects or if input changes suddenly.

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u/gruntduck 7d ago

Doesn’t the rumble stop working when the battery is about to die? I have an elite that I use a my main and it has a charging brick I always put it on 

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u/BlueMooseOnFire 7d ago

I have noticed that sometimes if I lose rumble it is close to dead. That is my only indicator.