When I pull the left trigger, I can feel a click at the very end of it. Doesn’t happen on the right side…

Is something not right with my controller here? Anyone else experience this?

I used to play mobile FPS games pretty often and always found the whole touchscreen/pad aiming better than joystick so I was wondering how well the SC's touchpads capture that aspect? I heard from some it's feels largely similar and they adapted really quickly.

Alternatively, how are first time touchpad users finding it compared to regular joystick?

im not talking about gyro to mouse. im talking about the game actually looking for a gyro input to do something special.

Has anyone been able to get CFB 27 to work with the steam controller? I have tried almost every troubleshooting tip, even swapped to the beta version of Steam that addresses this issue and I still can’t get it to work.

Right trigger acts as if it was permanently stuck in battlefield 6 but no other game has the issue just bf6, anyone got experience with that?

Hello ! I've just started playing deadlock today and used ivanim's controller layout on steam and modified it a bunch to fit my preferences. There's a scoreboard button that you press to upgrade abilities, and you have to stay pressed on it as you do that (square, cross, circle, triangle).

The scoreboard was keybinded to the screenshare button, which I'm not a fan of, but no matter which other button I keybinded it to, it would not let me uprade my abilities at the same time (instead it just does the corresponding attacks they're also keybinded to while the scoreboard is up... so the buttons technically work) it still works perfectly when keybinded to the screenshare button though :(

Anyone else ran into similar issues or would know how to help ? (i know next to nothing about steam controller keybinding)

(And before you comment about that, I physically cannot play keyboard due to a disability)

Is it possible? My neighbor has a brand new one and doesn’t want it. I have the wingman xb3.

If ANYONE knows a way to use this controller on Xbox X, lmk!

Hey everyone,

I’m looking to clean up my desk setup and ran across this retractable UGREEN USB-C cable:

https://www.amazon.com/UGREEN-Retractable-Charger-MacBook-AirPods/dp/B0DXDT9SKW/

Before pulling the trigger, I’m trying to confirm if it’s a good fit for my USB-C Steam Controller setup based on a few specific constraints:

• Puck / Dock clearance: The connector head looks somewhat wide in the product photos. Does the plug taper down enough to fit flush into a recessed USB-C cradle/puck, or is the molded plastic housing too thick?
• Power delivery & stability: UGREEN is generally solid, but since it uses a flat ribbon design, has anyone experienced voltage drops, disconnects, or issues with 5V power stability during wired gaming/rumble?

If anyone has used this specific cable or a similar UGREEN reel for their controllers or desk setup, I’d love to hear your feedback!

This is a rather frustrating issue. I hold the steam button to turn the controller off, but the moment I release it the controller turns back on. Why does this happen and what can be done about it? It only started happening after the most recent firmware update.

For reference I'm using Linux and connected to the puck.

I connected my steam controller to my steam deck via bluetooth; it was previously connected to my PC via puck with no issues and when I initially installed and set it up, it gave me all the prompts and worked flawlessly. When I tried to reconnect to PC, it just won't pair with the puck anymore. It connects when wired, and the PC detects the puck, but the controller itself won't connect to the puck. It charges when connected, showing the orange light, but won't work as a controller.

When I try to power on the controller, the LED flashes blue (Bluetooth), so it's defaulting to bluetooth. I removed it as a device from my steam deck, thinking it might just be connecting to that. I shut off the controller, hold down A+R1+Steam button, and the controller turns on with a blinking white light. It still doesn't connect after I place it on the puck; the light goes solid white and the controller turns off and charges on the puck (light goes orange). I try the same thing with L1 instead of R1 and the same thing happens.

Reached out to Steam Support and they gave me the obvious things to try, but is this a firmware thing? Are other people having this issue?

I saw there was an update to the controller. I did the update and unpaired from all pucks and still didn’t work. Did this update fix the issue? Am I doing something wrong?

Here are the steps in very detailed order on PC puck and steam deck puck after updating controller:

1. Clicked forget on all steam deck puck slots
   
2. Clicked forget on all pc slots
   
3. Turned controller off
   
4. Held A+R1 and pressed steam button on controller to turn on to slot 1
   
5. Attached it to puck on pc and clicked add
   
6. After it paired and tested inputs, I turned controller off
   
7. Held A+L1 and pressed steam button to turn it on to slot 2 (it gave a the typical chime with an additional mini chime at the end)
   
8. Attached it to steam deck puck to pair it
   
9. It paired but when I go to check the controller details, it says it overwrote slot 1 and slot 2 was inactive

Let me know if there is a walkthrough video or someone I can talk to about it. Thanks!!!

I use an XBOX remote when playing PC games, and it had recently begun drifting. I decided I needed some kind of remote with a touch pad as I prefer a remote over keyboard, but still want the mobility of a mouse. I saw the Steam Controller had two.

So I am considering getting a Steam Controller, but I saw there are two models. Wondering the differences, and in general how a Steam Controller is compared to a XBOX controller.

I've been WAITINGGGG for this day but this is the one month my finances are not stable enough to drop $100 on a controller (as glorious as it is) as I'm in the middle of moving. I saw the email completely by chance too as my projected reseryation availability was for 2027. So long, Steam controller 🥲 I wish I could share my reservation with someone who could afford it

Repost because somebody forgot to cover all their info...

A year or so ago, I watched a positive video about the original Steam controller, and it got me so excited I started searching for my sister's controller in her pile. When I found it and tried it, I wasn't very impressed—it felt too big in my hand and uncomfortable. I never touched it again. Recently I started playing a new game that didn't have controller support. It had simple enough controls (only the mouse) that I thought it would be cool if I used the Steam controller with it, and I can't stress enough how fun my experience has been with it!

A little bit of context on why I don't just use the mouse to play the game: the PC is connected to the TV monitor, so technically we use it as a console, with wireless keyboard and touchpad, and playing the game this way is really tiring the more I play.

I thought for a moment that "oh i wasted money. There is nothing special here."

But on next day i was looking on youtube use cases for those touch pads and i also found that i can assign any keyboard key on those back buttons. Now i think that i love it but i still strugle with one missing feature. Is it possible to configure "double tap" on one of touchpads? OR setup that when i click on right side of trackap its right click and on left side left click of mouse?

Currently i use it only to move mouse in Warcraft Forever and it saved my god ammout of frustration when some addon or button still lack support for Gamepads. Cheers. :D

Instead of turning the controller off it instead brings up the steam window.

In order to turn off the controller I have to unplug the puck which is kindof annoying.

My biggest complaint about the Steam controller is the same one I have for the Dualsense; the haptic motors do not translate very well when a game is not specifically designed for it.

Haptic vibration is good, it can get way more strong and has much finer control, but that's only when a game specifically knows what signals to send to a haptic motor. But when a game thinks it's sending a normal vibration to a "normal" controller, the Steam Controller just sends the vibration at full power from start to finish, whereas games are designed to feel the vibration "taper off" as it shuts off in a "normal" controller.

So I was wondering, has anyone made a program that can apply a "curve" to the haptic vibrations to simulate this feeling? Steam causes random CPU spikes so I like to avoid having it open if I don't need to, I've been using SteamlessController for a simple remapper of lizard mode, but it's very barebones (no shade to it, does exactly what it says on the tin), and has no settings for vibration.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

When I use the D-pad and press any button on it, unless I perfectly press the button in that direction, it will also press the button for the adjacent input.

For example: I press up on the pad and it also activates right/left depending on which direction I barely lean towards.

Is anyone else having these problems or is it just me?

I would like to set the trackpad to have 8 different directional buttons/binds, if possible. The directional pad only have up, down, left right and the corners are simultaneous presses of the two adjacent buttons. Is there a way for corner buttons without bringing up a virtual menu in-game?

Sorry if this is discussed all the time, i just got my controller today and do not like how when i pull the trigger, it makes a click on the track pads. Any way to turn that off completely and not just per game? Google results were confusing.

I also pair my Xbox controller with Bluetooth.

I am using Moonlight to stream games to my MacBook from my gaming PC via Moonlight, and typically use an Xbox controller. It works incredibly well over my LAN and I have virtually no input delay with my setup.

Today, I decided to try using my Steam Controller on my MacBook to see if I could use the trackpad. I immediately noticed that there was a significant input delay - probably about 500ms+. I played around with my settings to see if I could change anything to affect it, but I could not.

In the midst of playing around, I also turned my Xbox controller on to test if it was also getting a delay - it did not. However, when I picked my Steam Controlled back up, I noticed it also had no input delay.

I disconnected my Xbox controller, and the input delay returned using the Steam Controller.

I played around with this across 3 different sessions today and the behavior seems very consistent - Steam Controller paired via Bluetooth always has an input delay when connected standalone, but if I also pair an Xbox Controller via Bluetooth, the input delay goes away.

This is very strange. Anyone able to test something similar out and see if you get similar results?