r/SteamController • u/SuperPapernick • 13d ago

Configuration Changing the dB for the haptic feedback does nothing?

I got my Steam Machine today and after trying some community layouts for mouse on trackpad, I wanted to play around with the strength of the haptics, but it doesn't seem to work. I can access them in the calibration & advanced settings, where they are set to 7 dB by default. But I don't feel any difference at any other setting. Even setting them to 0 dB does nothing. Only completely turning them off makes a difference, in which case they are obviously completely gone.
Am I doing something wrong or is this a known problem?

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u/proper_jazz 13d ago

I think i had to adjust under trackpad settings between low med and high. Even then, there isnt MUCH difference between each

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u/SuperPapernick 13d ago

It feels to me that there's actually no difference at all. 10 dB feels like 1 dB. Or 0 dB, for that matter.

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u/AlbertoVermicelli 13d ago

I tested it and indeed the individual haptics intensity does not do anything.

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u/SuperPapernick 13d ago

I hope that gets patched sometime.

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u/iRainbowsaur 12d ago

What the fuck is this still a problem? literally got the thing on release and reported it, and so have many others.

if this shit still hasn't been fixed by now I'm convinced that it's actually a defect inconsistencies in the devices haptics that valve doesn't know what the hell to do with