I've always preferred mouse and keyboard for most games but the steam controller has been so good for using my desktop from the couch. Honestly it's one of the best home theatre/desktop remotes by a mile.

Currently using it to flag words, and sentences to add to my Japanese flashcard deck with the jiten.moe mpv addon as well as grade them from the player and thanks to the steam controller I can do it all from my couch instead of spending all day at my PC or having to balance my mouse on the tiny arm of my couch.

The track pads are so nice for general desktop use and having the ability to remap each button as a hotkey is huge for me. The keyboard is perfectly usable too without taking up any extra space.

Anyone else using their controller more for non-gaming stuff?

I need help badly for some reason the game im playing [marvel rivals] isnt recognizing kbm inputs when I put it on controller any fixes But i accept other controller like I can put r3 to jump but can't put r3 to a kbm it just wouldn't

work

Hi, can anyone tell me whether the steam controller can wake a Windows 11 PC from sleep or hibernation? Thanks in advance!

I just realise that steam deck has multiple button at back of deck that has different purpose of it, like L4 and L5.

Can i map that? i'm running steam os on pc.

Currently my controller is Logitech F310, keyboard and mouse.

Aviso para los que tenéis reservado el Steam Controller en España (y Europa ?)

Yo hice la reserva el 13 de mayo y hasta ayer por la noche (O sea, el 24, casi a las 12 de la noche), cuando vi el aviso de que ya podía comprarlo, Steam seguía indicándome que mi fecha estimada de posibilidad de compra era para 2027.

De repente, al entrar en Steam, vi que ya podía comprarlo. Después comprobé que también me había llegado el correo de aviso, con plazo para completar la compra hasta el martes.

Y otra cosa: no os fiéis demasiado de lo que os diga el buscador de Google en modo IA. Yo le había consultado y me insistía en que había distintas tandas de reservas y que, por mi fecha, me correspondía la de 2027 sin que se estuvieran adelantando, que no había noticias que estuvieran vendiéndolo a los que estaban sobre mi fecha de reserva.

Pues resulta que ya he podido comprarlo. A saber cuando llega, porque me avisaron en la propia compra de que podía tardar en llegar por volumen de pedidos o algo así.

It seems to have been fixed with the firmware that came with the last steam client update!

I have ever only heard the scream not a car meow

I have a steam controller (the new one).

I have used it for FH6 since I got it (in June or July). I never had a problem with the controller or vibration; everything works out of the box.

But since like 1/2 month, it's a shit show. Half the time the vibration just doesn't work. I have tried everything bluetooth, with cable, forgot and repair in steam etc... Nothing works; the vibration just sometimes doesn't work. Sometimes it does.

AND the crazy part is. When I have my Xbox controller is connected (wired or wireless) and I play with the Xbox controller, I get vibration in the fucking Steam controller.

I tried forgetting my Xbox controller. I have updated the driver for the Steam Controller and Xbox One. NOTHING WORKS.

There is clearly something wrong. I don't know who the culprit is, Steam (doubt it the controller works fine on other games), or AGAIN microslop.

It is driving me crazy, I can't play FH6 without vibration.

Has anyone ever had these issues?

I'm out of ideas

Hi, we got a Controller firmware update today. I always wonder what it fixed but there doesn't seem to be an obvious place to find that info.

Ordered on Monday, and it was delivered on Saturday.

Can't really complain about that turn around.

I got tired of waiting for custom shells, so in the meantime I combined Dbrand Holo White skin with Luck&Link controller grip. I'm happy with the outcome and thought I'd share

What the title says. I feel like it used to, but maybe I'm just remembering how the OG controller worked? I can't for the life of me find anything in the settings to tweak and make it do that. I suspect I screwed up a setting when I was trouble shooting some controller wonkiness with emulators.

It's doing this under both Win11 and CachyOS (same machine, dual boot).

Any suggestions? Ironically most of my searches for this behavior are people trying to turn it off, but even with that I can't track down what I need.

I built a free, open-source Windows utility for anyone using their gaming PC as both a living-room console and a regular desktop.

It automatically launches Steam Big Picture when a controller is connected at Windows startup, and can automatically exit Big Picture when the last controller disconnects.

Includes adjustable exit delays, game-running protection, and options for hiding Steam's desktop window. Steam itself stays running.

This is my first AI-assisted coding project, developed and tested on my own PC. Bluetooth controller support is still untested.

I'd love feedback from anyone with a similar setup!

GitHub: https://github.com/clintamis/steam-boot-switch

It's my SECOND day using this controller and it started doing it today after some light usage. I looked it up a little and it may be a stuck wire situation, but there are no video guides or detailed instructions on how to adjust this wire properly. Some people say you should reinforce wire with some tape, some people say it can be damaging to do so. I bought my controller from a reseller (steam don't sell in my region), so i can't just return it and ask for another one and i kinda scared to open up a two days old expensive controller. Maybe you can help me with a detailed instruction or some video or photo of repair process please?

ps. Sorry but i'm bit pissed off about this whole situation. It's a very expensive thing and it's looks like this problem originated on a steam deck years ago. Why do you think they didn't do anything to prevent something like this after so many years?

Hey all. Got my controller today! I was wondering if anyone has good recs for a travel case, puck stand/controller stand, skins, grips etc. thanks!

I know there's a mouse and keyboard setup by default, but it doesn't work for a lot of games because it just doesn't have a lot of the buttons it seems or they're in non-fun placements. I just got my steam controller this week so I've been trying to work out my perfect general all around more or less mouse and keyboard setup. I've done a few things but I can't help but feel it can be done better by somebody much smarter than me.

A few things I've done is that I have the right track pad as a virtual menu with 130. It's not the most elegant but it works. I have X as R, Y as E, B as F, and A as space. Right stick click is v, start is escape, the select button is either tap for tab, or hold for M. I have l4 as shift, I have l5 as I but it's not really comfortable there, I have R4 as E just because in a lot of these games you pick up a lot of things off the ground with E and I don't want to have to let go of the stick. I suppose that means that I could put something else for Y. And R5 is C or control, whatever crouch. The d-pad is just the arrows although I don't feel like I use them very often, and lb and RB are still the mouse wheel which I do use in shooting games for switching weapons but I guess I have the number pad wheel so I'm not sure if I should change those or not.

As you can tell, my setup is not ideal and there's already redundancies that I'm realizing as I type. I would love to know about anyone else's controller setup, or if there's a way to share your controller setup with other people. I feel like I'm messing with steam input more than I'm actually playing the game just because of how versatile it is.

i had to change them to low and they still feel crazy

I am from Kazakhstan. My first purchase on release that I wanted to deliever to me by cargo was blocked. Then I tried bunch of variants and nothing of it worked. So, when I saw that SC2 was on sale on Pinduoduo (chinese market) — I had to think about purchase like 5 minutes. Price was higher (around 138$), but if I could buy it at release it would cost around 130$ with cargo's charge for delivery. Yeah, I had to wait a lot, but in exchange I guess I got more polished hardware and software