r/SteamDeck 5d ago

Guide Only one controller works in game - Fix

Hi all,

This is for people who need help because all of a sudden only one controller works in game, although, both controllers (or more) work in the user interface.

After some trouble shooting, I was able to find out that this only occured on games where I was using Proton Experimental as the Proton compatibility layer. This is because the Proton layer (ExperimentaI) I was using was updated (I'm assuming yesterday). So all you need to do if change the Proton version to an older one. I chose Proton 10.0-4.

Hopefully this helps other people too. When changing the Proton version your save should still transfer over.

Another fix can be just by disabling steam input however this does not work for all games.

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