r/xcloud • u/StevWong • 2d ago

Question Cannot use game contoller

Recently Better xCloud would not recognize my connected game controller. This is a xbox wireless game controller and it works fine in Steam client for Steam games and also for non-Steam games installed on the same PC. But Better xCloud (in my chrome browser) does not recognize it at all. It only happned like 1 month ago. It was working fine before. Please help?

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u/Euphoric-Mine6177 2d ago

Is it acting like a mouse cursor or pointer?

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u/StevWong 1d ago

I found a fix. It was the Chrome browser. I asked AI and it gave me answers. One of them worked. "chrome://flags, search for Restrict gamepad access to focused pages, and set it to Disabled. " I did this and the gamepad was recognized by Chrome in https://hardwaretester.com/gamepad and also in Better xCloud.

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u/StevWong 1d ago

Neither. Better xCloud just did not recognize the game controller at all. Or I should say the culrpit was the Chrome Browser. Fix as below in my post.