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Valve is so behind on Steam Controller orders that some won’t ship until 2027 (www.theverge.com)

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[–] theboomr@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Mine shows 2027 estimate :( was hoping to replace my Vader 5 Pro with its pretty abysmal software situation with the Steam Controller soon, but I guess not

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Can the Vader 5 Pro just use Steam Input? I thought there was an "Allow Third Party Apps to take over" setting.

I was looking at one of those but not having Steam Input would be a deal breaker. I am so tired of expensive hardware having shite software. It isn't a hard problem to solve - they just don't want to

[–] theboomr@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes that setting does exist, and it does work by letting Steam directly take over control of all the extra buttons on the controller... HOWEVER. It does a really bizarre thing where Steam will see multiple instances of the controller, one is the "correct" one, another is a basic Xbox 360 controller, and if you happen to power cycle the controller while Steam is running, then often the controller will not work at all anymore until you shut down Steam, then power cycle the controller again, then start up Steam again. I've seen other people reporting even more duplicates in Steam too, potentially based on whether you've installed Steam's extended Xbox controller driver? Not totally sure.

Also, while Steam is open, the controller doesn't work at all with any games not launched through Steam (game pass games, other launchers, etc.). There are workarounds for this, but still annoying.

It is supported in ReWASD now, but I think that gets fiddly when you have ReWASD and Steam running at the same time; I haven't really tried a proper setup in ReWASD yet.

Overall, just a very frustrating and inconsistent experience. When it's working, I really love it, but then there are nights where I spend 3 hours troubleshooting instead of just playing games.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Hmm okay you've given me a lot to think about. Thank you for this. I really appreciate the honesty