Xdrive05
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Thanks. This sounds all kinds of awesome for streaming.
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Steam Controller Thread | Comfy Couch Sold Separately
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Thanks. This sounds all kinds of awesome for streaming.
Sleeping Lesson
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It's really a crazy awesome controller. Takes some getting used to, but now I use it for everything.
HOLY FUCKING COW DID DESKTOP MODE ALWAYS RETAIN OUR CONTROLLER SETTINGS?
I thought BPM was necessary for controller configs to take, but all my setting seem retained through desktop mode after fucking around a bit in Dragon's Dogma. I played through that entire campaign thinking I had to boot up BPM every time I wanted to play DD
A, what the fuuuuuuck.
I thought BPM was necessary for controller configs to take, but all my setting seem retained through desktop mode after fucking around a bit in Dragon's Dogma. I played through that entire campaign thinking I had to boot up BPM every time I wanted to play DD
A, what the fuuuuuuck.Emulating kb+mouse? tried emulating controller and it doesn't work, overlay won't work either.
Nabs
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HOLY FUCKING COW DID DESKTOP MODE ALWAYS RETAIN OUR CONTROLLER SETTINGS?
I thought BPM was necessary for controller configs to take, but all my setting seem retained through desktop mode after fucking around a bit in Dragon's Dogma. I played through that entire campaign thinking I had to boot up BPM every time I wanted to play DD
It's been like that for as long as I can remember, and the new beta makes it so you don't even need the overlay.
flaxknuckles
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Anybody used this for the December Street Fighter V beta?
wait really? I had the impression that you need the overlay for game-specific settings and that without the overlay you only got the desktop bindings...?
Nabs
Member
A recent beta update brought better support for games and programs that can't use the overlay. You miss out on stuff like the touch menu and controller hud, but it seems to work pretty well: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta#announcements/detail/903337152131879840
huh, will test later.
Almost the same, except jump is on the left grip and dodge on right grip. A is ENTER because of menu navigation in the camp fire.
I'm using keyboard and mouse, but emulating the controller worked as well. The overlay is working for me.
HOLY FUCKING COW DID DESKTOP MODE ALWAYS RETAIN OUR CONTROLLER SETTINGS?
I thought BPM was necessary for controller configs to take, but all my setting seem retained through desktop mode after fucking around a bit in Dragon's Dogma. I played through that entire campaign thinking I had to boot up BPM every time I wanted to play DD
It was always like that, even in the beta before release. Big Picture Mode is only needed to configure the game. You still have to have the overlay active even in desktop mode, though, so games where the overlay doesn't work are still a hit and miss. Also, the touch menu requires Big Picture Mode.
Utterly insane. I can't believe I never figured that out.
This pretty much resolves my last major hangup with the controller.
Can you walk while aiming?
Yep, everything seems perfectly fine.
Nice! I might change mine.
I tried it last night in ROTTR, first as a normal gamepad, but I found the camera to be too slow even with the maximum sensitivity from the game settings. So I switched the right pad to mouse and I had no troubles yet with this combination, except for changed button prompts. Also, clicking on the right pad for survival sense feels so much better than clicking on a normal stick.
UcchedavÄda
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Does anyone have any experience getting the Steam Controller to not conflict with x360ce?'
I discovered that my fightstick does not work in the Street Fighter V beta when the Steam Controller dongle is plugged in, probably because the Steam Controller also overrides the xinput DLL, which is how x360ce works. Weirdly enough, the *bing* indicating that x360ce is active does play while the Steam Controller is plugged in, suggesting that the x360ce DLL was loaded, but the controller was still unresponsive.
If this cannot be fixed, then perhaps Valve could add an option to disable the SC on a per-game basis, so that I wont have to unplug the dongle when I want to play SFV or other games requiring x360ce.
I discovered that my fightstick does not work in the Street Fighter V beta when the Steam Controller dongle is plugged in, probably because the Steam Controller also overrides the xinput DLL, which is how x360ce works. Weirdly enough, the *bing* indicating that x360ce is active does play while the Steam Controller is plugged in, suggesting that the x360ce DLL was loaded, but the controller was still unresponsive.
If this cannot be fixed, then perhaps Valve could add an option to disable the SC on a per-game basis, so that I wont have to unplug the dongle when I want to play SFV or other games requiring x360ce.
PetriP-TNT
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I have had the controller couple of months now and today was the first time I tried mode switching and the gyro on The Witness and both worked... pretty brilliantly actually.
PetriP-TNT
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I have had this issue on and off between firmware releases.
Sleeping Lesson
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God dammit, did they introduce this bug again?
Nabs
Member
Seems to be fine on my end.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
It seems to show up randomly. Sometimes people will say it's working and I'll still have the issue, other times the opposite.
I love this controller for The Witness. Feels so satisfying to draw lines with the track pad and flick it at the end so it goes racing to the finish. The whole game is playable with the left and right trackpad alone!
Did you have it before? I've literally never experienced it. Wonder when it happens.
Did you have it before? I've literally never experienced it. Wonder when it happens.
Allnamestakenlol
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Man, how is it that gyro aiming works so well for you all? I just can't seem to do it. My brain isn't wired right, I guess.
Edit: My biggest beef with the controller is that I can't seem to manage precise aiming in fps/tps. Meeeeeh.
Edit: My biggest beef with the controller is that I can't seem to manage precise aiming in fps/tps. Meeeeeh.
No just the aiming, but even moving the camera and a 180 it's much better using mouse emulation than using a real stick. Too bad camera sensitivy is so low in this game, otherwise Mouse Joystick a very good second option to keep 100% of the gamepad layout.
Sleeping Lesson
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Spent a few hours playing The Division beta. Controller works fantastically with that game, headshots all over the place.
Cave Johnson
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Ucchedavāda;193653777 said:
Not a fight stick but a related issue. Both keyboard and mouse are disabled during the BIOS screen which is kind of annoying when you want to edit some configs.
I have it running fine in The Division. Didn't do anything crazy to get it set up, just using a custom template that I use for effectively all TPS/FPS' that I play.
Weird. Going to verify my install and see if anything's up.
Edit: nvm got it. Just had to redownload the beta steam client for whatever reason. Must have been a bug.
Baron von Loathsome
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Sunless Sea is in dire need of a font size option, and it's not easy to figure out how you're supposed to play it, but man, that writing.
The UI can only be improved by reducing the resolution to either 1366x768 or 1280x720 depending on TV size. Since there is no UI scaling option and text sizes, this is as good as it gets but looks perfectly fine on our TV when doing this. This is a hardly a game where IQ needs to be king.
As for controls - use "Delicious Zee Captain Controls" which are well thought out. Mouse sensitivity can be adjusted to suit taste, but I'm happy with that guys bindings. The left pad as steering controls is amazingly a great idea, as if it is the actual Ships Wheel by using a scroll wheel setup
Sleeping Lesson
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I'm glad it works, but it's imperfect. You can't change grenade types or use emotes if the right pad is set to mouse. I've janked together a solution using mode shifting, but even then it only works for changing one D-pad menu.
I've noticied I get a permanent massive frame rate drop when I use the Touch Menu in Dragon's Dogma, like 40% or so. Does anyone else have performance issues in this or other games when using the touch menu?
Edit: My google-fu says it's a common issue but I'm not on the beta anymore, though, so maybe it was fixed.
Edit: My google-fu says it's a common issue but I'm not on the beta anymore, though, so maybe it was fixed.
I'll have another go.
I wonder if resolution can solve my UI issues with things like Planetside 2. I'll take a hit to 720 or similar if it means I can actually play it.
God bless the Morrowind overhaul and UI scaling on that. I must check back to see if that is Steampad awesome.
For lots of older games without scaling, this is the solution. Helps with Civ V which I also play at 1366x768. From as far back as I am with the TV, the difference in IQ is barely noticable, but the text and UI size is much better.
For Sunless Sea, the Gazette is almost the full size of the screen, so it is really nice to read. With the "Delicious Zea-Captain Controls" you can just open and close it with the back button.
kOsmikcoffee
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So I just got the controller, what am I in for, boys?
A lot of ups and downs, with occasional "holy shit this thing is awesome" until finally it will kind of click.
kOsmikcoffee
Member
I'm going to use it primarily for 3rd person games. Rise of the Tomb Raider being the first game I play with it.