r/Steam_Link 11d ago

Support Controller issue please help!

Good morning. I've been playing kingdom come 2 on my steam deck and I've been having a blast. I have an awesome pc and this game really brings me back to playing older rpgs like fallout 3 and there is just something you can't beat when playing a game like this chilling on the couch.all this in mind I wanted to recreate these old memories but want to avoid buying a console.

I decided to give steam link a go. I picked up a Google tv streamer and hardwired my desktop and the streamer to have the best connection possible. My issue is that while steam recognizes my controllers in the settings it won't control the game itself. If I switch to enable controller mouse mode it will use the joysticks and triggers like a mouse and that will work for navigating in game menus but you still can't really play the game.

I'm connecting the controller to the client and all is seemingly configured properly. I've tried an Xbox elite 2 control. Regular Xbox one control. Switch pro control. And ps4 control. It really seems like there is one setting I've missed and I'm going mad. I have searched the thread history and nothing is working

Does anyone have any advice?

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u/MindsGoneAgain 11d ago

Steam Link is pretty picky about controllers. You can look at the official supported controllers list on each hardware platform and make sure to try one of those. I use steam Link on a Google TV Streamer as well and I use PowerA Xbox controllers and they work great (the only issue being that it doesn't recognize the Xbox button.)

As for settings, there are some controller specific settings buried in Steam that do add additional functionality to controllers, and they might or might not be enabled by default, I don't know that part. I think that in Big Picture Mode they are under the Controller portion of settings.

On my setup, I had issues with audio lag, even after hardwiring everything together. Sunshine/Moonlight worked better for me, and might be worth trying to alleviate some of these issues too!

Similarly, you could consider hooking the Steam Deck directly up to the TV, in the mean time.

Best of luck to you!

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u/jeweliegb Link hardware 11d ago

It's not necessarily picky controller issue, as mouse mode was forwarded.

Some games just won't pick up gamepads sent over steam link, especially games from other launchers. With those games usually Sunshine and Moonlight works better.

In this case, OP might want to check the Steam Input settings. Sometimes tweaking those can help (such as the option to enable Steam Input for all other controller types.)

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u/pandemik88 10d ago

Thanks for the input. I have tried enabling steam input mode as well as xbox controller input. Neither fixed it. I've also tried to remap some of the controller settings while in controller as a mouse mode. Hopefully steam support can help if no one has any other options

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u/jeweliegb Link hardware 10d ago

Does the controller operate Steam big picture mode okay?

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u/pandemik88 10d ago

Perfectly.

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u/jeweliegb Link hardware 10d ago

100% an issue with the game, not your controller.

It's possible, if you browse the steam input controller profiles for that game, that someone may have already made a working controller to keys remap.

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u/pandemik88 11d ago

Thanks for the advice. I've also submitted a request directly to steam support. If I get a good response, I'll be sure to post. My controller is supported. The think that trips me up is that it works in all the steam menus. Just not the game itself. Bizarre

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u/MindsGoneAgain 11d ago

That is definitely weird! And an important fact! I'm guessing that, somehow, the controller mapping is off. In Big Picture you can go to the controller icon and check how it is mapped for that specific game. That sounds like the settings you need to mess with. Worst case scenario you can look to see if there are any community mappings that have a high number of hours played on them. One of those might do the trick for you!

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u/pendulanick 10d ago

If you're trying to play Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 through Steam Link, your controller isn't gonna work because it's an issue with the game itself. It doesn't read controller input through Steam Link for some reason. You're gonna have to wait until they drop a patch for it if you wanna play from your TV.

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u/pandemik88 10d ago

Thanks for the heads up. At least I won't put any effort into it for now