Valve announce over half a million Steam Controllers have been sold

not available on my country, I can buy it on amazon, but its still 50 dollars there

I don't have Broforce, but I have not seen a game that would not work with Steam Controller yet.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator don't detect Steam Controller like a Controller with official driver. It only can be configured like a keyboard, and of course analogical driving is impossible

I believe this is because the Steam Controller only appears as an xinput device (which it's pretty clear about). I had issues with Shelter 2 as well (which turned out to be more trouble getting going than I really thought the game was worth).

Euro truck works great using a mouse and keyboard setup with the steam controller gyro letting it work as a steering wheel though. I just uploaded my (well tested) config to Steam "GeeEl's ETS2 Gyro steering...", give it a go if you're not adverse to touchpad menus. I find I need to occasionally re-align the gyro with where I think the steering wheel should be when driving, I think because I slightly twist the controller when moving occasionally.

A bigger issue I have is the dependence on the steam overlay - which just doesn't seem to work with some games if I start steam via Gnome desktop (rather than my SteamOS box booting straight into BPM).

Do they have stats for Steam Machines sales too? Would be interesting to see how they are doing. Though I don't expect any major spikes until Vulkan will take hold.


Last edited by Shmerl on 3 Jun 2016 at 2:33 am UTC

Can the Steam controller be used outside of Steam and without using Big Picture Mode ?

Can the Steam controller be used outside of Steam and without using Big Picture Mode ?

There are a few different projects which are working on this.

Most promising examples:

* https://gitlab.com/dennis-hamester/scd
* https://github.com/kozec/sc-controller

Can the Steam controller be used outside of Steam and without using Big Picture Mode ?

My Son has been able to play non-steam GTA V over the steam link with his controllers, not sure how he does it though.

They're on a weekend sale for $35!

They're on a weekend sale for $35!

I thought this would only be in conjunction with Civ VI - but it ssems to be independent!?!

Well I've tried again to play Broforce with my SteamController, I tried to change the udev rules as described in [the other article](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/steam-controller-on-ubuntu-a-tweak-you-need-to-do.6081), I tried to use different community configurations, but nothing really worked. The best I have is being able to move the helicopter around on the map, but with some really weird inputs like even the triggers on the back was moving the helicopter. And I couldn't even select something in the menu.

It's really weird because the controller configurations are dedicated to Broforce, so it definitely seems to be a problem coming from my PC, but I really don't know why. Maybe Fedora 23 is just really bad at this? Maybe it's a problem with GNOME Shell?

Is there someone here that has both Fedora and a working SteamController?


Last edited by Creak on 4 Jun 2016 at 2:28 pm UTC

It's really weird because the controller configurations are dedicated to Broforce, so it definitely seems to be a problem coming from my PC, but I really don't know why. Maybe Fedora 23 is just really bad at this? Maybe it's a problem with GNOME Shell?

I vaguely remember and unfortunately I didn't write it down anywhere apparently...
I had to do some modprobe to make the gamepad emulation work. "modprobe uinput" maybe?

I vaguely remember and unfortunately I didn't write it down anywhere apparently...
I had to do some modprobe to make the gamepad emulation work. "modprobe uinput" maybe?

The module wasn't loaded so I ran "sudo modprobe uinput", I unplugged and plugged back again the SteamController dongle, but it didn't work.

Here is my 99-steam-controller-perms.rules:
# Valve USB devices
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="28de", MODE="0666"
# Steam Controller udev write access
KERNEL=="uinput", SUBSYSTEM=="misc", TAG+="uaccess"
# HTC Vive HID Sensor naming and permissioning

Do you see something wrong?


Last edited by Creak on 4 Jun 2016 at 6:30 pm UTC

Do you see something wrong?

Oops, found that my controller wasn't working after my reinstallation of Debian.
Good for you, this way I needed to recheck what I had done. :)

I had to change my udev rule to:
# Valve USB devices
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="28de", MODE="0666"
# Steam Controller udev write access
KERNEL=="uinput", MODE="0666"
#KERNEL=="uinput", SUBSYSTEM=="misc", TAG+="uaccess"
# HTC Vive HID Sensor naming and permissioning
KERNEL=="hidraw*", SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bb4", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2c87", MODE="0666"

... and I've put uinput into the list of modules loaded at start time.
That's in /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf on my system.

If you happen to own Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (everybody should! ;o) ), it's a good test.
It greets either with "Press enter" - you're not there yet - or with "press (A)" - then you're fine.

Maybe it's a problem with GNOME Shell?

Have you turned on 'focus follows mouse cursor' by any chance on GNOME? That always confuses games.

Do you see something wrong?

Oops, found that my controller wasn't working after my reinstallation of Debian.
Good for you, this way I needed to recheck what I had done. :)

I had to change my udev rule to:
# Valve USB devices
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="28de", MODE="0666"
# Steam Controller udev write access
KERNEL=="uinput", MODE="0666"
#KERNEL=="uinput", SUBSYSTEM=="misc", TAG+="uaccess"
# HTC Vive HID Sensor naming and permissioning
KERNEL=="hidraw*", SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bb4", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2c87", MODE="0666"

... and I've put uinput into the list of modules loaded at start time.
That's in /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf on my system.

If you happen to own Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (everybody should! ;o) ), it's a good test.
It greets either with "Press enter" - you're not there yet - or with "press (A)" - then you're fine.

Wow that was exactly it! I can play Broforce with a controller now! Why Fedora and Debian doesn't have this configuration by default? (Well I don't really know the udev syntax, so maybe turning everything with uinput in 0666 isn't good... I mean it's literally written "666" :D)


Last edited by Creak on 5 Jun 2016 at 6:37 pm UTC

Wow that was exactly it! I can play Broforce with a controller now!

Cool!

Why Fedora and Debian doesn't have this configuration by default? (Well I don't really know the udev syntax, so maybe turning everything with uinput in 0666 isn't good... I mean it's literally written "666" :D)

I'm not sure it's the safe way to go, I just know it's a working way.
As far as I understood, Steam Controller needs to have write access to the input device so it can emulate. I'd be happy to hear if someone has a more closed way to make it work, but until then, I'm surely using this one.