Controller will not work on this game

[JuliusCaesar113]

I have a controller shown on steam, it works fine on other games - but not in this. It simply will not recognise it. Has anyone else encountered this issue before?

[M.M.M.]

Both my controller AND keyboard didn't work yesterday. Something at EA is messing everything up recently.

[zidahya]

Same here. X Box wireless controller unconnects the moment I start the game.

[Big Meeks]

Me 2

[StoreyMcr]

I use my PS5 controller via usb cable and load the game up with my mouse (not in big picture mode) once at the start screen of the game i plug the usb cable in with my pad connected and it works.

[iceman]

I use the steam controller. The following steps have helped me:
- start/restart the PC without controller connected
- start the game
- connect the controller

[MacGyver]

(X-post from https://steamcommunity.com/app/1172380/discussions/0/4293692546848368529/#c4362373511169077748 )

This is likely the same problem people with (Xbox & Steam) controllers are seeing in Jedi: Survivor. I was seeing the same thing in Fallen Order.

Long story short: add the EA application "EADesktop.exe" as a non-steam game (Games -> Add a non-steam game to my library), start the EA desktop app through that entry, then start Jedi: Fallen Order from the EA desktop app.

Long story slightly longer: the problem with both Jedi games (and possibly everything else launched through the EA desktop launcher) is that something is broken in the way Steam inserts its controller stack between the input devices and the actual game. The result being that Steam interprets the controller not as being in the "Game" mode but in "Desktop" mode. And in Desktop mode, the default binding for left stick click is to bring up the on-screen keyboard.

There may be other ways of taking Steam out of the equation if you have an Xbox controller -- possibly it suffices to disable "Steam Input for Xbox controllers" in the global "Steam settings -> controller" interface. I don't know, because I don't have an Xbox controller, but a Steam controller. However, the fix of launching the EA desktop app through steam should also fix the Steam overlay and FPS counter, which weren't working for me either.

[apm74]

None of these solutions work for me. This game is trash if it's this difficult to get a stupid controller to work.