How to play with keyboard and mouse?

[karstux]

So, yesterday I got my Steam Deck. It's flawless, and awesome. But then I wanted to play some Skyrim SE on a monitor and with KB&M, and that hasn't been going so great.

First try: just connect the monitor, keyboard and mouse in gaming mode. Okay, I get Skyrim in fullscreen on the monitor, but controls remain mapped to the Deck. Keyboard and mouse do nothing.

Second try: in gaming mode, I switched to the "Keyboard and Mouse WASD" controller template. That improved things - now the keyboard was working as usual, but the mouse was wonky as hell. I don't see a mouse pointer, and moving the mouse spins the view wildly. I can't look up and down.

Third try: enter desktop mode, start Steam, launch the game. I only got it to work in fullscreen on the external display when I set it as the primary screen and disabled the Deck's one. But still no keyboard and mouse controls. I think I would have to disable Steam Input mode, but I couldn't find a way to do so. In the controller config, it says "Required - always enabled" or something like it.

To be honest, I was hoping "traditional" gaming would be easier on the Deck. I wanted to replace my ageing gaming PC with it. I'm ok with the performance, I think, but the software doesn't seem to be quite there yet.

Anyways, this has to be a common use case. Maybe I'm just missing something. Has any of you got it to work?

[Mahjik]

desthemess님이 먼저 게시:

I’m having this issue with the Witcher 3 and can’t figure it out. Someone pls help

What has worked for some, is removing ALL bindings in the controller layout. When nothing is bound, it seems to trick games that there is no controller.