Controller adjustments on Steam games, as well as Heroic emulator

[tim]

I've looked, I've search, and apparently haven't hit the right combination of keywords to find what I need.

First - in Steam games - I need to find a way to adjust the sensitivity of some controls. Joysticks mostly. In a couple games - they are just too sensitive. So how do I perform that?

Heroic Emulator - I seem to only get "mouse and keyboard" inputs. Just touchscreen (haven't connected a keyboard yet - so assuming it's just mouse and keyboard). So how can I define the rest of the Steam Deck controls to replace the inputs for the game? Game in question ran on Win98/XP - don't think it ever went beyond XP.

[Bee🐝]

1: Controller config menu. Edit layout. From there you can adjust basically everything. There are some other options when you click on the cog. For Joysticks specifically, I recommend playing around with the deadzones as well as the sensitivity settings.

2: The same thing basically. You can map the Heroic Launchers K&M input to either the joysticks or anything else you like. There might be some community layouts for it already - they're in the config menu as well.

Edit: Note for individual games running through the heroic launcher, I just create a - or use a community template - separate individual profile for each and then just switch to whichever one I'm playing. I'm sure there's a faster way to do this, just I can't be bothered.

[Mahjik]

Originally posted by Bee:

1: Controller config menu. Edit layout. From there you can adjust basically everything. There are some other options when you click on the cog. For Joysticks specifically, I recommend playing around with the deadzones as well as the sensitivity settings.

To add to Bee's comment, once inside the Edit Layout section start by going to "Joysticks" on the left. On the row labeled "Right Joystick Behavior", go to the "cog" on the far right. Once in that menu, on the first page that is the "General" tab, there is a setting for "Stick Response Curve". Test out some options (specifically try Relaxed and/or Wide).

You can do the same for "Left Joystick Behavior".

[tim]

Thanks for replies - I'll check when I get home tonite.

[tim]

Ok - I finally got "in" the controller settings for a Steam game right now (not very intuitive - FINALLY found a guide that said how to get into it - everyone just assumes you know). Also - while you gave instructions - it took a bit to get "into" the settings to change. Again - I haven't found very good info searching - 95% comes up with just the desktop (PC/Mac/Linux) Steam game, etc with "Big Screen Mode". Seems they want to rely on you just poking around - not very interested in doing a lot of that on something that cost over $500 - at least not when I've only had it 3 days or so.

I've made the adjustment - but now can't test - flight sim games puts you on a runway, and I've tried EVERY control - nothing takes the plane off. Found the throttle, wound it all the way up - nada. And apparently no manual on the game - others are asking. Just some extremely brief videos - nothing that tells you the basics of how to do things.

Other games run fine - will take you through a bit and much better.

[Mahjik]

Can't help with MS Flight Sim but the options you can do with the controllers is very daunting (but in a good way). Start just by doing little changes to your games and dig deeper little by little.

Also, to be afraid to try some of the community controller schemes. A lot of the members of the community really put a lot of time into their schemes and it's very easy to test (or move on if the scheme doesn't suit you). For some of the more non-traditional games (i.e. non-gamepad games), I've found some really good schemes in the community section.

[tim]

Slowly figuring things out. Right now, have maybe 30-45 minutes a day to "play" with it. Couple of general comments:

First - getting into the controller is possibly documented somewhere - but certainly NOT intuitive. Yeah - it shows up in some places, but how to adjust in the game or in the Library. 2 right clicks of the DPad?

Second - I've just seen a couple of videos where someone is explaining how to do things. The biggest problem is - they do voice over, and what THEY call things is NOT what the menu shows. So someone tries to verbalize what they've heard - uses same language - but you can't find that menu option. Doesn't exist by that label/name/menu option. I mean - it's right there on the screen - READ IT - don't "wing it".

[Tika]

Small thing I learned. Hold the "start" button on the deck (the one with 3 lines) and a little popup will show up telling you that it's changed its configuration (goes between desktop and controller layout).

It took me way too long to figure that out as someone who was trying to play miles morales on deck.