Gyro Controls using Remote Play Issue

[Baby_Frank]

Since the latest update, gyro controls used during Remote Play/SteamLink/streaming no longer work properly. Using the standard set up of Right Pad as Mouse + Gyro as Mouse while touching Right Pad no longer operates as expected. Instead, camera moves in small, omni-directional movements and just does not work correctly.

When the Guide button is pressed, and the menu slides out from the right, Gyro works as intended - you can see the camera utilizing Gyro controls in the background game screen. While the menu is open, no other Deck/GamePad buttons affect the game (as expected, since the game is now in the background). Closing the menu by hitting the Guide button again and resuming the game reverts the Gyro controls back to being non-operational.

From the Host PC, using Shift-Tab to open and then close Steam Overlay makes Gyro controls function again...until either the Steam button or Guide button is pressed on the Deck, resulting in the same scenario as described above.

I have attempted many workarounds and suggested settings changes over the last few days with no success. I've changed so many things that I feel like a factory reset is the only way to get back to baseline...but that's not a solution. Something is amiss with the 3.4.8 update and needs to be addressed.

[John Hitman]

just commenting to corroborate, same issue here. Tried workarounds suggested (including simply enabling gyro but assigning it to an input that wouldn't directly affect my game), nothing seems to work. Hope it gets fixed

[The Hounds of Justice]

I am having this issue too

Edit: Best workaround I could find is to bring up the on-screen keyboard, which seems to re-enable gyro again. Unfortunately, Steam+X does not work on remote play, so you'll need to bind a button to show the keyboard. I have chosen L5 since it's not a button I really use anyway.

[Glengarry's Glen Mod]

I am having the same problem, started about a week ago. it was definitely working as expected until very recently as i use my steam deck as a controller w gyro almost every day, depending on the game. frustrating cuz - as stated above - it works fine when the guide button menu is opened. both stable and beta channels appear to be bugged; the fact that gyro works fine on steam deck in every other regard, and considering i have been having problems with steam input for other controllers not working at all at times recently, i think its safe to assume the problem is on the host side

[Glengarry's Glen Mod]

UPDATE: as far as i can tell, pressing the guide button on steam deck at any point breaks the gyro in remote play. gyro appears to work normally for me only until the guide button on steam deck is pressed; if i quit out the game, then re-stream it via the deck, gyro will be functioning again - until the dreaded guide button is pressed. tested this in stable, beta, preview chans on steam deck in both stable and beta chans on steam desktop. clearly this is a very problematic issue as anyone who uses remote play on their steam deck as a controller for games on their desktop will tell you, opening the controller settings is a near constant activity until settings are dialed in. considering this is how i play nearly all fps games, this is a catastrophic bummer, yo

[Glengarry's Glen Mod]

Originally posted by The Hounds of Justice:

I am having this issue too

Edit: Best workaround I could find is to bring up the on-screen keyboard, which seems to re-enable gyro again. Unfortunately, Steam+X does not work on remote play, so you'll need to bind a button to show the keyboard. I have chosen L5 since it's not a button I really use anyway.

@hounds i couldnt get this to work for me; but not sure if i understand exactly what youre doing. for me, binding a button on steam deck to bringing up the keyboard doesnt work at all in desktop mode (on deck screen or on desktop monitor), and in big picture mode it works but brings the on screen keyboard up on both screens; closing keyboard out doesnt re-enable gyro. i'd love to know if i am missing something as i still have not found a work around that doesnt involve restarting devices and/or games

[Padfutonian]

I have a workaround that might not be the best, but it does work if you have a spare bluetooth keyboard around.

If you hit Shift+Tab on the keyboard connected to your deck, it will bring up the steam overlay. Shift+Tabbing again will close that overlay and gyro will work again.

unfortunately i couldnt find a way to make a shortcut purely on the steamdeck, if someone finds out how, do share. Hope this helps!

[Mach]

My fix:

- From the host computer: go to "Steam Settings -> Remote Play"
- Turn on "Enable Advanced Options"
- Now "Enable Hardware Encoding" on the HOST side

(I also had already disabled hardware encoding on the client side to fix a severe stuttering issue as well, but that's beside the point).

[hertz]

I'm having the same issue and I even reported it here regarding Dead Space Remake
Also noticed it works in background, someone recommended disabling Steam Input on host but that sounds far-fetched

[cdriper]

calling the overlay works as a workaround
you can bind shift+tab to any grip button (as a command + sub command)

[hertz]

Thanks
I wonder how do we bring valve's attention to this issue.
If I worked for them I could probably fix it in a matter of days/hours 😕

[The Hounds of Justice]

Appears to be fixed in the latest beta. I updated to the beta client on both the deck and the remote play host and gyro works properly. Tested with a Windows 11 host and a Steam Flatpak (on fedora 38) host.

I needed to update both, it didn't work if I updated only the deck or only the host.

I didn't see anything in the release notes about this though.

[Sick Bubblegum]

After I applied Steam beta-version on my PC it finaly got fixed!
Thanks man!

Originally posted by The Hounds of Justice:

Appears to be fixed in the latest beta. I updated to the beta client on both the deck and the remote play host and gyro works properly. Tested with a Windows 11 host and a Steam Flatpak (on fedora 38) host.

I needed to update both, it didn't work if I updated only the deck or only the host.

I didn't see anything in the release notes about this though.

[Freaky]

Yeah I'm getting the same issue, updating to beta on both desktop and deck just made it laggy with the same gyro problem. Opening steam tab solves it temporarily, no idea what triggers it to stop working over and over.

[foszlock]

Same problem here as well....

[Tarnowski]

Hey, is this still an issue for other people? I have gyro setup for Helldivers 2 and it works fine native from the deck but when I try to stream from my PC it stops working. I tired the Shift+Tab and display keyboard tricks with no luck :( Also set my PC's steam client to the beta version.