Left trackpad click is extremely sensitive

[DENNYTHEGREAT]

I'm unable to use the left trackpad for any games or navigating the steam menu due to extreme click sensitivity.

I opened the controller input test menu on steam os. The right trackpad shows x and y location fine and once I press harder the click registers as it should.

As soon as I touch the left track pad the x and y position values register as expected but also the left click pressure is also being registered. My finger is barely on the touch pad and whatever value unit it's reading ~3000 pressure.

I recently fixed this issue by switching to the beta branch and then back to stable however this method did not fix it this time.

Please add a fix for this (giving the option to select custom pressures or make it similar to the right track pad that does not register click sensitivity until harder presses.) It is preventing me from using any custom steam input mapping or playing any games that are using this steam controller settings.

[Broseph Joseph]

confirmed. gets more sensitive towards the corners and edges.

[DENNYTHEGREAT]

Originally posted by Broseph Joseph:

confirmed. gets more sensitive towards the corners and edges.

It definitely does get more sensitive towards the corners. My testing was done with multiple sections of the touch pad. And most of the time I barely felt the touch pad on my fimger and stem input was showing as click pressure.

Started my deck up this morning and having no issues. Weird that it's so inconsistent at times.

[vcannu]

a few time ago i had the same excact problem but with the right pad (even the temporary solution was the same) now seems to work just fine

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/1/4029096483733154732/

[Broseph Joseph]

At least we know its a software/steamOS bug and not broken touchpads. Im getting quite surprised at the amount of 'customer facing' highly visible bugs the Deck is suffering from these days, its getting annoying. I use retrodeck which has a radial menu on the left pad to control emulator functions and more than a few times ive accidentally reset the game i was playing just by the lightest brush against the left pad with the ball of my thumb, its frustrating.

[DENNYTHEGREAT]

Originally posted by Broseph Joseph:

At least we know its a software/steamOS bug and not broken touchpads. Im getting quite surprised at the amount of 'customer facing' highly visible bugs the Deck is suffering from these days, its getting annoying. I use retrodeck which has a radial menu on the left pad to control emulator functions and more than a few times ive accidentally reset the game i was playing just by the lightest brush against the left pad with the ball of my thumb, its frustrating.

This is really the biggest issue that I have dealt with my deck. (Minus my rma when I first got one in 2022). Other than that it's been fantastic. Howeved I play mostly steam based games.

I am playing through Dragon age origins and man the left track pad not working is extremely frustrating and really ruins a lot of the experience. Hopefully someone from steam support reads this and puts in a request for a fix.

I figured it's most likely a software/steam os bug due to the trackpad themselves being software implemented.

Just give me a way to configure this value to I can adjust the click sensitivity and I'd be happy. Just like we can set deadzones on the joysticks.

[DENNYTHEGREAT]

Just discovered that click sensitivity pressure is configurable when you mind the entire click of the touchpad to a key. But there is no option for configurable click with a virtual menu. Which happens to be exactly what I am using for my controller setup.

[vcannu]

After working correctly for quite some time, now both trackpad seems to be affected by the problem, on stable and beta channel

[vcannu]

Originally posted by DENNYTHEGREAT:

Just discovered that click sensitivity pressure is configurable when you mind the entire click of the touchpad to a key. But there is no option for configurable click with a virtual menu. Which happens to be exactly what I am using for my controller setup.

and you still have the problem, for example when typing on the virtual keyboard. Adding a death zone could be a good solution but should be did at system level, not to a single layout

[Broseph Joseph]

Ive observed that the issue waxes and wanes, bizarrely, according to the input testing thing in settings. It can be anywhere between 0 click pressure on the mere lightest touch [ie normal], to between 2000-4000 ish on the lightest touch, which makes the trackpad nearly unusable. Its really, really weird.

[DENNYTHEGREAT]

Originally posted by vcannu:

Originally posted by DENNYTHEGREAT:

Just discovered that click sensitivity pressure is configurable when you mind the entire click of the touchpad to a key. But there is no option for configurable click with a virtual menu. Which happens to be exactly what I am using for my controller setup.

and you still have the problem, for example when typing on the virtual keyboard. Adding a death zone could be a good solution but should be did at system level, not to a single layout

When it comes to the keyboard it's really weird. When I use the keyboard it will allow me to move the touchpad around to whatever key I want but its like it constantly is being activated and when I hover over a letter it just brings up the option for special characters in that letter.


Can you add deadzones to touch pad? I don't see the option for that anywhere in the settings menu.

[DENNYTHEGREAT]

Originally posted by Broseph Joseph:

Ive observed that the issue waxes and wanes, bizarrely, according to the input testing thing in settings. It can be anywhere between 0 click pressure on the mere lightest touch [ie normal], to between 2000-4000 ish on the lightest touch, which makes the trackpad nearly unusable. Its really, really weird.

I am seeing the same thing.

[FapMan]

Can confirm this is hapenning on SteamOS but ALSO on Windows (dual boot). Makes using virtual menus impossible and trackpad typing on the keyboard really annoying - you have to be REALLY careful to not accidentally click keys when hovering over them. It's most noticeable on the trackpad's edges, because they are easier to press down in general, even without this bug present. The only workaround is increasing the Soft Press Threshold in the trackpad click settings, but you don't get that as an option for virtual menus nor the virtual keyboard.

I would consider RMA-ing for this, but it appears to be a software issue? Since sometimes it fixes itself automatically, then breaks again shortly after. I think this is actually a widespread issue, but nobody knows about it since the left trackpad is probably the least used input on the Steam Deck.

[Broseph Joseph]

Most likely a steam client problem than steamos then.

[FapMan]

Originally posted by Broseph Joseph:

Most likely a steam client problem than steamos then.

Yes, it happens both in game configs as well as the desktop config. And both in SteamOS and Windows. Also, yesterday after I restarted my Deck it fixed itself, and today it is broken again. So in summary, it seems to be a Steam Input software issue, not OS and not hardware.

[NoTalentedGamer]

just started happening here too. edit: a shutdown, unplug dock, and restart fixed it. ymmv