Xbox controllers not detected on Don't Starve Together - FIXED

[Solar]

Had two controllers connected and neither would connect on booting DST - React-R and PowerA brands, not that should make much difference.

I searched the forums etc but there were mostly old posts pre full-controller support updates, many with no resolution.

After fiddling around I went to the client.ini file (located usually in ../documents/klei/donotstarvetogether..) and set controller = false. Then restarted to the game.

Then DST asked me if I wanted to detect new controllers and I said yes. Now everything working!

Not sure cause but very glad it was an easy fix.

Hope that helps some of you!

[tools guy-kun]

thank you for sharing this solution. surely it will help someone someday, if it hasn't already.

[Rapatski]

Man I really appreciate the post, but unfortunately this fix doesn't seem to apply to Mac users. I find the very same client.ini file in the Klei folder in Documents, yet iadding the line "controller= false" (or "true" for that matter) doesn't seem to do anything. It's so frustrating as I've been able to get the controller (both Xbox One and Elite Series 2) to work on all Mac games fine and I really expected Don't Starve to take it without much difficulty as it seems such an integral part to the game, and the devs seem to pour so much love into it...

[Enisch]

Originally posted by Rapatski:

Man I really appreciate the post, but unfortunately this fix doesn't seem to apply to Mac users. I find the very same client.ini file in the Klei folder in Documents, yet iadding the line "controller= false" (or "true" for that matter) doesn't seem to do anything. It's so frustrating as I've been able to get the controller (both Xbox One and Elite Series 2) to work on all Mac games fine and I really expected Don't Starve to take it without much difficulty as it seems such an integral part to the game, and the devs seem to pour so much love into it...

any solution? i have same problem on macOS

[Michel.css #L2G]

Thank you very much! This worked perfectly.

[AJJUARYA]

Any solutions for mac users ?

[༺♰Moréna♰༻]

I have the same issue with my pro controller should i still try this? Plz help me

[Solar]

It may well work on other controller types, it just changes the loading settings to forget any controller, then look for it again on start up. As others have posted, it doesn't seem to work for mac users :(

[76561199851535151]

Originally posted by Enisch:

Originally posted by Rapatski:

Man I really appreciate the post, but unfortunately this fix doesn't seem to apply to Mac users. I find the very same client.ini file in the Klei folder in Documents, yet iadding the line "controller= false" (or "true" for that matter) doesn't seem to do anything. It's so frustrating as I've been able to get the controller (both Xbox One and Elite Series 2) to work on all Mac games fine and I really expected Don't Starve to take it without much difficulty as it seems such an integral part to the game, and the devs seem to pour so much love into it...

any solution? i have same problem on macOS

did you ever find a solution?