Dear Steam, Gyro drift

[Noghalt]

Dear Steam Staff, After much research I have found that the gyro drift problem is common and known to many users. After trying several attempts and reading the most unlikely solutions around the forums I concluded that this problem occurs only with the gyroscope in mouse mode. It's really frustrating. Could you please solve it?

[Canadian Gamer]

You just need to set the controller down on a level surface for a few seconds and it will calibrate itself. If it goes out of calibration quickly, then your controller might be worn out. I find new controllers keep their calibration for a long time, whereas the controller I have had for 5 years and dropped many times is not able to stay calibrated for very long.

[Noghalt]

I just found out that the only game that bores me with drifting is Watch Dogs 2

[Deerain]

Yeah if you solve the drift problem it would make a lot of people happy, unfortunately gravity causes it and its not exclusive to the steam controller. the fix is to set the gyro to always on and sit it on a flat surface and it filters them out, you can use an action set and toggle that action set on when you need to have it always on.

[Canadian Gamer]

The gyro doesn't have to be on to calibrate.

[DaMu]

Instead of going for unlikely solutions, have you tried... manually recalibrating the controller in Controller Settings?
Or perhaps reduce the Smoothing in Mouse settings? There's a clear difference between drift and overfiltering, both of which are not problems "Steam" can solve for you.

[Noghalt]

And yes, i tried to recalibrate through the wizard and i also changed my old steam controller with a brand new one that i kept in reserve.
I haven't tried reducing the smoothing setting. Maybe I will.
I am hoping for the new steam controller v 3