Steam Controller only functions properly after restarting steam

[Matney]

Has anyone else experienced a problem where your controller just decides to not fuction properly? say you just get on steam boot up the game and the controller, then when you try to play but you can not move. so you restart steam and its back to working normally.

I constantly have you reboot steam at least once a day just to get it working fine and am curious if anyone else has similar issues? And the problem does not just happen in one of my games, but in all of them. restarting makes things run all righ until the next time I exit the game. Big picture also does not appear to affect it either, it works in big picture BUT not in any of my launched games. Also if i try reconfiguring my controller it glitches out and only lets me see one of the options for the mouse setting and if I try changing it nothing happens.

If there are any other ways to fix this I would be interest in knowing, because constantly restarting steam is getting very annoying

[Cerebrum123]

I have not encountered this problem. I don't know of a way to fix it either. However, that doesn't mean that there is nothing that can be attempted. Are you using the Steam CLient beta? If so, I would try going to the stable build to see if this problem is taken care of. I've seen it happen where somebody gets a problem, and then opts out of beta for it to be fixed. It's worth trying at the very least.

[LeKzero]

It's something related with the computer wake up from a suspend/hibernate mode.

[Matney]

Originally posted by Cerebrum123:

I have not encountered this problem. I don't know of a way to fix it either. However, that doesn't mean that there is nothing that can be attempted. Are you using the Steam CLient beta? If so, I would try going to the stable build to see if this problem is taken care of. I've seen it happen where somebody gets a problem, and then opts out of beta for it to be fixed. It's worth trying at the very least.

Icurrently going to try this

[Matney]

Originally posted by LeKzero:

It's something related with the computer wake up from a suspend/hibernate mode.

how so?

[Cerebrum123]

Originally posted by matney831:

Originally posted by LeKzero:

It's something related with the computer wake up from a suspend/hibernate mode.

how so?

He's talking about a problem where if you go into sleep mode, and wake back up it will cause problems until restarting Steam. If you're not using sleep mode though, then you shouldn't be having the problem he's talking about.

[Matney]

Originally posted by Cerebrum123:

Originally posted by matney831:

how so?

He's talking about a problem where if you go into sleep mode, and wake back up it will cause problems until restarting Steam. If you're not using sleep mode though, then you shouldn't be having the problem he's talking about.

okay that is probably what it was
I am not entirely sure but the issue seemed apparent even if my computer did not enter sleep mode I will have keep a closer eye

[PoppaDoochens]

i5 4670K; AMD 280x

Mine is doing the same thing. It's only while using Steam Link and after waking up the computer. Not sure what settings I need to change to fix it but I sure would like to be able to wake up the computer from the living room and boot up Witcher 3 without having to run to the office to restart Steam. The lazy way I've found to restart Steam is to opt in/out of the beta client.

[Skiptic]

VALVE FIX IT!!!!!

[Skiptic]

WILL YOU EVER FIX THAT BUG?!?!??!

[jedispork]

Same problem here. I try to remember and restart steam before I play. I've become so frustrated with it that I've been plugging in lately.

[hotcrawsbuns]

So what is the fix???? There must be thousands of users running Sleep mode. This controller is way more fiddly than it should be.

I shouldn't have to run a remote desktop client on my tablet to restart steam (or use BPM to reboot the system) every time I want to use steam link and steam controller.

The boot up time to get into a game should be near instant and this process is a nuissance.

[PoppaDoochens]

Only thing I've found other than previously stated is to NOT use the steam link to put the computer to sleep.

[robot.evil]

It doesn't appear to be a steam link problem. It's something to do with Windows 10. On windows 8.1 I could put the computer into sleep and wake the computer from sleep with the steam controller with no issues.

After recently building a new gaming system for our media room, with a fresh install of Windows 10 (Enterprise), I noticed the controller will behave erratically after waking the system from sleep (or refuse to turn on at all). The way to fix it, without restarting steam is to unplug the wireless USB extender from the computer, wait for the controller to blink then turn off (if it's on), then plug back in the wireless USB extender.

Unplugging the controller and plugging it back in works, but I have to do it everyday. Although, sometimes unplugging the USB and plugging it back in will throw some driver error and crash Steam entirely. This is rare though.

It's a minor nuisance, but it's still annoying. Again, only seems to be a Windows 10 issue. If someone at Valve would like to reproduce this bug:

1. Turn off the logon screen in Windows 10 (not sure if that matters, but I have it setup this way since it's a gaming computer only).

2. "Always start in big picture mode" in Steam.

3. "Suspend System" from the menu with the steam controller

4. Wait and wake the system by turning on the Steam controller

5. You may have some control with controller, but selecting menus/games will be difficult and it won't work at all in games. The more likely scenario is it just won't turn on at all. It will blink then just turn it's self off.

[Killerfishmonkey]

It is not the Steam Link... I never turn off my PC. It does not go into sleep mode. "I run server things while I am away" I also do not have a steam controller but I have this problem with an Xbox one controller. So if you let the controller turn off. you need to restart steam to make it work again. If you turn off the controller, you need to restart steam to make it work again. I am using Windows 10 Pro. I rarely use big picture mode, but that does not change the controller not working ans Steam needing to restart.

[Dusty Howard]

Also have this problem. Windows 10, xbox controller, no steam link. However it only affects some steam games. other steam games still detect the gamepad. Restarting the computer is the only solution currently. In the past it worked fine, I'm not sure if it was a steam patch or the new computer that i put together recently where the problem originated as I did not play the games effected by the problem until months after i got my new computer.