Quest 2 controllers not working through steam VR

[Trinket]

for whatever reason when i run the game in vr, all the headlook stuff works fine but my contrllers will have literally 0 response in game. ive made sure the window is focused and i cant even rebind commands using my oculus controllers. they work in any other VR game i run through steam so i dont know what im doing wrong here. any info would be great!

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

This game does not support VR controllers. Touch pads and buttons can work like a regular gamepad, but no motion controls will.

[Clueless Disgrace]

Alt-Tab to the client window on your 2D screen and click once with the mouse in it to give it focus, it should work then.

[Trinket]

Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:

This game does not support VR controllers. Touch pads and buttons can work like a regular gamepad, but no motion controls will.

That's the issue, no buttons, pads or joysticks work.

Originally posted by Clueless Disgrace:

Alt-Tab to the client window on your 2D screen and click once with the mouse in it to give it focus, it should work then.

I believe I said I made sure the window is focused, to no avail.

[Princess Pilfer]

Yeah, ED doesn't support VR controllers motion controls. It's M+KB, controller, or hotas.

[Trinket]

Originally posted by Princess Pilfer:

Yeah, ED doesn't support VR controllers motion controls. It's M+KB, controller, or hotas.

But shouldnt I be able to use the joysticks and buttons on the quest controllers as a controller? I'm not trying to use motion controls here

[Planewalker]

Did you turn off steam controller input in ditto settings?

[Trinket]

Originally posted by Planewalker:

Did you turn off steam controller input in ditto settings?

Yeah

[Planewalker]

Try opening the (old) windows control panel joystick window and keep it open while running the game. (if you rightclicked ED in steam and disabled controllers under properties, steam should no longer interfere) There is also a limit on how many controllers can be connected at once wrt ED.

The only other thing i can think of is missing drivers.

[Trinket]

Originally posted by Planewalker:

Try opening the (old) windows control panel joystick window and keep it open while running the game. (if you rightclicked ED in steam and disabled controllers under properties, steam should no longer interfere) There is also a limit on how many controllers can be connected at once wrt ED.

The only other thing i can think of is missing drivers.

Only issue with the driver thing is they work fine in every other steam VR game. But I'll try the first thing you said when I get home and update you. Playing this with KB+M with a headset on kills me lol

[Escaloupe]

You have to use oculus link for PC connection if you want touches to be identified by a game. Virtual desktop doesn't allow that unless you turn on gamepad emulation in settings, which is worse since it doesn't allow to browse through menus from the box

[Planewalker]

OP i misread the part about you wanting to use the joysticks/buttons on the VR controllers, so just ignore the windows control panel thing i said. (thought you meant a normal joystick)

You may be able to use something like this:
https://github.com/dantman/elite-vr-cockpit

There are other options for using VR controllers, however it will require a bit of tinkering with 3rd party programs like the link i just posted on your part.

You can search "elite dangerous virtual cockpit" to find more.

This link has some good info too:
https://xinreality.com/wiki/How_to_Setup_Elite_Dangerous_in_VR


cheers

[Trinket]

Originally posted by Planewalker:

OP i misread the part about you wanting to use the joysticks/buttons on the VR controllers, so just ignore the windows control panel thing i said. (thought you meant a normal joystick)

You may be able to use something like this:
https://github.com/dantman/elite-vr-cockpit

There are other options for using VR controllers, however it will require a bit of tinkering with 3rd party programs like the link i just posted on your part.

You can search "elite dangerous virtual cockpit" to find more.

This link has some good info too:
https://xinreality.com/wiki/How_to_Setup_Elite_Dangerous_in_VR


cheers

ill be sure to look into that. i managed to make them work if i link up with my pc, but for whatever reason through virtual desktop it doesnt work, which is weird.
Thank you for the help!

[E. Hyde]

Originally posted by Egg:

ill be sure to look into that. i managed to make them work if i link up with my pc, but for whatever reason through virtual desktop it doesnt work, which is weird.
Thank you for the help!

I'm having the same problem as you, but can't figure out what you mean by "link up with my pc", how did you do it?

[Trinket]

Originally posted by Sierra 117788:

Originally posted by Egg:

ill be sure to look into that. i managed to make them work if i link up with my pc, but for whatever reason through virtual desktop it doesnt work, which is weird.
Thank you for the help!

I'm having the same problem as you, but can't figure out what you mean by "link up with my pc", how did you do it?

like playing wired, that was the only way i could get it to work, but playing with a controller is just kinda better anywya

[E. Hyde]

Originally posted by Egg:

like playing wired, that was the only way i could get it to work, but playing with a controller is just kinda better anywya

i already reached out to Frontier support, and they seem to believe that it is a problem on their end, they elevated my ticket with the internal QA team, but its been 3 weeks and I haven't heard, for what thats worth