Controller no longer working for ED, works everywhere else

[Vineyard]

Been using a PS5 controller to play ED for more than a year. Steam input worked fine up until the last time I played in early July. Tried playing again today and now my controller isn't doing anything with elite. Works fine in every other game I've tried. Steam input settings for ED are unchanged and are not blanked out. Disabling steam-input doesn't work (ED doesn't support PS5 controllers anyway). Thought it might be related to the "Friends and Family Beta" client I switched to recently, so I launched back to non-beta and still doesn't work. Doesn't work when plugged into USB or via bluetooth.
I've even cleared the appdata folder for ED (and no the bindings error log file didn't have any errors). Unionstalled and reinstalled. I'm desperately looking for help, and hopefully someone else has encountered the same problem, or is using a ps5 controller through steam and it's still working.

[martin77]

Right click on the game > properties > controller > turn all things off.
Sometimes this override the general settings you made for steam.

[Vineyard]

Originally posted by martin77:

Right click on the game > properties > controller > turn all things off.
Sometimes this override the general settings you made for steam.

I had already tried this and it did not work either.

[Planewalker]

Sometimes steam input needs to be toggled via big picture mode to "stick".
I've not heard before that elite does not support ps5 controllers.

In any case i'd recommend you contact support via the pinned post here.


cheers

[martin77]

In the game itself you can go to options, controls and then ship or foot and so on.
click what you like.
in the upper right there is a drop down menu and check if this is on custom
and if you can bind your controlling axes to ship controls

[Vineyard]

Originally posted by Planewalker:

Sometimes steam input needs to be toggled via big picture mode to "stick".
I've not heard before that elite does not support ps5 controllers.

In any case i'd recommend you contact support via the pinned post here.


cheers

I tried toggling in big picture mode and still no dice.
ED doesn't even see a controller without steam-input enabled.
In the options>controls the drop down menu to select input devices doesn't show any controller when steam-input is off. But it defaults to gamepad when it is on, and everything has been reset to default, but I get no response from button presses or stick inputs in-game or in menus.

[Vineyard]

I managed to fix this by the following steps.
1) Uninstall Steam.
2) delete the steam folder in users/username/appdata/local
3) reinstall steam
4) enable steam input for elite dangerous

Don't know exactly why it worked for every other game I own and not ED, but this fixed it.

[Planewalker]

Originally posted by Vineyard:

Don't know exactly why it worked for every other game I own and not ED, but this fixed it.

That's IT in a nutshell for ya. xD
Glad you got it working

[martin77]

Originally posted by Vineyard:

I managed to fix this by the following steps.
1) Uninstall Steam.
2) delete the steam folder in users/username/appdata/local
3) reinstall steam
4) enable steam input for elite dangerous

Don't know exactly why it worked for every other game I own and not ED, but this fixed it.

thanks for sharing this!
most of the times someone have problems it is the opposite, steam input off.
I would not have thought that

[pmx]

OMG, I just followed the Veyniard advice to try to improve gamepad support in ED, and I lost all my locally installed games !!

@Veyniard : How could you suggest uninstalling Steam as a "cure" without mentioning that it will also erase everything, including hundreds of Go of downloaded game files (as it obviously also happen to you) ???

I "only" have an xDSL connection, running between 1.2Mo/s and 1.5Mo/s, and I was currently at 90% of downloading the 105Mo "Indiana Jones" game, a 24h download. All lost.

And indeed, I lost "Elite Dangerous" (62+Go) too, "Stray", various incarnations of Rocksmith, the huge 3DMark test file, and other games.

Lucky me, I got my "Flight Simulator Aviator Edition" from the Microsoft Store, and "Cyberpunk 2077" (90Go) and "The Long Dark" (12Go) from GoG. At last those one were saved from the mayhem.

BTW, I'm usually very cautious regarding computer data preservation (professional habits...). When I had to reinstalled Epic Games, I preventively moved/renamed all the downloaded game files, and I didn't lost anything.

But as you didn't mention any data loss, I thought that uninstalling/reinstalling Steam would keep the downloaded files intact and I went directly to the uninstall button.

My take is that you probably have a super fast fiber Internet connection, to "forget" to mention the loss of hundreds of gigaoctets of data...

Right now, I'm not the proverbial happy camper...

[funkynutz]

Originally posted by pmx:

OMG, I just followed the Veyniard advice to try to improve gamepad support in ED, and I lost all my locally installed games !!

@Veyniard : How could you suggest uninstalling Steam as a "cure" without mentioning that it will also erase everything, including hundreds of Go of downloaded game files (as it obviously also happen to you) ???

This won't help you now (sorry), but hopefully it will save you from making the same mistake in the future:

There's a safe method to do a fresh re-install of Steam, that does not delete your installed games... It's the way recommended by Steam support, for fixing corrupted Steam client installs.

You delete everything in the folder EXCEPT the "Steamapps" folder (this is where your games are), and the Steam exe. Then you run the Steam exe and it re-downloads everything it needs. You just have to sign in again.

Steam also gives you the option to make backups of any installed games.

I'm guessing it was actually step 2 that actually fixed it for Vineyard.

My take is that you probably have a super fast fiber Internet connection, to "forget" to mention the loss of hundreds of gigaoctets of data...

Or multiple drives, with Steam installed on the OS drive, games installed in a Steam library folder on others. Or both.