Razer Tartarus Detected Controller[FIXED]

[LuridFTW]

FIX: Disable both Controller and Vibration via Skyrim in game settings then plug in your Tartarus. Only disabling the Controller option is not sufficient.

I got the game the other day and have been trying to figure out why it’s detecting my keyboard as a controller. It doesn’t do this with any other game I have played on or off the steam platform.
The firmware is up to date and so are the drivers.

Disabling the “controller” option via Skyrim in game settings then plugging in the Tartarus does not work. There’s no controller inputs bound to any of the keys and it doesn’t work with Synapse closed either. Which defaults the keypad to factory.

At the end of the day it’s not a huge deal but I would much rather use my Tartarus. I use it for everything even MMORPG games. I really like the ergonomics of it and the fact I can change any key on it to something else if I need to.

If anyone has any ideas I would like to hear them. I think the game just predates the release of the game pad and that might be the reason why.

[worm_master]

U MIGHT have to get a interface, it IS Bsoft,now im not entirely sure of my ground, in this case it's a program that overrides the controls of another, like a filter, thats as far as my knowledge extends, i'm sorry to say

[LuridFTW]

Originally posted by worm_master:

U MIGHT have to get a interface, it IS Bsoft,now im not entirely sure of my ground, in this case it's a program that overrides the controls of another, like a filter, thats as far as my knowledge extends, i'm sorry to say

So you’re saying something like REWASD might potentially work to trick the game into thinking it’s a keyboard? What do you mean by interface?

[Death Approaches]

As I told you in the other thread, it's a controller, you can't change that. If you go into Hardware and select the Tart, it will show as "HID-compliant game controller" - it doesn't advertise itself to the system as a keyboard.

You can probably fudge it some, go into the controllers section (The OS not the game) in device manager / Xbox 360 peripherals / Xbox 360 controller for windows, find the Tart's entry, probably the only one if that's your only controller, and disable that. That will turn off the thumbstick and maybe the scrollwheel, but the keys should be usable in parallel with your regular KBM setup.

I'm guessing here. I don't have one.

It's not just skyrim, for dozens/hundreds of games it will be unusable, dishonoreds, bioshocks, etc. Many games do not allow simultaneous inputs; you touch a thumbstick or a button, and it immediately switches to controller from KBM, and press space, and it switches back. Trying to use a keyboard that is detected as a controller will involve lots and lots of double-pressing things.

You might be able to make a steam controller profile that maps every "button" to the regular keyboard keypress; as long as there are no analog inputs being used, or anything that's only available on a controller, you might arrive at a workaround.

Does razer have a community support forum? You might want to ask other users if they know of a workaround. They also have a subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/razer/ and a discord https://discord.com/invite/razer that might help you more than skyrim-specific gamers, just saying.

[Liquid Inc]

Does the "Auto Gamepad Switch" mod available on Nexus help, OP?

With the mod, I can put my controller down, and immediately start using M+KB, and then switch right back to the controller without doing anything other than picking up and putting down the controller. No menu's, no buttons, nothing special.

your mouse will still work, as well as your Tartarus, and it'll automatically switch between the 2 with virtually no delay whenever you use it. This will only work if your using one or the other though (As it's designed for XBOX/PS controllers), and not using the Tartarus to run forward while hitting things with your sword via your mouse... that's something a lot of games can't do.

[-={LG}=-]

Right-click Skyrim in your library, go to properties -> controller and disable Steam Input.

[LuridFTW]

Originally posted by Death Approaches:

As I told you in the other thread, it's a controller, you can't change that. If you go into Hardware and select the Tart, it will show as "HID-compliant game controller" - it doesn't advertise itself to the system as a keyboard.

You can probably fudge it some, go into the controllers section (The OS not the game) in device manager / Xbox 360 peripherals / Xbox 360 controller for windows, find the Tart's entry, probably the only one if that's your only controller, and disable that. That will turn off the thumbstick and maybe the scrollwheel, but the keys should be usable in parallel with your regular KBM setup.

I'm guessing here. I don't have one.

It's not just skyrim, for dozens/hundreds of games it will be unusable, dishonoreds, bioshocks, etc. Many games do not allow simultaneous inputs; you touch a thumbstick or a button, and it immediately switches to controller from KBM, and press space, and it switches back. Trying to use a keyboard that is detected as a controller will involve lots and lots of double-pressing things.

You might be able to make a steam controller profile that maps every "button" to the regular keyboard keypress; as long as there are no analog inputs being used, or anything that's only available on a controller, you might arrive at a workaround.

Does razer have a community support forum? You might want to ask other users if they know of a workaround. They also have a subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/razer/ and a discord https://discord.com/invite/razer that might help you more than skyrim-specific gamers, just saying.

You were wrong, disabling the controller AND vibration options made it work via Skyrim ingame settings. For anyone else with the same issue that’s how you fix it. I assumed that disabling the controller it would it would automatically disable vibration but I guess not. Works perfectly fine now. I knew for a fact it was the application not the device, as I said it works in every other game and they all see it as a keyboard.

I’m not sure why you say it wouldn’t work in other games when it does work in every game I’ve played. FPS, MMORPG, ARPG, you name it. If it didn’t work then no one would buy it. I have played two dozen games with it and haven’t had any issue until Skyrim. I bet my life if I downloaded Bioshock right now it would work.

[LuridFTW]

Originally posted by -={LG}=-:

Right-click Skyrim in your library, go to properties -> controller and disable Steam Input.

I tried that yesterday, apparently you need to disable the vibration option not just the controller option via Skyrim in game settings. Then I plugged it in and it works fine.

[Death Approaches]

hey i was close, for not having one! :-) I did say disable everything that was controller-only things, that would include rumble. But happy you're happy finally. You still should share your discovery with other Tart users though, lots of people have similar issues.

Do you have any bioshock games, or arkane dishonoreds? or battlefronts, or any of the other games that do that singular control method thing? you should test to see if it's a universal fix for those kinds of annoyances, then share your discovery!