How to disable steam joy-con settings?

[Zombieboyband]

I use joycon controllers along with an app called re:wasd to get them detected as a ps4 controller to play my games. has worked perfectly before the recent joy-con support steam update. This latest update has made my game unplayable. I have tried to blacklist the controllers through Steam, didn't work. I tried using another program (HIDhide) to hide my joycons from Steam but that created an entirely new and equally bad issue. Is there any way to get rid of this issue fully?

[tintingaroo]

What was happening when you tried to blacklist? The controllers were still shown as detected?

Were you trying the manual or the "press Start" blacklist method?

[Zombieboyband]

Originally posted by tintingaroo:

What was happening when you tried to blacklist? The controllers were still shown as detected?

Were you trying the manual or the "press Start" blacklist method?

blacklist didn't make the lag or input dropping go away or change at all. All it did was ignore any input from those devices. I blacklisted by going into controller settings and blacklisting there, and also adding them to the config file in my Steam installation manually.

[tintingaroo]

I don't know what's going on - when it's blacklisted Steam shouldn't be interacting with the controller at all, it shouldn't be able to cause lag/input drops I would think.Do you have a non-Steam game to test with? If you do, how are things with the controllers blacklisted and Steam running versus when Steam is closed?

I was looking on the reWASD forums and a post there mentions it has a hide controller function built-in:
https://forum.rewasd.com/forum/rewasd/technical-questions-aa/232925-controller-does-not-register-inputs-after-reconnected-after-being-turned-off?p=232939#post232939
You could see if it's enabled and if it gives different results.


My other thought at the moment is if the emulated DS4 from reWASD is being detected and acted upon by Steam... but first see what the result is in the other tests.

[Zombieboyband]

Originally posted by tintingaroo:

I don't know what's going on - when it's blacklisted Steam shouldn't be interacting with the controller at all, it shouldn't be able to cause lag/input drops I would think.Do you have a non-Steam game to test with? If you do, how are things with the controllers blacklisted and Steam running versus when Steam is closed?

I was looking on the reWASD forums and a post there mentions it has a hide controller function built-in:
https://forum.rewasd.com/forum/rewasd/technical-questions-aa/232925-controller-does-not-register-inputs-after-reconnected-after-being-turned-off?p=232939#post232939
You could see if it's enabled and if it gives different results.


My other thought at the moment is if the emulated DS4 from reWASD is being detected and acted upon by Steam... but first see what the result is in the other tests.

Hide physical controller is automatically on in reWASD. I turned it off to see what would happen and the first thing I noticed was that none of the buttons were doing what they were supposed to. I reassigned everything in key config within the game when I noticed it was telling me the button I was trying to assign already had a function in a spot I had already fixed. When I tried out these new configs in game each button seemed to do a random action, sometimes the correct one but most of the time not. I tried to see if the original issue was fixed but I really can't tell. I think there's less input dropping but input lag still seems pretty bad.

I've tried my joycons as a virtual ds4 on a non-Steam game when I was troubleshooting it on my own and there was no lag or input dropping. Operated the same as it did before the Steam update.