Dualsense controller unusable (very very laggy) when steam is running, why?

[High as a kite]

I bought BT 5.3 dongle back in march, but had major issues with all my controllers when connected by bluetooth. When using Dualsense the inputs are either too long, or missed all together. Dongle is about 1 meter away from me. I thought its the dongle causing this, but recently I started playing ZZZ and since its non steam game, I decided to try shutting down steam and testing again. Dualsense now works flawlessly and all inputs are accurate and none are missed.

I also noticed sometimes my controller disappears from Settings > controllers only to show up again, without controller disconnecting. I think this is why inputs with steam running are so unreliable, as it acts as man in the middle i think.

TL:DR steam makes dualsense laggy and floaty, without steam everything works perfect. How to fix it?

Edit: steam client, drivers,dualsense and windows (11) are all up to date.

[flingo]

yeah, Steam’s input handling can mess with DualSense, especially over Bluetooth. Try this:

- Go to Steam > Settings > Controller > General Controller Settings.

- Uncheck “PlayStation Configuration Support” and restart Steam.

- Also, disable Steam Input per game: right click the game > Properties > Controller > set it to “Disable Steam Input.”

This usually helps with lag or weird input issues. If it still acts up, you could also try using DS4Windows when playing non Steam games, and only run Steam when needed.

[High as a kite]

nvm turns out Baseus BA07 BT dongle is just bad for controllers. Someone on reddit had same issue. used my old 4.0 dongle and works flawlessly.