XBox Series X controller, share button not working

[Cathulhu]

Yeah, i enabled the XBox Extended Feature Support option and restarted my computer.

The button simply does not work in Steam and Steam sees the controller as an XBox One controller.

[Crimson Idol]

Did you enter the controller configuration ("Big-Picture-configuration" under Settings > Controller) after installing the driver? There you can assign an action to the button when clicking on it and the picture shows a Xbox Series-controller, even if Steam still calls it an Xbox One-controller.

After I assigned the action I was able to take ingame-screenshots via the share button.

[raphaboareto]

Mine is not working too!

[austinp_valve]

If you were already using a custom configuration for your game you might need to bind it manually. We updated the default bindings for game so you're using one of our default templates when you make any edits to the configuration yourself it becomes your own custom configuration and stops getting changes from the original configuration.

[Apok]

Originally posted by austinp_valve:

If you were already using a custom configuration for your game you might need to bind it manually. We updated the default bindings for game so you're using one of our default templates when you make any edits to the configuration yourself it becomes your own custom configuration and stops getting changes from the original configuration.

what if driver even not installing? [Driver installation failed, is the steam service running and up to date?] error, steam obviously running and updated.

[Cathulhu]

Just tried it again by reinstalling the driver. Had to restart twice and got the message that the driver was successfully installed.

Enabling the option --> Restarting --> Getting message that driver was successfully installed --> Restart

Still is shown as a XBox One Controller and does not allow me to use the Share button.
Additionally, i can not bind it to anything as the option does not exist at all. Steam sees and identifies it as a XBox One Controller and does not recognize the button exists on my controller.
No custom profile exists as i never created one for the XBox controller, only for my Steam controller.

Firmware of the controller is 5.5.2641.0 and according to the Xbox Accessory app up to date.
The controller is connected with an USB cable and is an original XBox Series X controller from Microsoft, not a third party knock off.

I use Windows 10 Pro 20H2 Build 19042.685, which too is up to date.

[Shadic]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Just tried it again by reinstalling the driver. Had to restart twice and got the message that the driver was successfully installed.

Enabling the option --> Restarting --> Getting message that driver was successfully installed --> Restart

Still is shown as a XBox One Controller and does not allow me to use the Share button.
Additionally, i can not bind it to anything as the option does not exist at all. Steam sees and identifies it as a XBox One Controller and does not recognize the button exists on my controller.
No custom profile exists as i never created one for the XBox controller, only for my Steam controller.

Firmware of the controller is 5.5.2641.0 and according to the Xbox Accessory app up to date.
The controller is connected with an USB cable and is an original XBox Series X controller from Microsoft, not a third party knock off.

I use Windows 10 Pro 20H2 Build 19042.685, which too is up to date.

USB does that for me as well. Bluetooth works. In USB mode it is literally an Xbox One controller, the share button doesn't work in USB Game Controllers page in windows

[austinp_valve]

Can you make sure you're still running the Steam beta client and post the version number you get from Help->About Steam?

[austinp_valve]

Can you also go to your Steam folder and look at your Steam/config/config.vdf file and post any value you have for "SDL_GamepadBind" in there?

[Cathulhu]

Built: Jan 7 2021, at 18:18:53
Steam API: v020
Steam package versions: 1610075445

"SDL_GamepadBind" "030000007e0500000920000000000000,Nintendo Switch Pro Controller,a:b1,b:b0,back:b8,dpdown:h0.4,dpleft:h0.8,dpright:h0.2,dpup:h0.1,guide:b12,leftshoulder:b4,leftstick:b10,lefttrigger:b6,leftx:a0,lefty:a1,rightshoulder:b5,rightstick:b11,righttrigger:b7,rightx:a2,righty:a3,start:b9,x:b3,y:b2,hint:SDL_GAMECONTROLLER_USE_BUTTON_LABELS:=1,
030000005e040000ff02000000007801,XInput Controller,a:b0,b:b1,back:b6,dpdown:h0.4,dpleft:h0.8,dpright:h0.2,dpup:h0.1,guide:b10,leftshoulder:b4,leftstick:b8,lefttrigger:a2,leftx:a0,lefty:a1,rightshoulder:b5,rightstick:b9,righttrigger:a5,rightx:a3,righty:a4,start:b7,x:b2,y:b3,"
"CSettingsPanelGameInterface.ScreensaverTimeout" "900"
"CSettingsPanelGameInterface.ScreensaverStyle" "0"
}

[𐕣 Mayhem 𐕣]

My PC had a big update yesterday (think I was a bit behind on it) and I'm sure since I did the update, the share button has stopped working with my Xbox Series X controller and it's showing up as an Xbox One controller in configuration.

It was also coming up with the Windows game overlay when I press the Xbox Home button but I managed to disable that in the PC settings and plugging it into USB seemed to get it working with Steam overlay when in Big Picture. I think it's a bug cos it's done all this before.

EDIT: This video seemed to get mine to work! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuZqYvimWS8

[Ripps]

can confirm this is still the case - ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥... no idea who to blame for this, valve or microsoft?

running latest firmware on controller and latest steam beta, windows 10 etc.

this is beyond frustrating and now its just like - wot the ♥♥♥♥ - at one point it did actually work but then at some point stopped..

Steam keeps insisting its an xbox one controller and not a series one.

the really annoying part is there is no help section for steam input in valve's own steam support page.

[Wonkysharks]

Having this issue too. The one thing I’d add is if you go into the Xbox Accessories app and go into Test mode the share button is not recognized at all when pressed.

[Balderick]

The way to go seems to just need controller detected as xbox one controller with xbox configs and extended feature drivers enabled. This will make share button mappable in game configs, which is not mapped to any action when using latest steam builds. Just mapping that to Take Screenshot action should be enough to get working steam screenshots in game but can be mapped to anything you need or want.
Have only tested with 8BitDo in Xinput mode using BT. Using usb cable makes steam see an xbox 360 controller so share button is never detected. share = star button 8BitDo

[MashYourFace]

Looks like it will never work on Windows 10:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/xbox-wireless-controllers-share-button-and-windows/690d94a3-2d0b-4ed5-b783-e0680920cc6e

[austinp_valve]

It can work if you install the Xbox extended support driver on Windows. From Big Picture Mode->Settings->Controller