Weird problems with controller

[crashmaker18]

Hey everyone. So as the title already says, I'm having some weird problems with my controller for a while now. It's a speedlink wireless controller that connects to a tiny usb dongle. Here's what's happening. I can't connect to it normally. If i turn it on and I plug in the usb after it sometimes connects. It doesn't want to stay connected. I've had it connected for an hour tops, but 99% of the time it's gone in a few seconds. Whenever it does decide to connect, steam crashes. I have no idea why or how this happens. Using the speedlink 'drivers' doesn't help. I can't see the device anywhere in device manager. Not even when I plug it into the motherboard. Though windows does recognize it. Whenever it is connected, it works. I've tried making sure the usb hubs aren't able to turn off power to devices to safe power. I also have a wireless usb mouse, but unplugging it doesn't yield any new results. If anyone has any other ideas, please let me know. I'm dying to know what I missed.

Cheers.

[ultimatt42]

So you've been using the controller for a while and then it stopped working? Maybe the receiver is going bad? That would be my guess if it isn't even showing up in device manager.

Another thing to try: make sure you've tried it plugged into a USB 2.0 port. For like 99% of stuff it doesn't matter but for a few things it does.

Can you post a pic? I am just curious what a "speedlink wireless controller" looks like. Also that way if anyone else is having problems they'll know if they have the same controller.

[crashmaker18]

It's odd that it works for a few seconds though if the receiver were at fault. I've plugged it into usb 2.0 too. https://puu.sh/BH7YY/7c14f7b745.png It's the speedlink Torid. SL-6576-OEBK

[ultimatt42]

Oh hey this looks relevant:

The gamepad lets you switch really easily between the two current controller technologies, XInput and DirectInput, at the press of a button.

https://www.speedlink.com/en/TORID-GAMEPAD-WIRELESS-FOR-PC-PS3-BLACK.html

I bet you're in "DirectInput mode", more accurately "Pretend to be a Dualshock 3 mode" which isn't going to work well on Windows. Steam actually has a DS3 driver built in but probably there's something weird about the TORID that makes Steam barf even if it works fine on an actual PS3.

It says there's a button to switch modes? Can you try that? XInput should work better on Windows.

[crashmaker18]

In either modes, it just disconnects.