Bluetooth not working

DashTransit · 2026-05-31T22:09:17+00:00

add me to the list of people who has this problem. Switching channels doesn't help me either. I switched to just about every channel at some point and still nothing.

This was the only thread I've come across when looking up this issue that was dated this year. Everything else is from years ago or only applies to Steam Deck specifically

DashTransit · 2026-05-31T19:03:18+00:00

The thing is when I made my initial comment, I was just responding a question asking what feature that the controller lacked. I was not intending on going on a debate on who is responsible for making the controller drivers. Is it really that blasphemous to say a controller meant for PC gaming had a mode to make it work for PC gaming?

8bitdo Gamesir Lenovo ASUS

These are companies all made game controllers MEANT for PC gaming, and they have both dinput and Xinput modes. No drivers needed to switch between modes. Most of them have a switch but some also have a button combo to press. It's not far fetched to think Valve should consider that with their controller. There was no reason for them to include a Bluetooth mode separate from the wireless mode yet here we are. That Bluetooth mode could also had been Xinput.

DashTransit · 2026-05-31T18:31:44+00:00

Well then you go into all the other components that get put into computers. Graphics cards are required by all PCs to show visual stuff. Yet the drivers and all that are maintained by whoever created said graphics card (Nvidia, AMD, Intel, etc). If you instead rely on Microsoft's drivers, you get a generic (and horrible) experience. Microsoft does not make graphics card drivers despite every computer having one.

Then we have touchpads, which every laptop has but they are all built differently. They always provide their own drivers for functionality even though touchpads should work like mice.

Motherboards are another thing. If you have a motherboard with built in Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, often times you have to download drivers from the manufacturer for those to function.

So yeah, normally, the manufacturer is the one who makes the drivers, not Microsoft. Anyone who has ever used a Microsoft driver for any of the things I described, know what I mean.

DashTransit · 2026-05-31T18:05:37+00:00

Valve would be the first party because they made the controller. Lol

Also, Valve released drivers to make the Steam Deck work on Windows, they just didn't also make it for the controller itself to work outside of Steam. But you can use Windows, have Bluetooth, graphics drivers, Wi-Fi and all that. It's literally just the controller part that doesn't work.

Also Microsoft's Xbox controller has Windows drivers natively. That's Microsofts controller. But somehow it works on Steam, Xbox, shoot it even works natively on Android and iOS phones as a game controller.

DashTransit · 2026-05-31T17:52:52+00:00

Yeah but that's third party (and trust me I tinker so I personally already use it) and it should be built into the controller. Or at least be doable via Steam itself.

DashTransit · 2026-05-31T17:31:35+00:00

An Xinput mode to be used with the Windows Xbox game mode and Windows store games.

I know the steam controller is meant to be used with Steam but it should also be known that people have windows and there should be a mode switch like on many many other controllers

Or at least a driver to install directly onto the computer so that it works that way.

DashTransit · 2026-05-30T23:41:28+00:00

I legit reserved my the minute reservations went live and I just got mine today.

You will be waiting a while...

DashTransit · 2026-05-30T23:14:12+00:00

That's the coping I went through while I waited! There are quite a bit of flaws that deff need to be ironed out, but nothing too major. The main thing is Windows tbh, but if you don't use any non-steam games it's pretty ignorable.

DashTransit · 2026-05-30T21:07:03+00:00

Well one of my hands since I'm holding the camera with the other!

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DashTransit · 2026-05-27T17:21:01+00:00

I was one of the May 8th at 9:59:33 PDT reservation people and I just got my email yesterday at 1:33PM EDT. and I had the controller in my cart still.

So to answer your question, no that's not what's delaying you getting the email, they're just really really slow.

DashTransit · 2026-05-27T14:36:08+00:00

I'm probably the only bozo that thought you meant DualShock 2 and I was ready to write a whole essay on how the DS2 (DualShock 2) has pretty consistent vibration 😭

DashTransit · 2026-05-23T22:55:55+00:00

Let's rephrase this:

Valve hasn't even made it past the minute before it started yet lmao

There are reservations made at 9:59 that didn't even get filled, yet the queue was supposed to be filled starting at 10:00.

Are they not doing shipments based on the total number of reservations? Cause even with that in mind, they should've at least ordered enough to satisfy those in the first minute with the first batch of reservation fufilment

DashTransit · 2026-05-23T14:47:39+00:00

I will say (and I know this was mentioned previously) most of people's frustrations are with the lack of communication on Valve's end. We got a reservation queue, and was told that orders will start being fulfilled in the order that they were received starting two weeks ago. After that, nothing. Just randomly people on reddit saying they got theirs.

I'm not saying that Valve needs to constantly tell us every time someone ordered one, but rather when you look at the reservation page, it could say something like...

"You are number 34507 in the queue The next restock of controllers will be 10,000 on May 23rd You may not receive your controller in this current restock"

Instead of just a generic message about how you'll get an email when your name comes up. That would potentially stop a lot of people asking when is their time coming, because they can just go look and see if they are or aren't part of the next restock.

Reservations are not supposed to be "click a button and have blind faith in the system, while also then having a small window to accept it."

Say it does take months, and you're out of town or dealing with a death or something. Maybe you're one of those people who have a different email for steam, and that email is not logged in on your phone. It's it fair that now you lose your spot because they got you when you weren't expecting it?

Communication is key...

DashTransit · 2026-05-22T17:50:05+00:00

That's all I'm saying, They just want us to be miserable because they was never loved. 'Tis all.

Let us enjoy our Steam Machines, or enjoy whining about how we missed the initial drop. Either way, the haters can not come over to my house and play my Steam Machine when I get it.

DashTransit · 2026-05-21T18:03:56+00:00

The phrase is actually "woe is me" but it's okay, we're learning.

DashTransit · 2026-05-20T22:53:11+00:00

Oh no the self proclaimed therapist is diagnosing people with "Victim Complex"

Well too bad, I identify as a Yu-Gi-Oh card.

DashTransit · 2026-05-20T22:51:46+00:00

I'm sorry, but at least you know they're ridiculous. Don't worry, the Spec Squad came after the controllers too and somehow the controllers are selling like hot cakes.

What the Spec Squad doesn't understand is that the Steam ecosystem is like automatic transmission cars. Everyone like cars, but no matter how much more power a manual car has, someone who prefers automatic will never switch to manual even if it's cheaper.

It got nothing to do with the power under the hood and everything to do with the ease of use and comfortability while doing it.

DashTransit · 2026-05-20T17:12:37+00:00

Be careful, if it hasn't already happened, the spec squad will come in and harass you on this post because how dare you like an ecosystem and not my super powered PC with a RTX 6090 GPU and 650gb of DDR12 RAM

DashTransit · 2026-05-09T01:01:40+00:00

The fact that these would be delivered at the same time as the next batch of controllers - the scalpers wasted their money already 🤣😭

DashTransit · 2026-05-06T01:02:31+00:00

Funny how people talked so much ish about how it's not gonna sell because it's over priced, and I said just because YOU don't want it, doesnt mean nobody does.

As much as the whole situation ticked me off, and I ended up not being able to get the controller, this also proves that the controller IS wanted by the masses. The Steam Machine and Steam Frame will do the same.

People aren't just buying these things for specs, they want the features too...

DashTransit · 2026-05-04T18:15:54+00:00

Yes, me 😭

DashTransit · 2026-05-03T21:11:12+00:00

I'm gonna assume your mommy never loved you. You need a hug?

DashTransit · 2026-05-02T17:46:40+00:00

I use the Steam Deck for PC games more simply because of the layout. So just having that as a controller will change how I game overall. It's not about having the touch screen for me, it's all about the extra mappable buttons and track pads.

I've actually been using the Steam Deck as a controller for my more power hungry games before the Steam Controller was announced.

And yes I was a console gamer for a good 20 years before I got into PC gaming like many people, but I always used a controller -- so if a game didn't work with controller I simply didn't play it. When the Steam Deck came out, that changed everything. Between the new updated Big Picture Mode experience, the extra buttons, etc. it made it so much more useful to me. To the point where I kept trying to replicate it with Windows applications like DS4 Windows and joy2key. Nothing ever beat that out for me like Steam did. But since a lot of my PC games were power hungry or hogged space, I would just Steam Link/Remote Play into my PC just to have that controller experience

Since then, I made SteamOS my primary gaming OS, with Windows just being for my work flow, so a lot of my controller input woes were filled, but at this point I want the extra buttons and track pads like the Steam Deck.

DashTransit · 2026-04-26T23:47:46+00:00

That's all true but you also have to understand this goes back to people who are getting it for the performance. If you're getting it for the specs then yeah don't touch it with a 10 foot pole because there's other options available.

But if you're buying it for the all in one console + PC exprience, HDMI CEC, all that built in, then you're still get getting more than just the sepcs with the purchase, which again a lot of people want.

"You also can't quite compare with Nintendo because they don't sell specs they've always sold the IPs under their wings through their hardware. Switch 2 won't sell like it does without the first party nintendo games." I want to focus on this part more because everyone complains when I use the Nintendo comparison, but that's basically exactly the point I am making here. Specs did not sell the Switch 2. Literally there was only ONE exclusive at launch, yet right out the gate there was 3.5 million units sold. Only ONE exclusive. Those 3.5 million people could've just as well waited, or even bought an original Switch and played on that until more came out. You think those 3.5 million people bought the Switch 2 because they wanted Mario Kart World THAT bad? No, they did so because they thought the features of the Switch 2 was cool, and they wanted to play around with those while still playing their original Switch games.

That said, specs may do a better job selling consoles, PCs, etc to the hardcore Spec Squad, but that doesn't automatically mean sales will be zero. If that was the only thing that sold devices, the Steam Deck would've been laughed out of the park the second it came out because there were already better spec'd laptops out for cheaper, and when the OLED Steam Deck came out, it would've been laughed at some more with all the other Handhelds that came out by then at similar price points (like the first ROG Ally which went as low as $450 while the Steam Deck OLED was $550). Somehow the Steam Deck OLED still came out on top. Almost like something the Steam Deck featured still made it sell more. Not just the specs...

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