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I just tried it with Skyrim and it does nothing. Does it work for you? Maybe games need to support it?
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It's specifically a function of Steam Controller Companion and application agnostic. Just wrote this sentence on it.
no, i'll try this now, lol sorry shoot
You'll need to download controller companion through Steam first and allow it to run in the background.
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Did it work for you? No dice here, not for Fallout 3, Fallout 4 or Skyrim.
I think I know why and that is because an application cannot fake DirectXTK input under Windows because that would be a vector to circumvent user input and compromise security. I'm sure Steam's keyboard overlay is just a Steam API that for whatever reason just does not seem to have wide support in games. It's probably hard baked in SteamOS for SteamDeck, but obviously not in Windows.
Nah you just have to turn it on. Most games will automatically disable the Controller Companion so that it doesn't interfere with the games normal controls. Back and Start held together will toggle it back on (or off). Once on, pushing both sticks in together will toggle the keyboard on and off.
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The Steam list of games with only partial game support disagrees,
Is there a way to make Steam and Epic Games Store auto-update themselves? From what I have observed, both Steam or EGS will stop auto-updating installed games as soon as they detect there is an updated client for which there is no option for the clients to update themselves without user and mouse/keyboard interaction.
This is the console experience for me, you don't have to worry about whether your box is ready because it always is whether you last touched it days, weeks or months ago. Maybe SteamOS is different, but I'm running Windows 11.
Just wanted to confirm this is it?
Controller Companion on Steam
Navigate your PC desktop with a controller! Put mouse, media and keyboard control in the palms of your hands so you'll never have to leave the couch again!
it's a 3rd party app?
As I noted further along in that post you're quoting. The Steam list is inaccurate. The first 3 games that I own in that list have 100% controller support and I assume many or most of the games that I don't own and can't verify are similar. I don't know how they define "Partial controller support" but I can assure you (and I'm sure you can easily test yourself) that games like AC: Valhalla and Red Dead do not require any keyboard/mouse intervention if using a control pad.
I wouldn't be surprised if Steam classes a game as only partial controller support if it doesn't fully support the steam controller itself.
Steam as mentioned in a couple of my recent posts does update itself, but requires user intervention to restart it following the update. I'm not sure I've ever noticed EGS updating itself which means it's either infrequent enough that I don't notice, or it does so without my intervention, In either case, these are extremely swift mouse clicks that can very easily be handled through the Controller Companion.
This is fair enough and I hear where you're coming from. Windows and the various game platforms are not 100% self regulating. I accept, you will need to "go into PC mode" occasionally for maintenance activities like reboots and driver installs (these things can be largely done with the controller companion but it's much easier to simply use the mouse/keyboard). What we seemingly disagree on is the level of effort and intervention required for these activities.
I'm not suggesting that you can permanently convert a PC into a console, but rather that when configured correctly, it can deliver a console like experience when all you're interested in is picking up the control pad and playing a game. The updates you speak of will not stop you playing in the vast majority of cases, and in those rare cases where intervention is needed first, then the controller companion is more than capable of allowing you to click "ok" at a Steam restart prompt from the the couch.
Essentially, I'm saying that 95% of the time you spend interacting with the system outside of an actual game, the experience can be extremely console like. The other 5% of the time might be a cumulative 10 minutes every other week restarting the Steam client or rebooting after a Windows update.
Just wanted to confirm this is it?
Controller Companion on Steam
Navigate your PC desktop with a controller! Put mouse, media and keyboard control in the palms of your hands so you'll never have to leave the couch again!store.steampowered.com
it's a 3rd party app?
Yes that's the one. It runs independently of Steam.
Steam seems to say partial support if there’s even one thing you need a keyboard for e.g. during initial install. Lots of partial support games can be setup and played perfectly fine with just a controller.
I've never installed that. The OSK is built into Steam.
Make sure your controller is connected.
Steam->Settings->Controller->Desktop Config (Or Big Picture if that's how you roll)
You can configure the buttons here and assign an action to show keyboard if one isn't configured.
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