Seeking slightly off topic help, joystick related

[stupor-mundi]

I'm using a Gladiator II as my flight stick. I use EDTracker Pro AND Delanclip/Opentrack for headtracking.

I also use a Behringer X Touch midi device for various inputs (dials and sliders).

I got this to work through use of multiple (3) opentrack instances, and a FreePIE script.

Two of the opentrack instances pump headtracking data into the FreePIE script, which uses VJoy virtual joysticks as output. The 3rd opentrack instance takes joystick input and creates Freetrack output, for IL-2 to use.The midi output from the X Touch is distributed to multiple virtual joysticks for IL-2 to use.

 

A few days ago, for the first time, I bought some Steam titles, Wolfpack and Cold Waters (they are from different game companies I believe), which, judging by what's in the settings, appear to be mouse-only titles.

 

In both titles I had the weird effect that, in the game settings, when I tried to set a slider with the mouse, as soon as I release the mouse button, the slider moves all the way to the right, in an animated way. And of course not just the slider, but the associated setting as well (volume for instance).

 

I asked on the steam forums, because it happened in both titles, and I suspected the steam software might be doing something underhanded there.

 

In the thread ("Problem with settings sliders in different games ") , they are suggesting that this might be caused by controllers, joysticks, and such, and that I should "just" disconnect any such devices.

I guess that's a different crowd, and they have a different view on the world...

Obviously, I have no intention of messing with my setup, which took a long time to get right.

 

I'm quite surprised by what they are saying in that forum, that "it's expected" for connected joysticks to have such effects, on settings sliders.

 

So I'm hoping that someone in the IL-2 crowd has had Steam experience, and whether that sort of issue was encountered before.

 

 

[Sokol1]

Probable STEAM Controller settings are considering your joysticks as "generic gamepad", disable this.

https://support.rocketleague.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022354994-How-do-I-Disable-Steam-Controller-Configuration-

[stupor-mundi]

Thanks Sokol,

I went back in and checked. Since I don't use big picture mode, it looks slightly different in my interface, but, for each game, there is

the cogwheel button (Manage)

in there, "Properties"

"General" tab, has the same setting

"Steam Input Per-Game Setting"

... which I had already set to "Forced Off" yesterday, for each title. It was pretty much the first thing I tried.

And I had retried the settings after restarting the game, no improvement.

As I retried those things, I also stumbed over a central (non game) setting for controllers, which lists each of my (real and virtual) joysticks, and the EDTracker.

I've looked into every one of them, nothing is bound to any of their buttons or axis.

 

Now, having seen all the jiggery pokery which steam does, it seems increasingly likely that Steam is implicated here, and not the titles.

I think I'll try to return the titles, quit my Steam account, and maybe purchase the titles directly.