u/Aliasbendok

Xbox Mode on Steam Deck, controller very laggy in UI

Hiya! Basically title.

Games run smoothly in this mode, but navigating the main Xbox Mode UI is super laggy and buggy. Inputs will take a sec to actually register, and sometimes the interface will behave as if I'm pressing buttons that I'm not.

Windows seems to be having trouble with detecting/recognizing the controller--for example, icons for the Y and options buttons keep appearing and disappearing in the bottom-right of the screen, as if a gamepad is being picked up and dropped constantly.

I'm curious whether the Steam Deck Tools software that I had been using for Game Pass (considering Windows doesn't natively detect the Steam Deck controller) is not running properly. Maybe Xbox Mode is disabling some key component the software relies on, or maybe it's just conflicting somehow.

Has anyone else tried using Xbox Mode on the Deck since it was released, and are you experiencing similar issues?

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u/Aliasbendok — 5 days ago