https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/221410/discussions/0/786567613838950153/

引用自 Jinrum：

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/221410/discussions/0/786567613838950153/

this doesnt seem to hint me in the right direction for how to solve this. its a different controller and they had it working already.
for me the controller works only if the game itself checks for it, but when steam tries to use steam input, it does absolutely nothing, when i go into the viewport where you can test steam input layouts it doesn't respond at all when i try to use my controller. only time steam reacts to my controller is when i go into controller settings and test it but thats it.

Check the game in question. Go to Properties and enable Steam Input. Load up said game, once you reach in-game main menu bringup the Steam Overlay and check the controller and configure it for said game if needed. If this does not work, exit the game and load Steak into BigPictureMode and do it from there after game loaded up from there.

引用自 Bad 💀 Motha：

Check the game in question. Go to Properties and enable Steam Input. Load up said game, once you reach in-game main menu bringup the Steam Overlay and check the controller and configure it for said game if needed. If this does not work, exit the game and load Steak into BigPictureMode and do it from there after game loaded up from there.

so after trying this it seems that the games doesn't seem to recognize that im trying to use a controller, i first tried on a demo of a game, did not work except if i set up keyboard + mouse mode, then i tried on a game that i know have controller support, balatro, and that one did not recognize the controller at all

Same setup as yours, Popos 24 and 8bitdo controller.
It was working perfeclty fine a month ago or so, but now I have to disable steam input for each game for my controller to work.
It is a workaround as it involve other problems, I can't use Steam remote play for example.
Any ways to get it fixed would be nice.

8bitDo = you shouldn't need Steam Input enabled because the 8bitDo controllers can be seen as an Xbox or Switch controller.

Steam Input is only for games without native controller support. What Steam should do is have that disabled by default. Then user enable it in a game where needed. Instead we have to go to each game and disable it one by one.