usb encoder and steam games

[putnamto]

ive gotten four of the EG starts usb encoders hooked up in my cab, they work fine in launchbox, retroarch, mame, and the windows controller settings page.

but in steam they just have a fit, it lists the four controllers, but when going to assign buttons to them through steam three of the controllers do seemingly random things(usually clear all or back a screen) and the fourth seems to work like it should accept for the stick, when i go to map the stick up and right assign to axis, but then down and left assign to hats. after setting all four become unresponsive.

anybody else experience this? am i going to have to use a third party app or something to map the controls for steam?

hmmm, digging deaper this also seems to be a problem in redream

EDIT: using joy2key and assigning joystick 1's buttons to the top row of keys on the keyboard, and joystick 2's to the z row, then changing input 0 and input 1 in redream to thekeyboard i was able to map the two controllers that way, so basically joystick emulating a keyboard, then redream reading the keyboard and emulating a controller lol

this does not work with steam though, i was able to get steam to recognize the key presses in the controller configurator, using this same method, but it was still unresponsive in game.

Edited May 29, 2020 by putnamto