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Did Steam input cause the double input?
I have a PS4 controller and I connected it to my Alienware laptop by using a USB wire. I started using the PS4 controller on my Alienware laptop on Jan 2024 and before that I was using it on my HP laptop.
I played games that have native PS4 controller support from Jan 2024 to May 2024 on my Alienware laptop. I played those games outside Steam because they recognized the controller. There were no issues. Also there were no issues in the past when I was using the PS4 controller on my HP laptop by using DS4Windows.
DS4Windows is not installed on my Alienware laptop. I recently started playing a game which doesn't have native PS4 controller support on my Alienware laptop so I had to add the game to Steam so it uses Steam input to recognize the controller. I picked the enabled w/o support instead of enabled for PlayStation support in the Steam controller config.
After a few days something weird happened in the game. There are dialogue boxes and text scrolls in the boxes and then an icon shows and I can press X on my controller to go to the next dialogue box. The boxes are aa, bb and cc and the icon was showing for aa and I pressed X once. The game jumped over bb and it showed for like 200 ms and it went to cc. I redid that part and I pressed X on the icon of aa and it went to bb. If I press X while the text is scrolling then it will just make the text scroll faster so it doesn't make sense that the game jumped from aa to cc and I just pressed X once on the icon of aa.
It looks like I got double input when I pressed X once on the icon of aa so it jumped to cc. I know that Steam input can cause double input if you play a game which has native PS4 controller support in Steam with Steam input and the solution is to disable steam input. Also I know that desktop mode of Steam input can misbehave and cause double input.
I want to ask can Steam input misbehave and cause double input if I play a game which doesn't have native PS4 controller support in Steam by using Steam input? Can desktop mode misbehave and cause double input? Desktop mode doesn't work if I selected enabled w/o support for PlayStation support and I need to select enabled.