(Potentially) SOLVED: I disabled both Steam Overlay and controller Steam Input, and now it somehow works. Strangely, I believe they were both disabled to begin with and I tried enabling one at a time, then both, and nothing worked. I wanted to test individual settings again so I turned both off and suddenly it recognizes my controller (DualShock 4)

I haven’t played 1.6 but I’m sure I played 1.5 with this setup a while back and the controller was working. Now my Mac recognizes the controller (and I can use in Steam’s big picture mode) but the game doesn’t.

What I’ve tried:

  • Started the game through Big Picture mode using my controller, and tried without Big Picture mode
  • Uninstalled SMAPI and any mods
  • Restarted my Mac
  • Enabled/Disabled Steam Input in controller settings

Anyone have any experience getting it to work?

NOTE: Just tried with DualSense/PS5 controller and having the same issue. The game doesn’t seem to recognize the controller

  • Pfeffy@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I had this problem with a dualshock 5 on Linux. I did get it working eventually but I can’t remember exactly what the process was. I think it had to do with turning off steam taking over the controller and using it natively, maybe in big picture mode?

    • thisisdee@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I think it had to do with turning off steam taking over the controller and using it natively

      Oh interesting, so actually preventing Steam from recognizing the controller?

      • Pfeffy@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Yes, but now I realize you are saying that you’re having the problem on Mac. I have no idea if my thing would work on Mac.

        I did a little digging and found this: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/2/3004429475624592660/

        It looks like you’re probably just running into an issue where Apple are douchebags. It looks like you might be able to go through a tedious process to make controllers work if you have an older Mac, but if you have a M2 chip or whatever you are probably just screwed for the time being.

        • thisisdee@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I am on an older Intel based Mac (2020 iMac to be specific). And I do remember this setup working a while back so maybe it was a macOS upgrade that broke it. I last played Stardew Valley maybe 1.5 years ago so something since then has made my controller stop working.

          Thanks for the link. Although it looks like it’s for controllers working with Steam in general, instead of for this game only which I’m having trouble with. My controller works fine outside of Stardew Valley and I was able to control Steam’s big picture with it. I’ll read through it though, thanks!