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Deconceptualist@leminal.space 2 months ago
Even more notes:
I often hate wireless gaming devices (e.g. mice) bit this feels flawless. Inputs are very responsive, I’m not noticing any latency with the puck like I always seem to on bluetooth controllers.
I fired up Forza Horizon 4. Driving feels quite good overall. However I don’t enjoy the rumble much at all. Tried it on default (7 db), max (12 db), and low (4 db) so far. It feels very pulsey, like the little motors fire in 0.5 second butsts as I drift and powerslide, rather than rumbling continuously. I strongly prefer the Elite 2 rumble (or hell regular Xbox 360) and never once thought those needed any adjustment.
I came from an elite 2 too. I think I feel the same about the vibration motors. I think the OG 360s are worse than the steams, but the Elites honestly seem about perfect to me.
Also I haven’t measured it, but do the elites triggers feel much longer than the steam? I primarily use a controller to play FH5/motorsport and they feel shallower.
Just checked and no, they feel about the same. The Steam triggers are just wider, similar to the Deck.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The Steam Deck and Steam Controller (2.0, but w/e) use Voice Coil Actuators spread throughout the device for both haptics snd rumble.
They’re both measured/set in decibels.
electricity-magnetism.org/voice-coil-actuator/
You might try fiddling with the in game rumble settings, if there are any.
If not… well presumably the ‘Game Rumble’ tick box switch thing is set to the right, ‘on’, in the page with the db levels you were on?
It could be that you’ve found something actually worth posting a bug report about on… well I’m not sure where lol.
It could be a Steam Input issue, it could be a Proton issue, it could be both.
It might be the case that the style of command the game sends is basically ‘formatted’ in such a way that its not being properly interpreted/translated the way it would be by the kinds of controllers the game was/is specifically designed to work with.
As far as I can tell, while the Steam Controller and PS5 Controllers use VCAs… the Xbox One Controller uses a more old school, ‘eccentric rotors’, unbalanced things that spin on an axis.
So… for a system like that, a straight pulse of linear input command would feel to get more instense, and then gradually taper off.
If you give that ssme input to a VCA, it … ‘interperets it literally’, if that makes any sense.
Its kinda like VCAs are digital, and ERs are analog… sorta.