Comment on Left trackpad vibrating when using left stick (no hardware issue!)
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
There’s two kinds of haptics with the trackpads, one is haptic feedback when using the trackpad, the other is simulating controller rumble using the trackpad haptic feedback.
I’m guessing it’s one of these two causing the vibration. you can individually disable them by pressing the QAM button (the “. . .” button), going to the gear menu, and scrolling down to the bottom where there should be toggles for game rumble and steam haptics.
I also might try switching to a different control profile and see if it still happens. Ideally a pretty blank profile where the left stick is configured to let you move and that’s it.
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Thanks, so the first suggestion, that sounds like a global setting to me? Which unless specific controller templates can switch that on and off, wouldn’t be making sense here.
Same to your second suggestion, I mentioned in the post if I switch to other controller profiles from the same game, the effect goes away.
I will have a look at your first suggestion stil though, thanks!
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Ok, I missed that changing controller profiles fixed it.
I’d still recommend trying the global toggles, that will let us know whether it’s haptic feedback or simulated rumble. From there we can hopefully narrow down what’s going on with the control scheme.
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
OK, had a little time to check this. If I switch of Steam Haptics this behaviour goes away. So its definitely that and not game rumble.
However I noticed something else. I only get the haptics feedback when I slightly move the joystick. If I move it fully in one direction the haptics feedback stops. So I guess it must be something in controller settings that changes stick behavior between full moves and moving them less than that. Maybe loops into what the other poster said.
Thanks again for the suggestion!