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LostALife 11 Nov, 2023 @ 2:13am
Can you use XBOX impulse trigger motors on steam?
Hi all,

I recently bought the Starfield XBOX controller and noticed it has impulse triggers as I have heard them called.
I bought this controller solely for PC use, as I don't have an XBOX.
I can't seem to get the trigger motors to actually do anything though and can't find a definitive answer online on if they are supported with steam games.

I have noticed there is a setting in steam for extended feature support. Do I need this?
Or are these motors not supported?

Thanks
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Muppet among Puppets 11 Nov, 2023 @ 7:13am 
You mean the rumble in the triggers?
I only have that in one car game.
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Cathulhu 11 Nov, 2023 @ 7:16am 
Yes, those can be used on PC. The game must support them though. The list of such games is rather short.

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_that_support_Xbox_One_impulse_triggers

As you can see, Starfield does not support them.
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LostALife 19 Nov, 2023 @ 8:40pm 
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
Yes, those can be used on PC. The game must support them though. The list of such games is rather short.

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_that_support_Xbox_One_impulse_triggers

As you can see, Starfield does not support them.

So is there a trick to getting it working?
I downloaded Mad Max which is on the list and it does not ever use the triggers as far as I can see.
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Muppet among Puppets 20 Nov, 2023 @ 12:15am 
There was a topic about it long ago. Someone said it might work in certain conditions, if you disable steam controller settings and load a dll for xinput 2.0 or something. Not an official download.

But that is nothing i could recommend.

I disable rumble normally. It distracts from the game. The game which had this trigger rumble was not on steam btw.
So i know it exists, but it made no sense to me.
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Cathulhu 20 Nov, 2023 @ 1:00am 
Disabling Steam Input for that particular game should be enough.
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LostALife 21 Nov, 2023 @ 11:36pm 
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
Disabling Steam Input for that particular game should be enough.

I tried disabling steam input on the game but still no impulse rumble.
I'm not even sure what actions cause the impulse motors to fire in Mad Max anyway.

Will probably just give up on this. Regular rumble works fine so it's not a big deal.
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ReBoot 21 Nov, 2023 @ 11:48pm 
Originally posted by Lost_A_Life_Gaming:
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
Disabling Steam Input for that particular game should be enough.

I tried disabling steam input on the game but still no impulse rumble.
I'm not even sure what actions cause the impulse motors to fire in Mad Max anyway.

Will probably just give up on this. Regular rumble works fine so it's not a big deal.
Are you sure Mad Max even supports those? I bet it doesn't.
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LostALife 25 Nov, 2023 @ 11:11pm 
Originally posted by ReBoot:
Originally posted by Lost_A_Life_Gaming:

I tried disabling steam input on the game but still no impulse rumble.
I'm not even sure what actions cause the impulse motors to fire in Mad Max anyway.

Will probably just give up on this. Regular rumble works fine so it's not a big deal.
Are you sure Mad Max even supports those? I bet it doesn't.

According to the website that posted above it does, that's why I was using it to test in the first place.
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Sonic 20 hours ago 
Originally posted by LostALife:
Originally posted by ReBoot:
Are you sure Mad Max even supports those? I bet it doesn't.

According to the website that posted above it does, that's why I was using it to test in the first place.
so did u find out how to make it work
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LostALife 20 hours ago 
Originally posted by Sonic:
Originally posted by LostALife:

According to the website that posted above it does, that's why I was using it to test in the first place.
so did u find out how to make it work

No, not that I could find a way to get it to work. Ended up buying a PS5 controller later which works great though.
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Sonic 13 hours ago 
Originally posted by LostALife:
Originally posted by Sonic:
so did u find out how to make it work

No, not that I could find a way to get it to work. Ended up buying a PS5 controller later which works great though.


I read your post again and you tried to use the Xbox controller on 2 games that don’t have rumble support according to the wiki but I own gears 5 on steam and it’s not working for me. I’m using the Xbox controller wirelessly and tried to turn steam input on and off. But I don’t notice anything
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Yandy 6 hours ago 
This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.
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