"Since Valve refuses to give an option to disable Steam Input globally, Special K can now completely disable Steam from having any access to input devices at all. No longer will they screw up your DualSense controller's HID Output Report state (haptics, lights, power saving mode, gyro config) when you have Steam Input _supposedly_ turned off.

Steam flat-out cannot touch the damn controller anymore, good riddance. This eliminates Steam's meddling with guide button, prevents it from blocking native input APIs to games, overall it just makes buying games on Steam much safer because now you don't have to worry about being forced to run the games YOU OWN through a client emulator just get to get input working in them. You can keep the rest of Steamworks functionality, while maintaining the ability to use your gamepad.

This is HUGE, because Valve won't refund you for any games that their otherwise undefeatable Steam Input garbage breaks. I honestly don't know how that's legal, but we've got protection from Steam Input breaking our entire purchased game library that requires the Steam client for DRM finally.

https://discord.com/channels/778539700981071872/792979353117524009/1208080318461116488"