I am trying to get Outer Wilds running on my Debian machine, and the “running” itself was a breeze. It runs perfectly on Lutris. But somehow my controller doesn’t communicate with the game. I did check if it is being picked up at all, and using the jstest-gtk tool, I could see that every input is being registered. Same applies to steam, Even in Big Picture mode nothing happens on screen when tapping all the buttons or moving some joystick.
Does someone know how I could go about fixing this issue? At first I thought that this would be a wine thing, but steam is native, and even it doesn’t recognize the controller…
Were you running steam at the time? Try closing steam first and trying again. I have experienced this as an issue when using heroic.
I just tested it and unfortunately it did not fix the problem. Thing is, not Lutris nor Steam is picking up the gamepad. So I don’t see Steam eating the input, since it also doesn’t seem to recognize it.