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| manuel said: Thanks for the quick reply. Steam recognizes it as a generic controller, and the game has full controller support. Inside the Steam calibration, when I try to rotate the sticks, only up and down register. It's like left/right doesn't exist, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. |
Definitely a Steam setting issue!
Here's a tip that I found that you can give a try
Launch Big Picture Mode from Steam>Library>select the game you're trying to play>Manage Game>Controller Options>From the dropdown menu, select Forced Off and save everything.
It'll restart Steam afterwards and give it a try. This was a tip I found in the Steam forums where someone was complaining about their joystick not working properly with Steam games. It worked flawlessly with the non-Steam version of a game, but not the Steam version. So this sounds very similar to your issue.
