Does anyone dock their steam deck and use an external controller that has motion controls like the Dualsense 5? I have recently been using gyro aiming on the steam deck and I have been loving it. I recently bought a Dualsense 5 so that I can dock my steam deck and use gyro on a bigger screen, however, I am running into some issue with input lag.
I have my gyro set up as mouse, and when I enable it, it feels like the FPS drops and I get terrible input lag. This happens even when I have the controller hardwired to my JSAUX docking station instead of using it connected to the deck via Bluetooth. I found a couple ppl talking about how this is a bug in steam, but I have not seen anything about whether it was resolved or not. Does anyone encounter bad input lag when using gyro from an external remote while the steam dock is docked? Gyro is so smooth on the deck, and I was excited to play shooters on a bigger screen (720p 32in TV), but this has been quite the let down.
I’ve been using the Steam Deck and loving gyro for a long while but my eyes cannot stand the small screen for longer playing sessions and I don’t like using a mouse anymore.
My solution was using the Deck itself as a controller by “docking” it with a 6 feet usb-c cable between the dock and the Deck and then another 6 feet usb-c and hdmi cable between the dock and the screen I get a good 12 feet of length, which is even enough for a television. I use a cable that is on the lighter and flexible side for the Deck, because stiffer cables definitely get in the way.
I know this doesn’t resolve your problem, but it worked very well for me.
That is a good workaround, If I cannot resolve the issues with the external controller I will see if I can set up something similar.