Steam Deck Discussion

The mouse and keyboard bug seems to be happening in multiple games, not just Palworld.

Foe Bloodstained Ritual of the Night, I changed proton to experimental so now Aurora does run and I can select the trainer, so there's an improvement. However it is only mouse and keyboard and does not recognize the native steamdeck controller. There appears to be no combination of buttons or configuration which will change it. It does the same thing still for Palworld and Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous. However... Vampire Survivors does work with Aurora and the native controller and does not default to mouse and keyboard controls.

While I am having this problem, the touch screen will allow me to select menu options and I can open the on screen keyboard and type as normal, not that really helps me, but might be useful for someone else who can figure out why it's doing this.

I wonder if deleting the prefix folder for the specific game fixes this issue.

I remember having issues with palworld and aurora sd tool. But, Ive been busy and havent had much time to figure out the issue. I figured it was just palworld specific and not other games.

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I’ll give this all a try and see if it works with those methods.

Ok so I did the start Elden ring up with different versions of proton and switch windows back and forth and used touch screen on aurora and went back to game no controller inputs. Reinstalled Elden ring completely and did same thing with the aurora launcher and different protons and nothing. Not sure what is going on. Also did this with palworld too.

@Jaz10: Yes this could be possible. But unfortunately I cannot try this myself because I cannot reproduce this problem so someone else have to test and confirm this.

@Meowgi88: Have you deleted the compat folder for Palworld? Should be steamapps/compatdata/1623730/

Delete this folder. Then start Aurora Launcher (there should be a desktop icon). Set the proton version to the LOWEST available (if its below 7.0 then uninstall it first from your steam library). Then launch the game.

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I've also tried it on multiple games, hogwarts legacy, the last of us part 1, power wash simulator. I've tried multiple proton verisons including 8.0, 7.0, expertimental and 5.0 with no luck. this first started happening with me with the 1.9 update

@0x90 I’ll give this a try and update when I check it out. Thank you

Ok so I have tried a bunch of stuff, including:
-deleting compat data folder
-messing with settings, force Aurora to background, delay in seconds, disabling the new feature to automatically start the trainer (which broke things with SDT 2.0)
-Uninstalling all decky add-ons (I only had two that changed the main SD menu appearance)
-Reinstalling the game
-Selecting Proton experimental and other protons that are on my SD for the game
-Reinstalling SDT and Aurora.
Also, I updated to all the latest SD software updates. STEAM button -> Settings ->System -> Software Updates, which I thought may also be causing the issue. Have others updated as well?
I even tried closing the SDT window once the game and Aurora are both running.
Nothing has worked for me. It still brings Aurora to the top screen after it finally loads (it takes much longer now to run iscriptevaluator.exe). And when I switch to the game's window, I have no input whatsoever with the SD controls, and have to use the mouse+keyboard by holding the STEAM button. Oddly, as another user said, it first launches in Proton 6.3 *then* re-launches in Proton experimental. Also, I noticed that whenever I go to the SD UI (press the STEAM button) and then select "Resume game" at the top, it always brings be to the Aurora screen, even if I first select the game's window under "switch windows".
I've also noticed that Aurora hangs/freezes, when switching between windows a couple times. It freezes and I can no longer click anything in the Aurora GUI when using SDT, whereas if I launch Aurora 2.0 using a different SD tool, then it runs fine and I can start the trainers, turn options on/off, etc.
Any help is appreciated, let me know if devs need any more info on this issue, and if I can provide anything further.
Thanks.

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