Anyone with experience with joysticks (these or regular ones), I have a weird backlash issue with my Steam Deck where if I pull the joystick all the way in one direction and release it, it will overshoot the center and go ever so slightly in the other direction, and weirdly enough its only a recent issue and did not crop up till this past month (after I let it sit for a month or so).

I am going to eventually swap to the hall effect sticks cuz I like the idea, so my question is: Should I try to fix this issue in software (i.e. increase deadzones, would that be effective?), is there a quick hardware fix that I can do a without taking apart the Deck, or should I just go ahead and fastforward my timeline in getting and swapping to the Hall effect sticks? I figure if I have to open the Deck I might as well do the swap, but I want to put that off as long as I can.

[–] SandLight 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I believe this is called snap back and it's been a problem in the smash bros community with gc controllers. I don't know too much about it but I think the normal fix is installing capacitors to the sticks somehow. Probably requires soldering?

You could also try increasing the dead zones a little bit.

[–] garyyo 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for giving me the term for the effect, it's insanely hard to Google the issue without knowing what it is called. I have increased the deadzone a little bit and it has helped as far as I can tell. Looks like I get to put off the upgrade for a bit longer.