r/SteamController • u/19PercentCarbon • 1d ago

Steam Controller (2026) Weird situation

Hello, I'm having an issue while playing Split Fiction in Big Picture Mode with my girlfriend on our TV. After a few hours of playing my steam will randomly crash without any sign except as soon as it crashes the controllers stop working/inputting properly and first thing I noticed upon checking via tabbing in and out with my wireless keyboard was that steam simply wasn't open anymore, which is odd because the game was still running. can anyone help me figure out why this is happening. I'm at a loss we are both using brand new and updated steam controllers. the game is updated and I was running the beta version of steam after it happened once I reverted back to the stable version and it did it two more times. All of this happened no visible crash (besides when I tabbed out of the game to check to see if steam was opened), or error pop up screen. any help is appreciated thank you.
Specs -
- Two brand new steam controllers with one puck
CPU- 7900X3D
Ram- 32 Gb DDR5
Gpu- MSI 5070
MOBO- ASRock A620I LIGHTNING WIFI AM5

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u/inertSpark 1d ago

The game doesn't need Steam to keep running, but it does need Steam to launch. So there's that part.

The Steam Controllers are reliant on Steam Input to function as controllers, so when Steam crashed, they stop working properly.

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u/19PercentCarbon 1d ago

In my experience anytime I force close steam with a game running it will take the game with it that’s why I find it odd. But I’m looking for a fix for why steam is crashing, without an error pop up it makes it difficult to search anything up. I’m wondering if I’m the only person having this issue.

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u/AlbertoVermicelli 1d ago

Try switching to (or from) the beta client to force Steam to re-download.

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u/19PercentCarbon 1d ago

I’ve done this.