Here is a weird input related issue

[cammelspit]

So, been well over a year since I played around with Dolphin. What can i say? I have been busy and haven't been in a gamecube/wii mood.   Anyways, I am one of the 10 people still using a steam controller. For me it is more of an accessibility controller as I do have some mobility issues and nerve damage in my hands, although they are minor in general. Issue is, it seems Dolphin has SDL controller input? I may be stupid but either I have never noticed it before, it is a somewhat more recent addition, or maybe it's changed in a way that causes my issue.

See the steam controller has one big flaw. Notoriously it does very poorly with anything game or amulator that tries to use SDL. Usually it just doesn't work, but in Dolphin's case, it is simply crashing out. other controllers work, even using Steam input, just not the SC. For MAME, another problem child, the solution is really super duper simple, just disable SDL by switching APIs. Seems to me Dolphin is loading it up if it is being used or not. So my REAL question here is...

Is there a way to disable SDL entirely? Or maybe just not, I dunno, initialize it, without it being explicitly used?

Please and thank you for any assist you guys are willing to provide.

[AdmiralCurtiss]

If you're launching through Steam: Update to the latest dev build, the beta one does indeed crash when launching through Steam.

If that doesn't fix it, can you describe the exact way to replicate your problem? I have a Steam controller and as far as I can tell it works just fine in Dolphin -- though you have to launch a game before it switches from 'desktop mode' to 'game mode'.

[cammelspit]

Apologies if I am not following 100%. I was on the last dev buiild at the time of writing. Do you mean the NOW latest dev build? Regardless I will try that here in a few. As far as everything else, I have been using my steam controller for Dolphin off and on since OCT2015 and have seen it work reliably pretty much that whole time. The only thing I can think of is the SDL thing since that basically renders steam input and the overlay inoperative. This is the case on any games or emulators that use SDL. PCSX2 didn't crash outright, just no input would work at all. For that one they do have a convenient checkbox to just disable SDL. I mention this only as an example.

Regardless, I will do some more testing and get back to you if it worked or not. Thanks

[cammelspit]

YOOOOOO. So yeah, you nailed it on the head. I pulled a noob level faux pas and did indeed download the beta version instead of the latest DEV build. I only recently put together my new system here and so I decided to wipe it all clean including my front end setup and start fresh. SO of course that involved redownloading Dolphin right off the website, which I have not done in ages.

Thanks! I appreciate the assist.