Steam Machine - practically unplayable
Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2026 7:16 pm
Hi, I just got a Steam Machine and controller today, set it up and downloaded Factorio. Saw there was a developer suggested controller binding, so thought it would be good.
I loaded the game, massive lag, audio dropouts on the main menu. I closed the game and switched to compatibility mode and tried again, It took about 10 seconds for mouse-over a button to trigger, before which button clicks don't respond. There's no key binding for tab, so when I finally managed to start a new game I couldn't get past the start dialog, no problem I'll open the on-screen keyboard, didn't work, I changed the button in the game config for continue dialog to one that's mapped and that didn't work either. I gave up
Has anyone managed to get it working properly on a Steam Machine?
I loaded the game, massive lag, audio dropouts on the main menu. I closed the game and switched to compatibility mode and tried again, It took about 10 seconds for mouse-over a button to trigger, before which button clicks don't respond. There's no key binding for tab, so when I finally managed to start a new game I couldn't get past the start dialog, no problem I'll open the on-screen keyboard, didn't work, I changed the button in the game config for continue dialog to one that's mapped and that didn't work either. I gave up
Has anyone managed to get it working properly on a Steam Machine?