Gamepad Hell (Or mixing and matching wired and wireless joysticks/gamepads is quite an adventure)

[yhilg]

I have been having those kind of problems for a while and only now did I find the will to post about it.

I have an Atari VCS on which I have 4 wireless gamepads.

The other 2 are Sony & M$ gamepads, both bluetooth. I am capable of pairing both, yet none of them gives a proper game play experience.

The M$ gamepad is lagged and is only appreciable when plugged via a USB cable. There goes wireless on that one.

The Sony one can pair but that's it. It unpairs/sleeps immediately so the same result: it's only appreciable when plugged via a USB cable.

Another thing worth of mentioning is the fact that the M$ gamepad will not work via the USB cable if it's not first paired via bluetooth.

Now to make things even more interesting: this past weekend I was playing a game with my plugged in Sony (and also all other 3 gamepads active) when I paused my game. When I came back to it, the input had switched from my Sony to my M$ gamepad. So I could only resume using the M$ gamepad.

The 2 controllers I never have any problems with are my 2 Logitech F710 gamepads both hooked up via their respective USB receivers and which are both using 2.4GHz.

As you can see I possibly have numerous issues but have no idea if any of that is related to ChimeraOS, to SteamOS or to the games themselves?