Below there is a table of tested controllers with the Steam Link, and comments about the status. Wired with charge and play attempts to connect to Xbox 360 and therefore does not work. Xbox 360 Controller, Yes, Native. PowerA Nintendo Switch Wireless Gamecube Controller, Yes, Bluetooth, Works well but you. How to use a non xbox 360 controller in steam? Thread starter baverdi; Start date Mar 30, 2010; Forums. Mar 30, 2010 #1 I just got steam because a friend had bought Modern Warfare 2 but did not have the hardware to run it. Usually I use xboxcontrolleremu to have my ps2 usb controller work in games but with. The XBCD Xbox Controller driver now takes it’s place in the Human Interface Device catagory of device manager. Installation is complete and onward to the testing. Testing the XBCD joystick. To pull up the window above. You can press the window key + R to bring up a rum prompt and type in: joy.cpl. Then click on the properties button.
As of the 21/3/18* steam link update, the switch pro controller now appears to work with steam link properly. I knew before you could connect it but the left stick wouldn't have full motion, it appears that is now fixed since this update. I tested it last night and didn't run into any problems. Rumble doesn't work though.
Edit: I've added the full steam link update. As you can see they have added lots of new controller support options.
I tried the joy cons. The steam link bluetooth recognised it as 'Joy Con L' but each time it paired then connected, the connection would drop out. So joycons don't work atm.