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Abysmal rumble intensity (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is anyone else's Deck not rumbling much at all? When it comes to things like using the trackpads, the haptics work as expected for me. But in terms of game rumble, it feels like the haptics motors are dying or something. They rumble ever-so-slightly. Nearly imperceptible. For instance, a game like Hades. When using an external controller, every time I attack, I get a healthy controller rumble. But when playing on the Deck itself, I can really only feel it if I have a finger on one of the touchpads (which is directly over the motors). And even then, it is weaker than what I experience when using the trackpad as a mouse in desktop mode or something. I have tried multiple games, and get the same pitiful rumble in each.

What really confuses me is that I just got a new Deck via RMA, and the rumble experience is exactly the same. Any ideas? Anyone else experience the same?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, the rumble is weak as hell. It's a thing. I don't really care about rumble so it doesn't bother me, but you'll see lots of Reddit posts with people complaining. There are adjustments for haptic strength (the little vibrations when you click in desktop mode) but none for the rumble. I would guess that they're separate vibration motors.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i recall reading somewhere that the rumble on the steam deck is actually the haptic feedback motors and that is why it is weak

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, if you check out the device teardown, the only motors are the touchpad haptic motors. Sure, they work great for subtle haptic feedback, but it's lame that it just doesn't feel anything like a normal controller rumble. It rumbles with half decent intensity during the startup sequence, so I'm not sure why it the haptics don't rumble at 100% in game.