How to fix steam overlay and SC input issues

By Bob Burger

I have seen a lot of people having issues with the steam overlay not coming up for a lot of different games or the steam controller not functioning properly, buttons not responding at all or they perform the wrong action etc. If you are using msi afterburner or rivatuner this is the fix. I have seen quite a few people "solve" the problem by enabling custom direct3d to "on" in rivatuner, which does work on a game by game basis but is really more of a band aid solution, where this fixes it for all games. If you are having issues and not using either of these programs then it's a different problem and this fix isn't for you.