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Steam Controller on Mac OSX El Capitan Issues
The steam overlay (shift+tab) does not work on a particular game that I am running on El Capitan Beta. The steam overlay works on the game when running previous versions of OSX and also appears to be working for other games running on El Capitan. The game in question is a board game adaption called Hive.
I had problems getting the steam controller to work on my mac recently and I got really frustrated so I dug into it. Basically if the steam overlay does not work for you and some of the buttons don't work in most games then the problem is that the steam controller configuration did not load properly and it fell back to the desktop config (discovered by running steam from terminal and reading the logging output).
![Steam Steam](http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/stop-steam-opening-automatically-mac-os-x.jpg)
Easy fix: Set desktop config to be the config for the game you want and you can play.
![Steampowered Steampowered](/uploads/1/2/4/1/124197556/100826323.png)
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