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Post by Chopper on Nov 24, 2022 16:16:02 GMT
Bought a new Xbox wireless controller this morning and have been experiencing some weird behaviour with it. Wondering if anyone's seen this before?
Playing Salt & Sacrifice, a soulslike, on Epic Game Store. Jump is mapped to A and Dodge to B by default. However, pressing B in game results in a jump, same as A. Very occasionally, at random, it will do a dodge but immediately followed by a jump. This is a bit of a disaster in a soulslike.
The strange thing is, B functions as Back correctly in the menus. It also registers as B being pressed during testing in the Xbox Accessories app for PC.
Online research seems to indicate it might be a problem with Bluetooth connectivity - but I don't have a cable to test it out wired to see if that helps.
Tried a couple of other games - Snowrunner in the Epic Store and State of Decay in the Microsoft Store and both had the same issue - the A and B buttons do the same thing (they look like they may have further issues too). I don't have any game installed on Steam which uses a controller, all mouse and keyboard games, so didn't test there.
I've seen this type of thing before in MS Flight Sim, but solved it by removing all input devices, other controllers etc. That doesn't work here, nor does removing any stray bluetooth receivers etc.
The simple solution is remapping A and B for everything but I don't think that's tenable going forward.
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Post by Chopper on Nov 24, 2022 16:22:30 GMT
TLDR - the B button on my controller carries out the action associated with A, but only in games, not in the menus where it fulfills its B as Back function correctly. And not in testing inputs via Xbox accessories app.
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Post by dfunked on Nov 24, 2022 16:28:50 GMT
I've only ever used wired or the official dongle with mine, but never had anything remotely similar to that. Like you say I'd try finding a cable for it first of all.
Possibly worth updating the controller too (yeah, that somehow became a thing). Although no idea how you'd go about that without a console.
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Post by Chopper on Nov 24, 2022 16:38:14 GMT
Thanks dfunked ! I think writing it out helped me - while the Xbox accessories app is supposed to bring your drivers for the controller up to date if you start it while connected to the controller, it didn't do anything so I figured they were fine. However I started messing around in Device Manager and noticed it under Bluetooth and updated the drivers there (duh, I'm used to seeing it further down obvs with the dongle. Should have known to update those drivers tbh).  Seems to be working, fingers crossed! |
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Post by malek86 on Nov 24, 2022 16:40:49 GMT
I've only ever used wired or the official dongle with mine, but never had anything remotely similar to that. Like you say I'd try finding a cable for it first of all. Possibly worth updating the controller too (yeah, that somehow became a thing). Although no idea how you'd go about that without a console. You can update it on PC too, with the Xbox Accessories app. Yes, just when you thought MS didn't have enough Xbox apps in its store. I wonder what exactly is stopping them from doing everything in a single app. Anyway, pretty sure you'll need a cable too. |
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Post by mrpon on Nov 24, 2022 16:41:39 GMT
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Post by Chopper on Nov 24, 2022 16:42:34 GMT
Yeah, was surprised there was another app I didn't already have installed! It did pick up the controller inputs wirelessly, so I'll give it that (you can test the inputs on it). Was sure I'd be down buying a wired controller tomorrow morning  |
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