Low Battery Xbox Controller Causes the game to Freak out.

[Mr. NotKnowWhatToSay]

So I have been playing this online with my friend for a bit and now I am starting to get a lot of lag that makes the game unplayable. The game has been fine up until this point. Is it just these specific underground levels that are just memory intensive? (I cant recall what level number we are on, somewhere in the mid to high 20s.)

Edit: The game also lags upon trying to restart the program. It lags so much that it takes forever to get to the main menu.

Edit 2: So I have been able to play and I guess it somehow came down to my Xbox controller. I have been using mouse and keyboard on levels that had been giving me trouble with lag and everything plays fine. I think because my controller was on low batteries it forced the game into a loop or something. As while the lag was occurring my character would continue shooting and moving in the last direction input. Though I can't explain why it continued the laggy behavior after restarting the game even after the remote was turned on. So I guess I will just use mouse and keyboard from now on.

[Cathulhu]

What are your system specs?
Generally, i had less performance problems in underground levels, cities are the worst for me.

[Zombie101]

Just make it simple
www.CCleaner.com/Speccy
Tell your specs.

Like mine Specs

R7 1800x
32 gig 3400
RTX 2070

[Mr. NotKnowWhatToSay]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

What are your system specs?
Generally, i had less performance problems in underground levels, cities are the worst for me.

I have had no problems with the cities or any lag up until this point. I will have to go back and test them.

Here are my specs, though I want to say that I doubt this is the problem. I can interact with my computer tabbed out of the game no problem even watching my friend stream the game through discord.

edit: When I say stream the game, I mean the session that I am in with him.

Intel i5-6600k

16.0GB DDR4-3000

GTX 980 Ti (EVGA)

[Mr. NotKnowWhatToSay]

Originally posted by Zombie101:

Just make it simple
www.CCleaner.com/Speccy
Tell your specs.

Like mine Specs

R7 1800x
32 gig 3400
RTX 2070

Here are my specs, though I want to say that I doubt this is the problem. I can interact with my computer tabbed out of the game no problem even watching my friend stream the game through discord.

edit: When I say stream the game, I mean the session that I am in with him.


Intel i5-6600k

16.0GB DDR4-3000

GTX 980 Ti (EVGA)

[MurderWookiee]

In case anyone is finding this by searching for Xbox controller low battery issues, here is the problem:

For years and years and years Microsoft has known that their wireless controllers cause their OS to go into an incredibly stupid resource-hog loop whenever the batteries get low. This causes whatever game is being played to stutter and lock up, as it is suddenly starved of CPU cycles. They made the Xbox controller bluetooth package for Windows so that when the batteries get really low, it immediately starts using almost all machine resources in an all-consuming effort to re-establish connection with a device that is sending out signals indicating that it is losing power and cannot be reconnected. Yes, this doesn't make any sense and yes, this is something that only a truly stupid first-year CS student would do just before realizing that they should never be allowed anywhere near a computer ever again and switching their major to Social Sciences, but for some reason that's what Microsoft chose to do.

They know this is a horrifically ugly system, the very worst possible choice of what to do when batteries die.

And I assume the reason it's never been fixed is not that they don't care (because what kind of engineer wouldn't care that their product has the very worst user experience imaginable every time the very most common thing happens), it's just that they are really bad at their jobs, and are simply too stupid to solve this problem despite the fact that literally every single other company on Earth has already solved it years ago and they have tons of available devices to reverse engineer whatever they can't figure out on their own.

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