Keyboard Control for DRIVE not working

[Gooby]

I tried this game on Xbox game pass. When I would hold "W" to drive, if I hit any other key on the keyboard, it immediately disengages drive, as if I took my finger off "W". I assumed it was some sort of bug from xbox game pass, so I bought the ultimate version on Steam. The same exact problem occurs!!! I have tried using LMB and RMB, and that works for "Drive", and will continue to "press the pedal"; however it shouldn't be this way... what's going on?! Help please!

[Gooby]

Has anyone else had this issue?

[MaNT45]

Whats the issue:

After playing this game for a while I encountered the issue where your game stutters for a second and you lose your throttle.

Other types of stuttering will not be fixed by this, but this one was the most annoying and long stutter I had in this game.

What causes it?

Windows send a notification to the game that some device has changed (maybe new device plugged in, maybe some device has issues where it reconnects every minute). When SnowRunner receives this notification it enumerates all input devices(takes a long time => stutter) and recreates it's direct input device(this loses keypresses => cut off throttle). You can try this by plugging in a usb device.

How did you fix it?

By preventing the game from receiving the "device changed notification", we can prevent this issue altogether. This is done by hooking into game internals and preventing the notification from reaching the game loop. This means you will probably not be able to plug in a new usb controller while the game is running, and you need to restart the game.