Controller/keyboard/ hot swap issue?

[Raymondcello]

It will not allow you to use an Xbox input and a keyboard input simultaneously. This is extremely frustrating as I use an azeron keypad with VKB flight sticks, and use Xbox stick I put emulators to make the joysticks and the keypad joystick work.

While using the Xbox joystick to move via azeron keypad one must hold the left mouse button to look around, and cannot use keyboard or mouse inputs while using the Xbox inputs, etc.

This is kinda frustrating. How can I make it where it accepts both inputs simultaneously? The hot swapping setting doesn't solve it.

[JackSpinout]

Here with upu on that one! Very much hope there is a solution!

[zerocore]

Would also like to know if there is a solution for this. Would very much like to play with controller + mouse setup.

[LancerFay]

Hi! I'm playing on the gamepass version but I found your thread while I was looking for solutions so I'll share what I found here.

TL;DR:

Set a hardware macro on your keyboard or mouse or similar to hold any keyboard key that Starfield isn't using, this allows me to use my analogue stick and mouse at the same time with zero issues as of an hour after finding the workaround.

What's Broken

I use a Hori keypad with an analogue stick and a mouse for most games, Starfield was causing my mouse to unfocus from the application similar to alt-tab functionality, and it was significantly frustrating. What I realized though is that it was not consistent; the analogue stick+mouse combo worked sometimes, but not all the time, so I did some investigation.

The short of it is that the combination analogue and mouse controls work as long as there is a continuous, uninterrupted keyboard input happening at the same time. The moment the keyboard input pauses or stops, the game switches to controller mode and unfocuses the mouse from the application (why? Who knows but it's bizarre.)

So all you have to do, assuming you have some method of creating a hardware macro like most gaming keyboards and mice have, is to set a toggleable held macro to use a key that the game doesn't touch. In my case, I chose 'u'. This was arbitrary, it could have been any keyboard key. Once this is done, you turn on that macro, and the analogue stick functions for movement, while your mouse uninterrupted can move as normal.

NOTES

• I have not tested this with spaceflight at the time of writing. I'm currently in The Well doing sidequests there and haven't been up into space yet.
  
• If you do not have some method of forcing a key to be pressed, tape on a key should also work. You truly just need any keyboard input active at all times.
  
• You will need to turn off this toggle any time you enter text such as for character names. Small but notable in case you end up tabbing to discord and entering a few thousand 'u's into someone's DMs.
  
• Finally, this is a WORKAROUND. The game is fundamentally broken to cause this buggy behavior to work this way. However, as a woman with a half decade of QA experience in games, this is likely the best we'll get with our "niche" setups for some time. And! It lets us use our preferred control scheme day1, so it's good enough, IMO.

[Shadow]

In your Azeron Profile for Starfield, try to use "Xbox &keyboard" mode for the stick. It works fine.

[Ark]

Originally posted by Shadow:

In your Azeron Profile for Starfield, try to use "Xbox &keyboard" mode for the stick. It works fine.

Thank you so much! I've been using the Cyborg Keypad for a while now, but didn't know this option existed!

[Saoirse]

Does anyone else have a problem using the Cyborg in space combat? Periodically it "clicks" Tab in the middle of a dogfight. Also, my ship seems to move in molasses mode when I am dogfighting. Any suggestions or comments would be appreciated as would a shared prfile.