Xbox Controller suddenly losing input

[Bainsol]

I'm playing with my younger sister with 2 xbox controllers. Everything works fine until suddenly her controller will stop working and she will be unable to move. We tried "changing the device" through the mai menu but it never works. It worked when we switched the controls over to the keyboard for her, however as soon as we try to switch back the game freezes. Anyone experience this or have a fix?

[MegadethRocks]

Just hit this same issue today. 2 Xbox controllers and one of them (it's random which one) will suddenly switch to the keyboard. If you then enter the menu using the keyboard the game will not let you do anything else. You have to shut it down with the task manager. We played for an hour the first time it happened. The second time, it happened in about 2 minutes.

[WickedManXD]

check your battery. i found that the game is more likely to lose input then. Also you dont have to restart the game entirely, going back to the main menue is usually enough.

[Dafzuka]

It's been happening to me as well and we have wired xbox 360 controllers. Strangely, we don't have the controller issues or the "main executable has failed" problem if we're playing from save slot #2.

[idbirch]

Slightly late to the party but I just started playing this with my kid and this keeps happening. We've lost progress on both occasions because there doesn't seem to be a way to get control back once this occurs - you have to kill the game and load it back up again.

[Ruediger734]

Originally posted by idbirch:

Slightly late to the party but I just started playing this with my kid and this keeps happening. We've lost progress on both occasions because there doesn't seem to be a way to get control back once this occurs - you have to kill the game and load it back up again.

I had this very same issue, and found that copying the savegame to another slot solved it. So if e.g. you have it on Slot 1, just copy it to Slot 2 and you should be fine. I hope it works for you, the game is so awesome - have fun!

[The Bear Jew]

This happens to me consistently at the Leaky Cauldron Pin Board as described here:
https://www.gog.com/forum/lego_harry_potter_series/controller_woes

[Grifenpierre]

Originally posted by Ruediger734:

I had this very same issue, and found that copying the savegame to another slot solved it. So if e.g. you have it on Slot 1, just copy it to Slot 2 and you should be fine. I hope it works for you, the game is so awesome - have fun!

Does work for me
but does it happen consitently to some precise level at some precise point ? like year 4 level 1 or year 4 level 3 (but this one is weird, the first one to die in the dragon run loose). I also got other level but it seems to work fine in freeplay.

[Wyld]

So if any of you guys (or people seeing this in the future) are having this issue, I might have a fix. I'm using an Xbox controller and when I was on steam it showed that my Xbox controller was not configured. All I had to do was go to Settings>Controller Settings>Xbox Configuration Support and check the box. (BTW this was on steam Big Picture). The game seems to be working fine now. Hope this helps.

[tmichaelr1]

Originally posted by ♥♥♥(quats):

So if any of you guys (or people seeing this in the future) are having this issue, I might have a fix. I'm using an Xbox controller and when I was on steam it showed that my Xbox controller was not configured. All I had to do was go to Settings>Controller Settings>Xbox Configuration Support and check the box. (BTW this was on steam Big Picture). The game seems to be working fine now. Hope this helps.

This is the way guys/gals! Worked perfectly. Switched it over to Xbox controller and restarted the computer. Played 2 days now with no failing controllers. Awesome!

[Lycan_v1]

I am having this same problem but with the player one i try connect my xbox controller to the player one cause i wanna use my controller instead of my keyboard but when i go to use my controller player two comes in and it only lets me kick the player with the controller assigned and then player ones controls are absent idk how to fix this does anyone got any ideas i just wanna play the game with my controller without any problems not far from refunding out of pure frustration

[Flowlink]

I think i have the same pb on W10, i cant put "pause" on my game cause i cant leave the menu i dont know why, i cant use my keyboard or controller after that...

[Tenedia]

For Harry Potter Years 1 to 4 I also had to check the box for the Generic Game Pad Configuration Support to get my Xbox 360 Controller to be recognized by the game.

[JediMasterNeace]

Play the episode again as one controller. Fixed the issue for us. Then add second controller once you get passed the part that made you stuck. For us was running from dragon.