Controller issue

[Blackwoodforest]

Hello all,
I have an controller issue which is kind of strange. I use a PS4 controller with no other software, plugged on usb port. Works alsmost fine BUT in this game the screen ingame scrolls with the controller into upper left, every time its plugged in. If I unplug the controller, the screen goes back and focuses on the sister, pluging in, upper left. No re-calibtraion worked, no other software its something that has to do with the game itself, it works fone on other games etc. Anyone some suggestions? Thanks

[Zyddie]

Hey Blackwoodforest.

Will forward this to QA so they can take a look asap when we return to the office the 9th.

//BFG Zyddie.

[bigphill14]

Hello i am having the exact same problem as the person above with a Ps4 controller also, just wondering if there is any news of a fix! Thanks for your time

[NineByNine]

Hi, it's over a year later and I'm still having this issue with a DS4 controller. It's MARGINALLY fixed by doing controller calibration in the options, but even with setting up all the buttons, the game only half works. It's as if certain controls just don't respond at all. If I set the game to manual world switch the only controls that work are the right and left analogue sticks, and the four face buttons. The trigger and bumper buttons (R & L 1+2) do nothing at all even when a prompt comes up and so I'm stuck as whichever form the level starts you as. Also the calibration program in the game setup reads the controller as having an input right from the getgo which it has to ignore? Is it maybe reading the DS4 controller's sixaxis functions erroneously?

Addendum: Despite setting Morph (?) to one of the trigger buttons, it only responds (sometimes) to the right stick being wiggled?? not pressed, but wiggled. So for some reason it's binding by its own self the morph command to the camera control stick and seemingly random directions, resulting in it sometimes rapid fire switching. It's also impossible to play properly with a DS4 controller for this reason as the control scheme, no matter what, is ridiculous and unintuitive, resulting in an unfairly increased difficulty because you can't make quick decisive reactions to in game situations any more. :(

This is made worse because even if I turn off the gamepad in the game's setup, and try and use keyboard controls only, NOTHING responds now once I actually get into game. In the menus, it's all fine. Everything works properly, but the moment the game starts and I'm in a level, nothing on the keyboard responds at all, requiring me to Ctrl-Alt-Delete to even get OUT of the game. Once I've unplugged the controller and started the game up that way, THEN it works... sort of.

Though I'm told I can switch form mid twirl and given some puzzles it looks like I should be able to shift from one form to the next then use their special ability (world 1-2 is indicative of this with one of the first puzzles where you can only get gems for most of it as the blonde sister, then the last set of gems in that line are only accessable by the red haired sister), I cannot. In no fashion does it work properly, requiring me to either miss some gems, or have to go about it in a very strange way, such as reaching past the gems, then switching, then trying to jump back off and collect them then dash back again midair.

Something is very fundamentally broken with this game's controls it seems resulting in a very unpleasant experience whilst trying to play it. This is compounded by the fact that the only way to set up any controls is upon first launching the game, and at no point does the game have any quick or simple way to quit if there are issues, resulting in a very long and arduous start-test-close-adjust-restart sequence that only adds to the frustration.

[Blackwoodforest]

I haven´t played the game since then and will ever because of this. Same thing as OWLBOYs issue with the 3rd party drivers for the PS4 support. Very sad, because I loved the original Giana Sisters

[NineByNine]

I did some more research on this. Turns out the game DOES support/use the Steam Controller thing with Big Picture Mode. so if your PS4 pad isn't properly set up int hat it can cause issues.

The game still controls a little wonky (using the triggers for world twisting means you can sometimes press just a LITTLE too hard on the trigger and it switches rapidly back immediately after switching, leading to some VERY cheap deaths :/

[Aryath]

So, right now I tried to play this game a second time after maybe 1-2 years, and suddenly the gamepad is completely broken. I use a Logitech Dual Action, and I'm experiencing the exact same problem: as soon as the controller is plugged in, everything constantly moves up and left (menu, character)

The only workaround that I found till now is to completely disable gamepad in the settings, and then use Xpadder to manually map the gamepad inputs to keyboard inputs.

[Aryath]

and you have to start the game with the controller unplugged and then plug it in

[FirefoXXL]

I'm a bit late to the party, but I found this thread while having the same problem initially, with the Owlerlord Successor as well.

The following worked for me:

Steam -> Settings
Select Controller -> "General Controller Settings" -> Enable "PlayStation Configuration Support"
Close the Controller Settings and start your game.

The game's configuration tool should now say "A controller compatible with Microsoft Xbox 360 game controller was detected".

Now uses "R2" as the world-switch button, instead of the right analog stick.

[Phase]

Maybe Valve like to fix Steams PS4 controller mapping?
Every Playstation game fails when it comes to Steams PS4 controller mapping.
Remapping the PS4 controller buttons also fails on Steam.

If you are on Windows get a XBox Controller.
If you are on Linux get a XInput Controller.

.. oh wait Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams is still not available for Linux.

[Andrew Przelucki]

Note: I know this thread is old, but the issue is still very much relevant.

This issue can be caused by a bad calibration of the right analog stick. When plugging in a gamepad, or after a reboot, it's a good idea to rotate the analog sticks a few times, and press the analog triggers to their limits, to have the system detect properly the ranges of the axes. Otherwise, the axes are detected partially. So before playing, it's good to do that.

Also, if your gamepad, or similar accessory, is not fully supported by the operating system - like analog triggers being treated as digital buttons - install Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable. (Unplug the peripheral and connect again.)

[DissonantGirl]

I have the same problem, I'll check out if the solution b FirefoXXL works ...

[DissonantGirl]

I couldn't find this setting, maybe it has changed in the last 3 years ... there are quite a lot of threads about this problem. Weirdly I think it did work before, so I don't know what changed ...

[DissonantGirl]

I found a solution. I changed the settings to:
Enable Steam Input for Xbox controllers OFF
Playstation Controller Support Enabled (just Enabled!)
Enable Steam Input for Switch Pro controllers OFF
Enable Steam Input for generic controllers OFF

[m1rock]

I’m using a wired Xbox controller and it says “controller compatible with Microsoft Xbox 360 game controller was detected" in config but when I go to start the game and it asks me to press start to use controller it doesn’t register.