Alt-Tabbing causes the controller glyphs to change back to keyboard permanently (until relaunching)

[Travis Touchdown]

I seem to found this issue while using the playstation 5 dualsense controller (wired), after launching it works perfectly fine until you want to alt-tab out of the game and then back in causing the issue. All the glyphs that were once playstation glyphs change to keyboard glyphs and refuse to change back unless shutting down the game, which is mildly frustrating. I've tried playing around with the settings to no avail (display, graphics, keybinds....etc), tried disabling steam input and so on, went back and tried other games (P5 royal, horizon zero dawn & Crew motorfest ) with no issues at all. So just sending this out to see if others are sharing the same problem, just wondering if its the games problem or it being a demo or steam's fault? or maybe me?

[Kaldaien]

On a technical level, it's because the game uses a low-level keyboard hook for input. It sees a few button presses during Alt-Tab that it wouldn't it if it used normal keyboard input methods and thinks that those keys are still pressed when you alt-tab back in.

You can fix this with Special K.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2679460/discussions/0/4842022494093910068/

Once that's installed in your game directory, open the control panel and go to the Input Management section, under Enable/Disable Devices, select "Disable Keyboard Always".

There's one point in the game where a keyboard is required (name selection), but that aside, this will fix your problem with no negatives.

[Steve]

While it wasn't permanent, I had a similar issue playing Baldur's Gate 3 with a controller (though they later added an option to stop this from happening which is nice).

The way I worked around it was by playing in Borderless mode and using the Windows Key while in it to bring up my taskbar/start bar and mouse so I could then click the program I wanted to alt tab to, that somehow superceded the game recognising I had pressed a keyboard command and stopped it from ever swapping the UI to mouse and keyboard stuff.

No idea if that'll work for this game as I played the demo on PS5 but just leaving it here as a possible solution hoping it helps!

[WaveParadigm]

The newest build of MetaphorFix [github.com] has a .ini setting for "Force Gamepad Icons" which fixed this issue for me entirely.