Holding left mouse acting like single click

[The Postman]

With full-auto guns, charge up weapons etc you get the first bullet / initial lighting effect then it immediately stops as if you clicked once no matter how long i hold down the button. My left mouse button works for single click so semi-auto weapons work as normal and holding down left click works in other games and the desktop, so its just in helldivers its weird. Also holding right click is fine, aim down sights works. So its really just left mouse that isn't registering anything beyond the initial button down. I've restarted everything, installed and uninstalled g-hub (its a Logitech G203) I also grabbed a corsair mouse and tried that, same thing. Figure somethings messed up in my bindings? I reset them, didn't help. Just tried swapping the keys right and left. Left hold down, aim down sights, fine... right held down... single shot as when using the left. Tried every gun, charge-up or full auto just doesn't happen. Tried setting fire to space bar... same issue. Verified game file integrity. It refetched one file but didn't make a difference. I'm somewhat our of ideas now.

[The Postman]

deleted cache and retested integrity.., came back clean. Fully uninstalled and cleared download cache again and now reinstalling to a different disk to see if that helps. I rechecked integrity and again got the one file thing so maybe that's a clue?

[The Postman]

Added exceptions for the steamapps folders in the anti-virus as apparently that can be a thing? Really trying everything at this point.

[The Postman]

okay got the game to validate file cleanly... didn't fix anything

[The Postman]

Ladies and Gentlemen, the fix:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata{your Steam friend code}\553850\remote

Find:
{
trigger = "Press"
device_type = "Mouse"
input = "MouseButtonLeft"
threshold = 0.20000000298023224
input_type = "Button"
}

Change to (trigger from press to hold, it should always be hold)

{
trigger = "Hold"
device_type = "Mouse"
input = "MouseButtonLeft"
threshold = 0.20000000298023224
input_type = "Button"
}

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by The Postman:

Ladies and Gentlemen, the fix:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata{your Steam friend code}\553850\remote

Find:
{
trigger = "Press"
device_type = "Mouse"
input = "MouseButtonLeft"
threshold = 0.20000000298023224
input_type = "Button"
}

Change to (trigger from press to hold, it should always be hold)

{
trigger = "Hold"
device_type = "Mouse"
input = "MouseButtonLeft"
threshold = 0.20000000298023224
input_type = "Button"
}

Thanks for sharing!

[Milk]

i tried it, went into notepad to edit it, still not working. My weapon is almost sputtering, I'll hold down something like an automatic or charge-up weapon and it will just sputter. Like the quasar cannon will just wind up and down up and down in fast intervals, automatics fire, but at a really slow rate. Also when i went into notes to edit the left mouse thingy, it said "repeated fire" instead of press