[FIX] Xbox One controller camera orbit bug (multiple gaming devices)

[HeirAtreides]

From what I can tell, Square Enix game PC ports are almost always broken in some way at launch. FFXII is no exception, but at least the problem I've encountered is easily solvable.

I use an Xbox One controller for PC gaming. When I launched FFXII for the first time, I immediately noticed that the PS4 controller symbols were being displayed in the menus. My first throught was "crappy port job". But things quickly got out of hand when I started the game and got to the part where you're moving Reks around for the first time. The camera immediately started to orbit the PC, and there was no way to stop it.

If that sounds like your problem, you could be in luck. After playing around a bit I hit on the cause: Multiple active game controllers. In my case, I had a Saitek X52 Pro HOTAS also plugged in. Unplugging the HOTAS immediately fixed both the nauseating camera spin and the PS4 symbols. So the game does actually know the difference between Xbox and PS4 controllers.

I don't know why the game panics when multiple controllers are present, but if I had to guess I'd say the game simply can't distinguish between controller devices and defaults to the PS controller scheme when it gets confused. If you're having controller-related issues then it's probably worth checking what game devices Windows thinks are present.

As usual, a disappointinigly sophomore effort (at best) from a company that's been in the business longer than some of their fans have been alive. It's a shame.

[Vaan]

You realize the remaster was made by a chinese company right?

[HeirAtreides]

Even if so, that's no excuse for pathetic QA testing, and it still comes back to Squeenix, doesn't it?

[SubTonic]

I had the same exact issue and it turns out that, when alt-tabbing out of my game and doing some things, I'd come back and the game would be registering my mouse moving the camera constantly sideways. Just clicking the mouse button was enough to stop it. Outside of that, the port's been basically perfect as far as I'm concerned; easily the best port of an FF game so far. Makes me more secure about my FFXV preorder.

[Shrek 2 On DVD]

Yeah, Alt Tabbing out of full screen does this to me. I think it registers the last movement on your mouse and gets stuck in a loop.

Click the mouse or move it a bit and the camera stops spinning. I've had this happen on multiple occasions. I use an xbox controller and a Naga.

[Razzle]

Chnage your controller in "steam settings" change it to global PS4/Xbone controller that should fix it.

[HeirAtreides]

@SubTonic, Lunch Lady. No amount of fiddling (alt+tabbing, etc) broke the camera out of whatever loop it was caught in, iirc. The HOTAS drivers I had installed were still the old Madcatz drivers (replaced w/ Logitech), which had problems of their own...so who knows.

@SubTonic. I have to admit, aside from the flaky controller support I've had no real problems with this title. The fact that everything else is darn near perfect makes it that much more jarring, I suppose. And to be fair, compared to the buggy, steaming piles of crap being pushed out by EA and Ubisoft these days it's practically zen.

@Avj.Razz. I'll have to give that a try.

[[☥] - CJ -]

I just got an Xbox One Win10 controller the other day, tried it out and had no issues on XII.

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by ☥ - CJ -:

I just got an Xbox One Win10 controller the other day, tried it out and had no issues on XII.

Same here. Works fine here with 2 different Xbox One pads. I'd suspect it's Steam's custom controller settings causing the issues.