Controls scrambled after a few minutes of play

[Moon Rabbit Sleeper Cell]

I've been having trouble with Sonic Generations lately ever since I started playing it again.

Before this used to never happen, but now whenever I play, after a few minutes the game's controls stop working for a few seconds before coming back and nearly every button input being swapped.
On a 360 PowerA Wired Gamepad, for instance:
(Jump) A -> X
(Action/Switch Character) Y -> A
(Quick Step) LB/RB -> Back/Start
(Pause) Start -> L3
I can't seem to figure out where the drift buttons have been remapped.

So far verifying the file integrity hasn't worked, doing a clean install hasn't worked, and I've even tried another controller (Dualshock 4) and even that still gives me trouble. It's come to the point where now the game is just stuck on that control scheme no matter what I do. It doesn't help that you can't even adjust your controls when you're on XInput mode. I've seen people have been having this problem for years regarding this game but so far no actual, permanent solutions have been found. Any help? I can't play this game with quickstep mapped to friggin Back and Start.

[Marauder]

I have the same problem. seems to only be with this game. I thought my controller was broken, but it happens with all of my controllers. hopefully someone will find a fix for it.

[Marauder]

I went to the games .exe and selected windows 7 mode. Played the game for 20 mins with no issues.

[Moon Rabbit Sleeper Cell]

Originally posted by Marauder:

I went to the games .exe and selected windows 7 mode. Played the game for 20 mins with no issues.

Tried to set it to Windows 7 compatibility mode like you did. It still swapped my controls a few minutes in.

I guess that rules that out... What could be causing this?

[Marauder]

So I tried something that appears to work. I verified game files. One file failed and was re downloaded. Then when I started the game windows asked if I would allow steam to change settings. (User Control) I selected NO.

The game launched and played fine for 5 levels. Before it would not play past two without screwing up the controller. I think it works now. I just have to select NO every time I launch the game. No big deal really.

I think it has something to do with steam and how it recognizes the controller. Not sure what setting to change, but it works for the time being. After the controls messed up I exited the game and steam said I should launch big picture mode since I had a controller attached. Which I find odd. Hopefully Valve will fix what they broke with regards to this game.

Let me know if this helps at all.

[Marauder]

Another thing I tried that seems to work is as follows. It appears that the control swap has something to do with Steam and not the game itself. Here is what I did.

Click on Steam.
Click on settings
Select Controller.
Check the box to disable controller connected notifications.

Seems to work so far. Let me know if it helps.

[Moon Rabbit Sleeper Cell]

Originally posted by Marauder:

So I tried something that appears to work. I verified game files. One file failed and was re downloaded. Then when I started the game windows asked if I would allow steam to change settings. (User Control) I selected NO.

The game launched and played fine for 5 levels. Before it would not play past two without screwing up the controller. I think it works now. I just have to select NO every time I launch the game. No big deal really.

I think it has something to do with steam and how it recognizes the controller. Not sure what setting to change, but it works for the time being. After the controls messed up I exited the game and steam said I should launch big picture mode since I had a controller attached. Which I find odd. Hopefully Valve will fix what they broke with regards to this game.

Let me know if this helps at all.

Originally posted by Marauder:

Another thing I tried that seems to work is as follows. It appears that the control swap has something to do with Steam and not the game itself. Here is what I did.

Click on Steam.
Click on settings
Select Controller.
Check the box to disable controller connected notifications.

Seems to work so far. Let me know if it helps.

I've reverified my cache a few times in the past under the impression it would fix anything but every time it would go back to doing that glitch with the controls after like 20 minutes or so. I've never done the user control thing tho, maybe if I decide to do it again as a last option i'll try it out.

I'll see if disabling controller connected notifications works. i'll let you know soon enough.

[Moon Rabbit Sleeper Cell]

Played for about an hour or so after disabling the controller connected notification and so far it seems to be working without any of that control scrambling. Not sure if it's completely fixed, so i'll keep things updated after a few more playthrus, but so far, so good.

The only issue, however, is that early on in my playthru after i flipped that setting on, the game would occasionally drop my inputs, but this lessened over time thankfully.

[Moon Rabbit Sleeper Cell]

I came back to the game just now and tried clearing some challenges but now it's starting to do the same control scrambling again.

I still have the "disable controller connected notification" option on. What the heck is even going on?

[Marauder]

I have two more suggestions that may work.
FIRST- Right click on the game and go to properties.
In the general tab change the steam input per game setting to (use global steam input settings XBOX)
Do the same for the BPM overlay (Use global settings or developer preference)

SECOND- Launch the game in big picture mode and see if that resolves the issue.

I am convinced that the controller resetting has to do with steam and not the game itself. Let me know if either option helps. otherwise I am stumped and may just uninstall the game until this issue is resolved. Let's hope it does not come to that.

[Marauder]

OK so a very weird thing happened. My controller disconnected. I had no control. So I windowed back to the desktop and saw that in the notification area my gigabyte audio manager wanted to know what kind of device I had just plugged in.

Confused I said it was a microphone. I unplugged my controller and plugged it back in. Brought the game back to full screen and it worked?! I have no idea how an audio manager caused the problem, but it is now working. I am still confused.

[Marauder]

I also changed focus assist to block all notifications. Not sure if that will help. At this point I'll try anything!

[Moon Rabbit Sleeper Cell]

Originally posted by Marauder:

I have two more suggestions that may work.
FIRST- Right click on the game and go to properties.
In the general tab change the steam input per game setting to (use global steam input settings XBOX)
Do the same for the BPM overlay (Use global settings or developer preference)

SECOND- Launch the game in big picture mode and see if that resolves the issue.

I am convinced that the controller resetting has to do with steam and not the game itself. Let me know if either option helps. otherwise I am stumped and may just uninstall the game until this issue is resolved. Let's hope it does not come to that.

I tried changing to these settings and then running the game thru big picture mode. not even a second into going to the hub, the game swaps the controls to me. i'll try the other suggestion of changing focus assist and tell you how things go from there.

Also I'm using the discord overlay. not sure if that would do anything but i think i should let you know that, too.

[Moon Rabbit Sleeper Cell]

I'm going to mean that by focus assist you mean the one that's built into windows 10's action center. sadly it didn't work. same results; as soon as I got to the hub, the controls got flipped.

[Moon Rabbit Sleeper Cell]

Also at this point I decided to go back to using a dualshock 4 controller wirelessly instead of my wired third party xbox 360 controller and it's still giving the game results. Even if it's already been established, at least it's not an issue with any particular controller..

[Marauder]

just curious, what are your pc specs. I run a RYZEN 1700X. I noticed that there was an update for the chipset drivers and it seems to have resolved my issue. (Here's hoping).