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I'm going to guess it's another example of bad console port code, where something is polling the DirectX input streams rather than waiting for events to fire.
[EDIT] What's really odd is that this game worked smoothly and flawlessly (for me) before the latest Windows Update patch. At that point, after rebooting for it, it started doing this. It makes it impossible to hold a block in combat, and also makes running or flying quickly annoying. I have tried reverting the update and reapplying it, as well as swapping to a wired controller with no effect.
To me, it almost feels like the order of the devices got changed and it now has to poll past the keyboard briefly....
[EDIT 2] So, I solved the problem. Windows Update didn't break this game directly, but rather it broke another program (Process Explorer from sysinternals) which in turn broke this game while running. Apparently something in the latest update must have changed the way privilege escalation is handled, as PE acquires exclusive locks on all threads to get their info, and this apparently prevents the game from polling the controller for an instant.
From the game's point of view, the controller disappeared, so it flips to keyboard/mouse just long enough to break input... and then it's back on the next frame again.
What did you adjust for Process Explorer? The same behavior is happening for me too.
It's a thing with live display refresh and how it locks the processes to scan them. You could adjust the refresh rate so instead of updating every second, it updates every 30 seconds, but all that does is change the stuttering.
The "fix" would be to get the folks at System Internals to change how their tool handles scanning the process list, so it doesn't get exclusive locks, or releases them much faster...
What exactly is process explorer and how do you stop using it? I tried looking around in my processes and services but couldn't see anything by that name.
I can't really sit up to use mouse and keyboard while playing games so I need to use a controller.
In theory, any other tool that does the same kind of thing (gets exclusive locks on processes to interrogate them) might have a similar behavior. Anti-virus stuff comes to mind.
but I'm not sure what I might have that might be doing that? I don't think I have any programs that could be doing anything like that?
And upon looking into it I don't think I have process explorer either.