Controller detected in Windows but not in game

Apologies if this has been covered — the older threads are all locked. It seems to depend heavily on region, which nobody mentions anywhere.

Hopefully this saves someone else the afternoon it cost me.

Not the answer you want, but you get most of the benefit from the first adjustment; everything after that is marginal.

In my testing, the wiki number is theoretical; real results are always a bit lower.

Depends on your setup, but broadly ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

From experience, if it only happens in one mode, that narrows it down considerably.

Worth checking first: the averages hide the problem; look at the one percent lows instead.

Others may have a cleaner method.

This is the bit people miss — check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

Only partly related, but you get most of the benefit from the first adjustment; everything after that is marginal.

This is the bit people miss — the averages hide the problem; look at the one percent lows instead.

Adding to the above: do not copy someone else’s config wholesale — start from defaults and adjust to your own setup.

This comes up a lot, so: if it only happens in one mode, that narrows it down considerably.

Others may have a cleaner method.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, this changed for me after the last patch, so older threads may steer you wrong.

I went through this last month. give it a clean reinstall before assuming the hardware is at fault.

Others may have a cleaner method.

This comes up a lot, so: it depends heavily on your specific setup, so take any single number with a grain of salt.

The usual fix here is the defaults are conservative on purpose, so there is usually headroom to gain.

Not the answer you want, but nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

Depends on your setup, but broadly it depends heavily on your specific setup, so take any single number with a grain of salt.

Quick correction to the above: the averages hide the problem; look at the one percent lows instead.

Only partly related, but temperature is the usual culprit when performance degrades over a session.

Slightly different take — the safe move is the reversible one — you can always undo it if it makes things worse.