PC gamepad & keyboard/mouse UI confliction
Since 2021 when I went from Xbox to PC 'Space Engineers' and when I play the game using an Xbox One S controller and recently a third-party Xbox 360 controller. The game UI once in a while would conflict with itself switching between the Xbox UI and PC UI. Not all of the time but like I said, 'once in a while' this seems to happen when I tab-out or bring up a window, often times I do these actions to check image references for a 'Space Engineers' build project that I am working on. At first, I thought this was mostly due to my Xbox One S controller left-joystick having the cursed and unfortunate 'joystick/con drift' but this issue just happened once, so far on my newly acquired unused third-party Xbox 360 controller.
Over these last few years, I have done everything that has been mentioned and posted in various forums or reports, from closing and reopening 'Space Engineers' & Steam, disabling/enabling gamepads in 'Space Engineers', disabling Steam overlays/controls, custom gamepad controller layout via Steam, and possibly some other attempts to fix the issue when it occurs. The only way this issue is temporarily fixed is by a PC restart, rarely a PC shutdown and leave alone until the next day works until the UI confliction happens again.
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Attached is a video showing the confliction. WARNING: Rapid UI may be considered a flashing/strobing effect.
I have the same bug
*Issue has happened again as of this post. It occurred when I came back to the game after clicking and searching on my internet browser for references and watching videos & live streams. The game still has the UI glitch even after closing and reopening the game. Same issue persists after unplugging and plugging back in the controller.
*Issue has happened again as of this post. It occurred when I came back to the game after clicking and searching on my internet browser for references and watching videos & live streams. The game still has the UI glitch even after closing and reopening the game. Same issue persists after unplugging and plugging back in the controller.
I get this happening sometimes too.
I don't know what triggers it or have a reproduction, but I can typically get it to (temporarily) go away by locking (Win+L) then unlocking my computer. Note that this doesn't stop it from happening later, it just gets rid of it while it is happening. This isn't a solution, it's a bandaid.
I don't play using controller, but need to sometimes use one when testing mods. This typically means I am going in/out of the game window relatively often, so this may be a contributing factor (like Lokiawa tabbing out to check image references/etc).
I get this happening sometimes too.
I don't know what triggers it or have a reproduction, but I can typically get it to (temporarily) go away by locking (Win+L) then unlocking my computer. Note that this doesn't stop it from happening later, it just gets rid of it while it is happening. This isn't a solution, it's a bandaid.
I don't play using controller, but need to sometimes use one when testing mods. This typically means I am going in/out of the game window relatively often, so this may be a contributing factor (like Lokiawa tabbing out to check image references/etc).
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