Any other PC players having trouble with controllers occasionally dropping inputs?

[Wyakin]

I have an Xbox series X controller and it refuses to work via Bluetooth. Firstly the buttons are all mapped incorrectly, so I calibrate it and then the screen wanders around if it’s own volition. To put the cherry on top pressing L+R doesn’t work either.

SEs response to me was “use a wire because 14 doesn’t support Bluetooth devices”

[Eriane_Elis]

I have an Xbox series X controller and it refuses to work via Bluetooth. Firstly the buttons are all mapped incorrectly, so I calibrate it and then the screen wanders around if it’s own volition. To put the cherry on top pressing L+R doesn’t work either.

SEs response to me was “use a wire because 14 doesn’t support Bluetooth devices”

That's not part of this issue but I'll answer your issue. You have two options. Either you download the xbox controller app from the microsoft store to give you the ability to use the controller to any game (which FF14 won't do because they don't provide the drivers for it, that's a microsoft thing) or use steam overlay and configure FF14 to use it. If you want to be able to use the extra buttons on the controller, install the extended controller support for xbox elite controller or something like that. You can use the share button on the controller for anything in the game. It works great!

But going back to the topic at hand, Square Enix doesn't provide the Xbox driver because that's not their job. Steam provides it because you tell it to download it and configure it for you. Also you don't have to run steam in full screen mode, it will just launch it as an external application and give it support automatically as long as you configured it.