Can devs finally address the feature controller is having issues on PC.

[Packetdancer]

The actual issue at play here is that for one reason or another, whenever FF14 detects a virtual device has been installed or uninstalled, it begins 'polling' the system to determine what devices are still connected to the game and figuring out what they are. The massive issue with this, is that Windows itself and other systems like game pass will randomly install and uninstall virtual devices related to those systems, causing FF14's controller inputs to hang while it determines whats connected still, every. single. time. this happens.

Oh god, it's not filtering on device class? Not even restricting it even just to HID devices at the very least? That's...

Then yeah, the way Game Pass installs virtual storage volumes as individual freaking devices (I will spare you the rant about how it often mistakenly recreates ones that already exist, and then marks the devices hidden as well, until you have like 73 virtual storage devices in Device Manager that only appear when you enable "Show Hidden Devices") would absolutely wreak merry havoc with it.

Among more than a few other things.

(I have Opinions about how virtual devices are handled in Windows. They are not positive ones.)

[TalithaSolarien]

Oh god, it's not filtering on device class? Not even restricting it even just to HID devices at the very least? That's...

Then yeah, the way Game Pass installs virtual storage volumes as individual freaking devices (I will spare you the rant about how it often mistakenly recreates ones that already exist, and then marks the devices hidden as well, until you have like 73 virtual storage devices in Device Manager that only appear when you enable "Show Hidden Devices") would absolutely wreak merry havoc with it.

Among more than a few other things.

(I have Opinions about how virtual devices are handled in Windows. They are not positive ones.)

It's those random virtual device reconnects caused by the GamePass system that causes the hickups, you can check the Windows Event Log, there are entries every time you get a controller timeout.

I've currently removed all GP games and also disabled the polling in the registry via this change:

Disabling "Microsoft Device Association Root Enumerator" under "Software devices" fixed the problem:

Device Manager > Software Devices > Microsoft Device Association Root Enumerator

Not perfect, but works (GamePass is overrated anyway)