Controller navigation in God of War is overly sensitive in menus (key_repeat_frequency has no effect)

[kamil-malinski]

Description

When playing God of War (2018) via Apollo over Moonlight on AppleTV, controller navigation in menus is extremely sensitive. Pressing up or down on the controller causes the menu to scroll through multiple entries at once, making selection almost impossible.

I tried adjusting key_repeat_frequency, but this does not change the behavior at all.

Steps to reproduce

Launch God of War via Apollo
Use a controller to navigate any in-game menu
Press up or down once on the D-pad or analog stick

Expected behavior

Each button press or stick movement should move the selection by exactly one menu entry.

Actual behavior

A single press causes the menu to scroll very quickly through multiple entries.

What I tried

Changing key_repeat_frequency to different values
Restarting Apollo and the streaming session
Trying other controllers

Additional notes

This feels like controller input repeat or acceleration being applied too aggressively, or the game receiving multiple input events for a single press

[ClassicOldSong]

Try disabling SteamInput for this game

[kamil-malinski]

Try disabling SteamInput for this game

makes no difference

[ClassicOldSong]

That's a common cause for this kind of issue and usually it's fixed by doing so. Maybe you still have other overlays enabled?

[kamil-malinski]

That's a common cause for this kind of issue and usually it's fixed by doing so. Maybe you still have other overlays enabled?

no, not that I know of

also other games work fine

if I try the same controller connected to the host it also works fine

[ClassicOldSong]

Have you tried changing the emulated controller type?

[kamil-malinski]

Have you tried changing the emulated controller type?

yes, it made no difference

also changing key_repeat_frequency doesn't make any difference

[ClassicOldSong]

key_repeat_frequency is for keyboard key strokes, not controller. It's weird that it still behaves like this but theoretically controllers don't send repeated key presses, and vigembus should have handled this correctly.

You're the only one reporting this problem for this game so I think it's still likely to be user errors somewhere. Maybe the controller connecting to your phone in a different mode that it has auto click enabled, or steam input is still enabled?

[kamil-malinski]

key_repeat_frequency is for keyboard key strokes, not controller. It's weird that it still behaves like this but theoretically controllers don't send repeated key presses, and vigembus should have handled this correctly.

You're the only one reporting this problem for this game so I think it's still likely to be user errors somewhere. Maybe the controller connecting to your phone in a different mode that it has auto click enabled, or steam input is still enabled?

it happens with two different controllers (8bitdo Ultimate and a Playstation 4 controller), both connected over bluetooth either to the client (AppleTV 4k) or the host (Windows 11 running Apollo)... steam input is definitely disabled and there is nothing installed that I could think of that could mess with the controller inputs... no idea what else I could try

[ClassicOldSong]

Hmmmm maybe it's the AppleTV client

Have you tried any other clients? Another PC or an android phone