Horizon Zero Dawn: Issue with shift layers persisting input

[reWASDer]

Got it. We will certainly let you know once we find it — that's a riddle at the moment

[flowerdealer]

I was thinking that it might have to do with internal timers, from what I can see my pc ha hpet enabled. I tried disabling it but it made no difference. For windows 11 I also disabled virtualization based security.

[reWASDer]

Regardless of if 'fast' is buggy or if it's an issue with my system, Windows 11, or something else, may I suggest that 'keyboard native' would be a better default? Not sure what the motivation for fast repeats is (maybe less latency in input?). I just tested my setup again in Horizon Zero Dawn and it behaves perfectly as expected.

That's a good idea, and we have discussed the same one with a team

At the moment, we are researching different things — as for we could not reproduce the same behavior when we tested your config on Windows 11 too — pretty interesting to understand which exact option may relate here, besides reWASD settings. We have another idea too — to emulate the same speed the keyboard in the particular system has. Thank you for the provided information, testing and your report — we got a new challenge here

[flowerdealer]

Regardless of if 'fast' is buggy or if it's an issue with my system, Windows 11, or something else, may I suggest that 'keyboard native' would be a better default? Not sure what the motivation for fast repeats is (maybe less latency in input?). I just tested my setup again in Horizon Zero Dawn and it behaves perfectly as expected.

[flowerdealer]

To clarify I sent you an email, the upload attachments button here wouldn't let me upload it.

[flowerdealer]

I've sent you the msinfo. At least other modes seem to fix my problem, so that is great as I hadn't thought to try that (to be honest I didn't even know the option was there), as this mode (fast) is selected by default.

[reWASDer]

Got it, thank you, very interesting.

We will need research from our side, though, at least we understand why it may happen, so thanks a lot for your report!

You can send msinfo file either to help@rewasd.com or to private messages here — just press "chat" icon near my nickname.

[flowerdealer]

And to answer your other questions, mapping to the direction pad with 'fast' repeat also has the issue. Mapping arrows to the stick also shows the issue (while fast repeat is active only).
My system is pretty fast and I have no performance issues otherwise (5600x cpu, 3080gpu).

[flowerdealer]

I don't see anything abnormal in Task Manager, I've also tested LatencyMon and see no issues. Where should I send the nfo file, not sure if it's safe to post publicly.

[reWASDer]

Great news, thank you for confirming and checking.

At this moment, do not waste your time for the previous release — we have found what is going on!

Still I will ask you two more things

1. Once the config is applied and you move a stick, the second stick, gyro — could you please check Task Manager stats? Do you see anything abnormal, either with reWASD or with a game or just in the system?
2. Could you please send me your system information? It doesn’t include any personal data but shows active processes, installed apps and drivers. It will help us recreate the same conditions and reproduce the issue from our side.
   1. Type ‘msinfo’ in Windows search
   2. Press Enter to open System Information tool
   3. Go to File -> Save
   4. Send me the *.nfo file you get

Thank you in advance!

[flowerdealer]

Thanks, so I've changed the key repeat behavior, and all modes seem to work correctly (Slow, no Repeat and Keyboard Native), so the problem seems to be with the 'Fast' repeat mode. I'm on Windows 11, if that makes any difference, so that would fix my issue, but I do think there is something wrong with the 'fast' mode.

[reWASDer]

And a few more things (just to be sure):

• if you map Arrows (or any other keyboard mappings, excluding WASD) to the stick — you get the same in the tester?
• if you map keyboard keys to the digital buttons — you do not get this weird delay after the button is released, right?

[reWASDer]

You can download any previous version from your personal account. To log in, use the same email address you have defined during the purchase.

The configs should be safe while downgrading from 6.0.1 to 5.8.1, but — just in case — it is better to backup them. Just manually copy them and save to another directory. You can get access to the config folder from Preferences -> My data tab.

You won't be able to use both versions together, you will need to remove 6.0.1 before you go.

UPD: please check 5.8.1 — 6.0.0 and 6.0.1 are too similar, so I am 100% sure that they will work the same way.

[flowerdealer]

I haven't tested previous versions, and I wasn't using WASD configs before at all, so I'm not sure. Where would I download previous versions to test? Also, I don't want to lose my configs preferably, can I run 2 versions together.

[reWASDer]

Thanks a lot for your testing!

Instead of the W key (for example) being continuously pressed, it's being registered as multiple W presses

Actually, this part goes right — if you press and hold the keyboard key, you will see the same — there are lots of fast presses, and it should end with one "up" event — just "Released" option should be on in that tool.

You can switch this multiple emulation off in reWASD, you just need to set Keyboard repeat rate to Do not repeat here:



This part has not changed since reWASD 3.0 I think, so this should not be a problem.

that are delayed the longer you press

And this part definitely goes wrong, it should stop immediately if the stick is not moving.

Could you please confirm that you have tried reWASD 5.8.1 or later — with the current environment — and it works properly?
You will help us a lot if you check the previous version.