I just gave up and bought the USB adapter for the controller. It works fine wirelessly now so it's totally a bluetooth issue.
Xbox One S controller causing major performance problems in many games when connected via bluetooth. Need dev attention. Widespread, many examples within.
When connecting the Xbox One S controller via bluetooth, many games suffer performance problems.
This is remedied by plugging it in via usb.
Firmware updates so far have not remedied the problem.
Just a brief anecdotal example before I demonstrate the scope of this problem
Just Cause 3's menu screen is locked to 30fps.
With KB+M: 30fps
XBone S via bluetooth: 22fps
XBone S via usb: 30fps
Now, this issue has come up in many forums over across the internet.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/462780/discussions/0/154642447923607852
http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/1554736-Bluetooth-Xbox-Controller-FPS-DROP-glitch-Forums
http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/1586804-Problem-controller-with-cable-vs-Wireless-Forums
How do we get some dev attention on this issue? It's widespread and affects many games, and seems to be a driver issue.
I've tried updating from the current live release to the most recent insider build, as well as buying a high end bluetooth adapter. The issue persists, and clearly has nothing to do with me, my config, or anything we as users can do.
I've taken a fresh format, installed Trials Fusion(this game is particularly bad, unplayable over bluetooth0, and could immediately see the issue in play.
I've even swapped GPUs, from AMD to nVidia (not in an attempt to fix this, but it rules out display driver related issues)
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Anonymous
2019-01-16T06:33:01+00:00 Suffering from the same problems. Most noticeably in Assassins Creed Origins with frames dropping to 4 fps for up to a minute at a time.
Running:
Windows 10 Pro build 1809
AMD 1920x
32GB
1080ti
It actually worked flawlessly for the first 10-20 hours or so then got consistently unplayable. Hopefully something gets a patch.
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Anonymous
2018-09-17T23:57:03+00:00 Created an account just to contribute my 2 cents to this. I also have the bluetooth Xbox One S controller and had been using it just fine for the past year or so. It was only in the last week when I upgraded to a 1440p/165hz Dell S2417DG monitor that this problem developed for me. I was getting TERRIBLE fps drops and stutter in Rocket League, and I found that vibration settings made it worse the higher it was and better the lower or disabled it was but it would still occur. I thought maybe I needed to reinstall my controller drivers from scratch cuz they were encoded with a 60hz refresh rate in mind (just spitballing ideas here..). NOPE still happens. I tried playing another game, A Hat in Time, and noticed the same problems, though not as intense as in Rocket League. It was when I happened to switch to using keyboard & mouse in that game that I noticed BAM my frames shot up to 165fps no problem and there was ZERO input lag. Soon as I touched the controller again and the game said "New input: Xbox" (or something to that affect), stutter and frame drop returned. WTF is going on? I bought these bluetooth controllers because they stated they could be paired with a Win10 PC over bluetooth no problem. Am I the only one that just developed this problem when upgrading monitors? Either way this needs to be fixed. I play the majority of my games on Steam, and majority with K&M, but theres a handful of platformers and driving games that are simply better with a controller, and this is inexcusable from Microsoft. I'm not buying another stupid Microsoft adapter when i already have a bluetooth adapter that this can utilize.
My Specs:
Windows 10 Home (Version 1803) (OS Build 17134.285)
Intel Core i5 6600k 3.5GHz
Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI motherboard (Latest 'F22F' firmware)
16GB DDR4 @ 2800MHz
EVGA GeForce GTX 1070ti FTW2 8GB
512GB WD Black NVMe M.2 (Main disk)
5TB Toshiba HDD (Games)
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Anonymous
2018-04-04T20:30:49+00:00 Defeats the purpose of buying the bluetooth controller though, doesn't it? Could have continued to use the old 360 wired controller if I wanted to stay wired.
Same issue here - only have problems over bluetooth. Plugging it in works fine. This issue is well over two years old, well-documented with steps to reproduce, and spans multiple releases of these controllers. The problem is internal to Microsoft. Is anyone listening?
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Anonymous
2018-02-20T19:10:01+00:00 Same thing here. Had an old xbox 360 wired controller that started drifting so I bought the cool new wireless xbox one Sea of Thieves controller and instantly saw frame rate issues and huge controller lag on even the simplest games. Read it helps to go into your Steam setting and set it to xbox one controller but after doing this saw no change.
Really frustrating to have just spend over $100 on a controller I can't use.