I’ve noticed that for some games (PC), I have to turn my controller on *before* I launch the game, or else it just won’t work. But with other games, I can turn my controller on at any time and it connects just fine.
Why is that? Shouldn’t every game just be able to recognize the controller whenever I turn it on?
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It’s hard to know, but one explanation is that the game is controller agile. It can work with many different brands of controllers, or perhaps just the keyboard. When the game starts up it tries to figure out what controller you are using, so it can load the code to work with that controller. No controller turned on means don’t load code to talk to the controller. When you turn the controller on later, the game doesn’t care.
A more savvy game might detect the controller powering on and load the code then, but I can see that being more complex and some game developers might do it the simple way.
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