I just got a bluetooth Xbox One controller today for use on PC. Didn't want to continue using the 360 controller as it's kind of worn and the dpad sucks.

So today I bought the xbox one controller and a play and charge kit. Already have a bluetooth adapter. I connected with bluetooth and fired up darksiders 2 and was getting frame drops down into the single digits. Going from 130's to 8fps. I noticed when I brought my controller closer to the bluetooth receiver I got more consistently high framerates.

However when I pulled the controller back away it started dipping again.

I turned bluetooth off and just used wired and i'm getting locked 144fps.


Or is it just something to do with bluetooth devices in windows 10? I have never seen this and would have never expected it. Would like to use this thing wireless if I could.

Does anyone have any advice?

Have you encountered this with other games or just Darksiders?

Mountainmohawk said:

Have you encountered this with other games or just Darksiders?

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Darksiders 2 is the only game I have tried so far.

Make sure your Bluetooth receiver has compatible windows 10 drivers. I had one that didn't and it caused all performace dips on my PC no matter what. I bought a newer one with proper plug-and-play drivers and it worked with no issues.

chaobreaker said:

Make sure your Bluetooth receiver has compatible windows 10 drivers. I had one that didn't and it caused all performace dips on my PC no matter what. I bought a newer one with proper plug-and-play drivers and it worked with no issues.

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This is probably the issue. It's just using a generic driver. I'll have to order a new one. I just got this one cheap a while back for wiimote support on windows 7.

There are some games where the Xbox One controller wasn't optimized for.

I for the life of me couldn't figure out why my 980ti was dropping frames on Trails in the Sky, a game from 2005-6 ish. Once I switched controllers, the frames didn't drop again.