Controller issue on menus (B, LB and RB buttons not working)

[Pratser]

Im having an issue with my controller (tested xbox one and PS5 controllers) where when I am in any menu, like the main menu or the inventory, etc.. menu within the game, the B button, LB and RB buttons stop working. Every other button in the controller works fine, but these ones are unresponsive, so I cannot close a menu pressing B for example.

I found more people with this same issue on Reddit:

, and it seems to be related to controller drift, but my PS5 controller is brand new and I still have the issue.

[cuckcuckgoose]

I have the same issue. Spent collectively about 12 hours trying to troubleshoot it. I've always been able to eventually get a Dualsense controller to work (sometimes using DualsenseX or DS4Windows of course), but Avowed is the one game that beat me.

I finally had to get an 8bitdo controller that just registers as an Xbox controller and that solved the issue.

But yeah, specifically my problem was that all buttons worked fine unless I was in any sort of menu. In the pause menus, LB, RB, B, and X didn't work. The buttons were registered, because if I shook my mouse to switch the UI to PC controls, then pressed RB, it would switch back to Xbox controls, but the button press wouldn't move the menu.

This happened across both Gamepass and Steam versions. 

Also, for me it has nothing to do with drift as that Reddit thread seems to suggest. I tried completely disabling the sticks in software and it did not help.