Left trigger acts as both triggers

Lian Bemis · Jul 29, 2023

I have a wired controller, when I push the left trigger it gives a right trigger input 70% of the time and a left trigger input sometimes. I looked at the controller test page and the left trigger pops up when pressed but then switches to right almost immediately. The right trigger works fine its just the left one.

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WattyNuela

Hello Lian, this is Manuela. I'm an Independent Advisor and community user like you, ready to assist with this.

Not a Microsoft employee.

I understand you’re having some trouble when trying to use your controller. Let’s try to sort this out.

However, before that, I would like to ask some questions:

What controller brand and model is the one you have?
Is this occurring or PC or Xbox? If you’re on a PC, are you running Windows 10 or 11?

What procedures you tried to fix this problem prior to your post creation?

Lian Bemis

It's a wired Xbox 1 controller

codey strong

Tried and it made no difference, issue is with controller I believe as when I use left analog stick forward with my trigger stops engaged it will act as if I’m pulling the left trigger

MUPokerPlayer

Pressing my left trigger results in both left trigger action and right trigger action. Playing COD and bringing up my sights with left trigger results in me bringing up my sights and shooting at the same time. What a pain.

TheRipper890

I have done more testing, and it seems the issue is with the triggers. I prefer immediate response, so i have the triggers deadzones both set at 0-1, when i do this and try to assign a spot, the left trigger becomes 0-51, right trigger stays 0-1. If i change
the left trigger to be higher than 0-1, when assigned to a spot, the new config compensates. For example, if i make both triggers 0-5, when assigned, the left trigger becomes 0-55. So when assigned, there must be a glitch where the left trigger immediately
adds 50 for some reason, must be a glitch in the coding or something. If it helps, i also switch the functions of my bumpers and my triggers around, so i can tap fire using the bumpers, and i set the triggers to 0-1 so that when i use those functions i'm not
required to press the triggers in as much.

I have made a configuration like the one i have said before (triggers and bumpers switched, triggers both at 0-1, 2 paddle functions as well), i went to edit one today when it started having the issues i stated above. I deleted all of my configurations to
see if it was an issue with the controller having access to too many configurations, but nothing changed. Thanks.

Left trigger acts as both triggers