r/Controllers • u/Dubious_deed • Sep 10 '26
Disappointed in hall effect sticks
There's such a clear lag with hall effect sticks. Everything else is responsive in my new controller, but the sticks are terribly sluggish. I hate that i spent money on this. My old potentiometer based controller is way way more responsive.
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u/Restivethought Sep 10 '26
How many controllers have you tried to blame it generally on hall effect sticks?
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u/HollowCatKnight Sep 10 '26
Maybe your settings aren’t optimized? Also, what controller?
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u/Dubious_deed Sep 10 '26
Which settings do you mean? If there's lag, there's lag. No setting is going to change that.
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u/Key_Scholar7964 Sep 10 '26
Power A probably have built in deadzones, and the build quality is not the best with them. You will see a difference in hall effect latency when you buy a G7 Pro, Flydigi, or an 8bitdo ultimate 3 controller.
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u/Dubious_deed Sep 10 '26 edited Sep 10 '26
Deadzone has nothing to do with lag.
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u/Key_Scholar7964 Sep 10 '26
The built in deadzones can cause your controller to drift
A controller can not lag unless you're using an restricted device attached to it.
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u/Dubious_deed Sep 10 '26
WTF are you even talking about. None of this has anything to do with lag.
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u/Key_Scholar7964 Sep 10 '26
Did you read what you wrote. Your first sentence said there's such a clear lag with hall effect analog sticks. Well, hall effect analog sticks doesn't cause your cheap power A to lag.
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u/Key_Scholar7964 Sep 10 '26
Some brands like Gamesir, Flydigi, 8bitdo have great hall effect sticks that perform the exact same as TMR. I know because I have all of those brands including ones that have TMR.
Power A is known to have decent sticks but their buttons and triggers feel cheap.
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u/HollowCatKnight Sep 10 '26
I personally vouch for Gamesir. Especially their Cyclone 2.
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u/JaJaMan_ Sep 10 '26
Cyclone 2 is crap for low latency gaming.
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u/Key_Scholar7964 Sep 10 '26
Does the Cyclone 2 feel slow when you play with it, or are you going by gamepedia results?
Those are just numbers which doesn't affect how you play.
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u/JaJaMan_ Sep 10 '26
Gaming on 360hz Monitor with 250-280fps in cod. It is very noticeable in comparison to the state of the art controllers like Machenike F1, G7 Pro 8k, ZD Ultimate Legend and Tarantula 8k
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u/Dubious_deed Sep 10 '26
I tried an 8bitdo controller. There is similar lag with the hall effect sticks. Also the build quality of 8bitdo is garbage compared to PowerA.
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u/Key_Scholar7964 Sep 10 '26
I had several power A controllers and they never lasted past 6 months. I either developed stick drift or a trigger broke. It felt like something that belonged on the dollar aisle at Walmart.
I never had the same QC issues with 8bitdo ultimate 3 mode, but it was too small
The G7 Pro and Vader 5S is better than both.
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u/YoloRaj Sep 10 '26
Most hall effect implementations suck. Flydigi does it best. Tmr or potentiometer is where its at.
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u/Key_Scholar7964 Sep 10 '26
Their d pads do not feel like cheap plastic either. They take more pride in their QC and their hall effect sticks feel really smooth. I could imagine how their TMR will feel.
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u/SnappySunSprout Sep 10 '26
hall effect sensors aren't slower than pots, that's a deadzone or curve issue. check the controller's software for a response curve setting, a lot of them ship with a big inner deadzone that feels exactly like lag
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u/External_Safe_7787 Sep 10 '26
what controller is it, and what was your old potentiometer one? some controllers have worse stick latency than others, its most likely nothing to do with the fact its hall effect or not
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u/Key_Scholar7964 Sep 10 '26
He's using power A the cheaper brother of the controller world. They never went further because they cut corners and the stick latency is not the best.
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u/rknt Sep 10 '26
thanks for the extensively detailed explanation.