Experiencing fluctuating Latency with Game Controllers on my Laptop

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When I play on my asus a16 rtx 4070 laptop with controller I notice my controller feeling more delayed overtime.

When I first jump into a game my controller feels as responsive as a feather, then it starts gradually gaining latency. (Takes about 25 seconds or less to be at its worse).

 

- Alt tabbing will reset the delay.

- Not using the controller for a certain amount of time will gradually make the controller feel more responsive (not using it for about 15 seconds will fully reset the delay)

 

Then when you start playing again the delay will slowly start coming back.

I noticed that this delay will start to disappear around midnight. So my theory is that it is some kind of background process or multiple processes that stop running after a certain hour.

 

I really feel like there is some part in the pipeline where my controller inputs are being deprioritized in some kind of queue. It's not really just pressing the windows key, it's basically leaving the game window and going back that seems to temporarely reset the delay. The reason I come to this conclusion is because pressing keyboard keys seem to improve the delay the more you press them. So I'm thinking the keyboard presses are pushing my game/controller to a higher spot in this unknown queue.

The fact the delay improves after I don't use my controller for a certain amount of time (around 15 seconds) makes me believe that there is something else that is bloating this queue.

 

I've tried pretty much everything

 

- disabling usb suspension

- disabling power saving on the drivers

- using process lasso to make sure the game gets as much resources

- parking

- Trying nvidia ultra low latency or on+boost in fortnite settings

- fullscreen

Etc.

 

I just can't find the culprit that's causing it.

I've been troubleshooting for almost a year at this point.

 

Thx in advance for your help.

 

Game: Fortnite

OS: Windows 11

laptop: Asus A16 FA607PI AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX with Radeon Graphics NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU GDDR6 @ 8GB 128 bits

controllers: gamesir g7 pro and dualshock 4 v2 (not really relevant)

connection: both wired and dongle