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Description

Smoother stick input: physical controllers and on-screen controls

Why

Turning the camera with a stick, physical or on-screen, caused frame drops and stutter. Most of the cost was not the input itself but how often it was forwarded:

  • Every input event re-sent the full gamepad state, even when nothing changed. Each send wakes the gamepad reader thread in every Wine process.
  • On-screen controls sent on every touch event of every finger.
  • Stick-to-mouse ran on java.util.Timer threads at a fixed 60 Hz. The on-screen one never stopped once it had started.
  • Keys bound to stick or D-pad directions were pressed again on every motion event.

What changed

Shared by physical and on-screen input (new, in ui/screen/xserver)

  • GamepadStateOutput: the one path gamepad state takes to Wine (UDP and shared memory) from touch controls, physical controllers, gyro and the radial menu. A state equal to the last one sent, at the precision Wine actually gets, is skipped. sendForced() covers releases and resets that must always go out.
  • MouseLookStepper: held MOUSE_MOVE_* bindings. It sums all held sources and moves the pointer once per display frame by frame time × speed, keeping the sub-pixel remainder. It stops when nothing is held. It replaces both 60 Hz timers.
  • InputThrottling and FrameCallbackLoop: an optional "Input throttling" setting in Quick Menu → Performance.
    • Stored per container; off by default; 15–240 updates/s.
    • When on, stick and trigger motion (physical controllers, on-screen controls, gyro aiming as a stick) waits for the first display frame on which it is due. Buttons are never held back; gyro mouse is not throttled.

Physical controllers (PhysicalControllerHandler)

  • Motion is processed as it arrives; Android already batches joystick motion once per display frame.
  • Stick directions are shared with the on-screen stick (ControlElement.isStickDirectionActive):
    • press past the 0.15 dead zone;
    • key/button bindings release below 0.10, so a stick resting at the edge doesn't chatter;
    • per axis, releases are processed before presses.
  • Triggers bound to keys or buttons press at 0.05 and release below 0.03. Analog trigger bindings follow any pull.
  • While a direction or trigger is held, only the analog members of its binding follow the value (BindingCombo.getHeldUpdateBindings()). Keys, buttons and sequences fire once, on the press. This fixes repeated key presses from mixed combos such as [MOUSE_MOVE_RIGHT, KEY_E].
  • Held input is released when the game pauses for an overlay, and picked up again on resume.
  • Held sticks and triggers are pressed again when the radial menu closes, without needing new motion.
  • Binding lookups are cached per device instead of a linear scan for every direction on every event.

On-screen controls (InputControlsView, ControlElement)

  • Gamepad state is sent only when it changed. Finger motion follows input throttling.
  • The D-pad presses a bound key once, instead of on every finger move. Stick and mouse bindings on it still follow the finger.
  • The on-screen stick uses the same release threshold as physical sticks.
  • On-screen mouse movement goes through MouseLookStepper. Small deflections no longer lose their fractional part to integer truncation.
  • The overlay is redrawn only when something visible changes: the stick thumb or a dynamic joystick moved at least 0.5 px, or the set of held D-pad directions changed.
  • Button labels and their fitted text size are cached. Range-button texts are no longer rebuilt and measured on every redraw.
  • Fewer allocations per touch move.

WinHandler

  • Both shared-memory writers now use one writeGamepadState(). It writes only changed bytes and wakes the readers only when something changed.
  • UDP:
    • a packet identical to the last one sent to a port is skipped;
    • only the newest pending state send per port is kept;
    • the send thread no longer holds the queue lock while sending.
  • Fixed sendGamepadState() reading currentController several times while the receive thread can null it.
  • Fixed the GET_GAMEPAD_STATE reply dereferencing a controller that was just nulled. That NPE stopped the send thread.

Other

  • ExternalController:
    • historical samples of a batched event are no longer replayed (only the newest ends up in the state anyway);
    • isGameController() is cached per InputDevice instance, avoiding a hasKeys() binder call on every event;
    • one motion-range lookup per axis.
  • XServerScreen: only one pointer-capture request is in flight at a time. It used to post one per gamepad event while capture was off.

Behaviour changes users may notice

  • Keys held through a stick or D-pad direction no longer auto-repeat from motion. Before, every motion event pressed them again.
  • Key bindings on stick directions release at 0.10 instead of 0.15.
  • Mouse-look speed is unchanged at full deflection: 600 px/s × cursor speed, equal to the former 10 px per 60 Hz tick. Small on-screen deflections move a bit more, since fractions are no longer dropped.
  • With input throttling on, D-pad changes made during a finger move on the on-screen controls can arrive up to one interval later.

Tests

  • New:
    • GamepadStateOutputTest
    • ControlElementHeldInputTest
    • ControlElementRedrawTest
    • InputControlsViewMouseLookTest
  • PhysicalControllerHandlerTest extended to cover:
    • held combos;
    • sequences;
    • radial menu re-press for sticks and triggers;
    • pause and resume;
    • input throttling;
    • a stick jumping past center.

Tested on: Retroid Pocket 6 in The Forest, Just Cause 1, Mount&Blade, Outer Wilds

Recording

screen-20261002-022155.1.mp4

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  • Performance / stability improvement
  • Compatibility improvements
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Summary by cubic

Fixes the frame drops and stutter from stick-driven camera movement on physical controllers and on-screen controls, and adds an optional per-container "Input throttling" performance setting (off by default, 5–240 Hz). Stick and trigger motion is rate-limited; buttons are never delayed and gyro mouse is not throttled.

Previously every input event re-sent the full gamepad state to Wine, on-screen controls sent on every touch event, and stick-to-mouse ran on two fixed 60 Hz timers that never stopped once started. Keys bound to stick or D-pad directions were pressed again on every motion event.

Input path

  • New GamepadStateOutput skips states equal to the last one sent, keeping sendForced() for releases and resets.
  • New MouseLookStepper replaces both 60 Hz timers: it sums held mouse-look sources, moves the pointer once per display frame keeping the sub-pixel remainder, and stops when nothing is held.
  • Both shared-memory writers use one writeGamepadState() that writes and wakes readers only on changed bytes; identical UDP packets are skipped, only the newest pending send per port is kept, and the send thread no longer holds the queue lock while sending.
  • Fixed sendGamepadState() and the GET_GAMEPAD_STATE reply racing with the receive thread, where a nulled controller caused an NPE that stopped the send thread.

Sources

  • Physical controller analog motion is accumulated and sent on the input tick; keys on stick directions fire once on press instead of on every motion event.
  • Stick directions use a 0.10 release threshold (was 0.15) shared with the on-screen stick; triggers press at 0.05 and release below 0.03. Keys held through a stick or D-pad direction no longer auto-repeat.
  • Held input releases when the overlay pauses the game, re-presses on resume, and re-presses when the radial menu closes.
  • On-screen controls send gamepad state only when changed, the D-pad presses a bound key once, and the overlay redraws only when something visible changed.
  • ExternalController no longer replays historical samples of batched events, caches isGameController(), does one motion-range lookup per axis, and clears its cache when a device is removed.
  • XServerScreen keeps one pointer-capture request in flight instead of one per gamepad event.
  • Mouse-look speed at full deflection is unchanged; small on-screen deflections move a bit more. With input throttling on, D-pad changes during a finger move can arrive up to one interval later.

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Summary

  • New Features
    • Added an input-throttling toggle and adjustable rate (5–240 Hz) to the Performance HUD. When enabled, stick and trigger updates are rate-limited while physical controller buttons remain responsive.
    • Improved controller input handling with held analog inputs, steadier stick direction detection, and smoother mouse-look movement.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Reduced redundant gamepad updates and unnecessary control redraws.
    • Improved controller input cleanup when pausing overlays and resuming gameplay.
  • Localization
    • Added translations for the input-throttling settings in supported languages.

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Walkthrough

The changes add configurable input throttling and shared gamepad and mouse-look pipelines. They update held analog input handling, physical-controller dispatch, and gamepad transport. The Performance HUD adds throttling controls and translations. Tests cover pacing, delivery, and input behavior.

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Controller Input Pipeline

Layer / File(s) Summary
Throttling and gamepad output
app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/InputThrottling.kt, app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/GamepadStateOutput.kt, app/src/main/java/com/winlator/winhandler/WinHandler.java, app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/RadialMenuCoordinator.kt, app/src/test/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/*Test.kt
InputThrottling and FrameCallbackLoop schedule sends. GamepadStateOutput handles duplicate, forced, and deferred motion states. WinHandler coalesces per-port updates and skips unchanged packets and shared-memory writes. Tests cover pacing and state delivery.
Held analog input and stick processing
app/src/main/java/com/winlator/inputcontrols/Binding.java, app/src/main/java/com/winlator/inputcontrols/BindingCombo.java, app/src/main/java/com/winlator/inputcontrols/ControlElement.java, app/src/main/java/com/winlator/inputcontrols/ExternalController.java, app/src/main/java/com/winlator/inputcontrols/StickVectorProcessor.java, app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/MainActivity.kt, app/src/test/java/com/winlator/inputcontrols/*
Binding combos identify analog members for held updates. Stick processing applies activation and release thresholds, reuses mutable vectors, and limits redraws. External controller processing uses current motion samples and caches device classification.
Physical controller dispatch and mouse-look
app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/PhysicalControllerHandler.kt, app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/MouseLookStepper.kt, app/src/test/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/PhysicalControllerHandlerTest.kt, app/src/test/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/MouseLookStepperTest.kt
Physical controller motion is tracked and reevaluated across throttling, radial-menu changes, and overlay pause and resume. Mouse-look movement uses held contributions and display-frame callbacks.
On-screen input and throttling settings
app/src/main/java/com/winlator/widget/InputControlsView.java, app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/XServerScreen.kt, app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/component/QuickMenu.kt, app/src/main/res/values*/strings.xml, app/src/test/java/com/winlator/widget/InputControlsViewMouseLookTest.kt
InputControlsView uses the shared output components. XServerScreen persists throttling settings and wires the shared pipeline. The Performance HUD adds a toggle and rate control with localized labels.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2cedf

Held controller input may remain released after closing a never-suspend overlay, and the enlarged screen method risks failing verification on affected devices. Resolve both concerns before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2cedf

The change centralizes and paces input without a demonstrated increase in privilege or network exposure. Explicit release and capture controls remain, but recovery after partial delivery is not fully established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • observed — Output fans out to registered UDP clients and Wine readers of gamepad shared memory under the application's files directory. A state notification can affect multiple Wine processes, not just one consumer.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The UDP listener binds a wildcard address in both the available base and head. This exposure predates the PR; the pacing change does not introduce that binding. Actual remote reachability depends on network containment that was not supplied.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The send thread owns UDP packet caches, updates them only after successful socket sends, and invalidates them on registration, explicit state responses, and gamepad release. Action failures are logged without terminating the send loop. These controls do not establish receiver acknowledgement or complete recovery after partial delivery.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — If the UDP protocol is intended exclusively for local consumers, consider explicit loopback binding and peer-origin validation. This is separate hardening for an existing boundary, not a finding introduced by this PR.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the input-performance improvements and the addition of input throttling.
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Update after rebasing onto #1909 and addressing the review

Corrections to the description:

  • Input throttling range is now 5–240 updates/s (was 15–240), so it uses the same steps as the FPS limiter.
  • "Buttons are never held back" applies to physical controller buttons. On-screen D-pad changes during a finger move follow throttling, as already noted under behaviour changes. The setting's description now says so in all languages.

Added:

  • Stick tuning from Add physical controller deadzone, sensitivity, and direction tuning #1909: a tuned stick's values already have the user's dead zone removed, so its directions no longer apply the fixed 0.15 on top. Analog bindings follow any deflection. Key/button bindings press past 0.03 and release at center. The radial menu uses the same check.
  • Add physical controller deadzone, sensitivity, and direction tuning #1909 tuning is now allocation-free: it writes into a reused vector instead of allocating per event, and profiles without tuning skip it. StickVectorProcessor keeps its Vector API.
  • WinHandler: the GET_GAMEPAD reply reads the controller when the request arrives, and a failing queued action is logged instead of ending the send thread (which stopped all input).
  • Smaller fixes from the review: two devices sharing the * controller across a pause; binding cache invalidated on any binding edit; pointer-capture request re-checked and cancelled with the screen; pending throttled motion dropped when a newer state is sent.

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🟡 Minor · Preserve elapsed movement while throttling pointer output. · MouseLookStepper.kt:1-175

app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/MouseLookStepper.kt:1-175
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve elapsed movement while throttling pointer output.

At the supported 5 Hz rate, MouseLookStepper sends about every 0.2 seconds, but step() limits each interval to 0.1 seconds. A full-deflection binding therefore moves at about half speed. The fractional remainder cannot recover the discarded elapsed time.

Accumulate elapsed time between frames, cap each individual frame gap at 0.1 seconds, and consume the accumulated time when isDue() permits output. This keeps the output throttled without discarding normal elapsed movement.

Suggested fix
@@
     // Frame time of the last step; 0 while idle, so idle time never becomes a step.
     private var lastStepNanos = 0L
+    private var lastFrameNanos = 0L
+    private var pendingStepSeconds = 0f
     private val frameLoop = FrameCallbackLoop(::onFrame)
@@
         remainderX = 0f
         remainderY = 0f
         lastStepNanos = 0L
+        lastFrameNanos = 0L
+        pendingStepSeconds = 0f
         frameLoop.cancel()
@@
         if (PluviaApp.isOverlayPaused) {
             lastStepNanos = 0L // resume() restarts; the pause is not a step
+            lastFrameNanos = 0L
+            pendingStepSeconds = 0f
             return
         }
+        val previousFrameNanos = lastFrameNanos
+        val elapsedSeconds = if (previousFrameNanos == 0L) {
+            FIRST_STEP_SECONDS
+        } else {
+            ((frameTimeNanos - previousFrameNanos) / NANOS_PER_SECOND).coerceAtLeast(0f)
+        }
+        lastFrameNanos = frameTimeNanos
+        pendingStepSeconds = if (elapsedSeconds > MAX_STEP_SECONDS) {
+            MAX_STEP_SECONDS
+        } else {
+            pendingStepSeconds + elapsedSeconds
+        }
         if (throttling.isDue(lastStepNanos, frameTimeNanos)) step(frameTimeNanos)
@@
         if (deflectionX == 0f && deflectionY == 0f) {
             lastStepNanos = 0L
+            pendingStepSeconds = 0f
             return
         }
 
         val dtSeconds = if (lastStepNanos == 0L) {
             FIRST_STEP_SECONDS
         } else {
-            ((frameTimeNanos - lastStepNanos) / NANOS_PER_SECOND).coerceIn(0f, MAX_STEP_SECONDS)
+            pendingStepSeconds
         }
+        pendingStepSeconds = 0f
         lastStepNanos = frameTimeNanos
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Update MouseLookStepper to retain elapsed movement between throttled pointer
outputs: track frame-to-frame elapsed time, cap each individual frame gap at
MAX_STEP_SECONDS, and accumulate it until throttling.isDue permits step(). Have
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- Around line 1-175: Update MouseLookStepper to retain elapsed movement between
throttled pointer outputs: track frame-to-frame elapsed time, cap each
individual frame gap at MAX_STEP_SECONDS, and accumulate it until
throttling.isDue permits step(). Have step() consume and clear the accumulated
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🟡 Minor · Preserve historical samples for stick-direction hysteresis. · ExternalController.java:409-416

app/src/main/java/com/winlator/inputcontrols/ExternalController.java:409-416
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve historical samples for stick-direction hysteresis.

When stick tuning uses FOUR_WAY or EIGHT_WAY, StickVectorProcessor.snapDirection() uses the previous direction within a five-degree hysteresis margin. The base implementation processed historical samples before the current sample, so a historical deflection could set that direction. The current implementation processes only the current sample and can select a different direction.

For example, a historical right deflection followed by a current sample just beyond the right-sector boundary can keep the right direction in the base path but select the next sector in the current path. A mapped right direction or sequence can therefore fail to activate. Restore historical-axis processing in ExternalController; binding dispatch should still occur only for the final state.

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-private void processJoystickInput(MotionEvent event, InputDevice device, boolean isJoyCon) {
+private void processJoystickInput(MotionEvent event, InputDevice device, boolean isJoyCon, int historyPos) {
     boolean z = false;
     int source = event.getSource();
-    rawThumbLX = updateRawAxis(event, device, source, MotionEvent.AXIS_X, rawThumbLX);
-    rawThumbLY = updateRawAxis(event, device, source, MotionEvent.AXIS_Y, rawThumbLY);
-    rawThumbRX = updateRawAxis(event, device, source, MotionEvent.AXIS_Z, rawThumbRX);
-    rawThumbRY = updateRawAxis(event, device, source, MotionEvent.AXIS_RZ, rawThumbRY);
+    rawThumbLX = updateRawAxis(event, device, source, MotionEvent.AXIS_X, historyPos, rawThumbLX);
+    rawThumbLY = updateRawAxis(event, device, source, MotionEvent.AXIS_Y, historyPos, rawThumbLY);
+    rawThumbRX = updateRawAxis(event, device, source, MotionEvent.AXIS_Z, historyPos, rawThumbRX);
+    rawThumbRY = updateRawAxis(event, device, source, MotionEvent.AXIS_RZ, historyPos, rawThumbRY);
...
-    if (!isJoyCon) {
+    if (historyPos == -1 && !isJoyCon) {
         float axisX = getCenteredAxis(event, MotionEvent.AXIS_HAT_X, -1);
         float axisY = getCenteredAxis(event, MotionEvent.AXIS_HAT_Y, -1);
...
-private static float updateRawAxis(MotionEvent event, InputDevice device, int source, int axis, float retained) {
+private static float updateRawAxis(
+        MotionEvent event, InputDevice device, int source, int axis, int historyPos, float retained) {
     InputDevice.MotionRange range = device != null ? device.getMotionRange(axis, source) : null;
     float value = 0.0f;
     if (range != null) {
-        float raw = event.getAxisValue(axis);
+        float raw = historyPos < 0
+                ? event.getAxisValue(axis)
+                : event.getHistoricalAxisValue(axis, historyPos);
         if (Math.abs(raw) > range.getFlat()) value = raw;
     }
...
-            processJoystickInput(event, device, isJoyCon);
+            int historySize = event.getHistorySize();
+            for (int i = 0; i < historySize; i++)
+                processJoystickInput(event, device, isJoyCon, i);
+            processJoystickInput(event, device, isJoyCon, -1);
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Update ExternalController’s processJoystickInput and updateRawAxis to read
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- Around line 409-416: Update ExternalController’s processJoystickInput and
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Process each historical sample in order before the current sample so
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@coderabbitai Re the outside-diff note on ExternalController historical samples: intentional. Only the final sample of a batch ever reaches the game, so the snapping hysteresis is applied per delivered state. A batch can only differ inside the 5° margin, within one frame, and both outcomes there are valid sectors. Replaying history would bring back the tune + atan2 snap work per sample that this PR removes from the hot path.

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@kudyk Thanks for clarifying. ExternalController processes only the current sample, and StickVectorProcessor gives the previous sector a 5° hysteresis margin.

Applying hysteresis per delivered state is an intentional behavior choice. Replaying historical samples would restore per-sample tuning and atan2 work without delivering those intermediate states. I withdraw the outside-diff note. No change is needed.


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Learning: In GameNative, app/src/main/java/com/winlator/inputcontrols/ExternalController.java intentionally processes only the current joystick sample from each batched MotionEvent. Only the final sample reaches the game. Direction-snapping hysteresis in app/src/main/java/com/winlator/inputcontrols/StickVectorProcessor.java therefore operates per delivered state, not per historical sample. Differences within the 5° hysteresis margin are accepted sector choices. Do not recommend replaying historical samples merely to preserve per-sample snapping history, because that restores tuning and atan2 work per sample on the input hot path.

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🟡 Minor · Preserve discrete button states in the UDP queue. · WinHandler.java:512-516

app/src/main/java/com/winlator/winhandler/WinHandler.java:512-516
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Preserve discrete button states in the UDP queue.

PhysicalControllerHandler.onKeyEvent sends both button-down and button-up states through GamepadStateOutput.send. The default sender queues both states as GamepadStateUpdateTask instances. If button-up arrives before the send thread runs, addAction removes the pending button-down task for that port. The UDP client then receives only the released GET_GAMEPAD_STATE snapshot and can miss the tap.

Keep coalescing for analog motion, but enqueue discrete button and forced-release states without replacement.

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--- a/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/GamepadStateOutput.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/GamepadStateOutput.kt
@@
     fun interface Sender {
         fun send(state: GamepadState?)
+        fun sendMotion(state: GamepadState?) = send(state)
 
         fun canSend(): Boolean = true
@@
             override fun send(state: GamepadState?) {
                 xServer()?.winHandler?.let { winHandler ->
                     winHandler.sendGamepadState()
                     winHandler.sendVirtualGamepadState(state)
                 }
             }
 
+            override fun sendMotion(state: GamepadState?) {
+                xServer()?.winHandler?.let { winHandler ->
+                    winHandler.sendGamepadState(true)
+                    winHandler.sendVirtualGamepadState(state)
+                }
+            }
+
@@
     fun send(state: GamepadState?) {
-        if (state != null && hasChanged(state)) transmit(state)
+        if (state != null && hasChanged(state)) transmit(state, coalesce = false)
     }
 
-    fun sendMotion(state: GamepadState?) {
+    fun sendMotion(state: GamepadState?, alreadyDue: Boolean = false) {
         if (state == null) return
-        if (!throttling.isDue(lastSendNanos, SystemClock.elapsedRealtimeNanos())) {
+        if (!alreadyDue && !throttling.isDue(lastSendNanos, SystemClock.elapsedRealtimeNanos())) {
             pendingMotion = state
             frameLoop.schedule()
             return
         }
-        send(state)
+        if (hasChanged(state)) transmit(state, coalesce = true)
     }
@@
     fun sendForced(state: GamepadState?) {
-        transmit(state)
+        transmit(state, coalesce = false)
     }
 
-    private fun transmit(state: GamepadState?) {
+    private fun transmit(state: GamepadState?, coalesce: Boolean) {
@@
-        sender.send(state)
+        if (coalesce) sender.sendMotion(state) else sender.send(state)
@@
-        send(state)
+        if (hasChanged(state)) transmit(state, coalesce = true)
     }
--- a/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/PhysicalControllerHandler.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/PhysicalControllerHandler.kt
@@
-        gamepadOutput.send(currentProfile.gamepadState)
+        gamepadOutput.sendMotion(currentProfile.gamepadState, alreadyDue = true)
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/winlator/winhandler/WinHandler.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/winlator/winhandler/WinHandler.java
@@
     public void sendGamepadState() {
+        sendGamepadState(false);
+    }
+
+    public void sendGamepadState(boolean coalesce) {
@@
-            addAction(new GamepadStateUpdateTask(port, () -> {
+            Runnable action = () -> {
@@
-            }));
+            };
+            addAction(coalesce ? new GamepadStateUpdateTask(port, action) : action);
         }
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Update 2: throttling timing and input noise

Input throttling now paces sends on the display frame clock with a schedule instead of "time since the last send":

  • Rates that don't divide the display rate hold on average (45/s on a 60 Hz display gives 45 sends/s, not 30). At most one send per frame, so the effective rate is min(setting, display rate);
  • The first motion after idle goes out right away; a late frame restarts the schedule instead of sending a catch-up burst.
  • Button and forced sends go out immediately and don't shift the motion schedule.
  • Mouse-look under throttling steps less often but at the same speed (it moves by elapsed time). A long frame moves the pointer by at most 0.1 s worth, so a hitch doesn't make it jump.

Input noise, summarized (thresholds were listed before, here is why):

  • Keys/buttons on stick directions have press/release hysteresis (0.15 / 0.10; tuned sticks 0.03 / center), so a stick resting near a threshold or on the dead-zone edge doesn't toggle the key.
  • Keys/buttons on triggers: upstream pressed them at any value above 0, so a resting trigger with slight noise could tap the key. They now press at 0.05 and release below 0.03.
  • Gamepad state changes smaller than the 16-bit precision Wine receives are not sent, so sensor jitter of a resting stick doesn't wake the Wine readers.
  • On-screen: finger jitter under 0.5 px doesn't redraw the overlay.

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Hey, thanks for this PR, the diagnosis is really useful. I think we should split it up though, it's too big to merge in one go.

First PR: just the WinHandler changes. From your diagnosis the stutter comes from the redundant sends waking the reader threads, so this should already give an improvement on its own, and it doesn't change any input behaviour.

Second PR: the throttling toggle, off by default. A few things for that one:

button and d-pad changes need to bypass the pacer. Right now a d-pad hat tap or an on-screen d-pad roll that starts and ends inside one interval never gets sent
I'd drop the dedupe in GamepadStateOutput and rely on the WinHandler one. The Kotlin one marks a state as sent before WinHandler actually sends it, and it doesn't know when WinHandler resets a slot on hot-plug, so it can skip a state Wine never got
the new state in XServerScreen needs to go in a holder class rather than locals in the composable. That function is right at the ART verifier limit and we've had a runtime VerifyError from adding locals there before

MouseLookStepper, the PhysicalControllerHandler changes and the on-screen control changes can be their own PRs after that (or combined where they're related).

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var inputThrottlingEnabled by rememberSaveable(container.id) { mutableStateOf(initialInputThrottlingEnabled(container)) }
var inputThrottlingRateHz by rememberSaveable(container.id) { mutableIntStateOf(initialInputThrottlingRateHz(container)) }
// Shared by physical controllers and on-screen controls.
val inputThrottling = remember(container.id) {
InputThrottling().apply {
enabled = inputThrottlingEnabled
setRateHz(inputThrottlingRateHz)
}
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Avoid adding more generated locals to XServerScreen.

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fun pauseForOverlayIfAllowed() {
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printf '%s\n' '--- candidate handler files ---'
git ls-files | rg 'PhysicalController|ControllerHandler|Gamepad'

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printf '%s\n' '--- overlay callers in XServerScreen ---'
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Restore held controller input when a never-suspend overlay closes.

When neverSuspend is true, pauseForOverlayIfAllowed() releases active controller input but does not set PluviaApp.isOverlayPaused. The normal close path then returns from resumeIfAllowedAfterOverlay() before calling onOverlayResumed(). Add a close path that re-evaluates the current controller state after this release. Calling onOverlayResumed() alone is insufficient because releaseAllActiveInput() clears the pending device state.

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Update the overlay-close path in XServerScreen to re-evaluate the current
controller state after pauseForOverlayIfAllowed() releases input when
neverSuspend is true, even if resumeIfAllowedAfterOverlay() returns early
because the overlay was not marked paused. Do not rely on onOverlayResumed()
alone, since releaseAllActiveInput() clears pending device state.

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kudyk commented Oct 4, 2026

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Hey, thanks for this PR, the diagnosis is really useful. I think we should split it up though, it's too big to merge in one go.

First PR: just the WinHandler changes. From your diagnosis the stutter comes from the redundant sends waking the reader threads, so this should already give an improvement on its own, and it doesn't change any input behaviour.

Second PR: the throttling toggle, off by default. A few things for that one:

button and d-pad changes need to bypass the pacer. Right now a d-pad hat tap or an on-screen d-pad roll that starts and ends inside one interval never gets sent I'd drop the dedupe in GamepadStateOutput and rely on the WinHandler one. The Kotlin one marks a state as sent before WinHandler actually sends it, and it doesn't know when WinHandler resets a slot on hot-plug, so it can skip a state Wine never got the new state in XServerScreen needs to go in a holder class rather than locals in the composable. That function is right at the ART verifier limit and we've had a runtime VerifyError from adding locals there before

MouseLookStepper, the PhysicalControllerHandler changes and the on-screen control changes can be their own PRs after that (or combined where they're related).

OK, let's split it on several PRs. Here is PR1: #2062
On its own it won't fix the stutter, though. It only removes Wine wake-ups for unchanged state, and while a stick is actively moving its value changes on almost every event. The original PR also has these fixes and optimizations, which matter just as much:

  1. Keys bound to stick / d-pad directions are re-pressed on every event. Keyboard.setKeyPress() doesn't check whether the key is already down, so a stick held on W sends 60–120 W presses per second to Wine. The on-screen d-pad does the same on every finger move. With the fix, keys press once and only the analog members follow the value.
  2. Noise toggles keys. Press and release use the same threshold: 0.15 for sticks, != 0 for tuned sticks (Add physical controller deadzone, sensitivity, and direction tuning #1909), > 0 for triggers, so a stick or trigger resting near it makes the key chatter. The fix adds hysteresis for key/button bindings only; analog bindings are unaffected.
  3. A stick crossing the center in one event. The new direction is pressed before the opposite one is released, and that release zeroes the same axis. The fix releases first.
  4. Per-event costs on the Android side. Every event pays for:
    • an isGameController() → hasKeys() binder call;
    • stick tuning over all historical samples;
    • allocations;
    • linear binding lookups for every direction;
    • a new pointer-capture postDelayed while capture is off.
  5. Mouse-look timers. Two java.util.Timer threads tick at 60 Hz, and the on-screen one never stops once started.
  6. On-screen overlay. It is fully redrawn on every touch move, with button text re-measured each time. This is likely behind the FPS drops reported when rotating the on-screen stick.
  7. Stuck input. Held input isn't released when the game pauses for an overlay. A held stick or trigger isn't re-pressed when the radial menu closes. The old handler isn't cleaned up on a profile switch.

Plus the input throttling option discussed above.

I'd be glad to submit these as follow-up PRs, or to discuss which ones you'd like first.

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