sudden issue with official Wii U adapter

05-13-2018, 05:29 AM #1

hi, i've been using the official wii u gc controller adapter on the melee netplay build of dolphin (5.8.7) for a little while now, but the controller has suddenly stopped working. this happened while i was playing and i have no idea why. i tried to reinstall the driver with zadig but with no success. dolphin seems to still be able to see the adapter, but inputs don't work. this issue is present across multiple relatively new controllers. i receive an error message upon entering a game that says:

There is a potential problem with your GameCube Adapter and inputs are being set to their default position to prevent unintended inputs. If you want, you can turn this off in [Config] > [Advanced Options]

turning it off yields no results.

as i was writing this, i tried downloading the latest dev release of dolphin (5.0-7409) to see what would happen. this version doesn't detect my wii u adapter at all, so i'm guessing that the original version of dolphin detecting it is a small glitch of some kind. however, zadig still seems to be able to see my adapter and install drivers to it, even after moving usb slots. any help would be appreciated, thank you.

**ExtremeDude2** · 05-13-2018, 11:19 AM #2

Are you able to test the adapter on a wii u?

05-13-2018, 11:53 AM #3

Unfortunately no, but I might be able to get ahold of another computer

06-27-2018, 03:11 AM #4

Bump?

Having the exact same problem as OP. Was 30 seconds into a game and the controller just stopped, giving me the same error message.

Same version of Dolphin, tried all 4 ports, and different usb ports.

Tested it on a wii u, works fine.

09-17-2018, 07:53 PM #5

I solved this problem, but I am not sure which of the things I did was the cure. I will list here what I did in order to get it work:

1. I installed all of my motherboard drivers again.
2. Since I have Ryzen CPU, I chose Ryzen balanced power plan in windows settings.
3. I disabled USB selective suspend in Windows advanced power settings.
4. In device manager in USB driver settings, I unchecked the "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power".

I hope this information helps someone else, God bless! Smile

10-11-2018, 10:44 AM #6

(09-17-2018, 07:53 PM)Moppe Wrote: I solved this problem, but I am not sure which of the things I did was the cure. I will list here what I did in order to get it work:

1. I installed all of my motherboard drivers again.
2. Since I have Ryzen CPU, I chose Ryzen balanced power plan in windows settings.
3. I disabled USB selective suspend in Windows advanced power settings.
4. In device manager in USB driver settings, I unchecked the "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power".

I hope this information helps someone else, God bless!

Thanks for this!

I tried #3, and it didn't work
then #4 which solved the issue - could be the root cause