From cea6060d158af57c4d77f1c2e81ef69ee2490543 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christopher Rodriguez Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:38:32 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] status: OBS 33 stops showing controller input unless OBS is focused Warning rather than outage: the overlay still works, and there are two ways out of it. Starts at the 33.0.0 release, which is when the behaviour changed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 --- .../2026-10-23-obs-33-background-input.md | 36 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) create mode 100644 announcements/2026-10-23-obs-33-background-input.md diff --git a/announcements/2026-10-23-obs-33-background-input.md b/announcements/2026-10-23-obs-33-background-input.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..58b9c84 --- /dev/null +++ b/announcements/2026-10-23-obs-33-background-input.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +id: obs-33-background-input +severity: warning +title: OBS 33 stops showing controller input while another app is focused +summary: On OBS 33.0.0, the overlay stops updating as soon as another application takes focus, so controller input does not appear on stream while you are playing. This is a change in OBS rather than in GamePad Viewer, and it is already reported upstream, so there is no need to file a bug. Running OBS as administrator clears it for most setups; downgrading to OBS 32.2.2 is the fallback. +workaround: Run OBS as administrator. If that does not help, downgrade to OBS 32.2.2. +links: + - label: OBS 32.2.2 release + href: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/32.2.2 + - label: OBS issue 14083 + href: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/14083 +startsAt: 2026-10-23T22:20:29Z +endsAt: +--- + +GamePad Viewer renders in an OBS browser source. From OBS 33.0.0 on, a browser source stops +receiving controller input as soon as OBS is not the focused application — which is, in practice, +the whole time you are playing. The overlay freezes on the last input it saw, and starts moving +again the moment you click back into OBS. + +Nothing changed in GamePad Viewer, and nothing is wrong with your controller or your overlay link. + +## What you can do + +Try running OBS as administrator first. It restores input without leaving the current version. +Administrator is a Windows notion, so on macOS go straight to the downgrade. + +Otherwise, downgrade to OBS 32.2.2, the last release before the change. + +## What we are doing + +This is a change in OBS rather than something we can fix from our side, so we are following the +upstream issue rather than working around it in the overlay. It is open, and filed against 33.0.0 +with the same symptom. + +We will update this page as that moves, and resolve it once a fixed OBS release is out.