Right analogue stick is detected but nothing else

[MadManDiaries]

I stopped playing Amnesia Dark Descent some time ago but decided to begin playing it again, I started up the game but found that my gamepad wasn't working. I can select items from the main menu and select my file to load but once I'm in-game all I can do is pause the game and look around, it's as if the only buttons that work are the 'Start' button and the right-analogue stick but once the game is paused I can then go through the tabs and options as if there is no problem. I can move and play the game normally with a keyboard but due to an injury I find hand placement for gaming quite painful and thus require a controller/gamepad for my gaming.

I never had any issue before and could use a gamepad without any problems at all, I'm at a loss and can't find a solution for this online or in any Amnesia or Steam forum. Is this a known issue and if so is there a quick fix? I was really looking forward to continuing on the story but this issue is unfortunately preventing me from progressing any further.

Thank you for your time,
M Roberts.

[MadManDiaries]

I just tried it again and it's the same, I can look around with the right stick and press the start button but that's it, I can't move or open my menu or open doors. CAN ANYONE HELP ME PLEASE?

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I'VE FOUND THE FAULT!

The game is f**ked. I went to the button input and when I try setting the buttons it automatically selects a random direction on one or the other thumbsticks. I've checked both gamepads which work perfectly fine on every other game I have. Amnesia is now completely unplayable until it stops registering imaginary inputs while trying to put ion the real inputs.

I can manage to set 'move left/forward' as left-thumb stick up/left is one of the few things it keeps saying, once back in-game I can move without issue but only if I can play the game only turning around one direction and forever moving forward (as long as every door is open and I never need to open my inventory).

I wasn't lucky enough to get this game free, I paid for this game and it's broken. How can I fix this?!!!!!

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Version 1.31

-------- THE HPL ENGINE LOG ------------
Creating Engine Modules
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Creating graphics module
Creating system module
Creating resource module
Creating input module
Creating sound module
Creating physics module
Creating ai module
Creating gui module
Creating generate module
Creating haptic module
Creating scene module
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Initializing Resources Module
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Creating loader handlers
Creating resource managers
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Initializing Graphics Module
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Init lowlevel graphics: 1024x768 disp:0 bpp:32 fs:1 ms:0 gpufmt:2 cap:'Amnesia - The Dark Descent - Loading...' pos-1x-1)
Setting video mode: 1024 x 768 - 32 bpp
Init Glew...OK
Setting up OpenGL
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Initializing Sound Module
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Initializing OpenAL
Available OpenAL devices:
0. Generic Software on 1 - LG TV (AMD High Definition Audio Device)(OpenAL default)
Trying to open device 'Generic Software on 1 - LG TV (AMD High Definition Audio Device)'... Success!
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Initializing Game Module
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Adding engine updates
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User Initialization
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Game Running
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-------- Loading map 'menu_bg.map' ---------
Cache Loading: 1985 ms
Entities: 671 ms
Compilation: 1 ms
Total: 2718 ms
Meshes created: 26
Bodies created: 5
-------- Loading complete ---------
ERROR: Sampler aGoboMap does not exist, could not bind it to unit 5
Setting profile: 'Martin' Path: 'C:\Users\Martin\Documents/Amnesia/Main/Martin/'
-------- BEGIN LOAD FROM C:\Users\Martin\Documents/Amnesia/Main/Martin/AutoSave_Storage_2016_1_19_2_53_48_0.sav ---------
LOADING SAVE GAME!
-------- Loading map '12_storage.map' ---------
Cache Loading: 3037 ms
Entities: 4430 ms
Compilation: 53 ms
Total: 8144 ms
Meshes created: 319
Bodies created: 115
-------- Loading complete ---------
WARNING: Could not find player start node ''
ERROR: StartPos '' does not exist!
ERROR: Loading entity rope_beam02_1: Skeletons in mesh file (C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Amnesia The Dark Descent/entities/equipment/rope_beam/rope_beam02.dae) and .ent file (C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Amnesia The Dark Descent/entities/equipment/rope_beam/rope_beam02.ent) differ! Probably caused by .ent not being up to date with mesh
ERROR: Loading entity rope_beam02_2: Skeletons in mesh file (C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Amnesia The Dark Descent/entities/equipment/rope_beam/rope_beam02.dae) and .ent file (C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Amnesia The Dark Descent/entities/equipment/rope_beam/rope_beam02.ent) differ! Probably caused by .ent not being up to date with mesh
-------- END LOAD ---------
ERROR: Sampler aGoboMap does not exist, could not bind it to unit 5
ERROR: Sampler aGoboMap does not exist, could not bind it to unit 5
ERROR: Sampler aGoboMap does not exist, could not bind it to unit 5
Saving main config.
Saving user config.

[Mudbill]

Not sure if this will fix your problem, but perhaps you can manually edit the config file that contains the user keys. If you go to Documents\Amnesia\Main\<your user>\user_keys.cfg and edit it, then you can change some of the values in there.

This is what I have in mine (I haven't tested it though). It should be the default settings:

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<Inventory Primary="Keyboard.Tab" Secondary="GamepadButton.Button 6" />
<Journal Primary="Keyboard.J" Secondary="GamepadButton.Button 3" />
<Forward Primary="Keyboard.W" Secondary="GamepadAxis.Axis 1.Negative" />
<Backward Primary="Keyboard.S" Secondary="GamepadAxis.Axis 1.Positive" />
<Right Primary="Keyboard.D" Secondary="GamepadAxis.Axis 0.Positive" />
<Left Primary="Keyboard.A" Secondary="GamepadAxis.Axis 0.Negative" />
<LeanRight Primary="Keyboard.E" Secondary="" />
<LeanLeft Primary="Keyboard.Q" Secondary="" />
<Attack Primary="MouseButton.RightMouse" Secondary="GamepadButton.Button 4" />
<Interact Primary="MouseButton.LeftMouse" Secondary="GamepadButton.Button 5" />
<Rotate Primary="Keyboard.R" Secondary="GamepadButton.Button 9" />
<Lantern Primary="Keyboard.F" Secondary="GamepadButton.Button 2" />
<Run Primary="Keyboard.LeftShift" Secondary="GamepadAxis.Axis 2.Positive" />
<Lean Primary="GamepadAxis.Axis 2.Negative" Secondary="" />
<Crouch Primary="Keyboard.LeftControl" Secondary="GamepadButton.Button 1" />
<Jump Primary="Keyboard.Space" Secondary="GamepadButton.Button 0" />
<QuestLog Primary="Keyboard.M" Secondary="" />
<RecentText Primary="Keyboard.N" Secondary="" />
<CrosshairToggle Primary="Keyboard.X" Secondary="" /> 


If that doesn't work, perhaps the entries can be modified.

If nothing of this works, I'll assume it's a bug with the game and only FG can fix it.