Gamepadla+ is a program for measuring the polling rate and synthetic latency of gamepads aka. controllers.
- Supports DInput and XInput
- Provides CLI (Command Line Interface) and GUI (Graphical User Interface)
- Shows polling rate and latency metrics
Tip
Releases have attestation that they were built in CI.
scoop bucket add stupid-bucket https://github.com/WyvernIXTL/stupid-bucket
scoop install stupid-bucket/gamepadla-plusUsing uv:
uv tool install --python 3.11 gamepadla-plus@1.9.0Snap (Recommended)
If you are not using Ubuntu, Manjaro, Solus or Zorin, you'll likely have to install snapd first.
sudo snap install gamepadla-plus
sudo snap connect gamepadla-plus:joystickAppImages and Portable Builds
Using uv:
uv tool install --python 3.11 gamepadla-plus@1.9.0Warning
The app has not been tested with macOS.
Using uv:
uv tool install --python 3.11 gamepadla-plus@1.9.0- Execute the program
Gamepadla+without any arguments. - If you haven't connected any controller do it now and click
Refresh. - Click
Testand rotate the stick you chose fast in a circle. - Optionally save the result to a JSON file or upload the result to <gamepadla.com>.
# gamepadla-plus --help
Usage: gamepadla-plus [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Gamepad latency and polling rate tester.
╭─ Options ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --install-completion Install completion for the current shell. │
│ --show-completion Show completion for the current shell, to copy it or customize the installation. │
│ --help Show this message and exit. │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Commands ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ list List controller id's. │
│ test Test controller with id. │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
- List all controllers connected with:
gamepadla-plus list
# gamepadla-plus list
Found 1 controllers
0. Xbox 360 Controller
- Test the controller with the id from step one (
testdefaults to id 0):
gamepadla-plus test 0
equals here
gamepadla-plus test
# gamepadla-plus test
100%|████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ | 00.97 ms
Parameter Value
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Gamepad Name Xbox 360 Controller
Operating System Windows
Polling Rate (p10) 1051.635 Hz
Average latency 1.001 ms
Minimal latency 0.879 ms
Maximum latency 1.127 ms
Jitter (CV) 4.31 % (normal), 0.043 ms
Missed Reports 5.80 %
Outlier lower Avg. (IQR) 0.657 ms
Outlier lower % (IQR) 9.600 %
Outlier upper Avg. (IQR) 1.922 ms
Outlier upper % (IQR) 10.900 %
gamepadla-plus test --stick right
gamepadla-plus test --out data.json
gamepadla-plus test --upload
Gamepadla+ measures the delay between successive changes in the position of the analog stick on the gamepad, rather than the traditional input latency, which measures the time between pressing a button on the gamepad and a response in a program or game.
This method of measurement can be affected by various factors, including the quality of the gamepad, the speed of the computer's processor, the speed of event processing in the Pygame library, and so on.
Therefore, although Gamepadla+ can give a general idea of the "response" of a gamepad, it cannot accurately measure input latency in the traditional sense. The results obtained from Gamepadla+ should be used as a guide, not as an exact measurement of input latency.
- 2024-2026 Adam McKellar
- 2022-2024 John Punch
Gamepadla+ or gamepadla-plus is a hard fork of Gamepadla (known as Polling now).
The testing is based on the method of Christian P.: https://github.com/chrizonix/XInputTest.
The upload functionality to gamepadla.com is compatible with Polling v1.3.1.4.
Licensed under MIT.
Please have a look at DEVELOPMENT.md.