I have EA play and managed to get in touch with EA support regarding this issue. Their elegant solution was for me to git gud and play with m+k because in that EA techs words, the game wasn’t designed to support controllers on pc. Obviously this is ludicrous and I’m sure EA would disagree with his statement. But the facts are the facts here and you can’t deny that EA/Dice has cared very little over a decade in addressing this issue. It shouldn’t take all these POTENTIAL work arounds on a AAA game like this.
I think I finally got the controller to start working ok by cobbling together a fix with help from folks in this thread. The video @juiceua76 posted helped a lot and @oNyeo 's mention of turning both Origin and Steam's overlay also helped. I also turned on "Use the Big Picture overlay when using a Steam input enabled controller from the desktop" in the Steam In-Game settings. So far I have played about an hour with no controller problems.
I seriously hope EA fixes this. I still am in disbelief that EA released a game on their own launcher/app that doesn't have something like controller support ready to go on day one. I've never experienced this on any other PC game with controller support, especially a AAA game.
