Retroarch inputs misbehaving on startup

I’m having an issue with controller inputs within retroarch as soon as I press a direction the inputs scrolls really fast past the option I want, this happens in all directions. But it’s also random, sometimes it’s fine. Other times it’s not. If I press direction slightly it skips.

Any help is greatly appreciated. I’m using Nvidia shield

This is an issue that’s been reported in some other threads but none of the main contributors have ever experienced it, so we can’t really track down what causes it.

This is also contributing to games not loading and crashing of retroarch. Sometimes when screen goes black just before it configured controller it quits. Other times screen goes black gets to controller config and loads correctly. It coincides with the input issues I’m experiencing

Could this be a dead zone issue?