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AntiMicro / antimicro

[NOT maintained anymore] Graphical program used to map keyboard buttons and mouse controls to a gamepad. Useful for playing games with no gamepad support
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"No Joysticks have been found" error #284

Closed Kim213124 closed 1 year ago

Kim213124 commented 5 years ago

Hi. I've been using my DS3 Controller, wired, with anti-micro for about a day now. First launch, it worked as it should, and I'd made a new controller map and everything and it worked in games, but now when I've turned on the computer the next day, the program doesn't recognize the controller under any circumstances. The first time I got the message, it worked to just unplug and re-insert, but now it's giving the error no matter what. It tells me to Update Joysticks, but the button does nothing at all. I've tried everything I can think of: switching USB ports, restarting the program, restarting the computer, running as an admin, not running as an admin, reinstalling, all that jazz, even installing a previous version of the program, but no matter what, I still get the error. I've checked my XInput tester, and it tells me that it's reading the inputs from the controller fine.

If it helps at all, pressing the Properties or Game Controller Mapping under Options does nothing at all either, while I believe I remember them doing something when it was working properly.

I also saw someone with a similar problem in another issue report, but they were running Ubuntu and were connecting through Bluetooth, and the solution seemed to have to do with Bluetooth, so I'm doubtful it's the same problem.

Thanks in advance!

Kim213124 commented 5 years ago

Uhm, okay, nevermind. I just found a fix, and it's a weird one. I'd installed a handful of other programs that did the same thing (none of which I got working properly). I'd postponed uninstalling them to this morning, and after I'd done that, Antimicro stopped working. I thought it was just a coincidence, but it wasn't. I decided to re-install the programs, and for some weird reason, InputMapper makes it work again. I'm guessing that it'd have something to do with the programs having common drivers or something and uninstalling InputMapper removed them. As to why exactly reinstalling Antimicro wouldn't make the program work again, I have no clue, and I really don't have the expertise to dig around trying to find out why this is happening.

I'm going to leave InputMapper installed, I suppose, since removing it seems to make Antimicro not work on my system.

pktiuk commented 1 year ago

AntiMicro is no longer maintained. There were no bigger fixes since 2017.
There is a new recommended version of this app called AntiMicroX.

As a part of cleanup, this issue will be closed and repository will be archived.
If you find this issue relevant also for that new version of application you can create a new issue (or discussion) there (but firstly check it, because many issues of the old app are fixed and there are some new functionalities implemented)
If you will decide to create a new issue for AntiMicroX remember to mention this issue for reference.