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muchimi / JoystickGremlinEx

Modified version of Joystick Gremlin to add features I wanted to have but were difficult to do as just a plugin, plus I wanted to run this as 64 bit and on a more current version of Python/QT.
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Installation #10

Closed ZK-273 closed 2 months ago

ZK-273 commented 8 months ago

@muchimi Sorry for being obtuse on this. But what's the proper way to install this thing? Do you just put the folder in Program Files and run the executable? Well that doesn't work and just produces an error. Sorry if this is obvious and I missed it, but could you provide installation instructions? Especially if one wanted to run the original Joystick Gremlin version along-side this new Branch version? For testing etc.

Thanks

muchimi commented 6 months ago

The installation is similar to how you install the regular Gremlin. The zip file (release) has an exe. Drop the contents of the zip file in a read/write location somewhere (I just c:\joystick gremlin) - avoid Program Files because these are protected areas and will give you issues with UAC (user access control) in some cases.

The exe is all you need to run - no other software is needed, although you may want to install Python 3.11.

Cheers,

M

guimoal commented 2 months ago

Hi, I have installed the program but when I initialize the joystick_gremlin.exe, they execute but 2 seconds later close automatically. debug.txt debug.txt is create but in the debug fille i cant view errors. Can you help with this issue?

Solved - Just deleted the folder C:\Users\usuario\joystick gremlin and the program starts. Thanks.

muchimi commented 2 months ago

There is nothing to install. The release extracts files to a folder and you run the .exe but you do need to make sure the dependencies are installed per the guide (so HIDHide and VJOY) - links provided in the docs and they come with their own installation instructions that are separate from Gremlinex.

I don't recommend installing this to a protected folder such as C:\Program Files because Microsoft considers these "protected" so UAC may get in the way of things running well.

On my computers, I place the files in the release in a folder in C:\JoystickGremlinEx if this helps.

VJoy has to be installed and configured before running Gremlin or it won't find the VJOY layers it needs.

HIDHide should be configured after you installed VJOY and GremlinEx so you can exempt the .EXE from the device filtering. Lastly, as with regular Gremlin, GremlinEx should run with elevated privs so it can send keyboard and mouse data to other processes (games). If you run it without elevated access, the keyboard and mouse output may not work.

Hope this helps!

ZK-273 commented 2 months ago

Muchimi,

Sorry if this is obvious. Please remind.

What if one is already running 'Regular' JSGremlin with HidHide/VJoy already on the system?

Is there anything further that should be performed besides Installing and running GremlinEX in its own C: folder?

Can they be run at the same time?

Is the existing 'Regular' JSGremlin profile compatible with JSGremlinEX?

Sorry and thanks again.

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There is nothing to install. The release extracts files to a folder and you run the .exe but you do need to make sure the dependencies are installed per the guide (so HIDHide and VJOY) - links provided in the docs and they come with their own installation instructions that are separate from Gremlinex.

I don't recommend installing this to a protected folder such as C:\Program Files because Microsoft considers these "protected" so UAC may get in the way of things running well.

On my computers, I place the files in the release in a folder in C:\JoystickGremlinEx if this helps.

VJoy has to be installed and configured before running Gremlin or it won't find the VJOY layers it needs.

HIDHide should be configured after you installed VJOY and GremlinEx so you can exempt the .EXE from the device filtering. Lastly, as with regular Gremlin, GremlinEx should run with elevated privs so it can send keyboard and mouse data to other processes (games). If you run it without elevated access, the keyboard and mouse output may not work.

Hope this helps!

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muchimi commented 2 months ago

You can run both, but not at the same time (meaning, running them concurrently) - you mean - install I'm sure. You may run into dragons for a couple of reasons:

So in principle, yes, you can have both Gremlin and GremlinEx installed at the same time, only run one at a time please, and note that the profiles used by GremlinEx have information what won't be understood by Gremlin so they are not interchangeable, so make sure your profiles are named differently as I think they'll end up in the same folder.

Cheers,

M

muchimi commented 2 months ago

Closing this topic.