XOutput VS HidGuardian

Xoutput - is maybe the simplest but x360 only.

I've been playing with using XOutput + HidHide to cause Windows to see the the ALP controls as an Xbox controller instead of the generic device it normally appears as, and it seemed to significantly improve the input latency in FX. But there are other downsides and quirks that it causes, including problems actually launching the ball in some of the FX tables, so it might also end up being a non-starter.

I’m using this as a hub for mainly a GameCube emulator and those controllers do not have Xinput so it wont work in Playnite. I used this to map the controller to XInput and then added an extra line in the Launch Playnite.bat file to also open XOutput on startup

Does your ipac have a dinput mode? If so, xoutput may work https://github.com/csutorasa/XOutput/issues/210

I know a fair number of people would like to be able to use their HOTAS with NMS (plenty pancake players, not just VR players who dislike the virtual HOTAS we get). A problem for PC VR players, though, is that any solution might leave you stuck with the HOTAS for all play and that wouldn't be so great. But I've seen a couple of people in other subs say that they use XOutput for this and that it lets them switch seamlessly between HOTAS and motion controllers, detecting when they put one device down and pick up the other.

HidGuardian lives here: https://github.com/ViGEm/HidGuardian Its whole purpose is to block controllers from working. Figure out how she installed it and get rid of it.

And also install HidGuardian

Devreorder as already linked works well, you can also use something like HidGuardian ( https://github.com/ViGEm/HidGuardian ) normally used with Joystrick Gremlin or UCR to prevent programs from seeing certain devices at all, which can be handy in various circumstances.

Hid Guardian (Last commit 2020-12-17)is discontinued, mentions a newer HidHide so if you're using HID Guardian, you might want to make the switch.

If you install HIDGuardian, hide controller will *always* work, but you have to whitelist apps that you want to detect the controller individually as you launch them. It's not ideal, but it's the best solution I've found.

So a problem may arise after you use VJOY/Gremlin to create a new combined virtual device. This problem is that some games won't show all devices as they stop enumerating after one or two. You will then need to use HIDGuardian https://github.com/ViGEm/HidGuardian to hide the individual devices so that only the newly created combined virtual device is shown. There are a large amount of youtube videos on both VJOY and Gremlin as they are used most often.