HID-Hide Quick Setup Guide | A Star Citizen's Hardware Guide

have you ever been excited to get into a match of your favorite FPS game yes time for Action only to have this happen so then you got to reach all the way under your desk to unplug your joysticks from your Hub or your PC then the next day you boot up Star Citizen and play Planes Trains and Automobiles to get to your Hangar just to find out your sticks are disconnected oh come on well I found a very nice very simple piece of software that can hide devices you specify from programs you specify let's get into it thank you [Music] I'm going to show you how to install and set up hid hide and we're starting right now obviously step one is going to be downloading hid hide I have the link in the description down below to its GitHub page under releases on the right panel click on the latest version at the bottom of this release page you can download the executable file continue with the installation progress it's very simple foreign once you've installed restart your PC once it's back up and ready to go go ahead and run hid hide let's go over the applications tab first this is where you tell hid hide what programs are allowed to see your joysticks or other devices there are a few pieces of software that you will need to add here hid hide is one of them it should be here by default but if it's not you're going to want to add it next you'll need to add your joysticks configuration software for example vkbdev for vkb products or verbal software to add them click the plus sign and locate the executable file within your Windows Explorer now there are a couple of ways that you can use hid High to fix common issues people have in Star Citizen first you can whitelist all of the games that you want to be able to see your joysticks like we've done with these apps so far this is great if the only devices you have connected are your joysticks and you want to hide them from everything but Star Citizen and a select few games or second let's say you want to reduce the device's Star Citizen sees to gesture two joysticks because you're tired of playing PP Resort devices roulette every time Star Citizen drops a new patch this is great if you have extra physical and or virtual devices that you want to hide from Star Citizen let's cover the first one allowing only certain games and apps to see your devices first you want to add Star Citizen it's located in the following directory then you'll want to do the same for any other games you use your joysticks on now head over to the devices tab you want to make sure that the devices you see are here and unchecked if you are missing one you may want to restart your computer below this you have the ability to filter out disconnected devices show gaming devices only and toggle on and off device hiding if you're just trying to hide your sticks from other games that's it you're done if you're trying to hide extra devices from Star Citizen head back to the applications Tab and make sure Star Citizen is not listed if so just go ahead and remove it now head back to the devices Tab and before we get started here to visually see what's going on you want to open up Windows game controllers the easiest way to do this is to tap your Windows button search for USB game controller and open the program now simply click on the check box next to the devices you want to hide from Star Citizen for me that's these two vjoy devices as well as an Xbox Elite gamepad as you can see they disappear from Windows as well what's nice about this is you don't have to unplug and replug your devices anymore adding wear and tear to those USB connections you can just use hid High to disconnect or reconnect them this video is a prerequisite For an upcoming video I'm making about joystick gremlin pairing hid hide with vjoy and joystick Gremlin means most users can actually avoid having to ever use that pesky PP Resort devices again so make sure you subscribe and have the Bell click so you don't miss out if you're watching this after the release of that video it will be linked in the pin comment below if this video was helpful to you drop a like and a comment to share your feedback if it was really helpful to you consider joining the sub Club there are plenty of ways to do it just visit subliminal.gg support to find out more until next time citizens I'll see you in the verse

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Length: 5min 14sec (314 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 23 2023