GlosSI/docs/Usage.md

How to use GlosSI 📖

Table of contents

• How to use GlosSI 📖
  • Table of contents
  • Installation 💿
    • Installer
    • .zip file
  • Usage 🕹️
    • Prerequisites 🚨
    • Quick usage ⏱️ (Handy for troubleshooting!)
    • Comfy usage 🧸
  • Configuration ⚙️
    • Pre-Launch configuration (GlosSIConfig)
    • On-the-fly configuration (GlosSI overlay)
  • Neat tips and tricks 😎

Installation 💿

Installer

• Install, Reboot, Go! 🏎️

.zip file

1. Extract the .zip-file to any directory on your computer
2. Install vc_redist_x64.msi
3. Install ViGEmBusSetup_x64.exe
4. Install HidHideSetup.exe
5. Reboot(!)

That's it! You're ready to use GlosSI 🙌

Usage 🕹️

Prerequisites 🚨

• Enable "XBox configuration support" in Steam
• Have Steam running

Quick usage ⏱️ (Handy for troubleshooting!)

1. Add GlosSITarget.exe as a non-Steam Game to Steam
2. Setup controller configuration for the newly added shortcut in Steam
3. Launch GlosSITarget from Steam

That's it! 🎉
You can now launch any game/application just like you would without Steam.
Enjoy global SteamInput as well as a systemwide Steam overlay. 💻🎮

Please note: The overlay only works with borderless window mode, not exclusive fullscreen.

In this mode, the overlay also does not work with UWP (≙ Windows Store)
^{(When not manually enabled in GlosSI-overlay after launch)}
See Comfy usage, configuration

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Comfy usage 🧸

Since launching one thing from Steam and then launching a game outside of Steam is tedious, and leaves you with only a single controller configuration, GlosSI provides a handy shortcut-management and config app

Here's the basic gist to get you up and running using GlosSI

1. Launch GlosSIConfig.exe
2. Click the ➕-button to add a new shortcut that GlosSI should manage
3. Select the type of app you want GlosSI to launch for you

• Select UWP App for Windows-Store Apps
• Select Win32 Program for "classic" programs and games
• Select Add Manually in case you don't want GlosSI to launch anything or want to set up game launching at a later stage.
  • If you have selected Add Manually enter the desired name for the shortcut

1. Click the 💾 Save-button
2. Click the ➕ to Steam-button
3. Optional Repeat steps 2-5 if you want to add multiple shortcuts
4. Restart Steam
5. Setup controller configuration for the newly added shortcut in Steam
6. Search and launch your newly added shortcut from Steam

That's it! 🎉
GlosSI should now launch your game, draw the SteamOverlay on top of it (borderless window and UWP only) and provide controller input redirection. 💻🎮

Screenies 📸

Configuration ⚙️

Pre-Launch configuration (GlosSIConfig)

GlosSIConfig provides a fair share of configuration options to tweak features to your liking as well as aid in troubleshooting.
Most of the options have a ?-button next to them that will provide a short description of what the option does.

You do not need to worry about the advanced options too much, though, as the sane defaults should work for most supported use-cases

On-the-fly configuration (GlosSI overlay)

Most, if not all, configuration options that are available in GlosSIConfig can also be changed on the fly using the GlosSI overlay.

To open/close the GlosSI overlay, open and close the SteamOverlay twice in rapid succession.

The GlosSI overlay can also be navigated with controller-inputs

Screenies 📸

Neat tips and tricks 😎

• Want to use Steam community controller configs for a game you bought on a different store than Steam?

  Rename the shortcut in Steam to the Steam-AppID of the game you want to access to community-configs.
  Community configs may only be available before you launch the shortcut.
  AppIDs can be retrieved from SteamDB or Steambase

  Screenie 📸