WSplit hotkeys, stupid controller problem, mostly all Dark Souls related

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Jassie: 2013-05-31 10:24:35 am

2013-05-31 10:24:00 am

A couple days ago I decided I wanted to casually speedrun Dark Souls: PtD to keep it fun. I ran into an issue fairly quickly though, and then a couple others shortly after.

1st: I downloaded WSplit to obviously record my splits. I play Dark Souls on my PC with a 360 controller, so I set up the global hotkey button to be the Space Bar, but when I have Dark Souls as my active window, Global Hotkeys don't work. I tried windowed Dark Souls, and I tried rebinding all the keys in Dark Souls that were being used by WSplit to other buttons. The only "solution" I found is to run it in a windowed fullscreen(using GameCompanion) to tab out, start/split, and then quickly tab back in to skip cut scenes, ect.

People I've watched stream Dark Souls speedruns on the PC(vviking mostly. I assume he plays on PC. He has the loading screens disabled which I don't think you can do on consoles) doesn't do this, so he's found a workaround, I can't exactly go bugging him though(or maybe I could, but that'd be sorta rude I'd think). Any help getting WSplit(or another split program) to work with Dark Souls as my open window would be lovely.

Also, yes I have set up and enabled Global Hotkeys in WSplit. That was the first thing I checked.

2: Again with vviking, he plays Dark Souls in offline mode(not signed into Windows Live) and is able to save/quit and reload and his progress is still saved, but when I got to the end of a practice run, I quit out, and didn't even have the "Load Game" option. Help with this would be appreciated.

3: My Xbox controller is derping. Badly. When I'm playing a game that I'll use it for, the lights around the Xbox Dashboard button go out, half the buttons stop working, and Windows makes a stupid noise. Not a clue how to fix this outside of just getting a new controller, but I'd like to try to fix this anyway. Also, I'm guessing it's a software issue, which is why I'm mentioning it. If it was the actual controller I'd imagine it'd just stop working altogether. It's a wired GameStop brand pos controller btw. If that helps.

By the way, sorry if this doesn't belong here. I didn't see anywhere to post Dark Souls specific problems and there isn't any other speedrunning community I could find that had forums to post on.

If this isn't the right spot I'll edit/delete it/change it to a picture of a cute cat, that'd make everything better right :3 ? Anyway, help with these problems would be great!

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A couple days ago I decided I wanted to casually speedrun Dark Souls: PtD to keep it fun. I ran into an issue fairly quickly though, and then a couple others shortly after.

1st: I downloaded WSplit to obviously record my splits. I play Dark Souls on my PC with a 360 controller, so I set up the global hotkey button to be the Space Bar, but when I have Dark Souls as my active window, Global Hotkeys don't work. I tried windowed Dark Souls, and I tried rebinding all the keys in Dark Souls that were being used by WSplit to other buttons. The only "solution" I found is to run it in a windowed fullscreen(using GameCompanion) to tab out, start/split, and then quickly tab back in to skip cut scenes, ect.

People I've watched stream Dark Souls speedruns on the PC(vviking mostly. I assume he plays on PC. He has the loading screens disabled which I don't think you can do on consoles) doesn't do this, so he's found a workaround, I can't exactly go bugging him though(or maybe I could, but that'd be sorta rude I'd think). Any help getting WSplit(or another split program) to work with Dark Souls as my open window would be lovely.

Also, yes I have set up and enabled Global Hotkeys in WSplit. That was the first thing I checked.

2: Again with vviking, he plays Dark Souls in offline mode(not signed into Windows Live) and is able to save/quit and reload and his progress is still saved, but when I got to the end of a practice run, I quit out, and didn't even have the "Load Game" option. Help with this would be appreciated.

3: My Xbox controller is derping. Badly. When I'm playing a game that I'll use it for, the lights around the Xbox Dashboard button go out, half the buttons stop working, and Windows makes a stupid noise. Not a clue how to fix this outside of just getting a new controller, but I'd like to try to fix this anyway. Also, I'm guessing it's a software issue, which is why I'm mentioning it. If it was the actual controller I'd imagine it'd just stop working altogether. It's a wired GameStop brand pos controller btw. If that helps.

By the way, sorry if this doesn't belong here. I didn't see anywhere to post Dark Souls specific problems and there isn't any other speedrunning community I could find that had forums to post on.

If this isn't the right spot I'll edit/delete it/change it to a picture of a cute cat, that'd make everything better right :3 ? Anyway, help with these problems would be great!

Heidrage

2013-05-31 11:34:25 am

Willing to teach you the impossible

1: Multiple screens? Play DS on one and have chat and Wsplit open on the other. That would be my guess.

2: Create an offline account. Im sure someone who uses WL can explain this better.

3: Dont buy off brand. (this is a personal way of avoiding any controller stupidity)

Jassie

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Jassie: 2013-05-31 11:48:11 am

2013-05-31 11:43:46 am

I have multiple screens, but the problem, is that they're both still ran off the same PC. So if Dark Souls is disabling Global Hotkeys(which apparently it is), it isn't gonna matter if I have the game on one screen and WSplit on the other. When I'm playing Dark Souls it's still gonna be the active window and not let me use Global Hotkeys for other devices.

Didn't know you could create an offline account, I'll go ahead and do that, so thanks :]

I bought the off brand cause it was cheap and I don't really use it that much. The controller is a piece of crap, but it works for basically anything that isn't an FPS. It's also lasted over a year, so for it being a cheap off brand it's done pretty well.

Heidrage

2013-05-31 11:52:32 am

Willing to teach you the impossible

DS should be able to be played when it is not the active window with the controller. If not then you could ask someone while they are streaming. Good streamers are usually friendly and are willing to pass some knowledge.

Sometimes you can get lucky with off brands, but in teh end you get what you pay for (the insides).

honorableJay

2013-05-31 12:36:47 pm

The Dork Knight himself.

If the controller just stops working and windows makes a ding sound, it could be a bad cable causing the controller to get disconnected. The ding is usually from a USB device being plugged in.

CelestialVoices

2013-10-25 11:37:25 am

Nope, Identical problem here, whenever Dark Souls is active window (fullscreen) the Global Hotkeys do not work in WSplit.

When windowed and with focus on WSplit the game does not register my controller inputs.

I tried using hotkeys which DkS does not recognise and still having the same problem.

Fuzin

2015-01-16 04:13:58 am

Indian Ocean bro!

I have the same problem here with Mark of the Ninja. When I have my game in focus, even when i have designed spacebar as a global hotkey it just doesn't work. I have to take wsplit or anything else to press the hotkey. Please help!