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Background Input for WGInput controllers not working - grazy9999 - 08-10-2022
With Dolphin Release 5.0-16793 it is possible to use a controller as a WGInput device. This allows e.g. more than 4 Xbox One controllers to be recognized by Dolphin and linked to controller slots. [attachment=20187]
My problem now is that the option "Background Input" under Controller settings [attachment=20188] does not seem to work with WGInput devices.
When I use controllers as XInput devices, I can operate 2 Dolphin instances in parallel even if only one of the two windows is in focus/foreground. As soon as I change the controller to WGInput the parallel operation does not work anymore.
Does anyone know a solution for this?
I want to work with 8 controllers on several different dolphin instances in parallel.
Thanks for any advice
grazy
RE: Background Input for WGInput controllers not working - AdmiralCurtiss - 08-10-2022
This unfortunately appears to be a limitation of Windows.Gaming.Input itself -- there's a post from a Valve developer explaining that's why they don't use WGInput for Xbox controllers and are thus also limited to 4 controllers. We'd need to petition to Microsoft to change this.
RE: Background Input for WGInput controllers not working - mbc07 - 08-10-2022
Steam nowadays can use up to 16 Xbox controllers on Windows, but they're not using WGInput. You have to enable an option on Big Picture settings and that installs a custom driver, you even need to reboot the PC the first time you enable the option...
RE: Background Input for WGInput controllers not working - grazy9999 - 08-11-2022
Thanks a lot for the feedback.
@mbc07 this feature of steam (parallel use of 16 XInput devices) can not be used with dolphin I guess?
RE: Background Input for WGInput controllers not working - mbc07 - 08-11-2022
AFAICT Valve ships only a driver binary, so no...
RE: Background Input for WGInput controllers not working - grazy9999 - 08-11-2022
Too bad. Maybe this will be a feature of dolphin in the future...
Thanks for the reply anyway.