Use GIMX over Bluetooth in Windows ... sorta
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 1:52 am
Because this is explicitly unsupported I did not want to make it a wiki tutorial. I also did not do an exhaustive search on whether or not this had already been hashed out.
Motivation:
I am a one handed gamer. I have issues hitting R1 on a standard playstation controller. A keyboard is a perfect solution for me. I did not like my penguin unlimited keyboard controller because its harder to dynamically change and did not provide macro support (which I have yet to use)
I am a streamer. My capture card does not work in linux. My system is old and running windows in a VM did not work out well (60% cpu utilization from System - aka the network). I needed to run Windows natively.
Basically I run VMware with linux as a guest. I then attach the USB keyboard and mouse to the VM (mouse is required or GIMX cant grab it correctly). This comes at a cost, Windows cannot use that keyboard or mouse until I shut down the linux system so its not suitable for everyone. GIMX then just works like normal.
I have done a step by step install in this gist https://gist.github.com/Nom-DePlume/a2a ... b61b501792
I use this setup on my stream if you want to see it in action (probably wont be able to tell) http://twitch.tv/five_finger_discount
Motivation:
I am a one handed gamer. I have issues hitting R1 on a standard playstation controller. A keyboard is a perfect solution for me. I did not like my penguin unlimited keyboard controller because its harder to dynamically change and did not provide macro support (which I have yet to use)
I am a streamer. My capture card does not work in linux. My system is old and running windows in a VM did not work out well (60% cpu utilization from System - aka the network). I needed to run Windows natively.
Basically I run VMware with linux as a guest. I then attach the USB keyboard and mouse to the VM (mouse is required or GIMX cant grab it correctly). This comes at a cost, Windows cannot use that keyboard or mouse until I shut down the linux system so its not suitable for everyone. GIMX then just works like normal.
I have done a step by step install in this gist https://gist.github.com/Nom-DePlume/a2a ... b61b501792
I use this setup on my stream if you want to see it in action (probably wont be able to tell) http://twitch.tv/five_finger_discount