GlosSI Preview 0.0.7.0

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This is a preview build of GloSC successor GlosSI

It is completely rewritten from scratch and is this not compatible with any old GloSC installations.

Open/Close Steam overlay (controller OR keyboard [not all key combinations supported]) to toggle GlosSI overlay and see more options, like controller Hiding, experimental UWP overlay and so on.

Please note
There is no installer yet.
You must install ViGEm and HidHide drivers before use (most recent versions bundled in .zip file)

When updating, just overwrite the old files.

Only Win10/11 x64 supported!

Changelog to last preview build:

• Fix: Unintentional immediate close of GlosSITarget if no app gets launched
• Feature: Option to emulate DS4 controllers
• Generate crashdumps in %appdata%\GlosSI

If youre feeling experimental: You can grab the latest development snapshot here

GlosSI Preview 0.0.6.1

This is a preview build of GloSC successor GlosSI

It is completely rewritten from scratch and is this not compatible with any old GloSC installations.

Open/Close Steam overlay (controller OR keyboard [not all key combinations supported]) to toggle GlosSI overlay and see more options, like controller Hiding, experimental UWP overlay and so on.

Please note
There is no installer yet.
You must install ViGEm and HidHide drivers before use (most recent versions bundled in .zip file)

When updating, just overwrite the old files.

Only Win10/11 x64 supported!

Changelog to last preview build:

• Fix: Hopefully improve UWP App enumeration
• Fix: Shortcut.vdf "destruction"
• Fix: ":" in Shortcut names (again)
• Fix: HidHide Windows Event Spam
• Fix: Possible crash when JSON-config is incorrect
• Feature: Experimental: Allow desktop-config (if launched app is not in focus)
• Feature: Experimental: Support launching URLs
  • May not work with Allow desktop-config and Close when launched app quits
• Change default for Wait for child processes to true
• Backup shortcuts.vdf

If youre feeling experimental: You can grab the latest development snapshot here

GlosSI Preview 0.0.5.1

This is a preview build of GloSC successor GlosSI

It is completely rewritten from scratch and is this not compatible with any old GloSC installations.

Open/Close Steam overlay (controller OR keyboard [not all key combinations supported]) to toggle GlosSI overlay and see more options, like controller Hiding, experimental UWP overlay and so on.

Please note
There is no installer yet.
You must install ViGEm and HidHide drivers before use (most recent versions bundled in .zip file)

When updating, just overwrite the old files.

Only Win10/11 x64 supported!

Changelog to last preview build:

• Fix GlosSITarget crash on launch
• Add option to use real device (usb)-IDs in GlosSIConfig

If youre feeling experimental: You can grab the latest development snapshot here

GlosSI Preview 0.0.5.0

This is a preview build of GloSC successor GlosSI

It is completely rewritten from scratch and is this not compatible with any old GloSC installations.

Open/Close Steam overlay (controller OR keyboard [not all key combinations supported]) to toggle GlosSI overlay and see more options, like controller Hiding, experimental UWP overlay and so on.

Please note
There is no installer yet.
You must install ViGEm and HidHide drivers before use (most recent versions bundled in .zip file)

Only Win10/11 x64 supported!

Changelog to last preview build:

• Fix Special chars in shortcut-names
• Default to high-performance GPU
• Filter System UWP-Apps (like language-packs)
• Fix missing UWP Icons
• Reduce log obnoxiousness
• Auto open advanced controller settings
• Config UI Tweaks
• Tray Icon
• Max. controller count in configurator
• Option to disable Overlay

If youre feeling experimental: You can grab the latest development snapshot here

GlosSI Preview 0.0.4.1

This is a preview build of GloSC successor GlosSI

It is completely rewritten from scratch and is this not compatible with any old GloSC installations.

Open/Close Steam overlay (controller OR keyboard [not all key combinations supported]) to toggle GlosSI overlay and see more options, like controller Hiding, experimental UWP overlay and so on.

Please note
There is no installer yet.
You must install ViGEm and HidHide drivers before use (most recent versions bundled in .zip file)

Only Win10/11 x64 supported!

Changelog to last preview build:

• Fix UWP App enumeration
• Add search bar for UWP apps
• Added a slight noise texture to Config-app backgrounds

If youre feeling experimental: You can grab the latest development snapshot here

GlosSI Preview 0.0.4.0

This is a preview build of GloSC successor GlosSI

It is completely rewritten from scratch and is this not compatible with any old GloSC installations.

Open/Close Steam overlay (controller OR keyboard [not all key combinations supported]) to toggle GlosSI overlay and see more options, like controller Hiding, experimental UWP overlay and so on.

Please note
There is no installer yet.
You must install ViGEm and HidHide drivers before use (most recent versions bundled in .zip file)

Only Win10/11 x64 supported!

Changelog to last preview build:

• Fixed Log spam when a child process exits
• Fixed handling of special chars
• Log-file for "GlosSIConfig"
• Hopefully get rid of some UAC/Admin issues
• Change how GlosSI-Overlay is opened/closed: Double press Steam-button/Steam-overlay key(s)
• Overlay button to close GlosSI-overlay
• Change how UWP apps are enumerated

If youre feeling experimental: You can grab the latest development snapshot here

GlosSI Preview 0.0.3.1

This is the third preview build of GloSC successor GlosSI

It is completely rewritten from scratch and is this not compatible with any old GloSC installations.

Open/Close Steam overlay (controller OR keyboard [not all key combinations supported]) to toggle GlosSI overlay and see more options, like controller Hiding, experimental UWP overlay and so on.

Please note
There is no installer yet.
You must install ViGEm and HidHide drivers before use (most recent versions bundled in .zip file)

Only Win10/11 x64 supported!

Changelog to last preview build:

• Fixed Log spam on launched process exit
• Function to wait for child processes of launched process (not really tested)
• UWP Overlay enabled by default if UWP app is launched
• Ability to completely hide log by collapsing the log window in GlosSI overlay

If youre feeling experimental: You can grab the latest development snapshot here

GlosSI Preview 0.0.2.0

This is the second preview build of GloSC successor GlosSI

It is completely rewritten from scratch and is this not compatible with any old GloSC installations.

Open/Close Steam overlay (controller OR keyboard [not all key combinations supported]) to toggle GlosSI overlay and see more options, like controller Hiding, experimental UWP overlay and so on.

Please note
There is no installer yet.
You must install ViGEm and HidHide drivers before use (most recent versions bundled in .zip file)

Only Win10/11 x64 supported!

Changelog to last preview build:

• Fixed some crash issues
• More logging
• Disabled acrylic effect on configurator (improve performance)

If youre feeling experimental: You can grab the latest development snapshort here

GlosSI Preview 0.0.1.0

This is the first preview build of GloSC successor GlosSI

It is completely rewritten from scratch and is this not compatible with any old GloSC installations.

Open/Close Steam overlay (controller OR keyboard [not all key combinations supported]) to toggle GlosSI overlay ans see more options.

Please note
There is no installer yet.
You must install ViGEm and HidHide drivers before use (most recent versions bundled in .zip file)

Only Win10/11 x64 supported!

Most notable changes are:

• Hiding of "real" Input devices
• GlosSI now provides it's own overlay.
• No more hooking into Steam
• Screenshot support
• Completely redesigned UI
• Proper VDF parsing and shortcut management
• High DPI awareness (at least somewhat)
• Improvements to game/app launching

If youre feeling experimental: You can grab the latest development snapshort here