Pulling my hair out with Joytokey..Help!

[deano71]

I am using joytokey to set up hyperspin and hyperlaunch. I have followed the video tutorial provided by gameroomsolutions on youtube.

Everything works fine in windows in the control panel setting. I have also set it up in hyperlaunch and all seems good. In joytokey when I move my joystick it recocknises the movement inputed. I launch hyperspin and it will function all the wheels and enter and exit all the emulators no problem using my panel joysticks and buttons assigned.

The moment when I go into a game however I get the following error messages as pictured. I have tinkered and tinkered and cant get it to work. I am using windows 7 32bit version. I have changed compatability mode and running as administrator on the joy to key exe. Also it thinks im using a old version of joytokey but it is the lates version downloaded. Any suggestions please?

[deano71]

I have just tried the set up on a Windows 8 64bit machine and it works fine.
It must be the windows 7 32 bit system that is causing problems wrinwriting the ini file.
Is anybidy using Joytokey on a W7 32bit system?

[yamatetsu]

Does your win7 version have an .ini file at all ? If not, I would just try to copy the win8 version to the win7 one. Since it is the same program, that should work.

If the win7 version does have an .ini file, I would check if it is perhaps set to read-only. Thay would prevent the program from altering it.

[Miskatonic]

perhaps not too much help but have you tried running the program as administrator ? It's unrelated but some of the functions I've implemented/changed in Mala would not "write" or "save" and gave a bizarre error when it turned out I just needed to run as admin for the times I wanted to change things then they would actually write/save to the directory/files. Maybe the win8 system has elevated permissions but that's just conjecture, really. Just a thought, anyway...

[deano71]

Hi i will try that thanks. Yes no ini file but for some reason when I untick read only in the file and apply when i go back to folder properties its ticked as read only again. I have programme set to run as administrator.

[yamatetsu]

From the joy2key FAQ :

5. Configuration files are not saved properly and I have to re-configure it every time

By default, configuration files are saved in the same folder as "JoyToKey.exe".

Therefore, the folder you installed "JoyToKey.exe" needs to be write-able. Please follow the steps below
 and double check that folders and configuration files are NOT marked as read-only.

1. Please open the installed folder in the Explorer. (You can do easily do it from JoyToKey menu: "File -> open file folder in Explorer")

2. Check if there exists a file named "JoyToKey.ini"
   -If "JoyToKey.ini" exists, right-click the file to open the "Property" from a context menu

   -Make sure the file is NOT marked as read-only

3. If "JoyToKey.ini" file doesn't exist, the folder is likely to be write protected

4. Please go to the parent folder, and right-click the installed folder to open the "Property" from a context menu

5. Make sure the folder is NOT marked as "read-only"

For advanced users: Alternatively, you can also store the configuration in common AppData folder.

In order to do that, create an empty file "JoyToKey.ini" in a common AppData folder (e.g. "C:\ProgramData\JoyToKey\JoyToKey.ini"), and you can save/load the configuration files in that
folder going forward.
That way, you can launch JoyToKey.exe even from read-only folder, or you can also share the configuration files across multiple users.


Maybe you should try making that AppData folder and see if that works.

[deano71]

Hi tried that by setting up a folder and creating a ini txt file. Also i put the whole program there aswell. Still get the same error message. I am wondering if its suitable for 32bit Windows 7 system?

[deano71]

In the process of installing a 64bot version of W7

[deano71]

Well that did not work. Trying a W8 Instalation now as it works ok on my w8 pc.

[Miskatonic]

Let me know how it goes. Intriguing and annoying problem. When things like this happen it can be really irritating, I hope you get it sorted out through windows 8. I never used hyperlaunch as it seemed badly coded (it's very slow and twitchy on lower end systems) but perhaps it's just a process hog and none of my stuff has enough oomph to run it. It does look really nice but that seems to come at the expense of some set-up hassles, from what I've observed.

I have my fingers crossed for you ! (well, not all the time, as I need to do stuff with my hands, but when I've an idle moment...)

[deano71]

Hi all up and running in Win 8 although I have experienced some crashes in hyperspin. Dissapointed with GameRoomSoloutions as they decided to stop replying to my emails and were not very interested in helping.