Patreon 0.23.3.0 - Grip and Game
Added 2025-04-04 13:58:37 +0000 UTC
Dear patrons, in this new version of Handheld Companion (HC), we've improved the overall user experience, corrected a large number of reported bugs and issues, improved stability and finally added support for the MSI Claw 8.
Supporting the Claw 8, a long journey
In addition to the complexity of acquiring an MSI Claw 8 AI+ A2VM, or simply of reading its name without stuttering, we had to make Handheld Companion compatible. It took us almost three weeks, with the help of the community and @antheas from the Handheld Daemon project and Bazzite, to come up with a convincing result.
Earlier this month we shared some details of our findings. Since then, we've improved compatibility with the controller by adding vibration support, as well as implementing basic LED support and Battery charge limit. Still we'd like you to understand this is still a WIP support.
Manufacturer application
While we appreciate our kind community and are always sorry to see someone leave, we understand users are expecting the ability to migrate from manufacturer (OEM) applications (MSI Center, Legion Space, Ally Space) to HC seamlessly. With this new release, we've added a new setting without the Device page for you to disable or restore OEM applications easily. Please keep in mind running both the OEM application and HC together will likely result in unexpected behaviors.
Security and Notifications
As part of the improved user experience, we've entirely rewritten the notification logic and migrated some UI interactions that were part of notifications to the Device page. One of them was the Core isolation setting which should be turned off to ensure proper compatibility with Intel based devices.
Controller Manager (Experimental)
As you may know, Controller Manager is our in-house class, which purpose is to ensure proper support of internal and external controllers. But it also serve another purpose, defeat Microsoft XInput slot attribution logic, so our virtual controller always takes XInput slot one to maximize compatibility with games. While we recently marked this setting as Experimental, to manage everyone's expectations, we've recently drastically improved Controller Manager:
Success rate of Xinput slot one acquisition is now greater.
Bluetooth controllers can be power-cycled without user having to manually turn them off and back on.
Suspend on Sleep (Experimental)
Suspend and resume on standby is a new experimental setting that will force applications with a profile where the option is checked to be paused when the system goes to sleep and resumed when the system wakes up. This feature will soon be available through a hotkey.
Comments
Could it be you have controller mode set to Auto ?
BenjaminLSR
2025-04-22 10:56:02 +0000 UTCSpent a lot of time just to try and figure out the cause to no avvail. In the end, had to just uninstall so can use the controllers again.
Keith Leyson
2025-04-22 10:22:42 +0000 UTCthis version didn't work on my GPD Win Max 2 6800U. Controllers not responding. Deleted HC folder in Documents too.
Keith Leyson
2025-04-22 10:20:55 +0000 UTCGood morning,since I set up HC with DS4 and Gyroscope it works great,but curiously Steam loses the DS4 input,especially when I use Big Picture mode,I have to use the touch screen,click on HC to open window and close it,then Steam takes the input and the gamepad works perfectly,it is strange,because in Steam it always comes out in DS4 controller detected,but it does not respond until I touch the HC window.
Pochowandpoch
2025-04-16 09:47:46 +0000 UTCVery likely due to Memory integrity still being enabled on your system. Please note this build is known to cause BSOD randomly on a few devices. We've got a hotfix build on the way.
BenjaminLSR
2025-04-15 14:16:36 +0000 UTCI'm not allowed to adjust TDP settings on my MSI Claw 8. What could be the reasons for that? - All drivers are up-to-date. Core Isolation is turned off.
Tim1337
2025-04-15 09:03:36 +0000 UTCOn rog ally z1 extrem
Astanor Revan
2025-04-14 07:47:40 +0000 UTCHello, version 2.22.6 works, 2.22.8 causes slowdowns in game and 23.3.0 the custom overlay does not work and for the 3 versions the m2 key becomes m1 when I turn off the PC and restart it, the solution I found is to launch ghelper to quit HC and restart it but at the next shutdown the key becomes m1 again if anyone has a solution I am interested thank you
Astanor Revan
2025-04-14 07:32:38 +0000 UTCApparently the problem is that it loses the focus of Steam, closing and reopening HC is solved.
Pochowandpoch
2025-04-13 19:54:47 +0000 UTCI have been doing a lot of tests, I have some solutions, but now Steam does not pay attention to the DS4 of HC, it detects it, but as if it did not exist, it's weird. To use HC well you have to have MSI Center disabled and any application that uses the gamepad (in my case, having Controller Companion still running, some games became unstable at startup, when disabled they work fine) Now I'm wondering why sometimes Steam does not detect the DS4 inputs, if I uninstall and clean HC and reinstall it, after the reboot it works fine, but after a few reboots the problem returns. Does the same thing happen to you? I am using it on Windows 10
Pochowandpoch
2025-04-13 15:26:33 +0000 UTCSo you have a profile for your game and either through Quick tools or layout page you've enable gyro to joystick or mouse ?
BenjaminLSR
2025-04-12 06:23:25 +0000 UTCGood evening, I installed this HC on my MSI Claw 8, I wanted to use the gyroscope, but despite being able to select the internal device, nothing works, thanks for your help.
Pochowandpoch
2025-04-11 23:56:21 +0000 UTCCould you share a photo of the BSOD details ? Also, would you mind letting me know if you have any specific BIOS or Windows settings tweaked (outside of Core Isolation) ?
BenjaminLSR
2025-04-09 15:26:08 +0000 UTCI've installed HHC v.0.23.3.0 on my MSI Claw 8. Whilst it initially seemed to work ok (despite a driver error), it now crashes (i.e. BSOD) upon boot. The error is that 'HwRwDrv.x64' failed.
Neil Garland
2025-04-09 15:13:28 +0000 UTCCould you share a photo of the BSOD details ? Also, would you mind letting me know if you have any specific BIOS or Windows settings tweaked (outside of Core Isolation) ?
BenjaminLSR
2025-04-09 15:01:29 +0000 UTCNeil Garland
2025-04-09 14:27:05 +0000 UTCHi, just tested on my Claw 8 and i is super nice. I wanted to use it as primary AutoTDP software and be able to keep launcher and other functions from MSI Software. Would younguys consider adding blocks of options to be switchable? E.g. just use controller or just tdp etc.?
Adam Ch.
2025-04-08 18:39:50 +0000 UTCWhen was it last working for you? Which release?
BenjaminLSR
2025-04-07 18:43:10 +0000 UTCWhich device ?
BenjaminLSR
2025-04-07 18:42:48 +0000 UTCI keep getting blue screens when i try to run the application
Alexis Perez
2025-04-07 18:34:04 +0000 UTCHello, since this version the custom rtss overlay no longer works.
Astanor Revan
2025-04-07 07:07:57 +0000 UTC
