Razer Hydra not working with Steam

[ChupaThingie]

I just got a Razer Hydra and have been trying to get it to work with steam for the last 2 days with no luck so far. Ive tried using the razer drivers as well as the motion creator from sixense and i have installed the sdk for the hydra through steam tools but every time i open steam the hydra just stops responding. if i select a different non-steam window or just go back to the desktop it works fine. But any time the Steam client or a game launched from steam is the active window the Hydra does nothing. Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions as to the problem or how to fix it? Thanks in advance.

[ChupaThingie]

Anyone have a Hydra and run into this? Or anyone just anyone have any idea?

[ChupaThingie]

if anyone has any experience with this or ideas, can you please share them.

[Typo]

Just got mine today and actually haven't had time to try anything except the Simple3D app and the Turcany demo from sixense but your issue sure sounds weird.

First thing, uninstall the Razer software/driver package, it is not needed and only causes trouble. It will want you to reboot so get that sucker out of there and reboot. Next make sure you actually have the latest Motion Creator software from http://sixense.com/products/motioncreator and if not, exit the one you have and installt the new one. Another thing you can try just to be sure is go to Library, Tools (in Steam) and right click the Sixense SDK, select properties, then go to the Local Files tab and click Verify Integrety of Tool Cache and then restart Steam and see if it helped.

If the problem still persists, try seeking help on the sixsense forum at http://sixense.com/forum/vbulletin/forum.php and ask for help with your issue. It may take time to get an awnser but the chance of someone being able to help is a lot better over there.

Good luck.

[AshnakAGQ]

I got the same thing. I can't get it to work with anything not integrated. TF2 works. HydraRyder works. Desktop works. Steam doesn't. Even if I force a game in Motion Creator, I will have the controls until I click on the game window or steam window. Adding MCEs to the Native driver's folder causes the taskbar to crash rendering the whole thing broken until I take out the MCE. It's not only us, this guy seems to have the same problem. http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=17321

[Typo]

Originally posted by Ashnak:

I got the same thing. I can't get it to work with anything not integrated. TF2 works. HydraRyder works. Desktop works. Steam doesn't. Even if I force a game in Motion Creator, I will have the controls until I click on the game window or steam window. Adding MCEs to the Native driver's folder causes the taskbar to crash rendering the whole thing broken until I take out the MCE. It's not only us, this guy seems to have the same problem. http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=17321

Everything should work but lets take a few precautions and make sure everythings ok.

First, it shouldn't matter for your problem but if you haven't, go ahead and install the Sixense SDK from the Tools menu in your Library in Steam.

Second, make sure you have the latest version of Motion Creator 2 downloaded from the link in my previous post above.

Third, make sure Motion Creator 2 is running as Admin. How to do this differs according to your version of Windows but simply ask Google or respond here with OS info if you can't figure it out but its usually something like, right click the shortcut to the program, click Properties, click Compatibility and then check the box for Run as Administrator (make sure to shut down and restart MC for this to take effect).

Fourth, if you have anything like Raptr or other game enhancement related software running, try shutting it off. I'm talking about anything that may show info in your games or get info from them or record them while they run like Fraps or Ratr or anything similar.

Good luck and do post back if anything helps.

[ChupaThingie]

Sorry for not getting back to this sooner, but what soved the issue for me was running Motion Creater as Admin. Not sure why I didn't try that initially, but that's what solved it.

[Typo]

Nice to hear ya got it working :) congrats!