Installing OpenShaker

Installing OpenShaker

OpenShaker guide › Getting started

How to download and install OpenShaker, what the installer does, and the first things to do once it runs.

Download and install

1. Download OpenShaker-Setup-<version>.exe from the latest release. If your browser says the file isn't commonly downloaded, choose Keep (in Edge: ... > Keep > Show more > Keep anyway).
2. Double-click it. The installer is not code-signed, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": click More info, then Run anyway.
3. Click Install. That is the only screen.

What the installer does

• The installer installs for your Windows account only, with no admin prompt, to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\OpenShaker. It needs 64-bit Windows.

• There is one screen with two options, both ticked by default:

  • Start OpenShaker with Windows (it waits in the notification area)
  • Create a desktop shortcut

  Run over an installed copy, the boxes start from what you have now instead, and unticking one removes that entry (Updating by hand).

• A Start menu entry is always created.

• OpenShaker starts as soon as installation finishes and opens its window. There is no "Finished" page. Closing the window keeps it running in the notification area.

• The licence and third-party notices are installed next to the program.

First run

1. Turn your shaker's amplifier down.
2. In the OpenShaker window, choose your shaker by name under Output > Device, not "(Windows default output)": if the shaker is unplugged, Windows makes your speakers the default output.
3. Press Test tone and raise the amplifier until the sweep feels firm but never clatters. The test tone is described on The main window.
4. Set up your game (next page) and drive. OpenShaker switches to that game's preset by itself.

What a new install starts with

• Haptics on
• Device "ButtKicker", Left channel
• Master 100 %, every strength 100 %
• Forza Motorsport preset until a game is detected
• Each effect on or off as its preset ships

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Next: Setting up your games

See also: Safety · Shakers, amplifiers and channels · Start with Windows, updates and uninstalling