Setting Up Your Games

Setting up your games

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Which setting to change in each game, how OpenShaker receives the data, and how to share the game ports with other apps or play from an Xbox or another PC.

At a glance

Game	What to set in the game	How OpenShaker gets the data	Preset it uses	How well it was tested
Forza Motorsport	Data Out On, IP 127.0.0.1, port 5555, format Car Dash	Listens on UDP port 5555	Forza Motorsport	Live: 8 laps, all within 0.4 dB of HaptiConnect
Forza Horizon 5 / 6	Data Out On, IP 127.0.0.1, port 5555	Listens on UDP port 5555. It tells 5 and 6 apart by which game program is running	Forza Horizon 5 or Forza Horizon 6	Live: laps play 0 to 1.3 dB quieter than HaptiConnect
Assetto Corsa EVO	Nothing	Reads the game's shared memory (no port)	Assetto Corsa EVO	Live and felt. Compared with HaptiConnect's ACE plugin through a replay: +0.4 and -0.5 dB (scored at one copy's level; the recordings likely hold HaptiConnect's output twice)
BeamNG.drive	Options > Other: tick OutGauge and Motion Sim, both 127.0.0.1 port 4444	Listens on UDP port 4444	BeamNG.drive	Live: within 0.6 dB. Crash, bump and wheel-lock strengths not yet checked
Trackmania	Install Openplanet and its Data Sender plugin	Connects to Data Sender on TCP port 28765	Trackmania	Live and felt (Stadium car). All levels are first guesses
Forza Horizon 4 (untested)	Same as Horizon 5	Same as Horizon 5	The Horizon preset that is already active, otherwise Forza Horizon 5	Should work: it sends the same data as Horizon 5
Assetto Corsa / ACC (untested)	Nothing	Same shared memory, under older names	Assetto Corsa EVO	Basic effects only

HaptiConnect is ButtKicker's own app. The Forza, Assetto Corsa EVO and BeamNG presets were tuned to match the output of HaptiConnect 2.7.0 on a ButtKicker PRO. HaptiConnect doesn't support Trackmania, so the Trackmania levels are the maintainer's first guesses.

Each game has its own page with the setup steps, how OpenShaker connects, which effects play and the known limits: Forza Motorsport · Forza Horizon 5 and 6 · Assetto Corsa EVO · BeamNG.drive · Trackmania.

Running next to other haptics apps

What	Default	Can it be shared?
Forza Data Out	UDP 5555	No. Only one program can receive on the port. If HaptiConnect or another tool has it, you'll see "cannot bind UDP 5555 ... is HaptiConnect or another tool using it?"
BeamNG OutGauge + Motion Sim	UDP 4444	No. "... is HaptiConnect, SimHub or another tool using it?"
Assetto Corsa EVO	Shared memory	Yes. OpenShaker only reads it.
Trackmania Data Sender	TCP 28765	Yes, up to the plugin's "TCP max clients" (8 by default)
OpenShaker's own lock	TCP 49731, this PC only	Only if another program happens to use that port (see Troubleshooting)
Shaker output	Shared mode	Yes, unless another app takes it exclusively

To let another app use the game ports:

• Untick Haptics on (window or tray). This frees every game port, and the setting is remembered until you tick it again.
• Or quit with tray > Quit, or OpenShaker.exe --quit.
• Or start with --no-start for one session.
• Or move one game to another port, both in the game and in Advanced....
• Or stop listening for one game for good with sources.<game>.enabled: false in the settings file.

Other points:

• HaptiConnect's own Forza plugins listen on port 5301 (Forza Horizon 5) and 5305 (Forza Motorsport). If Forza's Data Out points there, the data goes to HaptiConnect, not OpenShaker.
• OpenShaker doesn't pass telemetry on to other apps.
• If two supported games send data at once, the newest data wins and the preset can flip between them. Run one game at a time.

Playing from an Xbox or another PC

• For Forza on an Xbox or another PC:
  1. Set Advanced > Forza listen address to 0.0.0.0.
  2. Point the game's Data Out at this PC's network address, on port 5555.
  3. When Windows Firewall asks, allow OpenShaker. The installer adds no firewall rule, so Windows asks the first time.
• The default, 127.0.0.1, only accepts games on the same PC.
• With Forza Horizon on another machine, OpenShaker can't see which Horizon game is running. It keeps the current Horizon preset, or uses Forza Horizon 5. Both presets share the same calibration, so only your own strength changes differ.
• The BeamNG and Trackmania addresses can only be changed in the settings file (sources.beamng.host, sources.trackmania.host).
• Assetto Corsa EVO must run on the same PC, because its data is shared memory.

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See also: Troubleshooting · Advanced settings