SOLUTION
IN SHORT
Go into STEAM SETTINGS and set your controller settings to ONLY have "Generic Gamepad Configuration Support" ticked.
IN DETAIL
- Do not do anything to the INI.. leave it default as "ON". So make it ON if you edited the thing and set it to OFF.
- Open steam... then click on settings.
- Click on the CONTROLLERS category
- Click on GENERAL CONTROLLER SETTINGS
- TICK "Generic Gamepad Configuration Support"
- UNTICK everything else
- Click BACK or CLOSE WINDOWS
- CLOSE settings.
STILL NOT WORKING?
Now it should work as intended.... but make sure you HitBox is in the correct mode... pressing 1+5 or 1+3 will boot the HitBox into two different modes.. I guess XInput and DirectInput or something.
1,2,3,4
5,6,7,8
You want the HitBox to be recognised by windows as HITBOX CTHULHU+ .... when in the wrong mode it has a completely different name in control panel and stuff.
Simply try booting the HitBox into both modes and see which on works.