Download Usb Joystick Driver Windows 7 64 Bit
Takeshi Krueger
There are differences from version to version in the type of joystick support that Microsoft DirectX offers. In Windows 95/98/Me, DirectX supports two methods to customize joystick capabilities: through custom entries in the Windows registry and through a virtual device driver (VxD) creation, which is called as joystick minidriver. The minidrivers that are used in DirectX versions 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 support the original minidriver interface, with minor differences in the DirectX 3.0 interface. In addition to the original minidriver model, DirectX versions 5.0, and later, include an alternative driver interface that is generally described separately.
Windows 95/98/Me joystick driver and configuration programs support analog joysticks that plug into the IBM standard game port. Joystick makers can make the joystick configuration programs customizable and provide explicit directions to the end user on how to customize the joystick. Joysticks can signal Windows 95/98/Me about their capabilities through the registry. These capabilities can include the use of throttle, point-of-view (POV) hats, rudders, and the number of joystick buttons.
All non-IBM standard joysticks, such as digital joysticks, MIDI joysticks, and analog joysticks driven by joystick accelerators must provide a joystick minidriver in addition to custom registry information. A joystick OEM can write a minidriver that provides access to nonstandard joystick hardware. This provides a mechanism for digital joysticks to work with any Windows-based game that uses the joystick application programming interface (API).
The driver model can deal with up to six axes, a POV hat, and a double word of buttons, so that an OEM can easily create a minidriver for new hardware with a higher degree of freedom than the current game port allows. The joystick minidriver provides complete flexibility to hardware vendors and allows game creators to use the installed base with their titles. In DirectX 5.0 and later, analog joystick support is also separated into a minidriver that uses a new interface. This new interface is loaded only when an analog game port is configured. The polling is extended with three extra POV hats, three more double words that contains button data, and a method to specify that it returns the velocity, acceleration, and/or force data for each axis.
The current virtual joystick driver (VJoyD) allows the configuration of up to 16 devices, any number of which can be driven by minidrivers. The configuration of minidrivers to devices can be one to one or one to many.
I have a USB Joystick, and I want to write my own HID driver for it. Notably I want to inject delay between when the joystick input is received by Windows and when my application is notified of that input event. I would also like to change the identity of the joystick percieved by my application. I have never written a driver, let alone an HID driver, for Windows. Can anyone provide me with advice or pointers on how to go about doing this?
When you press knobs on the Joystick the electric signals reach the operating system (and onto the game) in the form of IRP's through the drivers chain. Intercepting these IRP's at some point and delaying the forwarding to the next driver can delay the joystick input. This can be achieved with driver filters.
The entrypoint of a windows driver is the DriverEntry function. In this function you will be hooking what IRP's you want to intercept and the callback functions that deal with them, in our case, the callback functions that delay the forwarding.
You might want to use Autohotkey. This is a script language for windows which can remap every keys of mouse/keyboard/joysticks. If you capture the key through a script and insert a delay before sending the right key/macro to the active application, you might have a part of a solution to your problem.
I have the Extreme 3D pro on Windows 11. I tried and then uninstalled the Logitech drivers because they caused issues. But without them, Windows 11 detected it as the correct device, and let me do the calibration. MSFS works with it as well as it did when I had Windows 10.
If I uninstall this driver in the "Device Manager" there's no "Delete" option and it will come back to life once I reconnect the controller. If I uninstall and manually delete the driver files (hidclass.sys, hidparse.sys and hidusb.sys) they will still return when the controller is connected again.
For DS4/DS5 to properly function on your Windows 10/11 PC you are required to install necessary first and third party drivers. Some of which, of course, are optional but will improve DS4windows capabilities. Here we will list and give a description of every driver needed to allow your DualShock 4 and DualSense 5 to work. Launching the DS4 app will also ask to install the drivers.
DS4Windows uses the FakerInput driver to expose system-wide virtual keyboard, relative mouse and absolute mouse. Allows Keyboard + Mouses events/commands to be usable in some situations where the usual way DS4Windows sends those commands (via SendInput) fails. Examples of those situations are elevated processes and games, UAC prompts and anti-cheat systems that block SentInput events. Use of FakerInput is necessary to allow DS4Windows to work with some games with anti-cheat protection like valorant.
HidGuardian is a driver that can hide controllers from the system and allow only chosen processes to detect them. It was previously used by DS4Windows to solve the double input issue, but was made obsolete by the release of its successor, HidHide, a similar driver that works better and is easier to use.
For actually installing Windows 3.1x, I did copy all of the files from the original 3.5" floppies into a folder called win31 and installed from that. Some generic instructions:
On your computer make a folder called "C:/doswin".
Copy all the files on your Windows 3.1x floppies to "C:\doswin\win31".
Extract the drivers to "C:\doswin\drivers\" (for example the S3 drivers to "c:\doswin\drivers\s3" or "C:\doswin\drivers\tseng" for the Tseng drivers).
Now to install the S3 graphics driver, start DOSBox again, type
cd windows
setup
You get a screen similar to the initial setup of Windows 3.x. Scroll up to the Display driver and hit enter. Now scroll all the way down to "Other (requires disk....)" and hit enter again. Enter the path to the S3 drivers "c:\drivers\s3" and hit enter.
You can now choose on of the S3 drivers. The highest working resolution is 1024x768 at 64k colors. For playing games a much lower resolution is enough. Some can't even handle more than 256 colors and will look odd.
To install the Soundblaster driver, exit Windows 3.x again. At the prompt type
cd c:\drivers\sb16w3x
install
This pretty much runs on its own, just make sure
- that the path to Windows is correct (c:\Windows)
- that the interrupt setting is correct. The installer wants to use Interrupt 5 by default, but DOSBox uses 7 by default, so change that.
- to let the installer overwrite files if it want to.
When the installer asks whether you want to load Dos drivers select "No" since DOSBox won't use those drivers in any way.
After the installer finishes you can run Windows right away, no need to "reboot".
To install the joystick driver you have to have started Windows. Open the main group in Program Manager and start Control Panel. In Control Panel start Drivers. Click on "Add...", select "Unlisted or Updated Driver", in the next dialog enter "c:\drivers\ibmjoy\" as the location of the driver. The next dialog lets you install "Driver for Joystick" and then asks you whether you want to setup the driver for "one or two 2-Dimensional" or a "single 3-Dimensional Joystick". I recommend using the first option. It seems that most games will recognize if the joystick has four buttons, even though the IBM joystick control panel shows only two working buttons. The latter option is only advisable if you use a joystick with a throttle. You need to restart Windows after this.
My advice for using the joystick with Windows 3.1x games is to edit dosbox.conf again and in the [joystick] section set the option
timed=false
One game (Microsoft Fury) gave me problems with timed enabled. If you have calibrating problems, change this again.
Also take not that most games require you to calibrate the joystick again, after a Windows 3.x restart.
- to change graphics drivers, I'd advise exiting Windows 3.x and then change directory to the Windows directory (cd windows) and run setup.exe.
But beware! Windows 3.x doesn't like it when you change drivers too often and then Setup crashes when you want to load other video drivers. In this case, got the Windows 3.x system directory (\windows\system) and get rid of the "oemX.inf" files (for example "oem0.inf" or "oem1.inf") you don't need.
- When you choose the Tseng drivers when you install Windows, the mouse pointer might not be visible. To fix this go back to the DOSBox prompt, change dir to the Windows directory ("cd windows") , run setup again and then choose the VGA or SVGA drivers that come with Windows 3.1x. Start Windows again (your mouse pointer should be visible now) and then run setup from inside Windows to choose the Tseng drivers.
- Windows programs that rely on share.exe or the later Windows 3.x driver vshare.386 will crash on starting with an error message that share.exe has not been loaded. This affects mostly office programs, e.g. Microsoft Office, Works, Publisher, Lotus Office programs... DOSBox is not emulating something that is needed for share.exe or vshare.386 to correctly work and since it isn't needed for games chances are slim that this will ever be emulated.
HOWEVER there are two workarounds.
1. Run Windows 3.x on a boot image (see below on how to), this is the safe way since when you boot an image in DOSBox the needed functionality is working.
2. Download and run fakeshar =1 before starting Windows in DOSBox. THIS IS NOT SAFE since it only fakes that share is running even though it doesn't. When you insist on actually working with the affected programs in Windows you will experience data loss.