Windows virtual gamepads now have zero external dependencies - ViGEmBus is removed.
- DualShock 4: Windows UMDF backend (inject/dualshock4_windows.rs + dualshock4_proto.rs),
reusing the DualSense SwDeviceCreate game-detection identity fix. The one UMDF driver serves
the DS5 or DS4 identity/descriptor/features/strings per a device_type byte the host stamps into
shared memory. Driver also gains IOCTL_HID_GET_STRING and a 41-byte calibration feature.
- Xbox 360: a new UMDF2 XUSB companion driver (packaging/windows/xusb-driver/) that registers
GUID_DEVINTERFACE_XUSB and answers the buffered XInput IOCTLs from a shared section, so classic
XInputGetState/SetState work with no kernel bus driver. inject/gamepad_windows.rs is rewritten
to drive it and the vigem-client dependency is removed. Xbox One folds to the 360 XInput path.
- Installer: vendor + pnputil-install the three UMDF drivers (packaging/windows/gamepad-drivers/
+ install-gamepad-drivers.ps1, wired into pack-host-installer.ps1 + punktfunk-host.iss).
- Multi-pad: the host stamps each pad index into the device Location (pszDeviceLocation); the
driver reads it via WdfDeviceAllocAndQueryProperty to map its own *-shm-<index>, with
UmdfHostProcessSharing=ProcessSharingDisabled giving each pad its own host (per-pad statics).
Validated live on the Windows host: Cyberpunk native DualSense detection, DS4 identity + descriptor,
XInputGetState + rumble round-trip, two pads -> two distinct XInput slots, and a full installer build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The host<->driver channel is the shared-memory section (hidclass blocks the device
stack and UMDF has no control device), so the first-attempt in-driver IOCTL channel
never fired. Remove it: the custom device interface, IOCTL_PFDS_SET_INPUT/GET_OUTPUT,
the output queue, and the on_set_input/complete_one_read/deliver_output helpers. The
driver keeps the HID handshake, the 8ms read timer fed from the shared section, and
on_output_report publishing the game's 0x02 to the section. Rebuilt + reloaded + the
channel still verifies both directions live on the RTX box.
Also list `pf_dualsense` as a second hardware id (alongside `root\pf_dualsense`) so the
host's SwDeviceCreate'd software device binds the same driver as a devgen one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A self-authored UMDF2 HID minidriver (packaging/windows/dualsense-driver) that
presents a virtual Sony DualSense (VID 054C/PID 0CE6) on Windows — adaptive
triggers / lightbar / rumble that ViGEm structurally cannot deliver.
Validated live on an RTX box (Win11 25H2, Secure Boot ON): the self-signed driver
loads, Steam recognizes it as a genuine DualSense, and a game's 0x02 output report
reaches the driver. The host<->driver channel is a named shared-memory section
(Global\pfds-shm-<idx>) the host creates and the driver maps from its timer: input
report 0x01 host->driver, output report 0x02 driver->host — input and output proven
both directions live. This bypasses hidclass, which gates both a custom device
interface and custom IOCTLs on the HID node, and UMDF has no control device.
Built in Rust on microsoft/windows-drivers-rs. The load wall was the PE
FORCE_INTEGRITY bit that wdk-build sets via /INTEGRITYCHECK (forces a CI-trusted
page-hash signature a self-signed cert cannot satisfy) — cleared post-build. See
packaging/windows/dualsense-driver/README.md for the build/sign/install recipe.
Deferred: SwDeviceCreate per-session device lifecycle; removing the inert in-driver
IOCTL-channel code; full on-glass session test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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