Sadly there doesn't seem to be much work done on something like that for Windows, but luckily others have worked on user-mode solutions for other kinds of controllers, which wasn't too hard to adapt to the Xbox OG controllers. I decided to try looking into a user-mode solution instead, something with a smaller chance of taking my whole system down at will, ideally something that supports both Xbox OG controllers and XInput. Keeping unsigned drivers enabled is a bit too risky for me though, and I also found those drivers have some issues of their own too (a controller driver shouldn't be able to cause BSoDs!).īoth of those only support DirectInput too, requiring another third-party app to translate that to XInput (with the best solution I found needing the app to be installed per-game.)

With those my only solution was to edit the driver files, breaking any signature on them and forcing me to run Windows with unsigned driver support enabled. While there's already solutions such as XBCD or the signed Mayflash driver for this, unfortunately neither included support for my Madcatz controller out-of-the-box. Xb2XInput is a small application that can translate the input from an Xbox OG controller over to a virtual XInput/DirectInput device for games to make use of, without needing any unsigned drivers to be installed! Xb2XInput - user-mode Xbox OG controller driver for Windows

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