Windows 10 EOL: October 14

[Ryochan7]

This is technically old news but I only learned about it a couple of days ago. Windows 10 will no longer receive security updates and will officially be end of life on October 14th. I do not know what the current test target is for DS4Windows but it looks like the test target should be moved to Windows 11 soon.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-support-ends-on-october-14-2025-2ca8b313-1946-43d3-b55c-2b95b107f281

This might be a big problem when it comes to ViGEmBus as that driver supposedly has some problems on Windows 11 that did not exist when running on Windows 10.

[Darthagnon]

Would it be possible move back to supporting older versions of Windows/ViGemBus, if Win11 is going to be problematic? I'm still using DS4Windows v2.2.13 and it works great.

Windows 10 will continue to receive security updates through the Windows 10 Consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program

[Ryochan7]

Besides Microsoft, the primary issue with trying to continue supporting older versions of Windows was the moving target of ViGEmBus. Nefarius stopped putting out updated drivers for versions of Windows before 10 at some point; I cannot remember when but I think that was supposedly due to Microsoft changing driver signing procedures. I ended up taking out some of the workarounds in DS4Windows needed for Windows 7 support (BT support code in particular) later on. Technically, there were test builds of later versions of DS4Windows that used ScpVBus rather than ViGEmBus.

I would have thought Microsoft would only offer extended support for businesses. At least they will offer 1 year of extended support for individuals even though it will cost $30. Too bad individuals do not have an option for the 3 years of extended support that are offered to businesses despite the inflated price after the first year.

[rjbprime]

Would it be possible move back to supporting older versions of Windows/ViGemBus, if Win11 is going to be problematic? I'm still using DS4Windows v2.2.13 and it works great.

Windows 10 will continue to receive security updates through the Windows 10 Consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program

You using this on Windows 11 or earlier? And are you using the ViGEm version or ScpVBus version?

[Ryochan7]

I am not sure if I will be successful but I have been trying to work on being able to distribute drivers of some sort. Lot of bureaucracy behind being allowed to make drivers available to the public. It would be nice to have some maintained drivers again especially with some of the lingering problems that were never fixed with the old ones despite finding fixes; the infinite rumble problem in ViGEmBus was never fixed and it seems it can still happen in the recent VirtualPad driver. An HidHide replacement would be needed as well; I never used the vanilla HidHide driver and my changes were never incorporated.

I have not been gaming much over the past several months; I only recently had some free time. Been playing a little bit of Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection lately. I have been using DS4Windows 3.3.3 to emulate a virtual DS4 controller. Also, although my involvement has been sporadic, I sometimes still work on Touchmote changes for Wii lightgun usage.

[Whirling-Supra]

Did you move the DS4Windows download link? https://github.com/Ryochan7/DS4Windows/releases/download/v3.3.3/DS4Windows_3.3.3_x64.zip is not found