UWP Game Controller Registry

Ben Carmichael · Aug 9, 2019

I have this generic bluetooth gamepad that doesnt have any if its own drivers to install so windows sees it as a HID keyboard device. After reading this page: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/gaming/registry-data-for-game-controllers am
i right in saying that if i edit my registry to map the inputs from the gamepad that it should work in my UWP games? Or is it that the game devs have to specifically support a controller?

I should note that my gamepad is detected and working in the X360CE app but this doesnt work for UWP apps, only x64/x32 native apps.

Thanks in advance, Ben

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XBF Diego M

Hi Ben,

I would follow the dev support article you referenced since that is more of a developer question that would be difficult to answer on these forums that is more for general support questions and discussions. Just by reading the first paragraph of the article
it seems like you should be able to set up a generic game pad through the registry to use for UWP games but I can't tell you for sure because I'm not a developer and the developers do not monitor these forums.

Personally, I recommend just using an Xbox One controller or Xbox 360 controller if you want to play UWP games on the PC using a game pad and not the mouse and keyboard.

MobyFreak

Did you manage to get this to work?

I'm also using a generic controller and I want to use it to play UWP games.

Can you give me a detailed guide on what to do and how to do it please?

Eletricdrum

Ok...

Did you are able to setup your UWP environment?

If your product is a game:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/ga...

If your product is a UWP app:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/de...

Farscape247

try UWP Hook to add the gamepass game to steam launcher and give it a try.

i have used many different controllers with gamepass games, just microsoft being picky and trying to make everyone buy an xbox controller or a licenced third party controller.

Celidor

Seems like Microsoft does not care. They focus on their terrible UWP and have abandoned any updating of Xinput. As if we should just buy windows store versions. But the windows store versions are inferior in every way and most games are not even available
on the Windows Store. I have waited for years and nothing has changed.

It is not the developers fault because Microsoft has only added support for Xbox one controllers through the UWP. All support for Xbox one controllers outside of the Windows Store is through an outdated Xinput that sees any Xbox one controller as an Xbox
360 controller which has no support for impulse/rumble triggers. The last time Xinput received an update was back when Windows 8 was their newest OS.

Perhaps a petition should be started to convince Microsoft that this is a feature that people want to see, and that there are thousands if not millions of annoyed customers who expected their Xbox one controllers to be fully compatible on windows 10.

If the UWP wasn't so terrible and restricted in so many ways there would probably be more Games on it and they would receive the full impulse trigger support. But the UWP is so unredeemably bad that developers and consumers alike have mostly avoided it.

Please update Xinput Microsoft. People want full controller support!

UWP Game Controller Registry