UWPHook
🔗 Add your Windows Store or UWP games to Steam (by BrianLima)
ViGEmBus
Windows kernel-mode driver emulating well-known USB game controllers. (by nefarius)
| UWPHook | ViGEmBus | |
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| 60 | 126 | |
| 1,419 | 2,386 | |
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| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| over 1 year ago | 8 months ago | |
| C# | C++ | |
| MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
UWPHook
Posts with mentions or reviews of UWPHook.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-20.
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Enough positivity. What's the worst thing about the Steam Deck?
Edit: here's UWPHook to link gamepass games to steam https://github.com/BrianLima/UWPHook
- Controller input being read as as mouse and keyboard
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How To Stop Windows Store Tetris Effect From Launching in Steam VR
Use UWP HOOK to allow you to add windows store uwp games to steam as a non steam game.
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Can I stream Xbox game pass games downloaded on my pc to my steam deck?
I used this https://github.com/BrianLima/UWPHook
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Anyone know how to add an Xbox PC Game pass game to steam?
It's usually difficult because Microsoft UWP DRM on them so you needing tools like UWPHook & other workarounds that have 50% success rate at most. There are rare Gamepass games that don't have UWP so it won't be a problem for them.
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"Add non-steam games" with Xbox Game Pass games VR ?
You could try using https://github.com/BrianLima/UWPHook this program and testing it. I really doubt it'll work, the VR tag is just a categorisation thing and so it shows up on the HMD page. It doesn't actually trigger any VR capabilities.
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How do you add games from like the Xbox game pass/Mucrosoft store and EPIC Games to the Steam library?
Microsoft : This is worst with all from above and you need https://github.com/BrianLima/UWPHook to be able to play against Microsoft DRM.
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Tech Support: How can I remotely play my PC Game Pass games running on my rig downstairs on my upstairs emulation machine on my TV.
Another option that could potentially work is to use UWPHook to add your Xbox Game-Pass games to Steam and then simply use Steam Link to stream these games.
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Thoughts on the Steam Deck UI beta for Big Picture mode so far?
There's a nifty little utility called UWP Hook (https://github.com/BrianLima/UWPHook) that scans your Windows Apps and lets you pick them from a drop-down to add to Steam, but there have been a rare couple games that absolutely refuse to show up on the list so i made a bit of a convoluted extra step to gain access privileges to the gamepass install folder and add them from there when needed.
- The newest beta update seems to have fixed non steam games with the new big picture!
ViGEmBus
Posts with mentions or reviews of ViGEmBus.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-19.
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Moonlight, Deck controls not working
You might need to install ViGEmBus on your host computer, that's how Sunshine sees and uses the controller.
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(PC) Joystick bug with Gamepad? Please help
download and run VIGEmBUS: https://github.com/nefarius/ViGEmBus/releases/tag/v1.22.0
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Touchpad Passthru not working after ViGEM Update
This problem on GitHub explains what I have also. Does anyone know how to fix this? I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the newest ViGEm update (1.22), and restarting my computer, but nothing is working for me. Does anyone else have this problem as well? Thanks!
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Moonlight stops recognizing my controller after a few seconds
Solution edit: Downgrading the ViGEmBus driver on the host machine to v1.21.442.0 solved it: https://github.com/nefarius/ViGEmBus/releases/tag/v1.21.442.0
- ViGEmBus 1.22.0 "It's dead, Jim" Release
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[Mini-guide] Moonlight / Sunshine setup for G Cloud and Windows 10
I installed ViGEmBus for gamepad support, just download the linked exe and run it.
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Trouble with steam deck tools
Do you have ViGEm installed? https://github.com/ViGEm/ViGEmBus/releases
- Ubisoft Stadia Controller
- Trying to use Sunshine to play Diablo 4 on my Sony OLED - help!
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controller on pluto pc
and install version 1.17 from the vigem drivers https://github.com/ViGEm/ViGEmBus/releases/tag/setup-v1.17.333.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing UWPHook and ViGEmBus you can also consider the following projects:
GloSC - Tool for using Steam-Input controller rebinding at a system level alongside a global overlay [Moved to: https://github.com/Alia5/GlosSI]
XOutput - DirectInput to XInput wrapper
GlosSI - Note that I am not currently contributing to GlosSI. This fork is only here just in case I do decide to contribute again.
BetterJoy - Allows the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, Joycons and SNES controller to be used with CEMU, Citra, Dolphin, Yuzu and as generic XInput
GlosSI - Tool for using Steam-Input controller rebinding at a system level alongside a global overlay
DS4Windows - Like those other ds4tools, but sexier
GloSC - Tool for using the Steam-Controller as systemwide XInput controller alongside a global overlay [Moved to: https://github.com/Thracky/GlosSI]
HidHide - Gaming Input Peripherals Device Firewall for Windows.
DualSenseX - Connect your DualSense Controller, use Adaptive Triggers, Emulate Xbox 360 or DualShock 4 through USB or Bluetooth on PC
Sunshine - Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight.
AHK-ViGEm-Bus - A wrapper for AHK that drives the ViGEm bus to create virtual console controllers