dinput8wrapper

This is a DirectInput 8 (dinput8.dll) Wrapper, which internally uses Raw-Input instead of DirectInput.

Initially created to have a different way to fix the frame stuttering caused by regular EnumDevices()-calls in "Kane & Lynch: Dead Men" Other workarounds are listed here: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Kane_%26_Lynch:_Dead_Men#Stuttering

Whats the issue?

Dependending on the number and type of physical/virtual "USB HID"-devices on the system the EnumDevices()-call can take a few ms to return. Games sometimes call this function regularly in the main thread to check if a new gamepad is attached/detached, which will then cause regular frame stuttering due to the pauses caused by EnumDevices(). This wrapper returns a fixed keyboard-device and a fixed mouse-device in EnumDevices() and does not do any real device enumeration.

Current state:

• Only supports Keyboard and Mouse (gamepad-support in progress)
• Does only implement a small subset of the DirectInput8-Interfaces (may not work with all games using DirectInput8)
• 32-bit only (Is there any DirectInput8-game that requires x64?)

How to use / Installation

• Copy the dinput8.dll (see https://github.com/geeky/dinput8wrapper/releases) to the folder where your game has its main executable
• Hope that the game will load it instead of the original dinput8.dll from the windows-system32-folder \ (Its a bad idea to override the original dinput8.dll!)

Compile yourself

• This repository includes a Visual Studio Solution.
• Currently compiled with VS2022 Community Edition \ https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/preview/vs2022/ \ "Desktop development with C++" should be selected in the installer