

I've bought Tegra hardware (nVidia Shield tablet and Jetson) and used to applaud their open source efforts, but screwing their game controller buyers like this makes me regret my decision. Excluding AMD and Intel graphics card owners has made a lot of people extremely displeased. NVIDIA previously released a driver that was bundled with GeForce Experience and only usable by NVIDIA graphics card users, and also suffered from a variety of issues according to forum discussions. It also emulates a force feedback device for rumble support in both DirectInput and Xinput games, tweaks the input data of the trackpad to make it usable, and adds support for the volume increment/decrement buttons. This small USB filter driver intercepts and tweaks the HID Report Descriptor to make DirectInput detect it as a gamepad. Support is planned but until then, the new model is already partially supported out-of-the-box by the generic Windows driver. IMPORTANT: this driver doesn't support the 2017 Shield Controller yet.
#Nvidia shield controller xinput drivers#
Since I typically manually fiddle with game settings, do I need Geforce Experience since I can just download the drivers from the site whenever a new driver is released? Really all I use the program for is for the auto-updating of the GPU Drivers.

Furthermore I do not use Shadowplay at all. Do I really need the Geforce Experience program? I mean, I don't use the optimizations of the program as they tend to be rather inaccurate and sometimes not as good as they should be, plus I do not have a NVIDIA Shield and every time the program updates I need to redisable the Streamer service since the program does not disable the service nor give me a choice not to use it due to a lack of a SHIELD.
