If you have ever plugged an old flight stick, a retro gamepad, or a generic USB controller into your modern PC only to find that half the buttons don’t work or the axes are jittery, you have felt the pain of proprietary drivers.
is the closest thing to a true universal joystick driver. It is an open-source virtual joystick driver that creates a virtual device that any Windows application can see.
Most modern controllers are "plug-and-play" because Windows includes a generic HID-compliant game controller driver . For older or generic "no-name" gamepads: