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BE CAREFUL TO NOT MARK ANYTHING ELSE! After that, on the right side, mark the Force Deletion checkbox and then click on Delete Driver

Scroll to the V letter section and mark every entry of vigembus.inf.

On its interface, click at the INF bar at the top left side so the list gets ordered by name.

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Download and open the Driver Store Explorer.Having no ViGEmBus entries left at the Device Manager does not mean your system is fully rid of it, so let's continue: For each entry that exists with the name of Nefarius Virtual Gamepad Emulation Bus or Virtual Gamepad Emulation Bus, right click on them and select Uninstall then give confirmation when asked to.Click on the View tab at the top and select Devices by connection.Open Device Manager by pressing Win+ X and selecting it from the menu.After uninstalling ViGEmBus by using its uninstaller, reboot your computer.First, follow the removal section to uninstall ViGEmBus via the normal way so we can tackle things in order.If you are facing issues and/or have multiple ViGEmBus entries in your Device Manager it's best to remove every trace of it from your system to start clean again: If this is your situation, follow the guide outlined here.

Apps trying to locate the latest ViGEmBus may end up detecting the modified HP driver instead, causing all sorts of issue since it is based on an outdated version. HP's line of Omen gaming Laptops/Desktops come pre-installed with a modified (forked) version of the ViGEmBus driver (from 2018). If this is your case, have a look at the ViGEm issues in HP Omen laptops section. A special case is when the user has a laptop from the HP Omen Gaming line. If everything matches the instructions, then things should work as expected.

At the Driver tab the Driver Version should match the latest version you downloaded and installed.

At the General tab, its status should be working properly.

Right click on the Nefarius Virtual Gamepad Emulation Bus then select Properties.

If you have only one entry and it is the one starting with Nefarius then continue following this section: If more than one entry appears, you might have multiple version of ViGEmBus installed which may cause conflicts.

Look for entries named Nefarius Virtual Gamepad Emulation Bus or Virtual Gamepad Emulation Bus.

Click on the View tab at the top and change the view type to Devices by connection.

Open Device Manager by pressing Win+ X and selecting it from the menu:.

The ViGEmBus has no user interface, but don't worry, it's easy to verify if everything is working as expected when you know where to look:

Use common sense 🙂 General health checks

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If you are using or trying to install an older version, then your experience will greatly differ and following this section may actually cause more issues. The whole troubleshooting section is based on top of the latest version of ViGEmBus. In case you are experiencing issues, have a look at the troubleshooting section below. Run the setup and follow the instructionsĬongratulations! That was it, ViGEmBus is now ready to use.Download the latest setup of ViGEmBus matching your system architecture.

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In-place upgrade doesn't work for some reason looks like you simply need to run the setup twice.

While the (now obsolete) Scarlett.Crush Productions Virtual Bus Driver is the spiritual father of this project, ViGEm has been designed and written from the ground up utilizing Microsoft's Kernel-Mode Driver Framework. As it mimics 'the real thing' games and other processes require no additional modification whatsoever to detect ViGEm-based devices (no Proxy-DLLs or API-Hooking) and simply work out of the box. ViGEm aims for a 100% accurate emulation of well-known gaming peripherals as pure software-based devices at kernel level. The ViGEmBus driver and ViGEmClient libraries represent the core of the Virtual Gamepad Emulation Framework (or ViGEm, for short). ViGEmBus driver - Virtual Gamepad Emulation Framework (ViGEm)