On windows, for known classes of devices, such as joystick, generally there are apis or windows messages exposed to applications for accessing the devices. the drivers for these device are required to support specific i/o requests to allow this to work.. Generic usb joystick now has a special edition for these windows versions: windows 7, windows 7 64 bit, windows 7 32 bit, windows 10, windows 10 64 bit,, windows 10 32 bit, windows 8, windows 8 32bit, windows vista starter 32bit, windows 10 enterprise 32bit, windows vista ultimate 64bit, windows xp home edition, for home desktops and laptops. Home
