DirectInput is officially deprecated for keyboard and mouse.

Unfortunately it has one nifty advantage: All the possible buttons/axis/etc. of a gamepad/joystick get human readable names assigned, and you get calibration info; something I haven't gotten from RawInput.

In my engine I use RawInput plus DirectInput to match up controller info.

DirectInput is officially deprecated for keyboard and mouse.

Unfortunately it has one nifty advantage: All the possible buttons/axis/etc. of a gamepad/joystick get human readable names assigned, and you get calibration info; something I haven't gotten from RawInput.

In my engine I use RawInput plus DirectInput to match up controller info.

MS still says use DI for gamepads that are not Xinput pads, otherwise cast the void* to the game state you expect to get back from your device.

my apporach for this pbolem is: every frame you set cursor poision to the center of the screen

so code looks like:

ttagpoint actpos;

ttagpoint lastpos;

GetCursorPos(&actpos);

SetCursorPos(screenwidth/2, screen.height /2);

diffrenece between actpos and lastpos is your movement

lastpos = actpos;