The per-game override store keyed and persisted image names through narrow(), which
masked each character with & 0x7F, and widen() used the full byte -- not a true
inverse. So a non-ASCII exe name was corrupted on reload, and two names differing
only in their high bits collapsed onto the same key (e.g. U+00E9 'é' masked to
'i', so "café.exe" collided with "cafi.exe").
Use real WideCharToMultiByte/MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8) so the round-trip is
lossless for any Unicode name. ASCII names are byte-identical under UTF-8, so
existing override files stay compatible.
audio_overrides_test gains a high-bit-collision case (café vs cafi, built from a
code point to keep the source ASCII) plus a non-ASCII persist/reload check -- both
of which the old 7-bit mask failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The cross-process block's layout is a wire protocol shared by the x64 host and the
x86 hook, but only three front offsets were asserted, and hook_selftest's
dump_layout merely printed the rest. A field reordered/resized inside HookStatus
(which precedes control/video/mkb) would silently shift everything with no
compile-time tripwire and, if the developer forgot to bump kProtocolVersion, ship
a silent host<->DLL mismatch.
- protocol.hpp now static_asserts sizeof(SharedBlock) and every sub-channel offset
(status/control/video/mkb) plus each sub-struct size (HookStatus/HookControl/
VideoShare/AudioStreamInfo/HookEntry/MkbRing). protocol.hpp is compiled for both
arches, so a cross-bitness divergence fails to compile on the one that disagrees.
- hook_selftest's dump_layout now ASSERTS the same numbers instead of only
printing, so hook_selftest_x86 confirms the x86 layout at runtime too.
Verified: x64 and x86 builds both compile (identical layout) and both selftests
pass; sizeof(SharedBlock)=3936 on both.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Doing the "failing perf test first": measured the OpenGL capture's present-thread
overhead at a real resolution instead of the test's 64x64 toy. It is ~0.68 ms at
1280x720 (and ~0.06 ms when it overlaps a busy present at 1080p) -- well under one
frame, even at 144 Hz. No budget makes it fail, so the off-thread / async-PBO
refactor is NOT warranted.
The Vulkan 144->3 FPS stall was catastrophic specifically because it read
WRITE-COMBINED staging memory (~370 ms/frame), not because read-back is
synchronous. D3D9 GetRenderTargetData (a D3DPOOL_SYSTEMMEM surface) and glReadPixels
(normal CPU memory) read CACHED memory, so there is no comparable stall.
What changed instead:
- opengl_hook_test now runs the present-overhead guard at 1280x720 (not 64x64), so
it is meaningful -- a future write-combined-class regression trips the budget.
- README Lessons learned records the cached-vs-write-combined distinction so nobody
needlessly off-threads the other backends.
The matching D3D9 present-overhead guard ships with the new d3d9_hook_test (test
coverage). Drops both Performance items from the roadmap.
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SharedTextureSource::update() acquired the shared-texture keyed mutex with
`AcquireSync(...) == S_OK`. But WAIT_ABANDONED -- a prior owner (e.g. a host that
crashed mid-acquire, then reconnected) died holding it -- actually GRANTS us
ownership. Treating it as failure skipped the copy AND never released, so the
next AcquireSync blocked forever and the mirror froze permanently after a crash
+ reconnect (directly relevant to the new reconnect path).
Factor the decision into keyed_mutex_acquired(HRESULT) (capture/keyed_mutex.hpp):
S_OK or WAIT_ABANDONED -> copy + release; timeout/hard errors -> skip the frame.
update() now uses it.
Test-first: keyed_mutex_test asserts WAIT_ABANDONED is treated as acquired while
the genuine "didn't get it" cases (timeout, E_FAIL, device-removed) are not. The
full cross-process abandonment is keyed-mutex OS semantics, not re-tested with a
child process here -- the predicate is the regression surface.
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Disconnect -> reconnect now reuses the DLL already in the game instead of
injecting again, including across a tool restart or crash: a connected DLL keeps
its per-pid shared section (and worker) alive after the host goes away, so a
fresh host can find it and re-attach to the same section.
- hook_dll_alive(pid) (host/src/inject/dll_probe.cpp): detect a live DLL by
opening the per-pid section and polling its heartbeat (returns as soon as a
beat lands; a missing section or stalled worker reads as not-alive). It does
not check magic -- a graceful disconnect zeroes magic but the DLL keeps
beating and the worker never re-checks magic post-connect.
- InjectionPanel: the Inject and Connect button branches to reconnect_selected()
when a live DLL is detected -- IpcServer::start() re-attaches to the SAME
section the DLL still holds and re-publishes the subsystem state; no
re-injection. Factored the shared post-connect setup (publish_subsystem_state
/ begin_liveness_tracking). The DLL needed no change -- it just resumes reading
the re-attached section.
- A false not-alive is benign: the inject path still re-attaches an
already-injected DLL (LoadLibrary no-ops), so the timeout only needs to clear
the worker's ~250ms beat period with margin.
Test (mock_game_test test_reconnect): inject -> hooked -> graceful disconnect ->
drop the host handle (simulating a restart while the DLL keeps the section alive)
-> detect via heartbeat -> re-attach to the same section -> hooks re-install
without re-injecting -> and hook_dll_alive goes false once the game is gone.
Roadmap: both current tasks (graceful disconnect, reconnect) done -> removed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On an explicit Disconnect and on graceful tool exit, the host now asks the
injected DLL to remove every subsystem so the game runs exactly as if it was
never hooked (each hook restores its original bytes). The DLL stays injected but
dormant, ready for a later reconnect -- we never eject it.
Before, both paths just dropped the IPC channel (IpcServer::stop) without telling
the DLL, leaving the hooks active with frozen forwarded state until the game
exited.
- IpcServer::request_unhook_all() sets every subsystem_disabled flag (the DLL
reconciles to fully unhooked on its next tick); all_hooks_removed() reads the
hook registry back so the host can confirm the game is vanilla.
- InjectionPanel::disconnect_graceful() requests the unhook, waits (bounded) for
the registry to clear, then stops. Wired into the Disconnect button (700ms) and
the destructor (300ms). The flags persist in the section the DLL keeps alive, so
the unhook completes even if the host exits before confirming.
Tests (failing first):
- ipc_server_test: request_unhook_all() disables all subsystems; all_hooks_removed()
tracks the registry. Deterministic, no game.
- mock_game_test test_graceful_disconnect: inject -> hooks installed -> request
unhook-all -> every hook removed (game vanilla) while the DLL stays alive
(heartbeat advancing). Full suite still passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A multithreaded test that tight-looped InlineHook enable()/disable() while
other threads called the hooked function flaked ~1/10. Isolation proved this is
a SafetyHook limitation, not our code: with the hook created once (no install
race, no trampoline UAF), tight-loop toggling AVs ~1/3 of runs in Debug
(0xC0000005, faulting RIP in the target body), while a no-toggle control is
clean at ~60M calls. enable()/disable() re-patch the prologue in place under a
VEH page-trap that only relocates a thread parked ON the prologue; a thread in
the function body faults on the briefly-non-exec page and relies on instruction
retry, which under rapid toggling races a half-rewritten prologue.
Rather than silently drop the flaky test, preserve the finding:
- tools/sh_concurrency_repro/: minimal, committed, non-CI reproducer
(coop_sh_concurrency_repro; --callonly is the control). Surfaces 5/16 AVs.
- docs/safetyhook-concurrency.md: upstream-ready write-up (mechanism + fix
directions + why it does not affect us).
- README lessons-learned + memory updated; tests/CMakeLists cross-references it.
Our code stays in SafetyHook's safe envelope (install/remove reconciled from a
single tick-bounded worker thread, never a tight loop), so the mock_game_test
storm is reliably green; the persistent-trampoline contract is covered
deterministically by hook_install_test + detour_gate_test. Removes the temp
_sh_probe wiring.
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- The remove_* comments still described the superseded "disable -> drain -> destroy"
flow; the code keeps hooks alive (persistent) and re-enables on re-install. Updated
the comments to match, and corrected the XInput note (its detours return synthesized
state and never call the trampoline, so destroying its vector is safe -- unlike the
trampoline-calling present/MKB/focus-cursor hooks).
- hook_install_test: a fast, single-threaded contract test for hook_install.hpp --
install_inline creates the hook once and reuses the SAME trampoline across 50
install/remove cycles (never freed -> no stale-detour UAF), toggling enable/disable
cleanly. Fills the guard the removed (flaky, concurrency-bound) reproducer left, with
no threads so it can't flake on SafetyHook's enable/disable atomicity.
x64 23/23, x86 3/3.
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- poll_input() each frame (XInputGetState / GetAsyncKeyState / GetKeyboardState /
GetForegroundWindow), like a real game, so mock_game_test's hook/unhook storm
actually exercises removing the input/focus/MKB hooks while their detours are in
flight -- the coverage gap that let those removal races go untested.
- Window title shows the backend + a once-per-second-smoothed fps.
- A vectored-exception crash logger prints the faulting module+offset (named the
storm's intermittent crashes during this work; inert otherwise).
- detour_gate_test: fast, deterministic guard for DetourGate -- drain() must block
while a Guard is in flight and return promptly otherwise, plus a concurrency
stress that asserts no body runs against freed state. (A synthetic install-race
unit test was tried but flaked on SafetyHook's own enable/disable atomicity under
~30M calls/s, unrelated to our code, so the storm is the install/remove guard.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The mock backends presented with vsync ("a game-like cadence") -- wrong for a
perf/stress fixture: it does trivial work on an RTX 4090, so it must run as fast
as it can. Vsync capped them to tens of fps (dx9 30, dx10 23, dx11 63, dx12 126),
which hid both capture-induced slowdowns and the hook-removal race. Uncapped now:
dx9/dx10 INTERVAL_IMMEDIATE / Present(0,0) (BLT), dx11/dx12 ALLOW_TEARING +
Present(0, ALLOW_TEARING) (flip), gl wglSwapIntervalEXT(0), vk IMMEDIATE/MAILBOX.
Measured no-hook: dx9 ~21000, dx10 ~2800, dx11 ~17000, dx12 ~12000, gl ~26000, vk
~24000 fps.
mock_game_test now adds a present-rate floor per backend (>= 300/s while
capturing): with the hook live every backend stays in the hundreds-thousands
(vk 13500, dx11 9000+, gl 1800, dx9/10 ~1000-1600, dx12 2500). This is the
dimension the frame-advance checks missed -- the Vulkan 144->3 FPS stall still
advanced frames -- so it catches a present-thread stall OR an accidental vsync.
The faster storm exposed the hook-removal UAF fixed in the previous commit.
README roadmap + lessons-learned updated (incl. correcting the old "reset makes
in-flight trampoline calls safe" claim). Full suite 21/21.
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Against Sphere Spectacle (144 FPS, runs without Steam) the implicit-layer
capture dropped the game to ~3 FPS. Measured cause (per-stage trace in the
layer): the read-back ran on the game's PRESENT THREAD and spent ~370 ms per
1080p frame -- not the GPU copy (~2 ms) but the CPU swizzle, because the staging
buffer was a plain HOST_VISIBLE|HOST_COHERENT type (write-combined / uncached on
a discrete GPU), where a scattered CPU read runs at PCIe latency. 3 captures/s =
the 3 FPS the user saw.
Test-first: tests/vk_capture_perf_test reproduces the stall as a deterministic
unit test (372 ms/present, ratio 1.0 -> FAIL via `--sync`), then proves the fix
(0.02 ms/present, byte-correct BGRA->RGBA, ratio ~0 -> PASS).
Fix: extract the near-identical read-back from vk_hook.cpp and coop_vk_layer.cpp
into one shared coop::hook::VkCapture that:
* has the present thread only record + submit the copy (sub-ms) and return;
* runs a dedicated reaper thread for the fence wait + swizzle + D3D upload, off
the critical path, with a ring of in-flight slots (game never waits);
* allocates HOST_CACHED staging (fast CPU read), invalidating when non-coherent;
* throttles capture to ~150 Hz (a guest stream is <= the host refresh; no point
mirroring an uncapped 400+ FPS game and burning reaper CPU).
Real-game A/B: present rate now matches the no-capture baseline (605->470 vs
593->405 over the same ramp) with the mirror at ~130 fps -- no measurable impact.
Also adds present-thread overhead guards to the other GPU backends' hook tests
(present_overhead.hpp): DX11 0.05 ms, DX12 0.34 ms, OpenGL 0.09 ms overhead, all
asserted < one 60 Hz frame, so any future synchronous-stall regression fails.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The MKB subsystem covered message-loop (PostMessage) and polling
(GetAsyncKeyState/GetKeyboardState/GetCursorPos) games. Add the two remaining
read paths, both fed from the same synthesized state:
- DirectInput: vtable-swap IDirectInputDevice8::GetDeviceState (a COM method ->
vtable swap, not inline, per the x86 COM-prologue trap), reading the shared
vtable from a kept-alive probe device (the game made its devices before we
injected). Dispatch on cbData: 256 = keyboard BYTE[256] indexed by DIK
scan-code (map VK->DIK via MapVirtualKey VK_TO_VSC); DIMOUSESTATE = mouse
buttons + relative deltas from the forwarded cursor.
- Raw Input: games get no WM_INPUT while unfocused, so mkb_pump synthesizes it
(PostMessage WM_INPUT with lParam = one of our RAWINPUT slots) and the hooked
GetRawInputData serves that slot back (RID_HEADER + RID_INPUT). Covers keys +
buttons; relative raw-mouse movement isn't in the position-based MKB stream.
Both detours use the DetourGate safe-unhook guard, and the mock_game_test storm
exercises their install/remove. dinput_hook_test drives the real path end-to-end:
forward a key + mouse button through the ring, then a real DI keyboard/mouse
device's GetDeviceState returns them. The Raw Input round-trip is operator-
validated against a real game (too brittle to assert in-process). vtable_hook.hpp
factors the COM vtable-swap helper out for reuse.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Extends the two-path correlation from rate-only to the full layout, removing the
"channels/bit-depth assumed = device" limitation. correlate_format tries each
candidate de-interleaving (float32 / int16; mono..7.1) of the hook capture, runs
the rate correlation per layout, and keeps whichever aligns with the loopback;
a wrong de-interleaving is noise and won't.
The catch: the hook can't know a guessed stream's real frame size, so its verify
tap pads each render buffer to the device block -- which over-reads stale staging
bytes for a stream with fewer channels/bits, scrambling the audio. So the tap is
now self-describing: it prefixes each buffer with its frame count
([count][count*device_block bytes]), and the host strips the padding per candidate
layout (take the real count*real_block of each chunk) before de-interleaving.
- audio_correlate.hpp: ChunkedCapture + chunk-aware correlate_format + candidate
layouts; absolute-margin confidence gate (the true layout scores ~1.0, a truly
ambiguous alternative within ~0.001 -- 2ch@R == 1ch@2R for identical channels --
is correctly left unconfident).
- audio_hook.cpp: chunked verify tap (free-space-checked so framing can't tear).
- audio_format_verifier: parse chunks; recover_layout path. AudioMirror now corrects
the full format.
- audio_correlation_test: layout recovery from padded chunks (stereo float, 16-bit
PCM, 5.1, mono). audio_verify_test gains scenario (b): 2ch on a multichannel
endpoint with distinct per-channel content (new env-gated ToneSource mode) ->
recovers ch=2/32-bit float end-to-end.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When the host attaches to an already-running game it never saw the stream's
Initialize, so the render-hook assumes the device mix format and measures only
the sample rate from the render cadence -- which a jittery game can make wrong
(intermittent pitch shift). But during the measurement window the game is still
audible, so we have the same audio twice: the hook (pre-mix, unknown format) and
a process-loopback (post-mix, the known device format). Cross-correlating them
pins the true rate from ground truth.
- common/include/coop/audio_correlate.hpp: the pure correlator. Resample the hook
by each candidate standard rate up to the device rate and score how well it
aligns with the loopback across the window (drift-detecting). audio_correlation_test
recovers every rate (score ~1.0 vs ~0.01 for wrong ones), incl. 44100-vs-48000,
and rejects unrelated signals.
- Hook measurement tap: a host-set verify_capture ring flag makes the hook push a
still-being-measured (guessed) stream's raw pre-mix bytes WITHOUT silencing, so
the host can co-capture both signals (a silenced game's loopback is silent).
Inert by default -- the shipping no-echo path is untouched.
- host/src/audio/audio_format_verifier: co-captures hook + loopback and correlates,
feeding a correction into the existing override channel. Wired into AudioMirror's
measurement window (hidden in the gap loopback already covers, so exact streams
pay nothing). audio_verify_test drives it end-to-end against coop_mock_game.
Rate vs layout are coupled (correlating the waveform needs the right channel
de-interleaving), so this step assumes the hook layout matches the device (the
common stereo-on-stereo case); recovering a different channel count / bit depth
is step b.
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Spamming a subsystem toggle (the "Mirror video" button) could crash the game:
remove_*_hooks freed a hook's shared D3D / Vulkan / IPC state immediately, while a
capture detour was still mid-flight on the game's render thread -> use-after-free.
Only the audio hooks had the safe-unhook drain; the video (Present/D3D9/D3D10/GL/
Vulkan) and XInput/focus/MKB hooks did not.
Test-first: mock_game_test now runs an aggressive hook/unhook storm -- a separate
thread thrashes every subsystem on/off while the game presents, across all backends.
It crashed gl + vk (0xC0000005) and failed dx9 capture-resume before the fix.
Fix (hook/src/hook_guard.hpp, DetourGate): each detour wraps its body in an RAII
active-count Guard; remove_* restores the hook first (so no new detour starts),
drains the in-flight detours to zero, and only then frees the shared state. Vulkan
is special-cased -- the game caches hk_vkQueuePresentKHR, so removal closes an
atomic capture gate (detours then pass through to the real present), drains, then
frees the read-back resources. Storm now passes on every backend.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The hooked path must capture the game's frames AND mute its local playback
("no echo"). The mute was implemented as zero-the-buffer (memset) + release
with AUDCLNT_BUFFERFLAGS_SILENT. Zeroing num_frames*block is only safe when
block is the real frame size; for a guessed format (late attach -- the
Brotato case, where we never saw Initialize) the guessed block can exceed
the real buffer, so the conservative code skipped the whole mute for guessed
streams. That left the game audible: it played locally AND the mirror
re-rendered the same audio a few ms later = a metallic, out-of-sync double.
Fix: AUDCLNT_BUFFERFLAGS_SILENT already makes WASAPI ignore the buffer
contents and play silence -- it mutes with no write at all, so it's safe for
any format. Decouple the two: always mute via the flag; keep the memset only
for an exact/override format (belt-and-suspenders). One-line behavior change;
the byte-incompatible cases confirm the flag-mute never over-writes.
Test-first (now a documented rule, README "Tests"): added an
audio_frames_silenced() counter and a mute assertion to audio_hook_test for
both the exact and guessed paths. The guessed assertion FAILS on the unfixed
code (3 rates) and passes after the fix -- the regression guard for this bug.
README also updates the now-correct no-echo limitation and adds a
lessons-learned writeup.
ctest 17/17. Brotato confirmed fixed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Build coop_audio_validate, a tool that turns "the mirror audio sounds off"
into numbers. It plays a known sine (coop_tone, 44.1 kHz on a 48 kHz
endpoint -- the Godot/Brotato case), injects the hook as the host does, and
runs a fidelity analyzer (coop/tone_analysis.hpp: pitch error in cents,
SNR/THD, click + dropout counts), dumping a .wav to listen to. Modes:
--render drives the real AudioMirror and measures its rendered output;
--baseline/--selfcheck give the measurement floor; --listen <pid> records a
live coop_host's output; --wav analyzes a recording. Analyzer + WAV I/O are
unit-tested (tone_analysis_test) against synthesized defects.
Using it, the capture ring measures pristine (~68 dB, 0 gaps) while the
render path dropped to ~18 dB with gaps -- localizing a real defect in
AudioMirror::run_hooked: it re-primed (withheld the feed until ~30 ms had
rebuffered) on any partial fill (to_write < avail). A partial fill is normal
producer jitter, and withholding the feed drains the device, so a one-frame
ring dip became a full ~30 ms drop-out; on a jittery game it fired
constantly. Fix: feed whatever is available each tick and re-prime only on a
genuine starvation (device empty AND ring empty). The policy is factored
into a pure RenderPacer reused by run_hooked + run_loopback and proven by
render_pacer_test (the old policy withholds available data ~168x and drains
to one period from silence on a jittery schedule; the new one never
withholds).
ctest 17/17.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A real chain-aware Vulkan implicit layer the loader inserts at vkCreateInstance
-- the reliable early-presence path for games that init Vulkan immediately,
which the inline-hook vk_hook can't catch. It intercepts vkCreateInstance /
Device / CreateSwapchainKHR / QueuePresentKHR via proper layer-chain dispatch
and does the same read-back capture (vkCmdCopyImageToBuffer -> swizzle ->
hook-owned D3D11 shared texture, with present-semaphore re-chaining) as vk_hook.
The loader/layer link structs (VkLayer*CreateInfo, VkNegotiateLayerInterface)
aren't in Vulkan-Headers, so they're hand-declared to interface version 2. Key
gotcha found via tracing: the loader tags those link structs with small internal
sType values (LOADER_INSTANCE_CREATE_INFO=47, _DEVICE=48), not the 1000000000
range -- matching the wrong value made the device-chain walk fail.
Scoping: an implicit layer loads into every Vulkan app, so it only *captures*
when COOP_VK_LAYER_FORCE is set (tests) or this process's image matches
%TEMP%\coop_vk_target.txt (the host writes it); otherwise pure pass-through.
mock_game_test registers it via VK_LAYER_PATH/VK_INSTANCE_LAYERS and decodes
frames through it. Ships at the bin root with its JSON manifest.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The hook reports vk_too_late when vulkan-1.dll is loaded and the GPA hook has
been in for >4s but it never caught the app creating its device -- i.e. the app
resolved its Vulkan functions before we hooked (injected too late). Surfaced
through a new HookStatus.vk_too_late field (protocol 15->16) and shown by the
host as a red banner on the mirror window: "Detected a Vulkan game, but the
mirror hook attached too late... enable Auto re-attach (and Set up Vulkan layer
if it persists) and relaunch." WGC keeps mirroring meanwhile.
mock_game_test gains a too-late detection check (late-inject a Vulkan game ->
vk_too_late trips). Verified live: the banner shows over the running tool when a
Vulkan game is injected late with the video subsystem on (added a debug-harness
`video on/off` command to drive it). 15/15 ctest.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New vk_hook.cpp inline-hooks the vulkan-1.dll vkGetInstanceProcAddr export and
hands back our wrappers for vkCreateInstance / vkCreateDevice / vkGetDeviceProcAddr
/ vkCreateSwapchainKHR / vkQueuePresentKHR, so a volk-using (loader-bypass) app
resolves our hooks. On present it reads the swap-chain image back with
vkCmdCopyImageToBuffer into a host-visible buffer (same read-back model as
D3D10/D3D9/OpenGL), swizzles BGRA->RGBA, and uploads it into the shared
keyed-mutex texture on a hook-owned D3D11 device. The read-back submit re-chains
the present's wait semaphores (consume the originals, signal our own that the
real present waits on) so capture orders after rendering without double-waiting.
Wired into the video subsystem with a lazy retry (vulkan-1.dll loads late). Hook
links the official Vulkan-Headers (headers only, VK_NO_PROTOTYPES) via the
include dir so the x86 sub-build builds too.
Because Vulkan caches its present pointer at init, late injection can't hook it:
mock_game_test launches the mock **suspended**, injects, resumes, and under
COOP_MOCK_VK_EARLY the mock loads Vulkan and waits so the hook arms first -- then
decodes frames through the hook like the other backends. 15/15 ctest (x64 +
x86); skips cleanly without a Vulkan driver.
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Add render_vk.cpp (selectable as `vk`): brings up a real Vulkan
instance/device/swap chain via volk (which dlopens vulkan-1.dll -- the
loader-bypass case the capture hook must handle) and clears the swap-chain image
to the frame-counter colour each frame with vkCmdClearColorImage (no pipeline,
no shaders, no SPIR-V) and presents. The whole image encodes the frame number,
so it animates and stale frames are detectable.
Adds the official Khronos Vulkan-Headers + zeux/volk submodules and a
coop_require_submodule() CMake helper that fails with a clear "git submodule
update --init --recursive" message rather than auto-cloning. volk is pinned to
the project's dynamic CRT (no LNK4098).
mock_game_test gets a vk liveness check (its present pointer is cached at init,
so late injection can't hook it -- the capture path needs the early-load path,
to come). 16/16 ctest, skips cleanly without a Vulkan driver.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add render_gl.cpp (selectable as `gl`): renders the animated pattern with
scissored clears (glClear + glScissor -- GL 1.1, exported straight from
opengl32) and presents with SwapBuffers. No glad/submodule needed: a legacy
wglCreateContext + <GL/gl.h> suffices, so the planned loader dependency was
dropped. GL is bottom-left origin and the capture flips top-down, so the
frame-counter block is drawn at the GL top to land top-left in the captured
image. Window class gains CS_OWNDC for a stable GL DC; best-effort vsync via a
runtime wglSwapIntervalEXT lookup.
The GL SwapBuffers/wglSwapBuffers hook now bumps the shared present counter
(it's the GL present), so present_calls works for GL games too. mock_game_test
decodes GL frames through the existing glReadPixels capture path; 15/15 ctest.
Roadmap: OpenGL milestone done and removed (Vulkan renumbered to M2);
architecture/lessons/test docs updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New d3d9_hook.cpp (own file like opengl_hook): inline-hooks
IDirect3DDevice9::Present (vtable index 17, discovered from a throwaway device;
clean prologue so inline is safe, stdcall() on x86) and read-backs the backbuffer
with GetRenderTargetData into a D3DPOOL_SYSTEMMEM surface, swizzles BGRA->RGBA,
and uploads it into the shared keyed-mutex texture on a hook-owned D3D11 device
(a D3D9 surface isn't D3D11-shareable). Both plain D3D9 and D3D9Ex call this same
Present, so one read-back path serves both -- the GPU shared-surface fast path
the plan sketched for D3D9Ex wasn't worth it. Wired into the video subsystem
(install/remove in dllmain); hook links d3d9.
mock_game_test decodes DX9 + DX9Ex frames through the hook; 15/15 ctest (incl.
the x86 sub-build). Roadmap: DX9 milestone done and removed (remaining
renumbered); architecture + lessons updated.
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A pure-D3D10 game's backbuffer QIs to ID3D11Texture2D but that view reads back
empty (content lives on the game's D3D10 device), and a D3D11 backbuffer also
QIs to ID3D10Texture2D -- so GetBuffer can't discriminate. The reliable signal
is that a feature-level-10 device rejects CreateTexture2D with the NT-handle
keyed-mutex share flags (E_INVALIDARG). The present hook now tries the D3D11
fast path and, on that failure, switches (sticky) to reading the backbuffer
through the game's own D3D10 device into a staging texture and uploading it into
the shared texture on a hook-owned D3D11 device (Map blocks until the GPU copy
completes -> no cross-device race). The host reader is unchanged.
mock_game_test now decodes DX10 frames through the hook (monotonic/advancing)
alongside DX11/DX12; 15/15 ctest. Roadmap: DX10 milestone done and removed
(remaining renumbered); architecture + lessons updated.
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Add panel overflow instrumentation (record_panel_fit reading ImGui ScrollMax),
a forced layout-reference + debug-aware center split, and host harness commands
(uisize/uifit). New headless ui_fit_test drives the real Controllers + Audio
panels at reference resolutions with Debug details on and asserts no panel
overflows its assigned size; the Audio panel gains a demo mode so its richest
content renders without a live mirror.
Fixes from the measured overflow: widen the center column (was too narrow ->
horizontal overflow), merge the Controllers poll/round-trip tables and fold the
trigger line into the slot line, and make the center height split
Debug-details-aware (Video's height is mirroring-driven, not debug-driven, so a
static split can't serve both modes). Controllers + Audio now fit at 1920x1080
with max info. Video/Injection/Log fit is finalized at the end via the live
uifit harness (M1 stays open until then).
15/15 ctest.
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mock_game_test now launches coop_mock_game at 44100/48000/96000 (PCM + float)
and asserts the hook measures each variant's rate through the full inject path
(+ non-silent capture) -- the "all audio variants work" part of the suite.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
mock_game_test launches coop_mock_game (DX11/DX12, frame-numbered A/V), injects
coop_hook.dll, opens the hook's shared video texture, and decodes the frame
number from the captured pixels to assert a monotonic, advancing mirror for
both backends (catches dropped/stale/out-of-order frames). Then it runs an
A/V + hook/unhook stress pass and confirms no crash + capture resumes. Adds a
read_pixel() readback to the shipping SharedTextureSource for the decode.
Robust to repeated/CI runs (kills stray games, retries inject). Trim the
roadmap (the mock-game item is done) and document the test.
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Persist audio overrides keyed by game image name (coop_audio_overrides.ini
next to the exe) so a known-bad game is auto-corrected on its next launch:
on attach to a guessed stream the host applies any saved override, and a
manual Override now saves too. A format the hook catches exactly at
IAudioClient::Initialize is auto-saved as that game's override (ground truth);
if it overwrites a differing stored value, a warning is logged. Host-originated
log lines now reach the Log window via IpcServer::host_log (color-coded).
Validated live (harness): a pre-seeded override for coop_tone is auto-applied
over the guess (state -> manual override, 48000/2/16). audio_overrides_test
covers persist/reload/case-insensitive lookup/differing-overwrite. Trim README.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Harden the guessed-stream sample-rate measurement that produced wrong rates
(e.g. 44100 read as ~46205). New rate_estimator.hpp measures over longer
~0.5 s windows, rejects any window that doesn't snap to a standard rate
(standard rates are >8% apart, so a quantization/burst error big enough to
miss one lands in no-man's-land, never on a wrong neighbour), and requires
consensus across windows before committing. If consensus isn't reached it
commits a low-confidence estimate (new AudioFormat_LowConfidence, shown red)
rather than spinning or publishing garbage. Pure logic, unit-tested with
adversarial cadences (rate_estimator_test) incl. the real 46205 bug value.
Add log severity levels: hook logw/loge set LogRecord.level; the host Log
window colors warnings amber and errors red. The low-confidence rate logs a
warning. Protocol -> v15 (new format states); also reserves AudioFormat_Override.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Hooked audio mirroring played back pitch-shifted on games we inject into
that render at a non-device sample rate (e.g. Godot/Brotato render 44100 Hz
on a 48000 Hz endpoint via WASAPI AUTOCONVERTPCM). We attach to an
already-running game, so the render-hook never saw its IAudioClient::
Initialize and assumed the device mix format -- right channels/bits, wrong
rate -- so 44100 audio was rendered as 48000 (+~1.5 semitones).
Fix: treat a pre-existing client's format as a guess and measure its true
sample rate from the render cadence (frames/sec over a steady-state window,
snapped to the nearest standard rate) before publishing it, deferring
capture until verified. Discard the first measurement window so the
buffer-fill burst at attach time doesn't over-count. Streams created after
we inject still carry their exact Initialize format.
Channels/bit-depth genuinely can't be recovered for a pre-existing client:
AUTOCONVERTPCM hands GetBuffer a fixed staging buffer (no buffer stride to
measure -- confirmed empirically) and WASAPI exposes no API for the format.
They stay the device-mix guess, which is correct for the common case
(engines render stereo float, matching the endpoint). To keep a wrong guess
safe, a VirtualQuery clamp stops the capture copy from ever over-reading the
source buffer when the guessed bytes/frame is too large.
Surface all of this: a per-stream AudioFormatState (known / measuring /
measured rate (ch/bits assumed)) in HookStatus, shown in the Audio panel for
the hooked path and as "device endpoint (known)" for loopback; clear hook
logs; and enriched mirror status strings. Documented in README (Limitations
+ Lessons learned). The loopback fallback was always correct (post-mix at
the device format).
Tests: extract a shared, configurable ToneSource (used by coop_tone and the
hook self-test); coop_tone takes rate/channels/bits/format args. Rewrite
audio_hook_test to a format matrix x both code paths -- see-init (exact) and
guess (rate measured) -- plus a byte-incompatible guess that asserts the
clamp keeps capture safe. The matrix caught the attach-burst over-count.
audio_loopback_test now spawns coop_tone at several source formats to
confirm loopback is format-agnostic. 11/11 x64 + 3/3 x86 pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Games with several concurrent WASAPI render streams (e.g. Spider-Man: Miles
Morales) only had their first ("primary") stream mirrored; the rest kept playing
locally and never reached the guest. Now the render-hook captures + silences EVERY
tracked stream into its own ring (coop_audio_<pid>[_<index>]), each published with
that stream's own detected format (Initialize when caught, else GetMixFormat -- the
per-stream format detection, now actually used per ring rather than only for the
primary). The host creates a ring per stream and mixes the same-format streams with
a soft clip (host/src/audio/audio_mix.hpp); streams whose format differs from the
primary are still silenced (no echo) but skipped from the mix (would need
resampling).
The single-stream case is byte-for-byte unchanged: when only one stream is active
the host passes it through without the mixer, so the common path has no overhead or
fidelity change.
Verified: new audio_mix_test covers the decode/sum/soft-clip/encode math (float32 +
int16); audio_hook_test (x64 + x86) still passes, guarding the primary
capture+silence path against regression; full build x64 + x86 clean; ctest x64
11/11, x86 3/3. Multi-stream mixing against a real multi-stream game needs a live
session to fully confirm.
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D3D12 games (e.g. Spider-Man: Miles Morales) fire the Present hook -- the DXGI
swapchain's Present is the same vtable function for D3D11 and D3D12 -- but
GetBuffer(0) as ID3D11Texture2D fails, so the hook used to idle. Now, when the D3D11
GetBuffer fails, present_hook bridges via D3D11On12: it gets the game's ID3D12Device
from the backbuffer, creates its own DIRECT command queue on it (no need to hook the
game's ExecuteCommandLists), builds an ID3D11On12Device, CreateWrappedResource's the
D3D12 backbuffer, and CopyResource's it into the existing shared keyed-mutex texture
-- so the host side is unchanged. The bridge is created lazily and torn down with the
hook.
Verified with a new in-process dx12_present_hook_test: it drives a real D3D12
swapchain (clears a backbuffer, Presents) and asserts present fired, the backbuffer
was bridged into the shared texture, and a second device reads the exact color back
by name -- {51,102,153,255}. Full build x64 + x86 clean (the x86 hook compiles the
D3D12 path too); ctest x64 10/10, x86 3/3.
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The FPS readout only measured the host's own render rate, hiding capture stutter.
The Video panel now shows a "Pipeline rates" section:
- Tool render (host FPS / frametime, as before);
- hooked source: Game present (/s, from VideoShare.present_calls deltas), Hook
publish (/s, generation deltas), and capture->display latency avg/min/max ms;
- WGC source: WGC capture (/s) from a new WindowCapture frame-arrival counter
(game present + latency are n/a, since WGC frames aren't game-timestamped).
Latency uses a system-wide clock: protocol v11->v12 adds VideoShare.present_qpc,
stamped by the hook at publish (publish_video_frame); the host measures
now_qpc - present_qpc per newly published frame, windowed to min/avg/max each second.
Verified: present_hook_test (x64 + x86) now asserts present_qpc is stamped; full
build x64 + x86 clean; ctest x64 9/9, x86 3/3. The live rate/latency numbers need a
real game mirroring to read meaningfully; wiring validated.
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Makes it possible to isolate an input->tool problem from a tool->game one in the
Controllers panel (under Debug details):
- which backend fed each slot is already shown via the per-pad source tag
("XInput #0" / "Steam Input") in the Incoming section;
- a new "Round-trip" table shows, per slot, the state we forwarded (the active
backend's pad) next to what the game actually read back, highlighting matches.
For the round-trip, the XInput hook now echoes the state it returns to the game into
the status (protocol v9->v10: per-slot read_state in HookStatus).
Verified: hook_selftest (x64 + x86) asserts the hook records the game-read state;
full build x64 + x86 clean; ctest x64 9/9, x86 3/3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The XInput hook used to swallow XInputSetState; now it records the requested
left/right motor speeds into the status back-channel (protocol v8->v9: per-slot
rumble_left/right in HookStatus). Each frame the host reads them and, only on
change, drives the guest's actuator via the active backend:
- XInput: XInputSetState on the guest's slot (the open question is whether Steam's
RPT virtual pad accepts vibration and routes it to the guest -- needs live RPT);
- Steam Input: SteamInput TriggerVibration on the slot's controller handle, with the
XInput fallback for slots Steam isn't driving.
InputSource gains a set_rumble(slot,left,right) hook (default no-op) implemented by
both backends; SteamInputSource now tracks per-slot controller handles + which slots
it drives.
Verified: hook_selftest (x64 + x86) now asserts the hook records the rumble from
XInputSetState into the status; full build x64 + x86 clean; ctest x64 9/9, x86 3/3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Forward the host window's clicks and keystrokes into the injected game so guests
can drive menus / "Press Start" / text entry that a pad can't.
Protocol (v7->v8): new HookSubsys_Mkb and an SPSC MkbRing of MkbEvents in
SharedBlock (host produces, hook consumes); push/pop helpers.
Hook (hook/src/mkb_hook.cpp, new subsystem): a worker-loop pump drains the ring at
~5 ms and PostMessageW's the matching window messages (WM_KEY*/WM_CHAR, mouse
buttons, WM_MOUSEWHEEL) to the game's main window; it also inline-hooks user32
GetAsyncKeyState / GetKeyboardState / GetCursorPos (stdcall trampolines per the x86
rule) to report a synthesized state so polling games react too. Removing the
subsystem clears all synthesized keys (no stuck input).
Host: the Injection panel gets a "Mouse + keyboard forwarding" subsystem toggle
(opt-in, default off -- the toggle is the hook). host/src/inject/mkb_forward.cpp
reads ImGui IO each frame and forwards only when the host window is focused and
ImGui isn't capturing the event; keyboard always, mouse only while mirroring (clicks
+ wheel, not movement). Mouse coords are mapped through the letterbox to game-client
space (host/src/inject/mkb_map.hpp), accounting for WGC-of-decorated-window vs
hooked/borderless. RawInput/DirectInput games are out of scope for this version.
Verified: new mkb_ring_test + mkb_map_test pass; full build x64 + x86 clean; ctest
x64 9/9 and x86 3/3 green (no regression from the protocol bump). The subsystem is
opt-in, so it can't affect existing behavior unless enabled; the end-to-end
click-into-game path needs live Remote Play + a real game to confirm.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Only the shipping artifacts (coop_host.exe, coop_hook.dll, coop_hook_x86.dll,
coop_inject_x86.exe, steam_api64.dll, steam_input_actions.vdf) now land in the
bin/<config>/ root, so it can be copied wholesale into a donor game folder. Test
exes (plus the coop_tone fixture) build into bin/<config>/tests/ and the dev probes
into bin/<config>/tools/, via a new coop_output_subdir() CMake helper.
The probes resolve coop_hook.dll / the x86 injector from the deployable root one
level up (new common/coop/tool_paths.hpp: deployed_artifact_path checks next-to-exe
then parent). coop_tone is co-located with the tests so audio_loopback_test's
"spawn coop_tone.exe next to me" lookup is unchanged.
Verified from a clean bin/: root holds only deployables; ctest x64 7/7 and x86 3/3
green (incl. audio_loopback_test driving coop_tone from tests/).
Also convert the roadmap Planned list to bullets and drop this (now-done) item.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SafetyHook's InlineHook::call() invokes the trampoline through a __cdecl
pointer (the compiler default on x86). The functions we hook are __stdcall
(IDXGISwapChain::Present/Present1, the WASAPI render interfaces, and the
WINAPI SwapBuffers/wglSwapBuffers), so on 32-bit both sides cleaned the
stack -> ESP imbalance -> Run-Time Check Failure #0 and an instant crash.
On x64 every convention collapses to one, so it only bit 32-bit games:
Slaps and Beans (Unity/Rewired, 32-bit D3D11) froze the moment the Present
hook ran. The user's "crashes as soon as a button is pressed" was the
Present, not the button.
Switch every __stdcall trampoline call to SafetyHook's stdcall() (a no-op
on x64). The XInput/focus hooks were unaffected because they never call
the trampoline -- they return synthesized data.
Reproduction + regression coverage:
- tools/input_probe (coop_input_probe): injects, reports a connected pad,
toggles a button, and takes a disable_mask to bisect which subsystem
affects a game. Isolated the freeze to the video subsystem live.
- hook_selftest_x86 + present_hook_test_x86: the x86 sub-build now builds
and runs these (the x64 present_hook_test can't see a one-convention
bug). present_hook_test_x86 drives a real swapchain through the
trampoline -- it would hit RTC #0 before this fix.
- hook_selftest strengthened to exercise every loaded xinput DLL's full
export set (GetState, ordinal-100 GetStateEx, GetCapabilities, rumble
SetState) and to dump the SharedBlock layout.
- protocol.hpp: static_asserts lock the cross-bitness front-of-block
offsets (verified byte-identical on x86 and x64).
README roadmap trimmed (this milestone done) and a lessons-learned note
added on the call()/stdcall() convention trap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Present hook never fired in Phantom Brave because it's an OpenGL game
(OPENGL32.dll loaded, IDXGISwapChain::Present calls=0), so the hooked video source
showed no image. Add an OpenGL producer under the video subsystem: inline-hook
gdi32!SwapBuffers + opengl32!wglSwapBuffers (with a re-entrancy guard, since
SwapBuffers calls wglSwapBuffers), glReadPixels the backbuffer, flip it, and upload
it into the same shared keyed-mutex texture the host already samples -- so the host
is unchanged. DXGI games still hit the Present hook; both producers are installed
and whichever the game uses fills the texture.
Validated by opengl_hook_test (real GL context, clears to a known color, reads the
exact pixels back through the shared texture) and against Phantom Brave (SwapBuffers
~75/s, present=0, shared texture 1920x1080, generation advancing). Vulkan
(vkQueuePresentKHR) still needs WGC -- documented. All 7 tests pass.
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The host sampled the shared backbuffer copy through a view typed exactly like the
game's backbuffer. For games whose backbuffer is an *_SRGB format (e.g. Life is
Strange: Before the Storm -- confirmed R8G8B8A8_UNORM_SRGB / fmt 29 via the hook
log), the GPU decoded sRGB->linear on the sample, and the host then wrote those
linear values straight to its plain-UNORM swapchain with no re-encode, so the
mirror came out noticeably darker than the game.
Sample the copy as the plain-UNORM sibling of the format (srgb_to_unorm) so the
bytes pass through unchanged -- matching what WGC already does. The UNORM and
*_SRGB formats share a typeless group, so CopyResource from the producer's sRGB
texture into the host's UNORM copy is allowed. Non-sRGB formats are unaffected.
Adds srgb_format_test locking the mapping. All 6 tests pass.
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Add an injected IDXGISwapChain::Present / Present1 hook as a lower-latency,
border-free alternative to WGC. The hook copies the swapchain backbuffer into a
shared keyed-mutex texture (coop_video_<pid>); the host opens it by name and
samples it. New opt-in HookSubsys_Video (protocol v6 -> v7); the Video mirror
panel gains a WGC vs Hooked source toggle that installs/removes the subsystem.
Verified by present_hook_test (drives a real D3D11 swapchain end-to-end and reads
the rendered pixels back through the shared texture) and against Phantom Brave
(D3D9: hook installs cleanly and stays idle, WGC fallback). All 5 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a process-wide hook registry (hook/src/hook_registry) that every hook
module registers its hooks with and bumps a counter from each detour. The
XInput, focus-spoof, and audio render-hooks now register their individual
hooks (XInputGetState/Ex/Caps/SetState; GetForegroundWindow/GetActiveWindow/
GetFocus/WndProc guard; IMMDevice::Activate, IAudioClient::Initialize/
GetService, IAudioRenderClient::GetBuffer/ReleaseBuffer) and count calls.
The worker publishes the table to the host each tick over a new HookStatus
field (protocol v4 -> v5: HookEntry[] + count). The Injection panel shows it
as a collapsible table grouped by subsystem with an installed flag and call
count per hook; coop_audio_probe prints the same table headless.
Verified against Phantom Brave: 13 hooks listed with live counts (focus APIs
polled heavily, GetBuffer/ReleaseBuffer ticking with the audio render loop).
All four tests pass.
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The render-hook only installed IAudioClient/IAudioRenderClient hooks
reactively, when it saw the game call IMMDevice::Activate -> GetService.
But we attach to a game that is already running and playing audio, so its
render client was created before injection: those calls never fire again,
no primary stream is ever registered, nothing is captured, and the host
always falls back to process loopback (the echo). Every game tested did so.
Fix: at anchor time, build our own probe IAudioClient + IAudioRenderClient
with raw calls and hook GetBuffer/ReleaseBuffer (plus Initialize/GetService)
on their vtables. Every instance of a COM coclass shares one vtable, so this
patches the shared vtables and intercepts the game's pre-existing render
client too. The first render client seen actively releasing buffers is
adopted as primary on the audio thread (try-lock, one-time) using the device
mix format as its assumed format (we never saw its Initialize). Streams
created after injection still register via the reactive path with their real
format.
Also fixes a self-deadlock: installing the Activate hook before the probe's
own device->Activate call re-entered hk_Activate -> install_audioclient_hooks,
which blocked on the setup mutex the installer already held, freezing the
worker (and any game thread that later called Activate -> crash). The probe
objects are now created raw, before any hook is installed.
Validated against Phantom Brave (injected while already playing): the
pre-existing 48 kHz/2ch/float render client is detected and registered as
primary, real non-silent audio reaches the ring (peak tracks the game's
levels), and a draining consumer sees zero overruns.
Tooling for iterating on real games without Steam/RPT/the host UI:
- tools/audio_probe: creates the IPC block + audio ring, injects the hook,
drains the ring and prints stream/format/peak/overrun diagnostics by pid.
- hook/src/debug_log: opt-in file trace (%TEMP%\coop_hook.log), enabled by
the COOP_HOOK_LOG env var or the %TEMP%\coop_hook.log.on sentinel the probe
drops; off in normal use.
All four tests still pass.
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Implements the WASAPI render-hook (hook/src/audio_hook.{hpp,cpp}) and an
in-process self-test that proves COM vtable discovery and GetBuffer/ReleaseBuffer
interception with no game and no second Steam account.
- audio_hook.cpp: anchors on IMMDevice::Activate (idx 3) off our own default
endpoint (shared vtable), then hooks IAudioClient::Initialize (3) /
GetService (14) and IAudioRenderClient::GetBuffer (3) / ReleaseBuffer (4) off
live game pointers. Copies primary-stream frames into the audio ring and
releases with AUDCLNT_BUFFERFLAGS_SILENT (+ memset belt-and-suspenders), only
while the host-owned capture_enabled flag is set. Stream counting runs always;
on a ring overrun it keeps playing locally rather than going silent.
- ipc_client.hpp: publish_audio_stream / note_audio_frames /
set_audio_streams_seen write the render-stream debug fields into HookStatus.
- tests/audio_hook_test.cpp: installs the hooks, renders a tone through WASAPI
in-process, and asserts exactly one stream, frames pushed to the ring, the
ring carries the non-silent tone, and the primary was silenced. PASS:
streams_seen=1, frames_captured=32640.
- plan doc: correct GetService vtable index 13 -> 14 (SetEventHandle is 13).
coop_hook DLL wiring + host consumer/fallback come next (M3).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
First milestone of the injection render-hook audio path (see
docs/audio-render-hook-plan.md) that fixes the local audio echo without a
virtual device.
- common/include/coop/audio_ring.hpp: new lock-free SPSC shared-memory ring
for PCM, separate from the input/status SharedBlock. Free-running 64-bit
positions (release/acquire), format handshake, host-owned capture_enabled
gate, drop-whole-packet overrun policy.
- common/include/coop/protocol.hpp: add AudioStreamInfo + audio_streams_seen /
audio_streams[] to the always-present HookStatus for the render-stream-count
debug view; bump kProtocolVersion 3->4 (new members appended).
- tests/audio_ring_test.cpp: in-process unit test (push/pop integrity,
wrap-around, format handshake, overrun/drop). No hook or audio device.
- docs/audio-render-hook-plan.md: the green-lit design this implements.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mirror the real game's audio so Steam Remote Play Together (which streams the
host's own audio session) carries it to the guest. The host captures the game
by PID via WASAPI process loopback and re-renders it on the default endpoint;
the game still plays locally too (accepted "double audio" for now).
- ProcessLoopbackCapture: process-loopback capture client, frame-sink + stats.
The completion handler must be agile (IAgileObject) or
ActivateAudioInterfaceAsync rejects every call with E_ILLEGAL_METHOD_CALL.
- AudioMirror: wraps capture with an event-driven render client and a primed
ring buffer; AudioPanel drives it from the injected game's window/PID.
- coop_tone: standalone WASAPI sine-wave process used as a known audio source.
- audio_loopback_test (CTest): captures coop_tone by PID and asserts non-silent
audio arrives, so the path is verifiable without a second Steam account.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Surfaced by a game (Life is Strange: Before the Storm) that ignores
controller input when it lacks true OS focus even though it still polls
XInput. To find the focus-gated detection path, instrument the hook.
Protocol v3 status back-channel now reports:
- per-slot XInputGetState and XInputGetCapabilities counters (replacing the
single aggregate), so the overlay shows exactly which slots the game polls
and how fast;
- focus-API call counts (GetForegroundWindow/GetActiveWindow/GetFocus) to see
whether the game consults the APIs we spoof;
- input-path diagnostics: whether the process registered Raw Input for a
gamepad usage and whether it set RIDEV_INPUTSINK (background delivery), and
whether a DirectInput dll is loaded.
Host overlay gains a per-slot poll table and an "Input path" section. The DLL
refreshes input diagnostics each worker tick via GetRegisteredRawInputDevices.
hook_selftest updated for per-slot counters; passes.
This is diagnostic-only: once a real run shows which path LiS uses, the
targeted focus fix (e.g. forcing RIDEV_INPUTSINK or DI background coop) follows.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two problems surfaced in testing: (1) no way to tell whether the injected
hook was actually the input source, and (2) the final design needs the tool
window focused for Steam RPT capture, which would pause/silence games that
react to focus loss. Both are addressed here.
- Focus spoofing (hook/focus_spoof): find the game's main window, subclass it
to rewrite/swallow WM_ACTIVATE/ACTIVATEAPP/NCACTIVATE/KILLFOCUS, and inline-
hook GetForegroundWindow/GetActiveWindow/GetFocus to always report the game
as active. The game keeps running and polling while unfocused.
- Status back-channel (protocol v2): the DLL reports attached/focus-spoof
flags, game pid/hwnd, a heartbeat, and a cumulative XInputGetState counter.
The host overlay turns the counter into a live poll rate, so "is the hook
working" is directly observable.
- Synthetic test-input toggle in the host: forwards a known automated pattern
(stick circle + periodic A) to prove forwarding independent of the physical
pad.
- hook_selftest extended to assert the status channel; passes.
Documented the windowed/borderless requirement and the new observable test
flow in the README.
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The host can now inject coop_hook.dll into a running game and forward
controller state to it over shared memory, so the game reads the host's
(eventually the guest's) input and nothing else.
- hook/: coop_hook.dll. DllMain spawns a worker that opens the shared-memory
channel (named by the game's pid) and installs SafetyHook inline hooks on
XInputGetState/GetStateEx/GetCapabilities/SetState. Detours synthesize state
from shared memory; unmanaged slots report disconnected, hiding physical pads.
- host/: process picker (Toolhelp32), CreateRemoteThread(LoadLibraryW) injector
with an IsWow64Process2 bitness guard, IPC server publishing pads each frame,
and an ImGui Injection panel wiring it together.
- tests/: hook_selftest exercises the IPC seqlock + hook detours in-process
(no game/controller needed); passes.
Build: SafetyHook wired in (COOP_BUILD_HOOK=ON), Zydis via FetchContent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
