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>
Resolves the DX12 mirror stutter and makes dropped frames observable.
Decouple the D3D11On12 copy from the game's present queue. Submitting the
copy on the game's own present queue (the prior approach) ordered it
correctly but stalled the game's presents: GPU back-pressure, plus the
shared keyed-mutex AcquireSync is a CPU-blocking call on the render
thread. Running it on an independent queue avoids the stall but races the
game's render -> stale frames. Do both: run the copy on our own queue and
order it after the frame with an ID3D12Fence the game's present queue
signals (near-free) and our queue waits on. The present queue is still
recovered for late injection via the ExecuteCommandLists hook (now used to
signal the fence, not host the copy). Producer AcquireSync stays
non-blocking (timeout 0) so a busy mutex drops a mirror frame instead of
stalling the game.
Add drop detection (protocol v12 -> v13). The hook counts captures skipped
because the keyed mutex was busy (VideoShare.frames_dropped); the host
counts published frames it never displayed (generation gaps). The Video
panel shows "Frames lost: N/s capture N/s display", red when nonzero.
This confirmed the game-window-vs-mirror behavior is a display-path
artifact (unfocused windows lose VRR/independent flip), not a capture loss.
Add a one-shot present-pattern log: per distinct swapchain (size/format/
buffer index) and per distinct present-flags value, with DXGI_PRESENT_TEST
spelled out as an occlusion probe that draws nothing -- which is why
Miles Morales shows ~2 presents per captured frame (the test present is
counted but produces no frame).
Docs: add the DX12 capture lessons to the README (rotating back buffer,
fence/own-queue, capture-at-Present decoupling from DWM) and drop the now
-moot DX12 overhead future-work item.
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Games that ClipCursor / re-center via SetCursorPos while focused trap the operator's
mouse (the focus spoof makes them think they're always focused), so the operator
can't reach the overlay. The Focus subsystem now inline-hooks ClipCursor and
SetCursorPos (stdcall trampolines): while "release" is requested it forces
ClipCursor(NULL) and swallows the re-centering SetCursorPos; otherwise it passes them
through. It frees any existing clip at install and re-frees each worker tick (covers
one-time clippers and a runtime clip->release toggle).
Host: protocol v10->v11 adds HookControl::allow_cursor_clip (0 = release, the
default). The Injection panel gets a "Release operator cursor" checkbox and an F2
hotkey (InjectionPanel::toggle_cursor_release); default released, since the guest
plays via the pad so the game's clip is operator-only.
Verified: full build x64 + x86 clean; ctest x64 9/9, x86 3/3. The cursor behavior
against a real clipping game (Trails through Daybreak) needs a live injected session
to confirm; logic reviewed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
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 shared log ring (common/coop/log_ring.hpp): a lossy multi-producer /
single-consumer ring named coop_log_<pid>. The hook logs from several threads,
so producers claim a slot with fetch_add and publish each record with a
release store of its sequence; the consumer reads in order and tolerates
losing the oldest lines if it falls a whole ring behind.
The DLL's logf() now formats once and pushes every line to the ring (the file
trace stays as an opt-in mirror); the worker attaches the ring right after IPC
connect so bring-up is captured. The host (IpcServer) creates the ring at
injection time and exposes drain_logs(); a new LogPanel pulls new lines each
frame into a bounded rolling buffer and renders them with auto-scroll, a
filter, and clear. Added to the View menu (and UiState.show_log).
Verified against Phantom Brave via coop_audio_probe, which now also creates the
ring and drains it: the full hook bring-up trace streamed over IPC. All four
tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a host->hook control channel (protocol v5 -> v6: HookControl in SharedBlock,
per-subsystem "disabled" flags, 0 = install so the zero-filled default is
unchanged). The worker now reconciles each subsystem every tick: install what's
requested-and-missing, remove what's no longer wanted -- so the audio hooks
re-attach the ring and republish format on a reinstall, and XInput/focus clear
their stale status flags on removal.
Injection panel: a checkbox per subsystem (input forwarding / focus spoof /
audio render-hook) toggles it at runtime, showing the requested vs actual
installed state from the registry, plus DLL heartbeat liveness. The hook-status
section now keys off whether a DLL was injected (host-side) rather than the
input-hook "attached" flag, so it stays visible with input unhooked.
Guards for dependent features: the synthetic-input control is disabled when
input forwarding is off, and the Audio panel explains that mirroring uses
loopback (echo) when the render-hook is off.
Verified against Phantom Brave via coop_audio_probe: starting with audio
requested off installs only input+focus (8 hooks, no capture); re-enabling at
runtime installs the audio hooks (13) and capture starts immediately. All four
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.
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>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Scaffold CoopAllTheThings: Remote Play Together for any XInput game via a
mirror app under a donor appid (real game keeps its own appid, so DRM,
achievements, and playtime stay intact).
- Build: CMake skeleton, ImGui + SafetyHook submodules (no vcpkg)
- common/: host<->hook IPC contract (seqlock pad state, shared-memory RAII)
- host/: borderless D3D11 window + ImGui overlay listing visible XInput pads,
behind an InputSource interface (Steam Input slots in later)
- README documents the Phase 0 donor-launch validation procedure, anti-cheat
limitation, and XInput/bitness constraints
Phase 0 validates the riskiest assumption (Steam RPT streams an arbitrary
window under a donor appid and routes guest input to it) before capture and
injection are built.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
