FreeV1.3.3Windows 10 / 11
AxisNex by wLt
Not affiliated with Sony, Epic Games or Psyonix. AxisNex is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Sony Interactive Entertainment, Epic Games, Psyonix, or any controller or game manufacturer. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.
Controller tuning and calibration for Windows: low latency, an auto-calibrated deadzone and your own profiles. Free to download and use.
Supported controller: DualSense Wireless Controller · USB or Bluetooth
- Page views
- 20
- USB polling
- 1000Hz
- Smoothing
- 0ms
- Processing
- ~2µs
- Languages
- 11
- Price
- €0
01What it does
Everything your controller needs on PC.
Six things AxisNex does for you, in plain words.
One controller in game
Your physical controller is hidden from games (HidHide). The game sees a single virtual controller with your settings, no double input, no “player 2 joined”.
As little delay as possible
An event-driven input thread with Windows multimedia priority (MMCSS), allocation-free processing measured in microseconds, no smoothing unless you want it.
1000 Hz over USB
Over a USB cable, Windows reads the controller 1000 times a second instead of 250 (Microsoft-signed hidusbf driver), up to 3 ms less delay. One switch, removed on uninstall.
Guided calibration in 15 s
Rest, roll both sticks around the edge, let go. It measures drift, the resting centre, stick range and triggers, then proposes the smallest safe deadzone. You see it before it’s saved.
Full manual tuning
Deadzone shape, inner and outer deadzone, anti-deadzone, response curve, square output, sensitivity and triggers, if you’d rather set it by hand.
11 languages, 9 themes
English, Română, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Português, Nederlands, Polski, Türkçe and Русский. Switch live, no restart.
02See it
AxisNex in 50 seconds.
A short video, with sound. Press play, or pick a part to jump straight to it.
03How to start
Install once. Then four steps.
The installer sets up AxisNex, HidHide (if it isn’t there yet), the virtual-controller driver and the 1000 Hz USB driver. Restart Windows after the first install, then open AxisNex. If the game runs through Steam, keep Steam Input on.
- 1
Connect
Plug in your controller with a USB cable (1000 Hz) or pair it over Bluetooth.
- 2
Pick a profile
Pro is selected by default. Switch only if you want something specific.
- 3
START
One big button. From now on the game only sees the virtual controller.
- 4
Calibrate
A 15-second guided check, every session. Then launch the game.
04Profiles
Pick one, play, fine-tune later.
Four ready-made starting points, made with Rocket League in mind, with zero smoothing in all of them. Not sure? Keep Pro. Your calibration is saved into whichever profile is active, and any built-in profile can be reset to its original values. Everything can be fine-tuned in Advanced tuning.
Profile
Pro Default
Ranked, general play, fast reactions
Linear response, small deadzone and 100% diagonals, so diagonal inputs reach full range on both axes.
Profile
Freestyle
Air roll, flicks, freestyle clips
The same base with a touch more precision around centre for small, quick inputs.
Profile
Aerial
Air control, ceiling shots, recoveries
A gentler curve near centre for tiny corrections in the air, still full speed at the edge.
Profile
Worn Controller
Older controllers with stick drift
Bigger deadzones so nothing moves on its own, and an earlier outer edge for worn sticks.
05Under the hood
From your hands to the game, in microseconds.
AxisNex never touches the game: no injection, no memory reading, no file changes. It works at the controller level, like other controller tools on PC.
- 01ControllerUSB cable or Bluetooth1000 Hz on USB
- 02ReaderDedicated MMCSS “Games” threadblocks on the HID read
- 03Tuning engineDeadzones, curve, triggers~µs · no allocations
- 04Virtual controllerHIDMaestro UMDF2 driverphysical one hidden
- 05GameSees one tuned controllergame files untouched
06Free & safe
Free. No account. No telemetry.
AxisNex costs nothing and never will ask for money, a login, your passwords or your game account. It goes online only for the optional update check and the optional Game rules page; every update is downloaded into the AxisNex folder and its SHA-256 checked before it starts.
- 0 / 66 antivirus detections for the app’s code on VirusTotal
- 0 / 72 for the bundled 1000 Hz driver (Microsoft-signed)
- Scans of V1.2.2, done by wLt, links in the README
- Official downloads only from GitHub and wltziff.nl
- Not code-signed, so Windows may say “Unknown publisher”: compare the SHA-256 below
AxisNex-V1.3.3-Setup.exe · SHA-2569FFDDAE759C5336B3DB601C58E214F3DA2BADDB0D873008AD9282A3A307C8554
Nobody can guarantee how an anti-cheat system treats third-party controller software. You install and use AxisNex at your own risk and are responsible for following the rules of every game and platform you use it with (see the license shown during setup).
Behind it
From a concept to a released app.
- V1.3.3
A tuning update
Every built-in profile was retuned so the car answers the stick sooner, there is a new Freestyle 2 profile, and several things that made…
- v0.1
Where it started
A first prototype, a window full of sliders and a lot of trial and error. Then the INPUT ZERO concept.
- My role
- Idea, UX/UI, C# development & release
- Year
- 2026
- Status
- Released · Free
The problem
On PC, a controller rarely feels the way it should: sticks that rest a little off-centre, deadzones that are too big, a controller read only 250 times a second, and games that see two controllers at once. AxisNex fixes that one step before the game, in one place.
What I did
Everything from the idea to the installer: the UX/UI, the C# / .NET 10 + WPF app, the input pipeline, calibration, 11 languages, the installer, updates and the license. Built with my basic knowledge of C#, together with Claude and Codex as development partners.
- C#
- .NET 10
- WPF
- HidSharp
- HIDMaestro (UMDF2)
- HidHide
- hidusbf
- Inno Setup
- GitHub Releases
Reviews
What players say
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- Pinned by the developer
From the developerWalter DeveloperOf course, my first review had to be mine 😄 For me, the app is already great, although there are still a few improvements to make. More updates are coming soon. Thanks for taking the time to check it out!
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Disclaimer. AxisNex is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Sony Interactive Entertainment, Epic Games, Psyonix, or any controller or game manufacturer. All trademarks belong to their respective owners; product and game names are used only to describe compatible hardware and the sources AxisNex refers to. AxisNex is free proprietary software, © 2026 wLt.