Use an unsigned driver in Windows 7 x64

Question

I'm trying to use the RBC9 SpaceNavigator TEST x64 build drivers for my SpaceNavigator 3d joystick so that it can work as a normal joystick in games like Quake.

Unfortunately, I get the error "This version of windows requires all drivers to have a valid digital signature" and in the "Device status" in device manager, I get "Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the drivers required for this device. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown source. (Code 52)".

Is there a way to work around this issue?

Answer 1

This forum topic has multiple solutions, although the only one that has been confirmed to work by at least one person and has upvotes is this:

Open a command prompt as an admin and type

bcdedit -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS

bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON

See security risk warning above.

If it doesn't work for whatever reason you can just remove loadoptions with bcedit and switch testsigning off.

bcdedit /deletevalue loadoptions

bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING OFF

if this breaks something for whatever reason sorry, goodluck.

EDIT: Other sources seem to also provide this as a solution, such as this (albeit for Windows Vista) and this

EDIT2: Quote modified to correct command (not a typo!), thanks to Computer Guru for pointing that out