PawnIO

PawnIO 2.2.0

Scriptable universal kernel driver.

  • By namazso
  • Free
  • Updated Mar 15, 2026
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About PawnIO

PawnIO is a scriptable universal kernel driver, allowing hardware access to a wide variety of programs.

What's new in 2.2.0

  • Installer improvements:
  • Support upgrading from 2.1.0 without uninstall
  • Returned codes for CLI mode are now DOS errors instead of NTSTATUS
  • In silent mode ERROR_SUCCESS_REBOOT_REQUIRED is appropriately returned if a restart is needed
  • PawnIO 2.2.0 improvements:
  • Various bug fixes in natives
  • New natives for dynamically calling other natives, so that backwards compatible modules can be developed
  • Restore the old unused device path for compatibility with broken third party PawnIOLib implementations
  • Make device creation more in-line with expected PnP driver behavior
  • Fix BSODs on Windows 10 RS5, 19H1, 19H2 due to missing exports
  • It is now possible to expose the device to non-administrators, although not recommended

Full release notes »

Technical details

Publishernamazso
Version2.2.0
Release date2026-03-15
LicenseProprietary (Freeware)
Installer typeexe
Architecturex64
Package IDnamazso.PawnIO

Links & install command

Install PawnIO from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):

winget install --id=namazso.PawnIO -e

pawn-iopawn.iopawnio.infpawnppscriptable-universal-kernel-driverscriptableuniversalkerneldriver

Older versions

  • 2.1.0
  • 2.0.1