A digital driver that has a switched self-tuning gain in its current regulator is designed for five-phase stepping motors so that their performance could be improved and adjusted more easily, than with an analog driver. The regulator has a fixed gain block in its feedback loop and an adjustable gain in the feedforward path, replacing the integrator and the high gain that were required in previous designs to achieve good steady-state performance and fast response. Extensive experiments have been conducted under typical and extreme actuation conditions, and revealed that the proposed driver performs better than the analog drivers or their discretized equivalents, especially in eliminating undershoots, which were problematic with previous drivers.