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More about WinHUD 2.0s stronger navigation and organization

Currently in the middle of the ocean 😅so if I don’t respond that’s the reason haha but I recorded this yesterday before leaving to share for feedback and maybe get you all a bit excited about what is coming. 

When WinHud 2.0 releases it will be an immediate release for everyone not tied to early access.

I wanted to speak to the design thinking behind the decisions that went into this redesign for those who are curious as well. 

WinHUD was designed with 3 main principles, speed, organization and a bit of WHimsy!

The biggest thing you will notice is that new structure. Gone is the 2 page playout of 1.0  instead is a single scroll 4 section expand and collapse system with sorting. 

Section 1: what used to be its own page called game options now an expand in place menu. This allows for less back tracking just to get to the game options menu, while still allowing it to get out of the way when you don’t want to see it. 

Section 2: is the power profiles tile row. Gone is the drop down with text options, and in its place is a better 4 tile system with better naming and icons. Each tile also displays the TDP wattage that would be set if you used it tailored to your hardware for more insight into what your system is doing this wattage and FPS also gets displayed as pulls in the widget header for folks who don’t want to leave the overlay on all the time and for games that don’t support RTSS. 

Section 3: this is the core change in this update what used to bee a single scroll long list of small touch targets with basic organization is now a filter able toggle grid that can be filtered on the fly to only display the toggles you want to see. 

Each toggle is now larger for better touch screen accuracy and some are now expandable when expanded to expand in place as to not take up more visual height/ not shuffle things around. Some options have also been combined into these expandable views such as moving the unlined frame-rate toggle into the frame limit tile. 

Section 4: is the new home of lossless scaling, this saw the least change but now instead of being taken to a separate options subpage all the LS options are accessible bing the expandable toggle. 

Beyond this through the widget are fun expand and collapse bouncy animation to provide more visual feedback on what you selected, and there is better visuals around what is being disabled by what options and why. 

Definitely let me know what you think! Super curious to hear your thoughts. 

u/EnigmaP3nguin — 4 hours ago

Emulation Station/other emulation programs through winhanced?

Title, setting winhanced now on legion go and i see the option to add custom. But it doesnt appear to see emulation station on there. How would I go about adding it to access my games?

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u/DeusexMusica1 — 5 hours ago

Winhanced is much better but it lacks a tiny bit of quality of life features.

  1. Add a favorites tab in the library so I can separate my games from backlog to my favorites.

  2. Better UI Color Customization. I want to be able to control the color of the text and make custom pallets using a color wheel. Mostly add an advanced option to where we can customize the UI elements colors.

  3. An option to switch the news articles to the top or bottom of the screen.

  4. Background music in the hud and customizable music options or sound effects when selecting and playing a game. Also make the background music stop when winhanced is unfocused.

  5. Customizable Boot up screen. Make it so where we can put a video or something that plays on startup. Like the PS2 boot for example or the Gamecube.

  6. The ability to put a gif or image in the background. The unfocused color background is cool in the app. But I have a lot of desire to customize the launcher and I think adding this allows for much more personalization. Which I care a lot about and why I switched to this.

  7. The ability to shrink or enlarge the game images and the ability to move the game icons to the top,bottom or middle.

If the creator is reading this. Thank you for working on winhanced and I hope you have a great week.

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u/Total_Umpire_9078 — 13 hours ago

WIP: New layouts and Winhanced HUD 2.0

Morning everyone! So the plan was to try and have this ready by yesterday, but I can’t in good conscience release this when there are still a few bugs to squash.

I’m leaving on vacation for the next week, but I still wanted to share with you what you all can expect when I get back!

u/EnigmaP3nguin — 1 day ago

Lockscreen wallpaper

Small request. I love winhanced, it made my Xbox Ally X the device i always wanted. But one thing is missing. Cool (lockscreen) wallpapers for the complete experience. I made a crude one with a screenshot from the website. But its meh.

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u/two-mm — 1 day ago

Anyone tried Winhanced on a regular Desktop PC with FSE running & MSI Claw 8 AI+?

So basically two questions;

How is the winhanced experience on a desktop with FSE?
How is the winhanced experience on a msi claw 8 AI+?

I have been loving FSE quite a lot lately, as it so much better than for controller control than regular Windows of course, but yeah I do agree that Xbox App does need some more work, like general laggyness when switching between library and Home for example.

So I know Winhanced I handheld first but how does it stack up on a regular desktop?

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u/DunkerStatic — 2 days ago

WIP: I have heard you all loud and clear! Shout out to u/No_Mess5015 for the inspiration.

Just work in progress for one of the alternative winhanced layouts you will be able to have in the app in the future. I am also thinking of exploring an Xbox 360 style modern blades UI layout. but that one will need much more work lol

u/EnigmaP3nguin — 4 days ago
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Winhanced 0.9.9.0: Everything you need to Discover, Buy, Install, and Play your games on Windows!

Winhanced 0.9.9.0

Winhanced 0.9.9.0 introduces the Store: discover games tuned to your taste, compare prices across storefronts, build a wishlist with price-drop alerts, and buy-to-install without ever leaving Winhanced. Plus SteamGridDB artwork, paddle remapping, and RGB lighting control are now out of early access for everyone.

Now Out of Early Access (available to everyone)

SteamGridDB Artwork Browser: swap any game's box art, hero banner, and logo from the Choose Artwork picker.

Controller Paddle and OEM Remapping: remap OEM buttons and the back paddles on ROG Ally and MSI Claw Legion Go, Go S, and Go 2 (experimental) per game .

Controller RGB Lighting: per-zone LED control and per-game lighting profiles on ROG Ally and MSI Claw.

New Device Support

Added TDP, back paddle, RGB light control, and driver fetching support for MSI Claw EX 8

Playtime Everywhere

Live playtime now syncs across all your libraries (Steam, GOG, Xbox, Epic, PlayStation), including games you've played on another device or haven't installed yet.

New in Early Access

The Store

Discover: a personalized feed that learns from what you actually play, with rows like "More like [game]," franchise picks, "Trending now," and "Outside your usual."

Tune your feed: pick favorite genres and mechanics to steer recommendations, and hide any game or whole row you're not interested in.

Cross-store price comparison: see the best deal for a game across Steam, Epic, GOG, Xbox/Game Pass, and Humble at a glance.

Regional pricing: set your region in Settings > General to see prices in your local currency.

Wishlist: track games with price-drop alerts and one-click import of your existing Steam wishlist.

Release Calendar: upcoming releases, Game Pass leaving-soon dates, and current sales in one view.

Cross-store search: fast search with typo tolerance across every connected store.

Rich detail pages: trailers, reviews, ratings, and price comparisons across stores

Seamless buy-to-install: purchase a Steam or Xbox game and Winhanced confirms ownership and can install it for you after purchase.

Game news & release alerts: a multi-source news feed plus "Notify me" alerts surfaced in What's New.

Bug Fixes

Stability & Shutdown

  • Fixed a shutdown freeze (up to ~10 seconds) and the settings and log data loss it caused, from analytics running at close.
  • Guarded the AMD GPU metrics reader against a shutdown crash that was being mis-reported.
  • More reliable game start and stop detection, with no more stuck "running" states or close-out freezes.

Performance & Devices

  • AMD frame cap now uses RTSS only, for correct frame limiting.
  • Running games now resolves to the most specific install folder, so the right game is detected in multi-launcher setups.
  • More deterministic sleep behavior, with protection against accidental re-wake on standby.

Library

  • Non-Steam shortcuts are now removed live when you delete them from Steam.
  • Download progress animates on updates, not just fresh installs.
  • Cleaner game-tile badges, including a new glass icon for the "Other" library.

Controller & Settings

  • Early access dialogs now check your entitlement fresh instead of trusting a stale cache.
  • The quick-settings pill is fully controller-navigable: switch audio device, toggle radios, refresh Wi-Fi, search with Y, and read the clock.

You can download today via the in app Update center or via the link below:

Download Link: https://ota.winhanced.com/lg/Winhanced-Installer-0.9.9.0.exe

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u/EnigmaP3nguin — 5 days ago

You all aren't ready for today

Today's update is so unbelievably massive that I have to record a video the explain everything 😅

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u/EnigmaP3nguin — 5 days ago

Redesign suggestion

access news, libraries, settings, etc by pressing/moving down

u/No_Mess5015 — 5 days ago

Uninstalled Winhanced because black screen

I really was excited about Winhanced, but when I installed on my xbox ally x I ended getting a black screen at every bootup, only holding down the power button to force turning off works.

Anybody else had this issue?

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u/SupremeZoef — 4 days ago

So I’m having some issues with lossless scaling not working properly. Its giving me issues once I try and disable it. For some reason it wont turn itself off. Any solutions?

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u/Revolutionary_Wrap95 — 5 days ago

I uninstalled winhanced.

Its works okay but still lacking.

The deal breaker for me is the inability to change the launch animation. That default animation they have makes my thoudand dollar device looks cheap and looks like for a kid.

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u/OrchidStunning6925 — 8 days ago

I could use your help collection some performance data for game/store badges.

Hey everyone,

For all my Early Access folks, ahead of release 0.9.9.0 I would love your help. If you come to the Discord on our supporter chat I will be adding a test build very soon.

This test build includes the new store, as a part of the store and game details cards we are introducing a new badge system. For folks who have opted in to share analytics in the settings we are now able to use that session data to create per game per hardware config badges that indicate game performance.

All I need from you all is to download this version and just start playing games haha over time these badges will start to populate as more users play games : )

Discord link: https://discord.gg/winhanced-1324139457972277299

u/EnigmaP3nguin — 8 days ago

WIP: Store progress is coming along well! wish list price notifications and calendar view are now built and functioning!

Hey everyone! I wanted to share a bit more progress about the Winhanced store tab! A few days ago I showed off an early look at the Discover page, but i now have wishlist with price notifications functioning, and a working calendar view. Would love to hear what everyone thinks? The idea is that this store will be introduced to early access as part of the next patch if I can get everything functioning the way i want it to, so I would love feedback.

Wishlist: The wishlist is one of my all-time favorite features, it works cross store, and can even import your current wishlist from Steam so you don't have to start over. and it has a baked in price monitor and notification system. if you set it up it will alert you via the whats new page when a game you have wishlisted falls below that threshold, additionally if a game on your wishlist gets a deal at all it will show as a row within the discover page.

Calendar: I really really love a good calendar. The idea of the calendar view is to help you keep track of the games you care about and when they are going to release. There are currently 4 views:

- Wishlist: This view breaks down the calendar to only show the games you have specifically wishlisted based on their release date if they have not come out yet.

- For you: This uses the Discover feeds Discovery engine to show a view of upcoming games that you might find interesting broken down by release date

- Anticipated: These are the games the industry at large is hotly anticipating

- Game pass: this is for you Gamepass lovers, Its a list of when all the games on Gamepass will be leaving so you can decide if you should finally play that one game you have been meaning to before it leaves the service.

Outside of the four main tabs, I am also experimentting with a sale tracker right now its just for steam but in the video you can see the example of the steam summer sale in the top right with the countdown, the app will let you know when a sale is coming up and highlight the timeline with that color so you can see how long the sale is going to last.

What do you all think! I am really really loving how this feature is coming out!

u/EnigmaP3nguin — 11 days ago

WIP: What if there was a single store where you could search for compare and track deals on games?

So just a heads up, this is VERY early work, so definitely provide feedback, but keep that in mind haha. I wanted to share my thinking for a major feature within Winhanced and the progress I have been making towards it.

The idea is a storefront agnostic storefront and game tracker built right within the app!

Winhanced is already ecosystem agnostic by nature, and you already import your entire library of games into it. The idea is that this storefront would take your tastes and full library into consideration and provide game recommendations based on the games you actually play and care about.

But that is not all, beyond just highly accurate recommendations, the store page also gives you the ability to search for any game, compare deals across other stores, read reviews watch game trailers and even wishlish and price monitor games.

what do you all think?

u/EnigmaP3nguin — 14 days ago

ASUS Laptop Questions

Hey there! I've got an ASUS gaming laptop that's about 6 years old at this point and it's mostly collecting dust. I realize Winhanced mostly seems geared towards PC handhelds, but I see can be used with other PCs. I've been tinkering with the laptop I mentioned, which doesn't have access to the FSE for whatever reason, and I can't seem to get Winhanced to launch on startup at all. I've got the necessary options selected in the application, but even after a few restarts it doesn't seem to wanna do its thing. Is there any troubleshooting I can try otherwise?

One other big question. This laptop does have a single dedicated Armory Crate software button. Would that get remapped like my ROG Ally X AC control panel? I realize they are fairly different functions, but seems like something that could work.

Thank you for your time, and thanks for the amazing work that's been done on this app!

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u/ThaBrettman18 — 11 days ago

Help with re enabling center M quick settings?

Hello dev.
I was wondering in case this doesnt work out for my claw 8ai how to get back the center m quick settings? There are a lot of different opinions online but since you are the man behind the code you would know best. I just reinstalled winhanced on my claw cause the custom tdp and resolution change menu was not working for me and thats how my question about center m quick settings came up.

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u/Livid_Tap8550 — 13 days ago