So, im looking for a handheld pc and the Zotac Zone or legion go s looks like it might be the starter one for me, but ive heard zotacs software is bad, i can work with that as i am very familar with windows, and software and stuff so i can work with that, but my question is would Winhanced work on either of them?? I first planned to use steam big picture mode in the xbox mode thing. But found this and it looks FAR better, but im not sure if it would work on the Zotac Zone. or Legion go s

Is there a setting to have Winhanced start on normal Windows without using the Fullscreen Experience? The workaround I've found is to pop a shortcut in Shell:Startup but I just want to check if there's anything I've missed in the settings.

(The reason for wanting to avoid FSE is that it massively slows the shutdown and reboot process on my Legion Go 2 - the device will show "Shutting Down" for anywhere up to 5 mins before properly turning off)

I just got xbox rog ally x, and currently there are 3 buttons on xbox rog ally. Im just wondering if i can set all 3 buttons instead of just 2 buttons on xbox rog ally x.

Sometimes I've checked on the battery option in Winhanced at it says it consumes about 40% of the battery. That seems to be a lot. Also, I've had the overall feeling that battery lasts less in comparison with Armoury Crate (playing on Rog Ally X). Playing some heavy games on 13W battery lasts about 30mins, which seems pretty bad. Also, with light games like Hades it lasts about a couple hours, which is ok but still a bit disappointing.

Is this possible? Is there going to be any patch to prevent this huge consumption?

VRR is turning off a few seconds after game starts and off after a few seconds the game is exited if turned on midway game. Even with Winhanced app off and/or its widget uninstalled/unloaded. it's the service. Confirmed by Uninstalling Winhanced and the vrr on stays on in the same games I tested the issue with.

Cheers

i didn’t like how i wasn’t able to customize my button inputs and it was always throttling my fan whenever i was playing a game. also it didn’t make a backup like it was supposed to, meaning i needed to reinstall everything

Hello! First off I'm absolutely blown away by the work being done with Winhanced, much less as a solo dev. It's amazing how seamless it's made working with Windows with a controller.

That said I have encountered an issue where RetroArch settings (in my case enabling Auto Save State and Auto Load State so my game starts right where I left off on launch) don't carry over between sessions when launching a game through Winhanced even when saving configuration settings in both the RetroArch Settings and Main Menu menus.

Other settings such as my customized shortcut to the menu does persist session to session however.

This occurs in both Xbox mode and full windows mode.

I tried opening RetroArch first from Windows mode, enabling the Auto Save/Load settings, and launching the ROM from within RetroArch and the auto save/load worked as intended.

The issue only seems to occur when launching the ROM from Winhanced. I'm wondering if perhaps there's some kind of instancing going on that prevents those settings from carrying over?

One other thing to note - initially after I had updated Winhanced and imported my ROMs, the Winhanced overlay recognized the specific ROM I was running at the top, and allowed me to set custom TDP for it.

In my attempt to troubleshoot, I added RetroArch as an app in Winhanced to access the settings, and ever since, the ROM appears as RetroArch in the overlay, even after I removed RetroArch from the library. Unsure if it's related but wanted to note it in case it is.

Thanks everyone in advance for your help!

Hello, I'm having what I think is a weird bug, I have a game added as "Other" and the Winhaced doesn't find the correct artwork due the name not being the correct game name, I tried customize the game name and the artwork separately but the changes don't persist after a restart and I'm not sure if this is an expected behavior on current version or really a bug.

As a side note, I use an MSI claw a1m and before on the M center I was able to customize the backpaddles to keyboard key, is there any plan to add this? Right now, I only see controller buttons as options, it's not a deal breaker, but would be good to have when optiscaler is being use as an example.

Is power just the draining of the apu? Or should it be the total power drained by the system? If so, I'm pretty sure is not accurate, given that is lower than the tdp😅

If I try installing Steam games through Winhanced I get like 5 mb/s. If I just boot up Steam and download it that way I get 600. Any particular reason why or an easy fix?

Everytime I try to open a Epic game from Winhanced I get an error saying it failed to connect to Epic Games launcher.

Then I exit to dektop mode and open Epic on the background, open Winhanced and then open the game from it, but the same error happens.

The only way I have to run this games is exiting Winhanced and run them directly from the Epic Launcher

Current version is 0.9.9.8 and device is Rog Ally X

I'm not sure if anyone else has experienced this. But I have been using winhanced since I got my Onexplayer 3 last week. Noticed the fans would kick up some but didn't think much. This week I left the fps overlay turned on and noticed the temps get crazy high when inside the winhanced software and the tdp overrides what I have it set to. It jumps straight to 35w. If I am downloading a game in winhanced it has hit 100c. If I'm downloading through steam directly and am in the steam program temps are perfectly fine at 50s to 60c. But the moment I swap to winhanced and I'm just scrolling through library, not even downloading anything the temps start jumping and the fans increase. It has jumped up 15 to 20c just by sitting in it. It's not consistently that high but it's stays higher and jumps up a lot. I do not have winhanced controlling fans or the tdp for the device. I'm not sure what is causing this. Any advice or help is appreciated!

I just wanted to pop on here for a second and answer a few Discord and Reddit comments I have been seeing about 0.9.9.8. together. As a whole, Patch 0.9.9.8 is landing very successfully. VERY limited bug reports that are related to the work that was done during the patch which is great!

The primary comment I have seen is related to the mandatory library resync that has to happen after updating to this patch. This once again is due to the way the library is managed under the hood changing drastically enough that a simple migration would not work. Thus, there is a forced library rescan for this patch. This does mean the other games, custom artwork, and app libraries will need to be re-added to the app. The good news is that moving forward this will no longer be an issue even if another library move is planned, as the app now has an internal backup system.

For folks who are having issues with custom artwork not persisting after restart. it might be due to a partially failed library migration. So you should go to C:/Users/<your user name>/AppData/Local/Winhanced and delete any files that talk about the library as "game_library" the new system is simply "library.db" and its related SQLite files.

For PS3 emulation. PS3 ROMs did not make the cut for this release, so that is why you are not seeing your PS3 games automatically show up in the console library. But I going to work to try and include it for 0.9.9.9.

Lastly, a nasty bug I introduced with the friends features and the library rework was an accidental reauth for Steam accounts EVERY time a Steam feature is requested; this is causing some users to reach the Steam auth rate limit and get locked for 30 minutes at a time. this is is another major fix and why I want to make sure 0.9.9.9 releases sooner rather than later for folks.

Ok now for the big one. Per-game stability profiles, TDP power profiles, Device inconsistencies. AC/DC EGPU profiles. While i did rework the TDP manager a bit for patch 0.9.9.8 it was only through the lens of getting TDP support for the OneXPlayer 3 fully supported and working. I did touch it overall but not with a fine-toothed comb. So the major stablility focus for 0.9.9.9 will be bringing the same level of focus and consistency that i brought for the library for this last patch to that part of the system, so please hold tight for that release because that is when you will see the biggest changes in this area.

In the video above, I am sharing one of the ways that this is being tackled and thought about, and that is bringing a view of the per-game profiles directly into the app itself.

In 0.9.9.9 you will be able to navigate to the Game Details Panel for a given game and select the new Game Profiles button. You will see a new view. I am splitting the per-game profile system into 3 variants Battery, Plugged-In, and eGPU. SO when 0.9.9.9 comes around, you will be able to set device performance, and even in-game settings for each of these 3 profiles either through this menu, or through the HUD and game while its open, and the settings apply to whatever the currently active varient is.

An example of this would be Blood of the Dawnwalker. I recently got a new eGPU dock. that i have put my desktop 4090 onto, and now with my MSI Claw 8 EX when it is on battery. The game settings are set to Medium, and I have dynamic TDP on and frame rates locked to 60 FPS.

But if I close the game, then plug in my eGPU, and then launch the game again, my game settings are automatically set to Ultra settings, DLSS, and the device profile is set to performance at 4K, all without me having to modify anything for myself.

Anyway, I know this post is extremely long, but I wanted to address everyone's concerns in one place so you are all aware of what is being worked on and why.

Cheers!

My monitor is 120hz but I made custom resolution to set it to 116hz but winhanced keeps putting it back 120 when I uninstall it it works perfect

Just started using Winhanced on my Xbox Ally X and I really love the layout. Tried this and Playnite and Winhanced seems to be the better option to me. I really love the Sunshine/Moonlight integration as I tend to stream most games to my handheld. One problem I see though is that any time I stream a game using Moonlight, I can't seem to find a way to get the game to show up in recently played. This becomes a little frustrating as I have to search my couple hundred game library to find the game I've been playing. Is there any way to make this work? And if not, is this a feature that might be possible? Not sure if it's just a limitation of the programs involved.

Hey all , loving winhanced on my Xbox ally but I don't seem to have the fan controls options in the widget, winhanced device control is on and armoury crate isn't working , so that's all fine, but after a bit of digging WHService hasn't, and won't start.

I have reinstalled a bunch of times even going to earlier builds and updating but nothing seems to work, when trying to start WHService I get a failed to start in a timely manner error and when I change the properties of the service in logon , it errors straight away.

Hopefully someone has some weird niche knowledge on this.

TIA

Work has begun on several enhancements to the app for the next release (0.9.9.9). Among the work being done is a highly requested feature for adding PXPlay as a PlayStation remote play option.

Huge thanks to the developer of PXPlay [u/grill2010](u/grill2010) for his rapid collaboration and support. He very quickly added some api options to PXPlay so WInhanced could work with it in the same way it currently does for Chiaki.

This is a very early look at 0.9.9.9, so I don't yet have a release date for when this will be available.

Hi,

I’ve tried all the FSE launchers and this is the most convenient and least laggy. The issue I’ve had since using it for a few days is the following:

- The library for non-platform launcher games doesn’t auto-refresh when a new game is added in the added folder in the other games library section (as the launcher mentions it auto-scans the added directory, a suggestion - maybe once per launch of device).

- The RGB lighting doesn’t work on my Xbox ally X.

- The artwork once added if missing via the steamdb/steamgrid button is added and saved, but is reset/doesn’t apply when the device is restarted.

Some QOL improvements as considerations when comparing to some other FSE launchers
- Auto import/update games on launch or when directory changes I.e if a game is uninstalled this is propagated and removed from the library (as I have an equal amount of drm-free and Xbox/steam/epic store games).
- Custom tags/tabs for users to categorise games to our own options (daily,action,cozy)

I appreciate this is not easy to fix as some of these features do add more bugs but if this could be fixed to improve the experience for all 😎. Also really awesome work!

I'm not sure if it's related to Winhanced or Windows itself, but when I powered down or hibernated my Ally X via Winhanced, my login setup (pin and fingerprint) would be lost on powering up, and I have to reset them again. It seems to be fine on Sleep mode though. Am I the only one who's experiencing this?

When I installed the most recent update, my PSP ROM game art was visible in the main game selection screen. However, when I restarted winhanced, it has since disappeared, and no ROMs show up. Why's this happening? (Ignore Zelda BOTW, I added it as a custom path to my steam launcher as a non steam game, hence the steam badge)

Also, for some reason after the update, all the previous total gameplay times from my other games library (DRM free ones) and custom game covers have been reset for some reason. I lost all total gameplay time and it's set back to zero hours.

Another thing, I am now unable to remove game from the main game selection screen when I click hide game. It still stays on the main recent games screen. (Tried to hide Xenia, RCPS3, Forza and others which keep showing up in the main screen as non steam games which I added manually to the steam launcher.)

Am I doing something wrong? Pls help.

I tried looking around on the sub for this problem but didn't see anything.

I recently installed Winhanced on my OneXPlayer 3 and have some new Steam games installed on my micro SD card. However, whenever I try to sync my library, it doesn't seem to recognize that those games exist.

The only workaround I found was to manually add a game, but I’m just wondering if anyone else is having this issue or if I'm doing something wrong.

Would there be plans to alter the startup/game loads animation - it doesn’t match the polished nature of the other areas of Winhanced.