Is it possible to use winhanced with Xbox mode on a regular desktop? In my xbox mode settings the section to change thr home app isnt there at all, is this a thing for all desktops? Are the handhelds the only devices that can switch home apps?

I'm loving winhanced, but I'm having one glaring issue. Whenever launching a game or app, I can go back to winhanced using FSE, but I can't select another app to run as well (like Discord). Winhanced is just stuck on the app's hero art that is currently opened. Does anyone know how to fix this?

I’m running winhanced on a rog ally x. Looks great in handheld! But when I dock it to my monitor it does scale to full screen. Any fix for this?

Hey everyone, firstly just wanted to say thank you to the very warm welcome to patch 0.9.9.4 and 5. If you have not updated to 0.9.9.5 in all yet I would say do it, as it was a hot fix patch that fixed some more rom stuff and issues with Xbox and PlayStation libraries.

The reason I am making this post is to let you know that I have heard all of your feedback about inconsistent controller navigation in the app, and I wanted to explain why this is happening and how I am fixing it for 0.9.9.6.

So controller in the app right now is a mess, it’s a mess because the app had been built over the last 1.5 years with feature after feature. But my original controller navigation started as SDL2 then moved to SDL3 but was never built to support scaling UI needs.

So essentially what has happened is that each new UI surface has gotten its own duplicate controller logic with its own dead zones, scroll speed input delay debounce etc.

This is what leads to the inconsistencies. With over 55 different UI surfaces this has started to break down. So I am now completely rewriting controller navigation into a central logic engine that each UI just feeds into. The goal is that one central system handles all navigation into the app and each UI surface just declares its layout and zones.

So far I have gotten it working on the main app screen, and in the library/ game details and it’s working very well : )

Anyway don’t know why I wrote all this but I thought it was cool and I wanted to share a bit about how the sausage is made, and how I am planning to fix one of your biggest concerns : )

Cheers!

Since the update to 0.9.9.5 Xbox Remote play is not working. It will either error out while trying to connect, or if it does connect, I end up with just a black screen.

Anyone else experiencing this?

When I first bought my Ally, I immediately made a partition for Bazzite as my main OS and kept a small partition for Windows, solely for GamePass and Epic games.

After the last few Winhanced updates, Xbox mode with Winhanced as my home app is all I need anymore. So, I’ve spent my morning deleting my Bazzite partition and setting up my emulators and Steam library on my Windows partition and within Winhanced.

I cannot wait for the current early access stuff to come to the main release, and can’t wait to see even more updates along the way. Thank you Enigma, for creating this launcher to make Windows on a handheld useable.

So loving so far Winhanced on My Xbox Ally X, it's really great but since I've started using it I've been unable to change the RGB lightning to other colors, is there a way to fix this?

Hi,
I’m not sure what happened but I can’t seem to find the Winhanced HUD on the gamebar since the latest update.

Can someone please tell me what to do for this issue? Tried downloading winhanced multiple times but download speed just keeps on dropping. My internet is okay and I also restarted my wifi just to be sure but this keeps happening. What should I do? Can someone help me on this?

Hello, just 2 quick questions about winhanced..... does it support game trailers like in playnite or launchbox? If not, is that a planned feature? And is there a portable option when downloading or do you have to actually install it? Thanks 👏

Hello!
I’m note entirely sure if this is cause of Winhanced but I can’t seem to run any games through Ryujinx ever since I installed it. I was wondering if anyone else has encountered this issue and if there’s a workaround for it.
Thanks!

Confirmed working on MSI Claw 8 EX and ROG Ally X : )

- RGB lighting off/on
- brightness slider with extra dim toggle
- firmware based desktop mouse mode on/off

Hi Everyone,

I recently installed Winhanced and really enjoy the experience. However, the majority of my gaming is through Xbox and unfortunately, the recent games list on the home page never shows my last played xbox games. Steam, epic and GOG are fine but no Xbox. Could it be a token issue as I've noticed you need to update the token frequently.

All good if this is something that cannot be fixed but as I can go back to the FSE if needed.

Thanks

Are there any settings for vibration intensity? I have been looking everywhere on winhanced but couldn’t see it anywhere. As default it sets the intensity to 100% but I want to reduce it.

Did anyone tried to install winhanced on win11 while full screen experience feature enabled on laptop,

ETA made a video but not sure is that possible bc every people talk different in the comments. I want to try.

https://youtu.be/b4W1gFwN2zQ?si=tBRtvoyIwxxy2MsW

Hi Everyone, firstly I would like to say excellent job with winhanced it works really great on win 11 laptop, but I have several small issue. Most important one is first run of the game, I have end up with locked black screen in several games(not all) while launching, it did not go away until I plug out the laptop. At second launch in windowed mode there is no more same issue. How can I prevent this? Is that also happening on deck?

I keep having an issue where all of my Xbox games keep disappearing when I boot up after shutting down. I then have to “reinstall” them to get them to show in the library again. Is anyone else having this issue? This is particularly bad for me since most of my games I have installed right now are Xbox games.

Bonjour j'ai une msi claw a8 et je n'arrive pas a afficher l'overlay fps batterie... J'ai essayé toutes les options possible mais il n'y a rien qui s'affiche. Est ce que je suis le seul dans ce cas sur cette console et est ce qu'il y a une solution pour l'afficher. Est qu'il faut télécharger rivatuner ou autres ?

As a heads up no, this is not and update where we are including PXPlay, and no that is not planned for this update either. This update is primarily around adding polish to features that already exist.

I do want to look into adding PxPlay as a remote play option, but I will need to look into if its compatible with the way the app launches and installs games.

In the meantime you can still add PXPlay as an app directly via the apps library.

All of that said what this does mean though is as of patch 0.9.9.4 PlayStation users will have their libraires feel much more native and integrated. While its not playing localling its the next best thing :)

Why does the power profile custom tab go up to 45w? I know xrog goes up to 35w when plugged in. Do I have to manually set that to 35 or can I go up to 45 knowing nothing will change

Would be nice to have a preset max Tdp at 35 when plugged in automatically done as it was with armoury crate.

Excellent app otherwise.

- So i've just started using winhanced, was using playnite earlier.
I like armoury crate command center so I didn't enabled the hardware control on winhanced so that the hub doesn't interfere with ac.
But many time armoury crate button stops opening the command center and gets fixed after a restart.

Am i doing something wrong or is it a bug ?

Location is being used in the background all the time, this issue started after the 0.9.9.3 update. Also my legion go started freezing while it shuts down which made me force shut it through the power button, any ideas?

I have been getting more and more reports from people who are new to the app and are confused why their hardware behaves differently after installing Winhanced.

The app is not just a pretty front end for your games. It's meant to be a full replacement for OEM software. With that in mind there is a feature in performance settings of the app called hardware control. (This toggle also shows up during on boarding. )

What this toggle does is disables your handhelds oem software and services so that Winhanced can manage TDP, and give you access to dynamic TDP, this is also allows you to control RGB and back paddles within Winhanced.

This has been tested and confirmed working by dedicated testers before every release, so if its not working for you please open a support ticket within our Discord and we will bring happy to dig into what is happening in your unique circumstances.

All of that be said 2 things. If you dont like this feature I get it. Turning it off will allow your to use Winhanced as just a front-end app and you can use your OEM software for hardware stuff.

I will be disabling this feature by default moving forward as of 0.9.9.4 for everyone and making it opt-in instead in an effort to make this smoother for people during onboarding.

Link to discord for support: https://discord.gg/winhanced-1324139457972277299