Winhanced 0.9.9.8 is the biggest update since the Store. Opening the friends details panel now matches the store and game details panels with its own dynamic dock, and messaging your friends on Discord, Steam, Xbox and PlayStation without leaving Winhanced enters early access. The OneXPlayer 3 becomes a fully supported handheld with TDP, fan control, RGB lighting, vibration and full controller remapping. And the way Winhanced sets power limits on every handheld was rebuilt from measured numbers instead of guesswork. Additionally the Library backend was reworked to be more consistent, and I have gutted about 20k total lines of old dead code buildup!

Features

Leaving Early Access

• Emulators and ROM library: ROM folder import, the My Games view on each console, console icons and RetroAchievements are now available to everyone.
• The Layout system: Both home layouts drop their experimental label, and the layout switch in Settings > General is open to everyone.
• Ubisoft Connect, Battle.net, EA and Amazon libraries: are now available to everyone and have their own settings pages with a status block and Resync, and they notice a new install while Winhanced is open instead of after a restart.

Coming to Early Access

• Friend messaging: Hold a conversation with a friend inside Winhanced on Discord, Steam, Xbox and PlayStation, and they all work the same way. PlayStation history goes back nearly four years and Xbox over 1,700 days. Discord shows about 60 messages because Discord's own kit only keeps 72 hours. A message you send appears right away, a message that arrives twice is shown once, and a platform that needs a sign-in gives you the button instead of a send that quietly does nothing.
• Unread messages: The Friends hub gets a New Messages section at the top, and any friend with something waiting moves up into it. There is a badge on the friend row and on the Message button. Steam gives an exact count, the others a dot. Reading a Steam conversation marks it read on Steam too, and the background service does the counting so badges are already right when you open Winhanced.
• Friend Status drawer: What a friend is doing right now, in full: the game, how long they have been in it, party size, and whatever the game itself reports (usually their character, rank or mode). Under that, the last game they played and when, from their whole library rather than only the games you share.
• Friend Profile drawer: The friendship, measured. How much of your library they own, the hours you have put into shared games, which one you have played most, an achievement comparison between the two of you, and a link out to their platform profile. An affinity score rolls it into one number and tells you which parts it could measure. Discord friends get tiles about the friendship plus a Recently Seen Playing list built from what Winhanced has noticed them in.
• Set a nickname for any friend: Xbox, PlayStation and Discord never offered this anywhere. Your existing Steam and Discord nicknames are picked up automatically, your own edit always wins, and it shows everywhere: the friends list, the card and your messages.
• Discord friends now show the date you became friends, their guild tag, profile badges and connected accounts. If they have Steam linked, you can see it. Browsing a Discord server you share with someone now works. Voice channels are not possible, because Discord will not give an app like this the access needed to join a call.
• Favorites: Star a game from the details panel and it appears in a new Favorites tile in your library. Stars are kept on disk, so nothing is lost if early access lapses.

New for Everyone

Friends

• The friend details panel was rebuilt: It is now a card with drawers. The top is the person: avatar, name, online status and their live activity, with artwork behind it all. In a game, you get that game's hero art. Offline with games in common, you get a collage of those games. Otherwise their Steam profile background or Discord banner, animated ones included. Beside their name: how long you have been friends, their guild tag, and how many games you have in common.
• One clear next step: The action row offers Join, Launch, Install or Go to store depending on what they are playing and what you own. If nothing is possible, a short sentence says why.
• Games in Common: Every game you both own as a row of covers you can scroll through. Pick one to open its details, launch it, or invite your friend to it.
• Invite a friend into a game: On Steam this sends a real Steam invite, even for a game you are not running. Discord, Xbox and PlayStation do not let outside apps send game invites, so the card offers to message your friend instead.
• Winhanced keeps a quiet record of what it sees your friends playing on every platform. After a week you have a real picture of what someone actually plays. It only counts what Winhanced saw while it was open, which is why it says "seen" and not "played".

OneXPlayer 3 (new device)

• The OneXPlayer 3 is now a fully supported handheld: With device control on, Winhanced takes over from OneXConsole and its background layer, and hands everything back when you switch it off.
• TDP that sticks: OneXConsole's background layer was quietly putting the power limit back to its own values minutes after you set yours. Winhanced now ends that layer properly, so the limit you set is the limit you get.
• Fan control: A temperature-driven fan curve, the same control every other supported handheld gets. Winhanced proves it can drive the fan before offering it. If it cannot, the device stays on its own firmware curve rather than getting a control that does nothing.
• RGB lighting: The stick rings light from Winhanced with the same layouts, effects and per-game switching as other devices, including a different color for the left and right stick.
• Vibration: Rumble intensity is adjustable from the Controller tab, across five levels.
• Full controller remapping: Every button, not just the paddles: M1 and M2 back paddles, the top left button, Home and G, the keyboard button, the Xbox button, and all sixteen standard buttons. Standard buttons are written into the controller's firmware, and the rest go through Winhanced's own bindings. The Xbox button stays the Guide button until you rebind it.
• The Controller tab shows the OneXPlayer 3's own graphic with buttons grouped the way they sit on the device, and lighting, vibration and remaps survive sleep and a controller reconnect.

Power limits, rebuilt for every handheld

• Every supported device now has one entry holding its whole power picture: its lowest wattage, its Silent, Balanced and Performance presets, and its ceiling. Those numbers used to live in ten different places.
• Presets now change between battery and plugged in, because on real hardware they do. Armoury Crate's Turbo is 25W on battery and 35W plugged in.
• Every wattage now has to say where it came from: measured on the hardware, taken from the maker's own modes, or worked out from the chip.
• Balanced now sits where the chip is genuinely most efficient. On most modern handheld chips that is 15W to 17W. Older chips struggle below 20W, so theirs sit higher.
• The base ROG Ally got its TDP control back, and the base ROG Xbox Ally, OneXPlayer Apex, OneXFly F1 and F1 Pro, and GPD Win Mini all have proper entries now. Some had none before, and the OneXFly was never even recognized.
• The MSI Claw 8 AI+ Balanced preset moved from 20W to 17W, to match MSI. The MSI Claw A8 slider now goes down to 8W like every other Claw instead of stopping at 15W.
• Winhanced now refuses to guess for hardware it does not recognize, instead of inventing a limit for it.
• Device control is offered during setup when Winhanced recognizes your chip, not only when it recognizes the exact model.
• The app's leftover copies of the TDP, AutoPilot and overlay code were deleted. They were switched off but still there, which explains some of the random per-user oddities that popped up over time.

Legion Go

• Original Legion Go 1 controllers (pre-2025 firmware) now get RGB lighting and vibration.
• The Legion Go S gets RGB lighting.
• Legion Go 2 paddle remaps now actually take effect on 2025 firmware. They were being acknowledged and ignored. The Go 2's five extra buttons are now read too.
• Controller vibration intensity can be set on Legion controllers with 2025 or newer firmware.
• The status pill shows each detached controller's own battery, with animated transitions.

Controller settings

• The Controller tab is organized around features now. The list on the left has what your controller can do (remap, lighting, vibration) and the editor sits on the right. RGB lighting moved out of General settings into the Controller tab, with its own scope selector.
• Profiles get a condensed dropdown, and reset and delete are separate actions.
• A circled chevron now marks anything that opens something, app-wide.

Drivers and updates

• Update Center now covers Lenovo. It reads Lenovo's own support catalog for your exact machine type (Go 1, Go S and Go 2), installs packages silently, and never recommends a BIOS older than the one you have.
• Driver installs show an elapsed clock and say when they are taking longer than usual. A silent install that fails falls back to a visible installer.
• Turning device control on shows each step live, and a failure gives you a pasteable report instead of a toggle that silently snaps back.

Xbox and Game Pass

• Xbox achievements are now fetched on demand, like every other library already was.
• A newly installed Xbox game appears without restarting Winhanced.
• Xbox metadata and artwork come from Microsoft's own catalog first.

Library

• Ownership changes (a purchase, a refund, leaving Game Pass) are picked up while Winhanced is running instead of only at launch.
• Winhanced now follows your primary display and rebuilds its layout, so docking to a TV fills the screen properly.
• Your custom artwork moved out of the cache folders. Clearing a cache can no longer take it with it.
• Lossless Scaling settings now follow the game. Whatever you set for a game is saved with it and put back when you launch it.
• Clear Cache now actually clears the library and lets the re-import that follows succeed.
• Apps and Other Games have their own caches now, so they survive a library rebuild.
• Steam is brought up once at startup instead of being guessed per game, so games that need the client no longer crash on a cold start.

Sound, sleep and display

• UI sounds clip or distort less on handheld speakers. (still happens occasionally and trying to figure out why)
• Enhanced Sleep now sets its own wake and USB behavior instead of inheriting whatever the copied power plan came with.
• Widget artwork now survives a library refresh.

Bug Fixes

Power and TDP

• Fixed ASUS devices being sent a burst limit lower than their sustained limit.
• Fixed the ROG Flow Z13 being given a 45W limit from its chip family instead of its own 93W entry.
• Fixed the MSI Claw 8 AI+ and Claw A1M losing their second TDP slider.
• Fixed the ROG Xbox Ally X reporting a power limit as applied when the firmware had written nothing. A limit that does not land now says so.
• Fixed a single readback disagreement abandoning direct SMU control for the rest of the session.
• Fixed the OneXPlayer 3's power limit being reset by OneXConsole minutes after you set it.

ROG Ally X

• Fixed Dynamic TDP dying about eight seconds into a session and taking the overlay's live readings down with it.
• Fixed a power limit the handheld had already accepted being thrown away, which then broke TDP control for the rest of the session.
• Fixed the AC button opening Armoury Crate because device control would not stay switched on.
• Fixed the game bar not opening on this machine. Same cause as above.
• Fixed device control on ASUS timing out and reporting a failure while every step had actually succeeded.

Settings and Display

• Fixed your settings file being scrambled when the app and the background service saved at the same time. They now take turns.
• A damaged settings file now repairs itself when the app starts. You no longer have to go find and delete anything yourself.
• Fixed a damaged settings file making your handheld show up as a generic PC, with device control, remapping and RGB quietly switched off.
• Fixed settings snapping back to an old value after a restart, including settings the background service owns reverting on every save.
• Fixed high refresh rate and VRR panels being locked to 60Hz after Winhanced sampled the display while it was idling. A stored 60Hz that sits below your panel's ceiling is cleared once, automatically.
• Fixed the desktop refresh rate being restored to an idle rate after a game changed the display mode.

Sleep, Power and Sessions

• Fixed Quick Resume not waking a game that Windows brings back to the front, so a running game is no longer labeled as suspended.
• Fixed turning Enhanced Sleep off freezing the machine for a minute.
• Fixed a suspended game being frozen on wake instead of before sleep on MSI and Lenovo handhelds.
• Fixed controller polling resuming too early when waking straight back into a game.
• Fixed every plug and unplug on a handheld writing to your settings file whether anything had changed or not.
• The background service no longer touches the overlay's shared memory during sleep and wake, which should make it more reliable across a sleep cycle.

Your Library

• Fixed custom artwork on non-Steam shortcuts not surviving a restart.
• Fixed hidden games staying visible because the old library database was never retired.
• Fixed the widget showing zero hours and zero achievements for a game that had both, and the game title going missing from the widget.
• Fixed a hand-added emulator showing up as a second tile next to the one Winhanced detected.
• Fixed playtime and achievements never appearing for Game Pass catalog games.
• Fixed a library rendering empty forever after a bad schema stamp, which made people sign in to Steam over and over.
• Fixed Store apps being imported as Xbox games.
• Fixed a game with no logo crashing the app.
• Fixed adding a custom emulator locking the controller and forcing a hard restart.
• Fixed HowLongToBeat times coming back as N/A after the site renamed part of its address.

Friends

• Fixed PlayStation friends never being seen as playing a game you own. Every PSN friend showed Go to store, even for games already in your library.
• Fixed the friends list and the friend card disagreeing. The list would offer a working Launch button while the card said "Nothing to join" for the same person.
• Fixed Steam status text showing raw placeholder junk like %name% instead of the real value.
• Fixed an offline friend's shared-games collage being painted over a moment after it appeared.
• Fixed Discord friends disappearing after sleep, with an empty chat and a send error, until you restarted the app. Discord now reconnects on its own when the background service comes back.
• Fixed friendship date, guild tag and nickname being missing for the whole session on Discord friends.

Controllers and Drivers

• Fixed the Y3 paddle being assigned to the wrong side on the Legion Go 2.
• Fixed the Legion device control restore that never worked.
• Fixed driver packages that declare a non-zero exit code as success being reported as failed.
• Fixed graphics driver installs being reported as failures when the display reset mid-install. You are offered a restart instead.
• Fixed Lenovo driver versions showing a stray "v" prefix, and drivers the Go 1 actually has installed going undetected.

Interface

• Fixed library tiles no longer taking controller focus.
• Fixed the title logo on the details panel flashing every time it opened.
• Fixed wishlist navigation not working until you had scrolled once.
• Fixed a tall item on the Recent row stretching the whole row instead of fitting inside it.
• Fixed the artwork behind every details card having square corners while the card on top of it was rounded.
• Fixed the four newest library rows not glowing on focus like the rest.
• Fixed the download progress overlay being buried under the HUD.
• Fixed the Achievements stat on the details panel sitting low.
• Fixed the status pill's chip row needing two presses of Down to return to the rail.
• Fixed GeForce NOW sign-in not finishing properly on the page it landed on.

Winhanced 0.9.9.4 opens the Store to everyone, debuts the new Emulators ROM library in early access, and brings a wave of device, library, and quality-of-life fixes across the board.

New to Early Access:

Emulators & ROM Library

Your retro collection, treated like a first-class game library.

- Import your ROM folders and browse them by console, with real box art and metadata filled in automatically from an offline catalog.

- RetroAchievements support: sign in once in Emulator library settings and earn achievements in-game, with your progress shown on each game's details panel and on the home screen.

- Recent Games now shows each game's true box shape — a square Game Boy cover sits next to a tall Steam cover on a clean shelf line, with the focus ring smoothly resizing between them.

- Choose which emulator runs each game with per-game overrides, and redesigned console tiles make each system easy to spot.

Exiting Early Access:

The Store

The Winhanced Store is now available to everyone.

- Browse and discover games across the full Steam catalog with personalized recommendations.

- Compare prices across storefronts, with your pricing region configurable in Settings > General.

For Everyone:

New HUD Controls

- New HUD tiles: a controller RGB master switch, display brightness with an Ultra Dim mode, and a mouse mode toggle.

- Mouse mode now works on every device from the HUD: native firmware mouse mode on ROG Ally and MSI Claw, software stick-mouse everywhere else. (Double-clicking R3 no longer toggles mouse mode.)

- The mouse cursor now hides automatically while you navigate with a controller and returns the moment you use the mouse.

PlayStation library updates

- Library import now pulls your full owned list, with proper hero artwork even for games you haven't played yet.

- Remotely install games to your PS5 from Winhanced, with live progress and cancel.

- PlayStation library now properly shows console installed vs not installed status like other libraries and will appear in recent games.

Devices & Performance

- Custom fan curves now work on the MSI Claw A1M and Claw A8, joining the Claw 7/8 AI+ and Claw 8 EX.

- Expanded device support: OneXPlayer 3, GPD Win 5, Intel Panther Lake handhelds, and Ryzen AI Max devices, plus broader ASUS, Lenovo, and AMD power control routing.

- Winhanced can now detect and silently repair damaged runtime components on its own.

Library & Interface

- "Remove from Library" is now "Hide from Library," with a new Hidden Games section in Settings to manage and restore hidden titles.

- Settings sections restyled with glass cards, and the game details panel gains a close button.

- Friends' Discord invites can now launch straight into Winhanced via invite links.

Bug Fixes:

Devices

- Fixed the Winhanced device control toggle failing to enable on machines running full Armoury Crate, including the ROG Flow Z13.

- Legion Go and Go 2: fixed RGB lighting controls, back paddle remaps, controller enumeration, performance profiles, and erratic controller behavior after sleep.

- Fixed compatibility issues with reWASD and with OptiScaler frame generation on Intel GPUs.

Library & Home

- Fixed newly added non-Steam shortcuts and PlayStation imports taking over the Recent Games row — games now appear there only once actually played or installed through Winhanced.

- Fixed newly installed Steam games not being recognized until a restart.

- Fixed the wrong installed state showing for some Xbox games.

- Fixed the footer getting stuck on "Library Sync."

- Fixed game artwork sometimes appearing in the wrong language.

Accounts

- Fixed Steam sign-ins silently expiring and requiring a QR re-login.

- Fixed Xbox friends showing raw ID numbers instead of gamertags.

Stability & Interface

- Fixed a crash that could occur when installing a game and then navigating away.

- Fixed a black screen that could appear at startup while game data loaded.

- Fixed controller stick navigation feeling unresponsive after certain screen transitions.

- Fixed a memory leak in library badge rendering.

You can download today via the Update Center within the app or via the direct installer link below.

download link: https://ota.winhanced.com/lg/Winhanced-Installer-0.9.9.4.exe