So here is where things are at. This version of Winhanced includes:
- the new “living glass” UI
- full support for ANY device: this means handhelds, living room setup, laptops and desktops as well! 🤞
- full controller, keyboard/mouse, and touch screen navigation (yes including the long awaited analog stick)
- Winhanced Onboarding experience (for now only includes library setup)
- Access to both installed and owned games for our 3 main supported libraries, with the ability to install games
- the ability to add any game executable to an “Other” library
- in app settings menu (right now this only includes settings for library management)
- game launching splash screen
- app launching splash screen with more insight into what is going on
What this release does not include:
- Any and all things relating to our overlay or Windows OS management
- controller remapping
- TDP/ frame limiting management
- Task switching
- universal pause and better sleep/wake
These features will be slowly added back to this version over time, for now I wanted to focus on getting the universal library and UI right.
So when and how can you access this?
As much as I want to just release this to the world, we have learned a lot in the last few months when it comes to testing and build rollouts.
So firstly I will be releasing the test build specifically to Patreon subscribers and Discord supporter plus members first.
This is 1, a much smaller pool of people to test with, and 2 it brings a bit more value to the folks who have chosen to support us out of the kindness of their hearts.
After 2-3 weeks of testing with that group of people we will release to the broader public.
I think this will also be the roll out plan for updates to the new version of Winhanced moving forward as well.
It’s been a hectic month building this version out by myself, and there will be bugs, but at this point it’s stable enough to test with a broader user group, and I could really use the testers with different devices to really fine tune it before more broadly releasing.