The main window¶

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| File View Help |
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| Game [ saved games dropdown ......... ] [Add game...] [Start][Restart][Kill]| Game bar
| [Scan][Monitor 1][Monitor 2][Stability][Focus] [Destroy][Reset All][Shutdown] | Main actions
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| | HWND | Title | Class | Status | PID | X | Y | W | H | | Window table
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| [ Window | Position & Size | Presets | Downscale | Display | Game config | GPU & Power | Capture | HelixSR | Magpie | Reports ] | Tabs
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| | controls for the selected tab | |
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| status message Magpie FSR: 1280 × 720 → 1920 × 1080 (150 %) Focus exe | Status bar
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Game bar¶
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Dropdown | Your saved games. Type to filter. Picking one makes it the target. |
| Add game... | Register an .exe/.bat/.cmd and name it. Steam games are added by themselves. |
| Start | Launch the selected game. If a game is already running, asks whether to close it first (a game is never started twice). |
| Restart | Terminate it, then launch it again. |
| Kill | Terminate it. |
More in Games and launching.
Main actions¶
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Scan | Read the window list again and pick the best window (the list also follows the game by itself). |
| Monitor 1 / Monitor 2 | Move the selected window to that monitor (the current one is green). |
| Stability | While on, if the game moves or resizes its window away from where you put it, it is put back. |
| Focus | Bring the game window to the front. |
| Destroy | Ask the selected window to close (WM_CLOSE). |
| Reset All | Restore normal window styles and forget the saved position for this game. |
| Shutdown | Terminate this session's game and its loader processes (asks first). |
Window table¶
Lists title, class, visibility, PID and rectangle for each window of the target. The active window, the one every button and tab acts on, is the green, bold row with Status Active. See Window controls.
Tabs¶
| Tab | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Window | Show, hide, minimise; Windowed, True Borderless FS, Fit Screen, Fit to monitor; extended styles. Window controls |
| Position & Size | Move, resize, exact size, overscan, saved position. Window controls |
| Presets | One-click sizes from 1920x1080 to 7680x4320. Window controls |
| Downscale | Render larger than the monitor and show it scaled down. Downscaled view |
| Display | The PC's display settings, and the game's own while it runs. Display settings |
| Game config | Render scale, resolution and JConfig window in the game's own config files. Game config |
| GPU & Power | Graphics cards and drivers, the card the game uses, power plan and mode. GPU and power |
| Capture | Screenshots of the active window as PNG, one or a burst. Window controls |
| HelixSR | Set up HelixSR and put it into FSR 3.1 games. HelixSR |
Menus¶
| Menu | Items |
|---|---|
| File | Add game..., Find Steam games, Open config file, View logs..., Exit |
| View | Always on top, Window opacity, Confirm before terminating a game, Check window fit after launching a game, Fit window to monitor..., Game info overlay (show, corner, in screenshots), Keep this app off the game's monitor, Release the mouse, Switch focus: game / this app, Focus switch hotkey..., Terminate the game (press twice), Terminate hotkey..., Minimize to floating bar, Switch to floating bar, Stop downscaled view, Move this app to the other monitor |
| Help | Help topics (F1), Keyboard shortcuts, Logs and troubleshooting, Online wiki, About |
Status bar¶
The left side shows the result of your last action. On the right, while a game runs: what scales its picture
(Magpie FSR: 1280 × 720 → 1920 × 1080 (150 %, upscaling), or No scaler: window 1280 × 720, not scaled
(1:1); orange with the reason in the tooltip when something is in the way, see
Game info overlay), who has the keyboard (Focus: game / app), and the target program's
file name (the full path in its tooltip). Every result is also written to the log; see
Logs and troubleshooting.