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Your game. Your frame.

WinGrid is a Windows utility that gives you full control over how your game looks on screen — and how it feels to play. Resize and zoom the game window with a hotkey, drop your mouse sensitivity together with the zoom, create stretched and ultrawide-style layouts, add cinematic black bars, build your own HUD, stack a complete bodycam look in CurveFX, and share presets on Steam Workshop. All in one app.

WinGrid works with the window, not the game. It doesn't modify game files, inject into the process, or touch the internal render resolution.

Want to see WinGrid in action? Check out our YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram channels for videos showcasing the app.

What WinGrid can do

Instant resize and zoom

• Four modes: THUMBNAIL (DWM preview), WINDOW, STRETCH, and DPI.

• Any binding: keyboard key or mouse button, Hold or Toggle.

• Wheel adjustment: change zoom while the key is held — with Zoom Scroll enabled.

• Zoom from 1x to 64x: manually or with x1.25 / x1.5 / x2 multipliers.

• Smart presets: 21:9, 32:9, 16:9, 16:10, and 4:3 automatically adapt to your monitor.

• Custom size and position: save exact X/Y/W/H and restore them in one click.

• Multi-window: matching windows are numbered #1, #2, #3 and controlled independently.

Grids: Center, halves, x4 / x6 / x8 / x10.

Mouse sensitivity follows the zoom — only in WinGrid

• Zoom that changes your aim, not just the picture. While RESIZE is active, WinGrid lowers your mouse DPI in hardware, so the same hand movement covers less of the screen.

• One slider: 10% to 300% of your normal DPI. 50% means half sensitivity.

• Same bind as zoom: it uses your Hold / Toggle key — no second hotkey, no extra step.

• Driven by the real engine state: it follows the zoom as it actually runs, and Master bypass stops it too.

• Original DPI comes back the moment zoom ends, you switch windows, or the feature is disabled. Black bars alone never change sensitivity.

• Safe values: DPI is rounded to a value your sensor actually supports, so nothing gets clamped or lost.

• Crash-safe: the original DPI is written to a recovery file before the change and restored on the next launch.

• Stretch and resizer tools only scale the image. None of them touch how fast your aim moves. WinGrid does.

• Supported mice: Logitech models with HID++ Adjustable DPI (most G-series). Other mice are listed and marked as unsupported.

Custom HUD — Layers

• Select the radar, killfeed, chat, scoreboard, or any other HUD area.

• Each area becomes a separate live layer on top of the game.

• Move, resize, rename, and save each layer.

• Show layers always or only while zoom is active.

• Layers stay above zoom, Scope, and other WinGrid overlays.

• Layers have their own Thumbnail Zoom with Hold and Toggle modes.

• Build alternative 4:3 / stretched layouts: shrink the game window, zoom in on the center, and place the HUD where you need it.

Black bars and custom overlays

• Replace the standard black bars with PNG, JPG, or animated GIF images.

• Separate images for the top, bottom, left, and right edges.

• Works with resize, zoom, and Scope.

• Download community overlays from Steam Workshop.

CurveFX: curved screen, CRT, and motion blur

CurveFX: stack your own bodycam look

• CurveFX is not a single filter — it is a stack. Every effect below is an independent slider, and all of them run at the same time on the same frame. Mix them in any order and any amount.

• Lens and shape: real-time screen curvature from -200 to +200, the soft black rim of a bodycam / helmet lens, and edge blur with adjustable depth zone.

• Light and exposure: highlight bloom on lamps, sky and flashes, plus a camera auto-iris — strength, response, metering point and aperture — so looking into the light really darkens the frame.

• Film and color: live sensor grain, midtone contrast, a filmic curve with toe and shoulder, manual brightness, shadow / midtone / highlight color grading, white balance, saturation, tint and lens dust.

• Body reactions, driven by your own binds: step sway on WASD, look lag on fast mouse turns, spring inertia on sharp turns, idle breathing, recoil kick on the fire button, slow operator drift.

• Video damage: H.264 compression blocking in the dark and rolling shutter lean on fast panning.

• CRT mode: scanlines, chromatic aberration, vignette and glow; drop render scale to 25% for a pixelated retro image. CRT and the bodycam stack work together.

• Motion Blur (GPU): Trail and Shutter modes, adaptive strength, frame count, and center protection so the crosshair stays sharp.

• REC overlay: a blinking dot and the real clock in any corner.

• Warped cursor, FPS limit, adaptive quality that trims glow on a weak GPU, and OBS-visible output for streamers.

• GPU-accelerated; the CPU fallback keeps the curve and color work but loses motion blur.

• Save the look as a preset and share it with a short code.

Crosshair, Scope, and magnifier

• Any transparent PNG crosshair or a custom drawing in the 21x21 editor (8 colors + eraser).

• Scale 25–400%; hold a key and scroll to resize on the fly.

• Scope: a magnified center square with a black or transparent background.

• Lens size 100–1200 px or custom up to 4096 px.

• Short press toggles the lens; holding enables it and lets you resize with the wheel.

• The magnifier follows the mouse — useful in games and outside them.

• Crosshair and Scope are click-through and don't steal focus.

SQUASH: custom resolutions (NVIDIA)

• Create custom display modes: render at one resolution, output at another (e.g. 1920x1080 → 1920x540).

• Works in exclusive fullscreen.

• Reads each monitor's EDID and warns before applying an unsupported mode.

• Safe trial: Keep / Cancel with auto-revert, so your monitor doesn't lose signal.

• NVIDIA only. Other WinGrid features work on AMD and Intel.

• SQUASH changes the display mode; Resize, Black Bars, and Custom Overlay don't work in this mode.

Profiles, bundles, and Steam Workshop

• Save and load named profiles; the last session is restored automatically.

• Export a full bundle (cards, crosshair, Scope, CurveFX, Master, and Layers) as one file.

• Import a bundle and apply the entire layout at once.

• Browse Workshop subscriptions inside the app and apply a full setup in one click.

• Publish your layouts, overlays, and presets through the built-in uploader (ZIP, PNG, JPG, GIF).

Quality of life

• Hotkeys work only when the game window is selected and focused.

• Alt-Tab no longer resets zoom and black bars; the overlay hides and comes back with the game.

• Master bypass returns your keys to the game when you need them.

• Zoom Scroll: ON — the wheel changes zoom while the key is held; OFF — wheel zoom is locked.

• Tray: closing the window hides WinGrid; right-click the icon to exit.

• F8 — emergency reset of window size and position.

• Interface color accent, English and Russian languages; switch without restarting.

• Built-in help with a quick start and a "why isn't it working" checklist.

What's new

• Mouse sensitivity during zoom: hardware DPI from 10% to 300%, tied to the RESIZE bind.

• CurveFX bodycam stack: lens soft rim, edge blur, highlight bloom, camera auto-iris, sensor grain, step and look sway, recoil, operator drift.

• Warped cursor and OBS-visible CurveFX output.

• Adaptive quality that trims CRT and glow on weaker GPUs.

• Earlier this year: Layers, 21x21 crosshair editor, Scope magnifier, full settings bundles, and the built-in Workshop browser.

How it works

• Launch the game in Windowed or Borderless Windowed mode.

• Select the game window in WinGrid, set the mode, size, and hotkey.

• Click Apply and use the hotkey in-game.

• Optional: open the Mouse window, pick your mouse, set the sensitivity percentage and enable it — it now follows the zoom.

• Press F8 if you need to reset everything.

Safety

WinGrid uses official Windows APIs: Win32, Desktop Window Manager, Microsoft Edge WebView2, and NVIDIA NvAPI. Mouse DPI is changed through the vendor's own HID++ protocol: only the current sensor DPI is written, and onboard profiles are never touched. WinGrid doesn't inject code, install drivers, or read or modify the memory of other processes. It's a cosmetic tool for windows and overlays — not a cheat, macro, bot, or trainer.

Before you buy

• Windows 10 version 1903 or newer, or Windows 11; 64-bit only. Linux, macOS, SteamOS, and Steam Deck are not supported.

• Window features require Windowed or Borderless Windowed mode. WINDOW doesn't work in Exclusive Fullscreen; SQUASH does on NVIDIA.

• SQUASH requires NVIDIA. Resize, zoom, Black Bars, Layers, crosshair, Scope, CurveFX, and Workshop work on AMD and Intel too.

• Sensitivity during zoom requires a Logitech mouse with HID++ Adjustable DPI. Other mice are detected but shown as unsupported.

• Hotkeys require WinGrid to run in the background. Some games, anti-cheat systems, and workplace policies may restrict window/display utilities — check the rules.

• No internet connection is required for normal use.

• Requires .NET Framework 4.8, Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime, and Visual C++ 2015-2022 x64. Most Windows 10/11 systems already have them.

Who it's for

• Players who want stretched, ultrawide-style, or custom layouts without changing the render resolution.

• Anyone who zooms and wants the aim to slow down with the picture instead of overshooting.

• Streamers and creators who want a bodycam, CRT, or film look built from stacked effects, with no game mods.

• Anyone who wants to enlarge the center of the screen, build a custom HUD, or add cinematic bars.

• Anyone who needs a live magnifier, crosshair, or window layout for windowed apps.

Need help?

Read the WinGrid guide in Steam Community Guides or start a thread in Discussions. The developer replies in English and Russian.

See WinGrid in action: YouTube · TikTok · Instagram.