Show HN: Asdf Overlay – High performance in-game overlay library for Windows

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Blazingly fast™ & Easy to use Windows Overlay library

Asdf Overlay provides an easy to use interface to draw on top of window framebuffer by hooking rendering backends

GPU shared texture was used to avoid framebuffer copy via CPU. As a result, Asdf Overlay is capable of rendering overlay with any size without performance loss.

OpenGL
DX9
DX10
DX11
DX12
Vulkan

Supports multiple backends
Blazingly fast™
GPU accelerated shared overlay surface
Input capture control

node, pnpm package manager
nightly rustc, cargo, msvc(x64, x86, arm64)
Install x86_64-pc-windows-msvc, i686-pc-windows-msvc, aarch64-pc-windows-msvc rustc targets

Installing node dependencies

Warning

DLL and the client must be built using same rust compiler or it will misbehaviour

Examples are located in examples directory.

Run

pnpm build && pnpm --filter ingame-browser start <process_name>

Pressing Left Shift + A will show ingame browser overlay and input will be redirected to browser window. Pressing again will close it.

ingame-browser.mp4

Run

cargo build && cargo run -p noise-rectangle <process_name>

Glitching squares appear and disappear on target process

noise-rectangle.mp4

Run

cargo build && cargo run -p input-capture <process_name>

It will listen and block inputs from target process until process exit

Run with debug build. Use external debug log viewer (ex: DebugView) to see tracing log of injected process

This project is dual licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0 License

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