Settings Overview

Every option on PowerAim’s Settings sidebar page, organized by card.

The Settings page has 9 cards. Some controls are also exposed on the relevant feature page (e.g. crosshair settings appear both here and on the Overlays card) — this page is the authoritative list.

UI Settings

Setting	What it does	Default
Switch to DirectML / CUDA	One-click switch between the DirectML and CUDA release builds	—
Language	UI language. 9 options: en, de, es, fr, it, ru, tr, uk, zh	System
Accent color	Free color picker for the UI accent while idle (Global Active off)	Purple
Accent color when active	A separate accent used while Global Active is on	Green
Theme Mode	Light / Dark / System-follow	System
UI Top Most	Keep PowerAim window above other windows	On
Show Help Texts	Show inline tooltips and help labels	On
Show toggle notifications	When a toggle is flipped via its global keybind, briefly show an on-screen notice (e.g. “Aim Assist is now on”)	On
Hide UI from Capture	Use Win32 capture exclusion so OBS / NVIDIA ShadowPlay can’t see PowerAim’s window	On

The old Theme / Theme when Active palette dropdowns have been replaced by free accent-color pickers. The 6 former palettes (Purple, Green, etc.) survive as quick-fill swatches inside the picker, so you can still pick them with one click — or choose any custom color. Light / Dark / System mode is unchanged.

In-app color picker

Everywhere PowerAim asks for a color — the two accent colors above, the FOV ring color, the captured-area border color, the detected-player box color, and the crosshair fill / outline colors — it now opens its own HSV color picker instead of the old Windows color dialog. The picker has a saturation/value spectrum, a hue slider, a hex input, and a row of quick-fill swatches.

Disabling Hide UI from Capture is irreversible during the session — PowerAim warns you and asks for confirmation. The default protects you from inadvertently broadcasting PowerAim during a stream.

Capture Settings

Setting	What it does	Default
Collect Data While Playing	Saves capture frames as JPEGs to bin\images\ during play (throttled to ~2/sec). See Training Your Own.	Off
Auto Label Data	Also writes a YOLO .txt label file to bin\labels\ for each captured frame, from the current model’s detections	Off
AI Minimum Confidence	Drop detections below this confidence threshold (1–100%)	45%
Ensure Capture Process Foreground	Pause AI loop unless the capture target is the foreground window	Off
Show Captured Area	Draw a border around the captured region	On
Captured Area Border Color	Color of that border	Accent

Input Settings

Setting	What it does	Default
Mouse Movement Method	MouseEvent / SendInput / LG HUB / Razer / ddxoft. See Mouse Input Methods.	MouseEvent
Gamepad Minimum LT	LT pull (0–1) below which the trigger is treated as released	0.7
Gamepad Minimum RT	RT pull (0–1) below which the trigger is treated as released	0.7
Fire Max Delay	Maximum seconds to wait after the fire impulse before considering it stuck. 0 = wait forever.	0.1
X-Axis Percentage Adjustment	Use percentage-based X offset (in addition to pixel offset)	Off
Y-Axis Percentage Adjustment	Same for Y	On

Active Processes

The Auto-Pause and per-game profile-switching card. See Per-game Profiles.

Setting	What it does	Default
Auto Pause on Focus Loss	Pause the AI loop while the foreground window is a recognised non-game (browser, terminal)	On
Auto Switch Profile	Triggers / mapping profiles with a MatchProcess pattern only activate while the foreground process matches	On
Game Process Patterns	Comma-separated whitelist of process names that count as “games”	empty

Overlays

See Crosshair Overlay and Debug Overlay.

Setting	What it does	Default
Show Debug Overlay	Topmost diagnostic panel	Off
Show sent-input visualizer	Inside the debug overlay, show a live keyboard + mouse + controller diagram of the input PowerAim is sending. See Debug Overlay.	Off
Show Custom Crosshair	Topmost custom crosshair	Off
Crosshair Shape	Dot / Cross / Plus / Circle / CircleDot / T	Plus
Crosshair Size	4–80 px	16
Crosshair Thickness	1–10 px	2
Crosshair Gap	0–30 px (Plus + Cross only)	4
Crosshair Outline	0–6 px	1

Stats

See Session Stats. Shows live FPS / inference time / detections / shots / frames / tactical actions / session duration. Includes:

• Reset Stats — clears session counters
• Adaptive Kalman Lead — auto-adapt the Kalman lead time to measured target velocity

HUD OCR

See OCR.

Setting	What it does	Default
Enable HUD OCR	Master toggle	Off
OCR Interval	100–5000 ms	500
Configure OCR Regions	Opens the per-region editor	—

Replay Buffer

See Replay Buffer.

Setting	What it does	Default
Record Rolling Buffer	Master toggle	Off
Buffer Length	1–30 seconds	3
JPEG Quality	10–100	70
Save Replay Buffer	Flush to %LocalAppData%\PowerAim\replays\<timestamp>\	—
Clear Buffer	Drop everything	—

AutoPlay Learning

See AutoPlay.

Setting	What it does	Default
Record Playstyle	While on, samples your input state every SampleInterval ms	Off
Apply Learned Bias	Bias AutoPlay’s selector toward the recorded preference	Off
Bias Strength	0 (ignore) – 1 (dominate)	0.5
Sample Interval	50–1000 ms	150
Save / Load / Clear Model	Persist or reset the JSON state	—

Customizing the layout

The cards on every page can be rearranged and pruned to fit how you work — the layout is saved per page and restored on next launch.

• Drag to reorder. Each card shows a small drag handle near its top-right corner. Drag it to move the card within its column; on two-column pages you can also drag a card across to the other column.
• Hide a card. Next to the drag handle is a small × that hides the card.
• Restore hidden cards. When at least one card on the current page is hidden, a floating pill (e.g. “3 hidden sections”) appears in the bottom-right corner. Click it for a flyout listing the hidden cards; click any entry to bring it back.

Instant search

Press Ctrl+F anywhere in the app to open a search box. It indexes the labels of settings and section headers across the whole window — toggles, sliders, keybinds, color pickers, buttons, and section titles, plus their help/tooltip text — and matches as you type.

Pick a result (click it or press Enter for the first match) and PowerAim switches to the right page, scrolls the control into view, and briefly flashes its border so your eye lands on it.

Hotkey safeguards

Two options change how global keybinds behave:

Setting	What it does	Default
Show toggle notifications	When a toggle is flipped via its global keybind, briefly show an on-screen notice of the new on/off state. (Also listed under UI Settings.)	On
Require Global Active for keybinds	Global keybinds (toggle hotkeys, trigger / mapping enable hotkeys, model & config switch hotkeys, …) only fire while Global Active is on. The Global Active hotkey itself is always exempt so you can switch back on.	On

Related controls (outside the Settings cards)

A few inference-related controls live elsewhere in the app rather than on the Settings page, but are worth knowing about here:

Control	Where	What it does
Image Size Override	Models page	Slider (192–1280 px) that sets the runtime square input size. Only meaningful for dynamic-shape ONNX models — fixed-size models snap to their declared dimension. Bound to SliderSettings.ImageSize. See Training Your Own.
GPU device picker	Title-bar pill (“GPU”)	Lists the DXGI adapters PowerAim detects and lets you pick which one runs ONNX inference (AISettings.InferenceGpuDeviceId). Lets you keep inference off the GPU the game runs on. The model reloads on the new device when you switch.

The Switch to DirectML / CUDA button (UI Settings, above) swaps the whole app between the two release builds from inside it: it finds the matching release, downloads the other build, and updates in place via the same updater — your config is preserved.