Crosshair Overlay for Games

A crosshair on your screen from one Stream Deck key

To put a crosshair on your screen for PC games, add Crosshair Overlay for Games to your Stream Deck and press the Crosshair key: the crosshair appears in the center of your screen and stays on top of windowed and borderless games. You pick the shape, color, outline, size, thickness, center gap and opacity, nudge it to the pixel, and keep one preset per key for each game or weapon.

Get it on the Elgato Marketplace

Stream Deck plugin · Works on Windows 10 or later with Stream Deck 6.9 or later. No administrator rights needed and nothing else to install.

What you can do

• Choose a shape: dot, cross, cross with dot, T-shape, X, circle, circle with dot, circle with cross or chevron.
• Make it easy to see: 10 preset colors or any custom color, a black or white outline, and opacity from 20 % to 100 %.
• Fine-tune the size: arm length 2 to 60 px, thickness 1 to 8 px and center gap 0 to 30 px, in real screen pixels.
• Keep a preset per game or weapon: put several Crosshair keys on your Stream Deck, each with its own settings, and each key shows its crosshair.
• Nudge it to the pixel with Move Crosshair keys in steps of 1, 2, 5, 10 or 25 px, or back to the middle; the new position is saved in the key.
• Make a windowed game fill the screen with the Borderless Game Window key, with the crosshair on top; press again to put the window back as it was.
• Pick the screen: the main screen or any screen you choose.
• Keep your clicks working: the crosshair is a small see-through window that lets clicks through, and it stays when you switch Stream Deck pages.
• Choose from five key looks, in English and Japanese.

How it works

1. Install the plugin from the Elgato Marketplace. In the Stream Deck app, drag Crosshair onto a key and set the shape, color, outline, size and position on the key's settings page.
2. In the game's display settings, choose Borderless (also called windowed fullscreen) or Windowed.
3. Press the key to show the crosshair in the middle of the screen and press it again to hide it.

The crosshair is a small see-through window on top of your screen; it never touches the game's memory or files.

Get Crosshair Overlay for Games on the Elgato Marketplace

Questions

Limits

• Games in exclusive fullscreen show their picture above every window, so the crosshair hides itself and the key says BORDERLESS?; use Borderless or Windowed display. You can set a key to keep the crosshair shown anyway.
• Some games, leagues and tournaments forbid screen overlays or crosshair aids; check their rules before you use it.
• Closing the Stream Deck app puts back windows made borderless with the Borderless Game Window key; some games that manage their own window may not accept it.
• Windows only (Windows 10 or later). Some company PCs that limit PowerShell need IT approval first.