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Guides for Kaption and story-heavy Hoyoverse games

Short, practical pages for people who just want the game to make sense: setup help, subtitle tips, story guidance, and a careful approach to news or leaks.

Download Kaption How to draw the Dialogue Region

Genshin Impact overlay

Genshin Impact dialogue with Kaption Polish subtitle overlay above the original game text

Kaption translating Genshin Impact dialogue with the capture region highlighted in green

Set up Kaption

Genshin Impact overlay

Honkai: Star Rail dialogue translated by Kaption with a Polish subtitle overlay

Honkai: Star Rail overlay

Start here

If Kaption is new to you, begin with setup. If you already use it, the game pages explain where it helps most.

Set up Kaption

Install Kaption, launch the game, select the area where the original dialogue appears, and keep the translated overlay outside that area. After that, you just play.

Set up Kaption

Game and story guides

Genshin Impact overlay / Honkai: Star Rail overlay / Zenless Zone Zero overlay / Snezhnaya Guide

Genshin Impact overlay Honkai: Star Rail overlay Zenless Zone Zero overlay Snezhnaya Guide

A text-heavy Hoyoverse game scene translated with Kaption

HoYoverse overlay / Is Kaption safe? / Leak guide

What Kaption does, what it does not touch, how source code helps audits, and how to think about anti-cheat concerns. Spoiler-safe Genshin Impact update guides, practical patch tips, source checks, and careful coverage of rumors or leaks.

HoYoverse overlay Is Kaption safe? Leak guide

Kaption setup

Installation, capture region, overlay placement, and first-run checks.

Setup

How to set up Kaption from zero

Install Kaption, open your Hoyoverse game, choose the dialogue region, and check that the subtitle overlay stays out of the OCR area.

Windows 10/11 No mods Local OCR

Need the exact region tutorial?

The detailed screenshot guide for drawing the Dialogue Region still lives as a separate page.

How to draw the Dialogue Region

Download and install

Use the public installer from the landing page. The app is self-contained, so normal players do not need to install .NET manually.

Switch the game to Borderless or Windowed

Press Alt+Enter or change Display Mode in the in-game graphics settings. Exclusive fullscreen makes the overlay flicker.

Open the game first

Start Genshin Impact or Honkai: Star Rail and enter a dialogue scene before drawing the region.

Game and story guides

Where subtitles help in Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, events, lore, and long quests.

Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact Translation Overlay and Subtitles

Use Kaption as a Genshin Impact translation overlay for quests, events, NPC dialogue, choices, and cutscenes. Starting with Polish subtitles, without mods.

Honkai: Star Rail

Honkai: Star Rail Subtitle Translator and Overlay

Use Kaption as a Honkai: Star Rail subtitle translation overlay for story scenes, NPC dialogue, events, and long text-heavy quests. Starting with Polish support.

Zenless Zone Zero

Zenless Zone Zero Translation Overlay and Subtitles

Zenless Zone Zero ships in 13 languages, and Polish is not one. Kaption is a real-time translation overlay that reads the dialogue box and prints subtitles.

HoYoverse overlay

HoYoverse Game Translation Overlay for Story-Heavy Games

How Kaption works as a HoYoverse game translation overlay for story-heavy games such as Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail, starting with Polish subtitle support.

Official Snezhnaya exploration guide thumbnail from Genshin Impact Version 7.0

Snezhnaya Guide

Snezhnaya in Genshin 7.0: exploration route and tips

A practical Genshin Impact 7.0 Snezhnaya guide: first steps, Eye of Graeae, railway, extreme cold, Cryo Traveler, free Alyosha, and Primogems.

Safety and account questions

What Kaption does, what it does not touch, how source code helps audits, and how to think about anti-cheat concerns.

VirusTotal report for Kaption.exe showing 0 of 72 vendors flagged the file as malicious

Safety

Is Kaption safe to use with Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail?

Kaption reads screen pixels and shows a subtitle overlay. It does not modify game files, inject code, hook processes, or read game memory. Every release is scanned on VirusTotal.

Kaption source code open in an editor showing screen capture and DPI scaling code

Source and security

Kaption source code: what is public and how to audit it

Kaption is moving the desktop client to a source-available AGPL-3.0 repository so users can inspect screen capture, OCR, updates, crash reporting, and licensing behavior.

Genshin Impact dialogue with a Kaption subtitle showing the Polish translation directly beneath the English line

Performance

Subtitle speed: how fast Kaption reacts

How long a translated subtitle takes to appear in Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero, why the game itself is usually the slow part, and what we measured.

Updates, news, and source checks

Spoiler-safe Genshin Impact update guides, practical patch tips, source checks, and careful coverage of rumors or leaks.

Notebook-style illustration for tracking HoYoverse patch rumors and spoilers

News and leaks

HoYoverse leaks guide: check Genshin and Star Rail rumors without spoilers

How to follow Genshin Impact leaks, Honkai: Star Rail leaks, banner rumors, beta changes, and patch news without spreading spoilers or treating rumors as facts.

Official Genshin Impact Version 7.0 Everwinter Without Mercy trailer artwork featuring Snezhnaya

Genshin Impact 7.0

Genshin Impact 7.0: Snezhnaya and every new feature

Genshin Impact 7.0 and Snezhnaya: release date, Odette, Alyosha, new reactions, exploration, events, and quality-of-life changes—spoiler-free.

Official Genshin Impact Luna VIII Sunny Summer Fontinalia trailer thumbnail

Luna VIII / “6.8”

Genshin Impact 6.8? That version never existed

Did Genshin Impact 6.8 release? We explain the Luna VIII numbering and recap Sandrone, Frost Moon, and the move from Version 6.7 to 7.0.