Developer posts and news about this game.
Hi, Discussion and development surrounding Special K can now be found at This move comes after the events of the last few weeks that saw Kaldaien’s accounts receive site-wide community bans preventing any interaction with Special K users, as well as Valve’s sudden decision to not
Changed the icon used by SKIF, including the addition of a new icon for future system tray functionality. It may take a while to get used to, but is not expected to change like this again ;)
Fixed Windows key blocking behavior in games that use RawInput to poll the keyboard Fixed keyboard disconnect behavior in Resident Evil 3 Added tooltip explaining the purpose of CPU core count spoofing to Framerate Limiter > Advanced
Disabled cloud sync for Special K's INI files because the Steam client is too darn slow; I will write my own system to do this more efficiently in the future. Gamepad input is no longer processed while SKIF does not have keyboard input focus, and ImGui has been changed to invalid
SKIF v 0.6.7 DPI Scaling is enabled by default Moved DPI Scaling and HDR settings to new Options menu Improved sub-pixel font precision in SKIF and Special K Text labels and icons are DPI scaled as a single entity Changing selected games properly centers mouse cursor over list it
Launch button in Game Management is properly aspect ratio corrected and centered at all DPI scales and changing DPI scale while SKIF is running is correctly handled. Incorrect UI sizing issues may come up if you move the window between monitors with different DPI scales, or if yo
Added a predictive text input system to assist in selecting games quicker, type the first few letters of the game you're interested and then stop and it will find the closest match. Also changed game sorting to match Steam's heuristics; case-insensitive, and "the" and "a" are ign
Special K v 0.11.0.42 Fixed false-positive shader resources showing up in D3D11 Render Mod Toolkit for many 32-bit games Added memory limit checks prior to taking enhanced screenshots in 32-bit D3D11 software Added Large Address Aware patch detection for Persona 4 HDR stuff HDR W
Class Leading D3D11 FPS Limiter Pulls Ahead Implemented flip model glitch recovery to eliminate microstutter in even the most stubborn engines (i.e. Tales of Vesperia). Many scenarios that used to require the framerate limiter be turned off and then back on to get a flat framepac
Auto-Blacklist Injection for all Steam VAC Protected Games
Corrected sRGB gamma in ImGui's non-HDR render path Boosts near-black luminance on SDR displays to the original levels before I added HDR support to SKIF.
Added injection summary for Steam games Changing between Global / Local injection soon to follow. Re-enabled Keyboard / Gamepad navigation through most of SKIF's UI Use Spacebar to simulate left-click, Enter to simulate right-click Press A / Cross to simulate left-click, Triangle
Enabled HDR in SKIF's UI and added luminance control Requires running the Windows 10 desktop in HDR mode. Added crude HDR screenshot viewer for in Game Management's right-click context menu Fixed problems with Achievement Unlocks not taking screenshots when configured to do so
Added aspect ratio correction and centering to launch button art Added 'Disable Special K' options for individual Steam games Blacklisted Wallpaper Engine from Global Injection Changed cloud file search paths to use SHGetKnownFolderPath (...) instead of %USERPROFILE% Steam's clou
Added Steam cloud sync for INI files in Documents\\My Mods\\SpecialK\\Global Added tests for games with partially configured (and broken) Steam cloud sync Game Management tab shows Start / Stop instead of "Launch Game" if SK is selected Game Management tab opens by default
Game Management Improvements Fixed Game Management tab looking for appinfo.vdf in the wrong location Fixed 8-bit grayscale JPEG (Steam icons) showing up as shades of red Added direct link to PCGamingWiki for the selected game
Added a new right-click context menu to the Game Management tab Game Save / Config : Makes finding a (cloud-enabled) game's config files quicker. Software Branches : Makes snooping on a game's development acitivty fun ːsteamhappyː Future versions of SKIF will add patch roll-back
Fixed HBAO over-darkening many games Fixed games not exiting during SteamAPI shutdown Fixed memory leaks in some Unreal Engine 4 games Added support for Flip Model to NieR: Automata Added support for HDR to NieR: Automata Added HDR widget options to control precision of non-HDR r
HDR now supported in most Flip Model compatible D3D11 games (NieR: Automata is not Flip Model compatible) NOTE: For Unity Engine games , pay attention to the framebuffer (top of control panel) before turning HDR on. If the game's original framebuffer was sRGB , then for proper HD
Testing new framework (VaporAPI) to enable Steam AppID impersonation This is a necessary custom framework to enable Special K's planned Steam Workshop features from within games. It may also be used to initiate Steam Remote Play sessions for games that do not officially support t