Borderless Window Support and Background Rendering

• Adds support for borderless windows
• Adds support to continue rendering while the game's window is in the background
  • All input (except for controller) will be filtered out while the window is in the background
  • Audio will continue working

Please refer to tzt.exe (v 1.1.0) to configure these new features, the Background Rendering settings are on the Graphics tab.

1.6.0.1 fixes issues with MSI Nahimic

NEVER use the Background Render feature in Fullscreen Exclusive Mode

• You will not be able to Alt+Tab out!

Improved Third-Party Compatibility

• Changed default d3d9.ini settings to improve alt+tab stability in fullscreen exclusive mode with some third-party software
  • Any customizations you made to d3d9.ini are going to be reset by this update, refer to d3d9.ini.old to restore your changes.

1.5.3.1 adds a fix for Razer Kraken 7.1 Chroma headsets

Improved Unicode Support

• tzt.exe supports game config files stored in paths containing 3 and 4-byte encoded Unicode characters
  • Primarily Chinese and Arabic
• Special K and the mod support UTF-8 encoded INI files now instead of just UTF-16LE
  • Default is now UTF-8 and file sizes are cut in half, hurray! ;)
• Added comments to some of the more important INI options

A bug was discovered in the updater that will prevent default_tzfix.ini from replacing tzfix.ini as it should in this release. Please manually perform this action after upgrading, the problem is fixed but will only apply the auto-updates after this release.

This release was compiled with Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (previous releases used Update 1).

For best results please install the new Visual C++ 2015 Update 3 Runtime (x86) here.

Updates No Longer Clobber User Customized Configuration!

• I have designed a system that automatically retains user configuration.
  • This new system only requires action on your part if the base config files (default_<xyz>.ini) change.
  • Changed default_<xyz>.ini files become the new <xyz>.ini file and your old config file is moved to <xyz>.ini.old

v. 1.5.1.1 includes a minor tweak to the base d3d9.ini file for Steam anti-piracy

• d3d9.ini will be reset after upgrading, but few users ever have to re-configure that so it's not a big deal.

Updates No Longer Clobber User Customized Configuration!

• I have designed a system that automatically retains user configuration.
  • This new system only requires action on your part if the base config files (default_<xyz>.ini) change.
  • Changed default_<xyz>.ini files become the new <xyz>.ini file and your old config file is moved to <xyz>.ini.old

Introducing Auto-Update Support

• Auto-Update is not currently compatible with the global injector version
  • Plug-In support for the global injector is still in early development

Special K 0.6.14 Compatibility

• May support Windows 7 finally
  • I am not going to lose any sleep if it does not; I hate that operating system.
• Fixes for Alt+Tab in fullscreen exclusive mode that were causing deadlocks
• D3D9Ex mode is no longer supported

• Uses .7z format because that is what my auto-update software will use, if this is a problem I can go back to releasing .zip files.

Special K 0.6.10 Compatibility

• Fixes a few COM-related memory issues
• Fixes DLL memory management issues
• D3D9Ex mode is no longer supported

• Uses .7z format because that is what my auto-update software will use, if this is a problem I can go back to releasing .zip files.

Windows 7 Users

If running Windows 7, please use d3d9-Win7.dll and d3d9-Win7.pdb instead of the files in the .7z; remove the "-Win7" part of the filename and replace the DLLs that came with the .7z

System-wide Injection Support and Compatibility

• Special K 0.6.4 (d3d9.dll) supports global injection

  • See these release notes for more info

• For users with the latest release of MSI Afterburner (D3D12 overlay support), the API reported on Special K's OSD now reads correctly instead of UNKNOWN.

• Miscellaneous compatibility fixes should improve startup reliability for legitimate game owners and continue to make life a living hell for pirates.

  • Get a job, ye ol' smelly swashbucklers!

If the idea of using Special K in all games interests you, I would encourage you to join my Steam group and follow this thread.

Special K will give you an achievement unlock sound in all Steam games without ever tweaking any of the more advanced things that it does.

GeDoSaTo is still not supported, but a somewhat effective method to automatically block GeDoSaTo is included in this release. Raptr has been re-enabled because its tendency to crash games varies from system to system, you will get a warning that you can opt-out of when the game starts if Raptr is running.