HawkEye 1.4.1

HawkEye 1.4.1 for Windows.

On a screen that refreshes at a rate that isn’t a multiple of 60 (75 Hz, 100 Hz, 144 Hz), the launch film now draws a new picture on every refresh of your screen instead of the 60 a second HawkEye’s pages are held to, so it no longer stutters. It looks and plays the same.

Improved:

• On Windows, when your screen refreshes at a rate that isn’t a multiple of 60, the launch film plays in a window of its own that sits exactly over HawkEye’s, with no taskbar button, so it can draw once per refresh of your screen. It opens from black, follows the window if you move it, hides when you minimize, and at the end fades into Home and hands the same hawk over mid-flight. If that window can’t start, the film plays as before.
• In that window, Enter HawkEye starts the dive straight away, and the chapter lines come in without a hitch.
• The film’s Welcome line, its Enter button glow and the shade behind each chapter line are drawn a lighter way that looks the same, so they hold up the picture far less when they appear or zoom.
• The installer has a plain name, HawkEye-1.4.1.exe, and Windows shows its name and version in its Properties.
• Running the installer while HawkEye is open asks you to close it first, instead of stopping on a file error partway.
• One-click updates now update the updater too, and a slow install is never cut off partway.

Fixed:

• Watch the 1.4 film in Ctrl+K did nothing.
• When an update has to be installed from the download page, the update bar says so and Later still works.
• If keyauth.win can’t be reached from your PC, signing in right after a new release no longer says HawkEye is out of date.

Security:

• HawkEye drops the switches that would let another program drive it (remote debugging, no sandbox) however they’re written: -name, /name or in quotes, not only --name.
• One-click updates now read the installer’s fingerprint (SHA-256) from the update link, and still install nothing whose bytes don’t match it.
• A one-click update only ever installs a newer HawkEye from HawkEye’s own releases: never an older version, and never a link written to lead somewhere else.

To install, download HawkEye-1.4.1.exe below and run it. The full history is on the Changelog page inside the app.
HawkEye-1.4.1-ef0204acc65b9a2bfd530e1ec645bbf067770ee9f1d64d1442469e2eff75c748.exe is the same file, named for HawkEye's one-click update.

SHA-256: ef0204acc65b9a2bfd530e1ec645bbf067770ee9f1d64d1442469e2eff75c748