Achievement Watcher 3.8.5

Achievement Watcher 3.8.5

A feature release: full gamepad control for the app and overlay, layer-based themes with ten new
palettes, playtime tracking for non-Steam games, faster library scans, and a batch of controller,
detection and appearance fixes.

Highlights

• Control the whole app with a controller. Beyond the overlay, a gamepad can now navigate the
  library, game details, settings and searches. Controller settings moved to their own tab with a
  button-layout selector (Auto/Xbox/PlayStation/Switch), fully configurable bindings, and a
  Focus overlay when it opens option for games that pause on focus loss. Settings can also send
  Escape to the game when opening the overlay with a controller, so many games pause automatically.
• New layer-based theme system. Ten new built-in themes - Catppuccin Mocha, Rosé Pine,
  Synthwave '84, Everforest, Cyberpunk, Ember, Ocean, Hacker, Burgundy and Champagne - replace the
  earlier Solarized/One Dark/Monokai set, and the theme picker gained a dropdown alongside the
  arrow controls.
• Non-Steam playtime. Ubisoft Connect, Uplay R2, Epic, GOG, EA, Xbox PC and standalone installs
  now show tracked playtime and last-played date on the achievements page, matching Steam games.
• Faster, smoother library. The overlay window stays hidden and reused for five minutes so
  reopening it is near-instant; the first scan of a session serves cached data immediately; off-screen
  tiles skip image decoding; skeleton shimmer is GPU-composited; and locating an emulator's local
  achievement schema no longer walks the whole game install on every scan.
• Stale "installed" state fixed. A Steam game left "installed" after being uninstalled (a stale
  registry flag, or a folder-name substring match) is now cross-checked against Steam's own library
  manifests, and Source-engine SDK tools are no longer mistaken for the game's real executable.
• Controller-binding fixes. The default overlay combo is now Back + Start + LB (harder to trigger
  by accident), the overlay-control and move/scroll combos no longer conflict when held together, a
  duplicated button in a custom binding is now rejected consistently, and DualShock 4 stick correction
  now applies on the XInput backend too.
• Security: the Epic account login no longer injects the redirect URL into an
  executeJavaScript script body, closing a CodeQL "improper code sanitization" finding.

Install

Download Achievement.Watcher.Setup.3.8.5.exe from the
v3.8.5 release.

The .blockmap and latest.yml assets are used by automatic updates. Upgrading preserves data.

See the changelog for the full list of changes.