GameHQ 0.7.10 Beta 2

Public pre-release for testing. This is not a stable release. GameHQ 0.7.9 stays the Latest release, and the in-app updater does not offer this beta. Install it manually.

Use it with the GameHQ Playnite Integration 0.4.13 pre-release (playnite-v0.4.13), unchanged since Beta 1. If you already installed plugin 0.4.13, keep it.

What's new since Beta 1

• Controller shortcuts in games launched outside Steam. With some games started directly as an .exe (for example from Playnite), Windows stopped delivering a connected DualSense to GameHQ while the game had focus, so screenshot and clip shortcuts did nothing. GameHQ now notices this and reads the controller directly (read-only; it never changes the controller's settings), and switches back to normal delivery when it returns. It can take a few seconds after the game starts.
• Playnite games are kept when Playnite cannot identify the game's process. GameHQ used to ignore such a game; it now keeps it, and still only trusts the game's own process or install folder.

Also included from Beta 1: Windows Xbox mode with Playnite, and GameHQ notifications kept out of screenshots.

Known limitations

• The controller fix is not yet confirmed by the reporter. Please report whether shortcuts now work in games launched from Playnite.
• If a game takes exclusive control of the controller, GameHQ cannot read it directly either; the log will say so.
• Pop-ups from other apps (Windows, Steam, Discord) can still appear in screenshots.
• Windows binaries are not Authenticode-signed; Windows SmartScreen may warn before Setup runs.

Install over Beta 1

1. Close GameHQ (tray icon > Quit).
2. Run GameHQ-0.7.10-win64-setup.exe from this release. It replaces every installed file, so Playnite keeps finding the same copy. If GameHQ is still running, Setup asks you to close it first.
3. Portable: extract the new zip over the old folder (or into a new folder and point the Playnite plugin at it).

Beta 1 and Beta 2 both show 0.7.10 in About. To confirm Beta 2 is installed, run in PowerShell:

Get-FileHash "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\GameHQ\app\GameHQ.exe"

Beta 2's GameHQ.exe is EA2A3C19EAC2936209CDEA826189537E2C24778C62CD5EB5C0F88EDA110C31CA.

If shortcuts still fail, send gamehq.log (Settings > Advanced > Locations > Logs folder) right after trying, plus the game and whether the controller is on USB or Bluetooth.

Downloads and SHA-256

File	SHA-256
GameHQ-0.7.10-win64-setup.exe	22e2e7af303b2ab4785ed42c56a7422913f889b21705436b39079126a5622428
GameHQ-0.7.10-win64-portable.zip	ab8af8245c69e774a9f6ec04df95aacb3ceceff1a875ee8c246a9b05c5ac3b69
GameHQ-0.7.10-win64-update.zip	83af750be45503b95f92c54d7fcdad9393e8d11d6ce0ba2f02d1e729b63d3737
GameHQ-0.7.10-source.zip	8a418922d105ae2a00734dbcb4c3f831e61a888e88e30d7951cae826b5fe1cf2

All asset hashes are in SHA256SUMS.txt. gamehq-release.json is signed with the production release key (gamehq-prod-2026-01). Built from commit 2103c8c7c5c092a5083060aec14bfc143aa8d21c.