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Console Overlay 1.3.1 — Steam achievements, 6 new languages and sharper screenshots

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💙 Special Thanks

A huge thank you to @UnderFusion, creator of GameHQ, for taking the time to test Console Overlay, finding why screenshots looked blurry on 4K displays and sending a patch to fix it. That fix is part of this release. His own release, GameHQ 0.8.0 Stable, is out now too: if you want a capture tool that works great with the overlay, go check it out!

Console Overlay 1.3.1

A big update with a lot of hours behind it. Thank you all for the support and the feedback!

🎬 Demo video

✨ New

  • Steam achievements, completed from Steam itself. For Steam games, the plugin now reads Steam's own local stats files (read-only, no network). Unlocks and progress counters show up in the menu as soon as the game reports them, instead of waiting for Playnite Achievements to refresh.
  • Achievement names and descriptions in your language, using Steam's own translation when available.
  • Six new languages (beta): Polish, Turkish, Korean, Dutch, Ukrainian and Traditional Chinese. They are machine-translated and not yet reviewed by native speakers, so they are marked "(beta)" in the language list. If you spot a mistake, fix it with a lang\xx.txt file in the plugin's data folder or tell me here. The plugin now supports 15 languages.
  • Sharper screenshots on 4K displays. The viewer now shows the original resolution (up to 3840 px wide) and gallery thumbnails are decoded at a higher quality. Thanks again, @UnderFusion!

🎨 Improved

  • The controller battery always shows in its glass pill with its number, also with a single controller.
  • New menu layout: bigger game preview placed higher, "Switch to" in its own glass card with more room between covers, and a lighter secondary text colour tinted with the theme.
  • Achievements are re-read whenever the data changes, so the menu no longer shows an old state within the same session.

🐛 Fixed

  • After leaving Achievements, the cursor could jump to another row when the mouse pointer was resting over the menu.
  • Accepting in Achievements no longer plays a sound.
  • The Achievements header (tabs and counters) stays in place when a filter shows fewer items.
  • The menu no longer flickers out for a moment when the music player opens or closes.
  • The capture counter in the gallery is aligned with the rest of the layout.
  • Windows Media Player shows its proper name in the player list.

⚠️ Good to know

Many games only report counters (for example "break 666 objects") to Steam when you save or quit, so those can still lag behind what you see in-game. Unlocks, on the other hand, are reflected right away.

📦 Install / update

  1. Download ConsoleOverlay_galcn10_1_3_1.pext below.
  2. Double-click it (or drag it onto Playnite). Playnite asks to install and restart.
  3. Open Add-ons → Extensions settings → Console Overlay.

The optional in-menu clip player (mpv) still needs its own mpv folder inside the plugin folder; see the README.

☕ Support

If you like the plugin and want to support its development, you can do it on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/galcn10. Totally optional, and thank you!

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md

Contributors

UnderFusion
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