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Animated eclipse icon for Special K Injection Frontend (SKIF) Special K Injection Frontend (SKIF)

Screenshot of the app

The modern frontend used for managing Special K and its global injection service as well as quickly and easily inject Special K into games launched through the frontend.

New versions are distributed through the packaged Special K installer available at https://www.special-k.info/

Features

  • Update Special K automatically
  • Update local injections of Special K
  • Manage the global injection service (autostart/autostop, stop behaviour, start with Windows)
  • List installed games on supported platforms and quickly inject Special K into them
  • Allow for quicker "Instant Play" launch options that bypasses the default launch process of store platforms (PSA: also stuff like cloud saves sync)
  • Adds custom launch configurations (crowdsourced through this repository)
  • Reset game profile or apply the compatibility profile
  • Disable/blacklist Special K for games or processes
  • Detect injected games or processes as well as common conflicts that may cause issues
  • Shows active multiplane overlay (MPO) support of the system
  • and various other features..

Platforms

SKIF supports detecting and launching games from the following platforms:

  • Epic Games Launcher
  • GOG (both standalone installers and GOG Galaxy)
  • Steam
  • Xbox / Microsoft Store (Win32 games only)

Command line arguments

Argument         What it does
<empty> Launches SKIF.
Start Launches SKIF and starts an instance of the injection service.
Temp Used with Start to indicate the injection service should auto-stop after a successful injection.
Stop Stops running instances of the injection service. Can also be used to attempt to force-eject leftover injections of Special K.
ServiceMode Starts the app in its service mode. Useful in combination with Start and Temp.
Quit Closes running instances of SKIF.
Minimize Launches SKIF minimized or minimizes any running instances of SKIF, to the taskbar or notification area depending on configuration.
"<path>.exe" Uses SKIF as a launcher to start the injection service, launch another application, and then stop the service. Any arguments specified after the path is proxied to the launched application. Called through SKIF %COMMAND% from within the Steam client.
SKIF_SteamAppID=<int> Sets a specific Steam App ID as the environment variable when used as a launcher or launching a custom game. This can replace the use of a special steam_appid.txt file in the game folder.
SKIF_URI=<string> Uses SKIF as a launcher to call a specific command, as a replacement of the ".exe" cmd line argument. This is used for Steam and Epic games in the app jump list.
Combine with Start Temp to also start the service temporarily.
AddGame="<path>" Adds the specified application to the library of SKIF as a custom game.
RestartDisplDrv Requires elevation! Restarts the display driver (useful as this can sometimes fix MPOs).
ResetOverlayMode Requires elevation! Resets registry values that controls the state of MPOs on the system.
RunUpdater Triggers a check for update. Used internally by the "Check for Updates" taskbar jump list action.

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut         What it does
F5 or Ctrl+R Forces a refresh of data on the Library and About tabs.
F6 Appearance: Toggles DPI scaling.
F7 Appearance: Cycles between available color themes.
F8 Appearance: Toggles borders.
F9 Appearance: Toggles color depth.
F11 or Ctrl+T Appearance: Toggles between regular (large) UI mode and service (small) UI mode.
Ctrl+Q or Ctrl+W Closes the app.
Ctrl+A Library: Opens the add game prompt.
Ctrl+N Minimizes the app.
Ctrl+1 Switch to the Library tab.
Ctrl+2 Switch to the Monitor tab.
Ctrl+3 Switch to the Settings tab.
Ctrl+4 Switch to the About tab.

Third-party code