List of games compatible with Special K

General support

Use at own risk in multiplayer games where Special K might have an adverse effect.

This is a general overview of the level of support Special K has for different render APIs, as well as what additional features might be available for each API.

Direct3D refers to the 3D render API of DirectX. In general, the terms 'Direct3D' and 'DirectX' are often interchangeable when discussing games.

Render API	Notes
DirectDraw DDraw	Requires dgVoodoo 2 to wrap the calls to Direct3D 11.
Direct3D 2-8	Requires dgVoodoo 2 to wrap the calls to Direct3D 11.
Direct3D 9	Basic support as well as texture modding support.
Direct3D 10	Unsupported, although flip model override is known to work in some games.
Direct3D 11	Enhanced support, including HDR injection, texture modding, flip model override, and shader debugging.
Direct3D 12	Enhanced support like D3D11, though no texture mods yet.
OpenGL	Promoted to OpenGL-IK (uses an interop system where D3D11 is used for final presentation), which brings enhancements such as flip model and HDR injection.
Vulkan	No support, except in HDR enabled modes running on Nvidia hardware, where Special K hooks the Nvidia DXGI/Direct3D 11 interop layer instead.

How to add a new game to the table

The following describes how to add a new game to the below table. It is recommended to use a desktop browser as that makes it more easier to copy/paste.

1. Start by opening up the following link in a new tab: edit the below section
2. Now go by the |name = parameter alphabetically to find the appropriate place to add the new game to the list. This is to ensure the list is sorted alphabetically when the page is opened.
3. Copy the following template and insert it on a new row between }} and {{Special K/compatibility/row so that a new, empty, section gets added:

   {{Special K/compatibility/row
   |name           = 
   |render api     = 
   |version        = 
   |injection type = 
   |status         = 
   |notes          = 
   }}
   

4. Fill out the new section something like below. Use comma to separate multiple values.

   {{Special K/compatibility/row
   |name           = Insert game name here
   |render api     = Direct3D 9, Direct3D 11, OpengL, etc (multiple are allowed in a comma-delimited list)
   |version        = 0.11.0.45 (right click on the DLL file, select Properties, and then open the Details tab to see the version of the DLL file)
   |injection type = Local, Global (multiple are allowed)
   |status         = Perfect/Good/Major Issues/Crash/Blocked/Caution/Banned (select only one)
   |notes          = And additional notes here that might apply (for example, specific config parameter required, or incompatible features or such). Feel free to use multiple rows for this section.
   }}

Game-specific support

Use at own risk in multiplayer games where Special K might have an adverse effect.

This is a crowdsourced list of games compatible with Special K. Feel free to edit the section if a game is missing from the list.

The statuses displayed are based on the ReShade compatibility list and so tries to mirror that one as much as possible.

Status	Description
Perfect	For use with games with no known issues with Special K.
Good	For games where minor issues or limitations exists. This can for example be games that are only supported by a specific version of Special K, or only through one type of injection (e.g. local and not global).
Major Issues	For games where major issues occurs, but can be worked around. Such as crashes on launch that can be worked around by changing a config parameter for Special K.
Crash	Game crashes on injection with no way of working around it.
Blocked	Game blocks Special K from being injected -- most common in games with anti-cheat protections.
Caution	There is conflicting reports whether using Special K results in a ban or not. Use at your own risk.
Banned	Using Special K is known to result in a banned account. Do not use Special K with this game.

Game	Render API	Version	Injection	Status	Additional Notes
ADR1FT	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	HDR engages and disengages based on what the player is looking at.
Agents of Mayhem	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Perfect
Axiom Verge	OpenGL			Crash
Batman: Arkham Asylum	Direct3D 9			Major Issues	Consistent freezes. Try dgVoodoo 2.
Batman: Arkham City	Direct3D 9, Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	Use DirectX 11 mode. No texture injection support. Requires you to disable D3D9 renderers to avoid slowdown.
Batman: Arkham Knight	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Major Issues	HDR causes crashes. Textures revert to 128x128 randomly with caching enabled.
Batman: Arkham Origins	Direct3D 9, Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	Use DirectX 11 mode. No texture injection support. Disable D3D9 render backend.
Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate	Direct3D 9E			Good	Texture modding does not work in native DX9E. Use dgVoodoo 2 for texture modding.
Batman: The Telltale Series	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	Texture injection does not work.
Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	Texture injection does not work.
Bayonetta	Direct3D 9			Good	Needs to be tested further.
BioShock Remastered	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	Texture injection does not work.
BioShock 2 Remastered	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	Texture injection does not work.
BioShock Infinite	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Perfect
Borderlands: Game of the Year Enhanced	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	Texture injection does not work
Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Perfect	Run the game in Windowed Borderless before enabling SpecialK.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Perfect
Crysis 2	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Major Issues	Extreme graphical corruption requring you to hard reset your PC (requires further testing for verification)
Darksiders: Warmastered Edition	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Perfect
Dark Souls III	Direct3D 11		Local	Caution	Current versions of Special K can cause bans if played online, reported that v0.4.0 of Souls Unsqueezed is the latest version that works.
Death Stranding	Direct3D 12			Crash
Dishonored 2	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	Texture modding does not work
Dishonored: Death of the Outsider	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	Texture modding does not work
Deus Ex: Human Revolution	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Perfect	Director's Cut version also works flawlessly.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Crash	Crashes after logos
Doom Eternal	Vulkan	0.11.0.45		Major Issues	Only possible on Nvidia hardware with HDR enabled. Do not use with Battlemode.
Dragon Age II	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	HDR doesn't activate in cutscenes, black screen ingame
Dragon Age Inquisition	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Major Issues	Inputs like escape and the arrow keys make the widgets appear and disappear making SpecialK and the game inoperable.
Fallout 4	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	HDR doesn't work
Final Fantasy Type-0 HD	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45	Global	Perfect
Final Fantasy III	OpenGL	0.11.0.45	Global	Good	Launching the game takes about 10-15 seconds longer.
Final Fantasy IV	OpenGL	0.11.0.45	Global	Good	Launching the game takes about 5-10 seconds longer.
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years	OpenGL	0.11.0.45	Global	Perfect
Final Fantasy V	OpenGL	0.11.0.45	Local	Major Issues	Neither Special K nor even the Steam overlay can hook the game window properly on a fresh install, in parts because the game ships with a OpenGL32.dll file from Windows 7 in the game folder. To fix both, that file needs to be removed (this fixes the Steam overlay), then Special K's 32-bit DLL file needs to be installed as OpenGL32.dll in the game folder instead. After that both Special K and Steam's overlay will work, although launching the game will take about 5-10 seconds longer. Global injection does not succeed in hooking the game at all.
Final Fantasy VI	OpenGL	0.11.0.45	Global	Good	Use the config tool of the game to set a higher resolution than 800x600, as otherwise the EULA prompt of Special K will repeatedly flash between two different widths.
Final Fantasy VII	Direct3D 9	0.11.0.45	Global	Perfect
Final Fantasy VIII	Direct3D 9	0.11.0.45	Global	Perfect
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45	Global	Perfect
Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45	Global	Perfect
Final Fantasy XIII	Direct3D 9	0.11.0.45	Global	Major Issues	Local injection using d3d9.dll crashes on launch. Regular global injection will also fail to work properly. The solution is to use a delayed global injection by first starting the game and then after the game has launched, start the global injection of Special K.
Final Fantasy XIII-2	Direct3D 9	0.11.0.45	Global	Major Issues	Local injection using d3d9.dll crashes on launch. Regular global injection will also fail to work properly. The solution is to use a delayed global injection by first starting the game and then after the game has launched, start the global injection of Special K.
Final Fantasy XV	Direct3D 11			Perfect	Local injection is recommended as not all threads are captured.
Grand Theft Auto	DirectDraw	0.11.0.45	Global	Perfect	Requires the use of dgVoodoo 2 to wrap the DDraw calls to Direct3D 11.
Hitman: Absolution	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Perfect
Helltaker	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45	Global	Perfect
Injustice 2	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45	Global	Major Issues	HDR causes black screen with erratic pixels. Textures do not display in Mod Tools, ones that do display do nto inject. Requires Silent=True to get around anti-cheat warnings.
Journey	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45	Global, Local	Good	"Use Flip Model Presentation" must be disabled, enabled causes major graphical issues.
Just Cause 3	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	HDR gives black screen in menus but works fine ingame
Just Cause 4	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	HDR gives black screen in menus, texture corruption ingame
Lego Marvel Superheroes 2	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Perfect
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII	Direct3D 9Ex	0.11.0.45	Global	Perfect
Mad Max	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45	Global	Perfect
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance	Direct3D 9			Good	Can fix the HDMI 50hz bug.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45	Global, Local	Good	ReShade injection doesn't work. Ground Zeroes also works.
Metal Gear Survive	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45	Global, Local	Perfect	Warning: Always online but has no anti-cheat. Can also be modded without any ban ever being issued. Use at your own risk.
Metro 2033 Redux	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	Missing geometry with HDR enabled.
Metro Last Light Redux	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	Missing geometry with HDR enabled.
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Perfect
Middle-Earth: Shadow of War	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Perfect
Mortal Kombat X	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Perfect
Next Up Hero	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45	Global	Good	Requires disabling Steam enhancements of Special K due to the use of two different steam_app64.dll files that ends up causing Special K to perform its DLL file verification on the wrong DLL file.
NieR: Automata	Direct3D 11	0.8.60.1 FAR 0.7.0.23	Local	Good	Some versions of the FAR mod (v0.7.0.23 in particular) is known to cause performance degradation after an hour or more of play.
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (2016)	OpenGL			Crash
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD	OpenGL			Crash
Onimusha: Warlords HD	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45	Global, Local	Good	Steam Enhancements don't work
Persona 4 Golden	Direct3D 11			Good	Requires "Ignore Textures Without Mipmaps" to be enabled otherwise text becomes increasingly more corrupted
Rabi-Ribi	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45	Global, Local	Good	"Use Flip Model Presentation" must be disabled.
Red Dead Redemption 2	Vulkan			Major Issues	Only possible on Nvidia hardware with HDR enabled.
Rise of the Tomb Raider	Direct3D 11			Perfect
Saints Row: The Third	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	HDR works but flickers to black screen when the mouse is moved ingame
Saints Row IV	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	HDR works but flickers to black screen when the mouse is moved ingame
Saints Row Gat Out Of Hell	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	HDR works but flickers to black screen when the mouse is moved ingame
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	Direct3D 11			Perfect	DirectX 11 will likely incur a performance drop vs DirectX 12.
Skyrim Special Edition	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	HDR has "burn-in" effect on Magika and Stamina bars, otherwise perfect.
Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Perfect
Spark the Electric Jester	Direct3D 9			Crash	Game crashes when pausing.
Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	Texture injection causes game to crash
Sunset Overdrive	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Good	HDR works fine in menus but flickers when ingame
Superhot: Mind Control Delete	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45	Local	Perfect
Tales of Berseria	Direct3D 9		Local	Good	Use the game-specific version, see TBFix.
Tales of Symphonia	Direct3D 9		Local	Good	Use the game-specific version, see TSFix.
Tales of Zestiria	Direct3D 9		Local	Good	Use the game-specific version, see TZFix.
Thief (2014)	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Perfect
Tomb Raider (2013)	Direct3D 11	0.11.0.45		Perfect
Trover Saves the Universe	Direct3D 11		Global	Good	Not compatible with VR mode.