1.1: Save rescue, PC cleanup, Game Radio, Hot Deals and a new look

🛟 Save rescue: when an update breaks your game

A game patches itself, you hit Play, and it crashes or won't load. Very often an old save from the previous version is the culprit.

Swiss Tool now warns you when every save is older than the game's latest Steam update and gives you a one-click fix: Quarantine saves. Your saves are moved aside (not deleted), the game starts fresh, and you can put them back with one click whenever you want.

• Save file browser: every file and folder in a game's save location, labelled Save, Settings, Cache or Logs, with sizes and dates
• Quarantine: move broken saves aside, restore any time
• Safe delete: a snapshot is taken first, then files go to the Recycle Bin
• Clean cache & logs per game. One Godot game we tested had 270 KB of saves next to 226 MB of shader cache
• Steam Cloud warning when Steam would download deleted saves back
• Nothing is touched while the game is running

💾 Smaller, smarter backups

Snapshots and exports skip shader caches, pipeline caches and logs automatically. Same saves, a fraction of the size. Snapshots also remember the game build they were taken on.

• New: copy every snapshot to OneDrive, Dropbox or Google Drive. Swiss Tool finds your synced folder and copies the ZIP files there. No accounts, no logins.
• Your settings, notes, snapshots and quarantined saves now live in %APPDATA%\MadOctopus\SwissTool, so they survive updates and uninstalls. Existing data moves over automatically on first start.

🧹 PC cleanup

Clear NVIDIA, AMD and Intel shader caches, the DirectX shader cache, Steam's web cache and per-game shader caches. It is the classic fix for stutter after a driver update, and on our test PC it freed 7.5 GB. Nothing is deleted until you review the list and confirm.

📻 Game Radio

A built-in internet radio you can control without leaving your game: video game music, synthwave, lo-fi, chill, electronic, rock and metal, plus search across 30,000 stations from the community radio-browser.info directory. Favourites, recently played and your own stream URLs. Nothing connects until you press play.

🔥 Hot Deals

Live Steam specials sorted by the biggest discount, in your own currency. Filter 50, 75 or 90% off, see free-to-keep giveaways first, hide games you already have, open the store page in one click.

🎯 Crosshair designs

Nine ready-made designs (dots, crosses, circles, an X marker and a Mad Octopus orange) with live previews. Pick one in a click, copy it into a game's own profile, or flip through them in-game with a hotkey.

⌨ Global hotkeys (they work inside games)

• Ctrl + Alt + F7: next crosshair design
• Ctrl + Alt + F8: snapshot the game you are playing right now
• Ctrl + Alt + F9 / F10: radio play-stop / next station
• Ctrl + Alt + PgUp / PgDn: radio volume
• Ctrl + Alt + F11: crosshair on / off
• Ctrl + Alt + F12: notepad

All rebindable in Settings. We deliberately avoided Ctrl + Alt + letter: on many keyboard layouts that is AltGr, and grabbing it would stop you typing accented letters.

🎨 A brand-new look

The whole app was redesigned in the Mad Octopus style, with a new pixel octopus logo. Sidebar navigation, and a library that shows which games have saves, how big they are, which ones are running and which ones were updated since your last save. Right-click any game for quick actions. Scans run in the background, so the window never freezes.

Privacy

Game Radio and Hot Deals are the only features that go online, and only when you click them. No accounts, no telemetry, same as before.

Thanks for playing and for the bug reports. Keep them coming in the Community hub or at [email protected].
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