WaterLauncher v1.4.0

WaterLauncher 1.4 brings choosing a game's art from the couch, a controller test, a welcome for new installs and collections, smooth big picture at 4K, and better art and matching for games Steam doesn't sell.

New

• Choose the art: a game's page in big picture has Art: pick its cover, background, banner and logo (L1 / R1 switch between them) from Steam's art and screenshots, the Epic store and PCGamingWiki, and with a SteamGridDB key many more. Your choice stays when details refresh.
• Test your controller: Settings → Test controller shows every button, stick and trigger live, which buttons have worked, and whether a stick drifts. Hold ✕ to feel each rumble, hold ○ to leave.
• Collections: put games in collections of your own ("Playing now", "Co-op", …). They show in desktop mode's sidebar and as Library tabs in big picture (L2 / R2); add games from a game's details or its page in big picture.
• Welcome: a new install starts with a short welcome: what was found, where WaterLauncher looks, and how you like to play.

Smoother

• Orbit no longer flickers or stutters while you glide through it: at 4K it now draws ten times as many frames and uses half the memory.
• Console and Deck stay smooth with a direction held, also with thousands of games.
• The mouse pointer hides in big picture while you use the controller or keyboard.

Art and matching

• Games only Epic sells get their art and details even from a repack or a plain folder (for example Alan Wake 2).
• Controller support comes from PCGamingWiki too, so games that support the DualSense but don't say so on Steam start directly instead of through Steam Input.
• Backgrounds are chosen from several pictures, sharp up to 4K and calm where the text sits. Details and art are fetched once more in the background after updating.
• More folder names are recognised: short names (SkyrimSE, L4D2, AC Valhalla, Mafia 2 DE), names written together, more release groups, and folders named after an expansion. Folders that aren't games (Tools, Redist, launchers) are never matched.

Fixes

• A game that crashes says so, with its error, instead of "Welcome back".
• A game that takes a while to load shows Loading until its window appears.
• In big picture Search, PageUp / PageDown and Tab work while typing.
• The game page's text is easier to read over bright backgrounds.

What's Changed

• Dev harness: drive the real app with a virtual controller by @ApolloF in #13
• Metadata: PCGamingWiki, Epic store art, better backdrops by @ApolloF in #14
• Real-app tour: every screen, both inputs, six sizes, four launch routes by @ApolloF in #15
• Smooth big picture at 4K with 2,000 games (Orbit flicker fixed) by @ApolloF in #16
• Match audit: 958 real names, 99.1 % right, no wrong matches by @ApolloF in #17
• Art picking, controller test, welcome, collections by @ApolloF in #18

Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.4.0