🚀 QualityScaler 2026.4 is here!
A big one — under the hood and on the surface. Smarter hardware detection, a
sharper (pun intended) AI pipeline, a redesigned file list, and a long list of
rock-solid fixes for a smoother experience worldwide.
🎮 Your GPU, recognized instantly
No more guessing games. QualityScaler now automatically detects every GPU in
your system — NVIDIA, AMD or Intel — and shows it by its real name (say hello
to RTX 5060 Ti instead of "GPU 1").
- ✅ VRAM auto-filled from your card's actual dedicated memory
- ✅ Hardware encoder auto-selected to match your GPU (NVENC / AMF / QSV) — always the fastest path to export
- ✅ Zero setup, zero manual VRAM math
🧠 A smarter, cleaner AI pipeline
- 🧵 Seamless tiling — a brand-new overlapping-tile engine with edge feathering means tiled/low-VRAM upscales no longer show visible seams between tiles
- ✨ AI Sharpening (formerly "AI Blending") — completely redesigned: instead of mixing the original image back in (which could bring back source noise and compression artifacts), it now sharpens the AI's own output with a clean unsharp mask. Same simple OFF / Low / High choice, better and more consistent results
- ⚡ Faster inference thanks to full ONNX Runtime graph optimizations under the hood
🗂️ A file list that actually shows you what's happening
The queue got a full visual overhaul:
- 🖼️ Every file is now a sleek card with thumbnail and a live Input → AI → Output resolution preview
- ❌ Remove single files from the queue with one click — no more "clear all or nothing"
- 📊 Partially-upscaled videos show an animated resume progress bar, so you always know exactly where you left off
- 🔦 The file currently being processed is highlighted live
🌈 A fresher look
- Softer accent color, rounded corners and a more polished dark theme across the whole app
- The status bar changes color with smooth animations — blue while working, green on success, orange on stop, red on error
- Error dialogs now include a "Copy log" button so you can quickly share what went wrong
🎬 Video upscaling, rock solid
- 📈 Real-time progress for both frame extraction and encoding — accurate live percentages, no more periodic estimates
- 🏎️ Faster frame extraction with hardware-accelerated decoding and full multi-core CPU usage
- 🔔 Native Windows notification when your batch finishes, even if the app is in the background
- 😴 The app now prevents your PC from sleeping mid-batch (and restores your normal power settings right after)
- 💾 Disk space check before starting a video job — a clear warning instead of a failed export with a nearly-full drive
- 🛡️ Fixed a crash when a queued file was moved, renamed or deleted mid-session
- ⏱️ Every internal process now has safety timeouts — no more risk of the app hanging when you stop a job
- 🌍 Fixed video export silently failing for file paths containing an apostrophe (e.g. usernames/folders like D'Angelo or O'Brien) — a real-world fix for our international users
⚙️ Under the hood
- 🩹 Fixed a startup crash caused by a corrupted preferences file — the app now safely falls back to defaults
- 🪶 Removed the bundled EXIF metadata tool — lighter install, fewer dependencies, smaller attack surface
- 🧮 Smarter memory-aware queue sizing for more predictable performance on any machine, low-end to high-end
- 🏗️ A major internal code refactor for a cleaner, more maintainable codebase — paving the way for faster future updates