KarPur Launcher 0.3.2

KarPur Launcher 0.3.2: your team with its icons, an experimental Mods tab, fixes for AMD graphics cards, and a test run for older processors.

New

• Team icons on the Home page: each Pokémon of your team shows its icon. KarPur takes the icons from your own game files during the build and keeps them on your PC; the launcher contains no pictures from the game.
  • The Home page now follows the game: the team updates as soon as you save, and when the game ends.
• Mods (experimental): a new tab for your own mods, for example from NexusMods: add a mod folder or a .zip, switch each mod on or off.
  • Nothing of your game is replaced: KarPur gives the game a mod's file while the game loads the original. A mod switched off is gone at the next start.
  • Only a few mods have been tried so far. Mods that change existing files work (tested: Improved Dynamic LODs, PokePopulation). Files a mod adds and a mod's code (exefs) are not supported yet; the tab says per mod what it can use. If a mod makes the game crash or behave oddly, switch it off and tell us in Feedback which mod it was.
• Firmware folder (Setup, optional): with your console's system files, a base game as .nsp, or an .xci converted from one, now builds too (they lack the system fonts a cartridge carries).

Fixed

• AMD graphics cards: black shadows. Everything facing away from the sun was black, because the game's ambient light could not be read on AMD (#12). Checked on an AMD RDNA 2 GPU.
• AMD graphics cards: crashes ("device lost") in the character creation: graphics pipeline libraries are now off on every AMD card, which made the game run much longer in #18. If it still crashes for you, please report it.
• The build stopped at the compiler download (CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED) when an antivirus program scans HTTPS: the download now goes through Windows itself in that case (#20). Every file is still checked against its fixed checksum.
• When Windows runs out of memory (RAM and page file), the game's log now says so in plain words (#14).
• The launcher rebuilds the game by itself after it was updated in any way (also when you replaced it by hand).
• The launcher no longer shows an error when its window is minimised.

Test run: processors without AVX2

Since 0.3.1 the game builds and starts on older processors without AVX2. 0.3.2 makes the game's math much faster there (the build now targets your own processor, and a calculation the game uses everywhere no longer runs in slow software). This has hardly been tried. If you have such a processor, please send a report with your CPU and the FPS you get: it helps a lot (#15).

Updating

Open the Update tab of your launcher and install 0.3.2, or download KarPur-Launcher.exe below. It rebuilds what changed and prepares the shaders and icons again (a few minutes). Your saves and settings stay.

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