TCG-AR 1.2.0

TCG-AR 1.2.0 - render-pipeline performance.

Easy installation (Windows)

Download TCG-AR-Setup-1.2.0.exe below and double-click it. See the
full guide.
Already installed? Run this installer and choose Repair / resume the setup to update.

What's new in 1.2.0

• Fixed slow Scarlet/Violet sprite rendering - it was re-decoding every card's
  GIF twice per frame (~1.8 fps); the renderer now keeps decoded sprites in an
  additive cache, so S&V sprites render as fast as the default ones (~150x faster).
• The Zoom slider now rescales the displayed sprite when S&V sprites are on.

Full history: CHANGELOG.

TCG-AR 1.1.0

TCG-AR 1.1.0 - higher-quality animated sprites.

Easy installation (Windows)

Download TCG-AR-Setup-1.1.0.exe below and double-click it - no Python,
no conda, no command line. See the
full guide.

If Windows SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC", click
More info -> Run anyway (the installer is not code-signed).

Already on 1.0.0? Run this installer and choose Repair / resume the setup
(or Update the card database) to fetch the new sprites - your models and
card database are kept.

What''s new in 1.1.0

• Scarlet/Violet animated sprites (from the Scavio GIFs Tumblr) are now the
  primary sprite source - high-quality idle + battle animations for the SV
  roster (#0001-1025).
• The active Pokemon plays its battle animation; benched Pokemon idle
  with occasional fidgets.
• Automatic fallback (SV -> gen 1-8 animated -> static 2D), so shiny and
  uncovered Pokemon are unchanged.
• Building the sprites now also fetches the SV set (a longer step, a few GB);
  Repair only fetches what is missing.

Full history: CHANGELOG.

TCG-AR 1.0.0

TCG-AR 1.0.0 - first release, accompanying the paper (arXiv:2607.02090).

Easy installation (Windows)

Download TCG-AR-Setup-1.0.0.exe below and double-click it - no Python,
no conda, no command line. The wizard detects your NVIDIA GPU generation,
asks for a free Pokemon TCG API key, and
downloads everything with live progress (3-8 GB; the card database can take
1-3 hours and resumes if interrupted).

If Windows SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC", click
More info -> Run anyway (the installer is not code-signed).

Requirements: Windows 10/11, NVIDIA GPU (RTX 20-series or newer), internet.

Developers: see the manual installation.

Version history

Each installer version is logged in the
CHANGELOG;
the highlights of this release:

v1.0.0 (2026-07-14) - First public release of the one-click Windows installer.

• Self-contained wizard: no Python/conda/command line; per-user, no admin.
• Automatic NVIDIA GPU detection (RTX 50 -> CUDA 13.2 / Python 3.14;
  RTX 20/30/40 -> CUDA 11.8 / Python 3.11), both on the same OpenMMLab 2.x path.
• Choose components (AI models, card database + sprites, precomputed embeddings)
  and enter the Pokemon TCG API key in-wizard.
• Downloads run inside the installer window with live progress bars, a log view,
  and Retry on error; every step is resumable.
• Start-Menu entries: launch TCG-AR, Update card database, Setup (repair).
• Re-run for fast repair/resume or to update the card database; in-place upgrades
  keep your data.