v1.0.2 — Initial Release: DLSS 5 Studio

DLSS 5 Studio v1.0.2 ⚡

Bug fix and maintenance update resolving automatic artwork downloads for manually added games, nested folder title resolution, installer upgrade handling, legacy pre-DirectX 10 (D3D8 & D3D9) dgVoodoo 2 translation with 32-bit LAA support, and core runtime updates.

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🔧 Fixes & Improvements

• Automatic Artwork Resolution for Manually Added Games & Folders:

  • Fixed an issue where manually added game executables or custom folder scans did not automatically download vertical box art and banners from the Steam CDN.
  • Smart Title Inference for Nested Folders: Fixed games located in subfolders (e.g. Cyberpunk 2077/bin/x64) incorrectly displaying as "x64" or "bin" by climbing parent directories to resolve the actual game title.
  • Title Normalization & Fuzzy Splitting: Added boundary splitting for fused titles and numbers (e.g. Cyberpunk2077 -> Cyberpunk 2077) so Steam artwork queries resolve successfully.
  • On-Demand Artwork Fetch: Added a "Fetch Artwork" action in the game detail sheet for manual titles that are missing artwork, with deduplication to prevent redundant network requests.

• Installer Upgrade & Process Handling:

  • Fixed installer behavior when upgrading an existing installation: now correctly checks the registry, switches the action to "Update", and safely closes running dlss-studio.exe processes before copying files to prevent ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION locks.
  • Preserves user data (library.json, custom folders, settings) across updates.

• Runtime Component Updates:

  • Updated bundled runtime components to their latest upstream releases:
    • OptiScaler DLSS-NR v0.8.4 (OptiScaler-NR-v0.8.4.zip)
    • DLSS 5 Feeder v1.16.0-beta.3 (DLSS5-Feeder-1.16.0-beta.3.zip)
    • MFGAdaUnlock-RenoDx 1.0 (renodx-mfgunlock.addon64)

• Legacy Pre-DirectX 10 (DirectX 8 & 9) dgVoodoo 2 Interop:

  • Added automated dgVoodoo 2 translation for older pre-DirectX 10 titles (DirectX 8 and DirectX 9 via d3d8.dll, d3d9.dll, dgVoodoo.conf), wrapping legacy graphics calls into modern Direct3D 11 swapchains to route into the DLSS 5 Feeder pipeline (DirectX 11 was already supported natively).
  • Automatically handles PE architecture selection between 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit binaries, configuring the dlss5-feed-host64.exe inter-process bridge or addon32 fallback.
  • Added PE Large Address Aware (LAA) header inspection and safe toggling for 32-bit executables, allowing classic games to address up to 4 GB of virtual memory and preventing out-of-memory crashes with modern upscalers and shaders.
  • Automated dgVoodoo.conf configuration (brief watermark confirmation, VRAM allocation, parser protection) and clean restoration during route switching or rollback.

• Build & Packaging:

  • Release executables and installer packages are now version-stamped (dlss-studio-v1.0.2-setup.exe and dlss-studio-v1.0.2-portable.exe).
  • Automated build scripts now clean up unversioned binaries from target/release.

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📦 Included Packages & Downloads

File	Type	Description
dlss-studio-v1.0.2-setup.exe	Standalone Setup / Installer (Recommended)	Native Rust setup wizard with configurable install and data storage locations, in-place update detection, Start Menu & Desktop shortcuts, and Windows registration.
dlss-studio-v1.0.2-portable.exe	Portable Executable	Standalone self-contained executable. Run anywhere with no installation required.

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📜 Previous Releases

DLSS 5 Studio v1.0.1 — Hotfix Release

Hotfix release restoring Neural Rendering on the DLSS 5 Feeder route and improving out-of-the-box installation defaults.

• DLSS 5 Feeder Neural Rendering:
  • Restored NeuralUplift=1 in ReShade.ini during Feeder route deployments.
  • Resolves an issue where Neural Reconstruction (Feature 18) was initialized in a disabled state at launch, enabling seamless DLSS-NR execution across non-DX12 titles (such as DirectX 11 executables like bg3_dx11.exe).
• Setup & Installation Defaults:
  • Defaulted install directory to C:\DLSS 5 Studio and data directory to C:\DLSS 5 Studio\data for smooth, permission-friendly installs on standard user accounts without requiring elevation prompts.
  • Added real-time visual warning banners in the setup wizard when protected system directories (Program Files) are manually selected.
• Documentation & Upstream Attribution:
  • Updated OptiScaler attribution in README.md to credit wilsjo2/OptiScaler-DLSSNR-PreSR-Multipass for the Pre-SR Multipass and DLSS-NR runtime implementation.

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Compatibility: Windows 10 (1903+) or Windows 11 (64-bit) • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20/30/40/50-Series (RTX 40-Series required for 4x Multi-Frame Generation).

What's Changed

• Release v1.0.2: Automatic artwork resolution, nested title inference, installer update safety, pre-DX10 support, and runtime updates by @bookamp in #2

New Contributors

• @bookamp made their first contribution in #2

Full Changelog: v1.0.1...v1.0.2