v0.0.5.2-testing

A prerelease on the testing branch, fixing two games that 0.0.5.1-testing broke.
Bundled OptiScaler release is unchanged at 0.9.4.

Fixed

• Monster Hunter Wilds would not boot. Its wiki page lays out three
  mutually exclusive install methods, and the settings miner read all of them.
  LoadReshade=true belongs to METHOD 3 — the arrangement where REFramework's
  dll is renamed to ReShade64.dll so OptiScaler loads it — and it was applied
  on top of METHOD 1's files, which is what this plugin installs. OptiScaler was
  told to load a ReShade64.dll that was not there while REFramework was already
  loaded through dinput8.dll. Settings are now read only from the part of a
  page describing the method actually performed; everything from the first
  "METHOD 2" or "Alternate Method" heading onward is ignored.
• Resident Evil 2 was given 2× output scaling it never asked for. The entry
  says "If applying Output Scaling is crashing the game, then ... set
  Enabled=true and the desired multiplier (e.g. Multiplier=2.0)" — advice
  for a problem you may not have, with an example number — and both keys were
  written unconditionally. A setting hedged by an "if", a "try", an "e.g." or a
  "desired" is no longer applied; it is reported instead, naming the word that
  made it a maybe. "Requires X, otherwise it crashes" is still an instruction,
  because a refusal is not free either.
• The overlay moving to another key is said out loud. Several REFramework
  entries ask for ShortcutKey=0x24 because REF's own overlay is on Insert too.
  Applying it is right — doing it in silence meant Insert stopped opening the
  OptiScaler overlay and looked broken, when it had simply moved to Home. The
  plan now names the key to press, before it is written.
• REFramework only installs dinput8.dll. Its release notes ask for nothing
  else to go into the game folder, so the build stamp stays in the download cache
  and is recorded in the manifest instead.

Changed

• REFramework can be removed without removing OptiScaler. It is required for
  these games to work, so it is still a compulsory step before the install — but
  it is also a 23 MB third-party DLL that hooks the engine and can stop a game
  booting, and an all-or-nothing install left no way to find out which of the two
  mods was at fault. It is a toggle once installed, and turning it off restores
  whatever dinput8.dll the game shipped with.
• A missing PDPerfPlugin.dll is now a warning, not a quiet row. Without it
  the Resident Evil entries do not upscale at all — while OptiScaler loads, live
  control connects and the frame rate reads out normally, which is exactly how
  this was reported. The setup now says in as many words that the panel will
  connect and report normally while nothing on screen changes.

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Install

Decky Loader → gear icon → Developer mode → Install Plugin from URL, and paste:

https://github.com/danielcamilo1/decky-optiscaler/releases/download/v0.0.5.2-testing/Decky-OptiScaler-v0.0.5.2-testing.zip

Or download the zip below and unpack it into ~/homebrew/plugins/.