Sound Effects, Requirements Check & Debrid Torrent Parts

Ascendara 12.2.2 · November 8, 2026

Ascendara can now play sound effects for notifications and achievements, with built-in profiles, your own uploaded sounds and shareable sound packs. Big Picture plays interface sounds as you move around. Download pages compare a game's minimum requirements with your PC, and Debrid downloads let you choose which torrent parts to grab. Live updates now download from GitHub, and many download, extraction and Linux fixes land as well.

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What's new

➕ Added

Ascendara Core

• Sound effects for notifications and achievements, with Classic, Crystal, Arcade and Simple profiles and a volume slider
• Upload your own notification and achievement sounds
• Import sound packs shared by other users, or share your own sounds as a pack
• Find community sound packs on the Ascendara Discord, linked from the sound settings
• Download pages compare a game's minimum requirements with your PC, with a verdict on each line (by @HighestFidelity)
• When an index lists no requirements, Steam's minimum requirements are used instead (by @HighestFidelity)
• The requirements compare dialog has been redesigned

Debrid Services

• Choose which torrent parts to download, sorted into game files, languages and extras, for Real-Debrid and TorBox (by @HighestFidelity)
• A toast counts down to the torrent hand-off and shows when a ready torrent starts on your PC (by @HighestFidelity)

Big Picture

• Interface sounds play while navigating with a controller or keyboard

🛠 Improved

Ascendara Core

• Live updates and repairs on Windows and Linux now download straight from GitHub
• The compact dock animates more smoothly
• Your PC specs are read once per run instead of on every page (by @HighestFidelity)

🐛 Fixed

Ascendara Core

• Pausing or cancelling a download no longer fails while the downloader is still closing
• Pausing a download no longer starts the next one in the queue
• Games can be installed on Btrfs with compression or compressed folders without a false low disk space error
• Native Linux games launched through wrappers are now tracked
• A system-installed umu-run is now detected on Linux
• Ascendara now explains when its port is reserved by Windows instead of blaming another program
• The app window is only trusted on a port Ascendara holds (by @HighestFidelity)
• Links that open Ascendara at startup wait for the page to load (by @HighestFidelity)
• The page shown when the window fails to load displays in full (by @HighestFidelity)
• Removed Twitch logins no longer come back from recovery points (by @HighestFidelity)
• The GPU is detected without relying on wmic (by @HighestFidelity)
• A dedicated graphics card is preferred over a Ryzen APU's integrated graphics (by @HighestFidelity)
• A downloader that quits right after starting is now reported (by @HighestFidelity)
• Checkboxes keep toggling when clicked

Game Search

• Torrent index game pages fill in details from a Steam match on the cleaned game name (by @HighestFidelity)
• FitGirl tags, CL versions, stacked editions and repack notes are cleaned before matching Steam (by @HighestFidelity)
• Game pages never show a Steam match that is a different game, demo or soundtrack (by @HighestFidelity)
• Games not on Steam show a short note, and a busy Steam shows a retry instead of "not found" (by @HighestFidelity)
• Edition bundles and edition names now match the right Steam game (by @HighestFidelity)
• HowLongToBeat results are found more often by retrying with the cleaned name and without edition words (by @HighestFidelity)
• CPUs and GPUs are judged on rough performance tiers, including older GeForce 8 to 500 series and Radeon HD 2000 to 6000 series cards (by @HighestFidelity)

Debrid Services

• Ready torrents start on your PC right away, and refused hand-offs retry automatically (by @HighestFidelity)
• Paused or stuck downloads no longer hold back torrent hand-offs (by @HighestFidelity)
• A torrent is never started over a paused download, and installed games are never sent to your PC again (by @HighestFidelity)
• Torrents deleted from the cloud stop retrying and say so (by @HighestFidelity)
• Stopping and deleting TorBox downloads works correctly, and torrent and web download records stay apart (by @HighestFidelity)

Full list of code changes: 12.1.2 → 12.2.2