A New Downloader, a Redesigned Download Card & Drive Speed Warnings
Ascendara 12.2.3 · November 9, 2026
Downloads now run through a brand new downloader rewritten in Rust, with built-in torrent support, and start instantly. The download card has been redesigned to show each phase, disk activity and unpacking progress, and Ascendara now tells you when your drive is the reason a download is slow.
Download
| Platform | Version | File | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows | 64-bit | Ascendara.Setup.12.2.3.exe | 202 MB |
| Windows | 64-bit portable | Ascendara-Portable-12.2.3.exe | 201 MB |
| macOS | Apple Silicon | Ascendara-12.2.3-mac-arm64.dmg | 247 MB |
| macOS | Intel | Ascendara-12.2.3-mac-x64.dmg | 258 MB |
| Linux | 64-bit | Ascendara-12.2.3.AppImage | 330 MB |
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All files and checksums
| File | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|
| Ascendara-12.2.3-mac-arm64.dmg | 247 MB | 7e97202068f04611eb5784efb485266bd29d9e07a0feb5c15de21ee187e6a752
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| Ascendara-12.2.3-mac-arm64.dmg.blockmap | 260 KB | f2446ccbb258701d8c4ef6cf43f19d4b0c52f8a977a2c059b19d042259c739cf
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| Ascendara-12.2.3-mac-arm64.zip | 246 MB | 34ef24a2f25c3deb594013af4e0470e804640999c35019ea237c72b2482f0110
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| Ascendara-12.2.3-mac-arm64.zip.blockmap | 263 KB | 70ade9631a1bd5244ae273a2da3ce52b11900c0adc533ca8d86c9fe327f65a8b
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| Ascendara-12.2.3-mac-x64.dmg | 258 MB | 66ab431ba22c7be9052e1e9eec5b26907b255ea0d9193bdda3382b2a81a5d7df
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| Ascendara-12.2.3-mac-x64.dmg.blockmap | 268 KB | 2e7ceaaec0377a2d5b951fcf5ef8b3da1ba6f5cec04edfc83c8f0ba1295c5398
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| Ascendara-12.2.3-mac-x64.zip | 256 MB | 5a5de8a5c01b1313114ea66f9521706082a45f247b66cf49c1774185d0cc0608
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| Ascendara-12.2.3-mac-x64.zip.blockmap | 275 KB | 2499d79be08383e92d7b5726d940110cb8b1d633f6095ff109584cbe89c95118
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| Ascendara-12.2.3.AppImage | 330 MB | 2f879f4a22ea33c55b29bee38ca54f26291bf33d2528adcd0ce9ba7add1e966e
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| Ascendara-Portable-12.2.3.exe | 201 MB | 276c2702167294f3e577773a7de2690dc1df3e21c62afcf5998f85dbc9efa9e9
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| Ascendara.Setup.12.2.3.exe | 202 MB | 98b634a3406f27cb99ea02af0f2e48c4fcb1e56f9b3db2044dbdf15eedb74dbc
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| Ascendara.Setup.12.2.3.exe.blockmap | 216 KB | a4e6a3139ba5b0d5aa6ea82519d9e024ec633bbfe1f4a753ecf0d1e89cf7b63b
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What's new
➕ Added
Ascendara Core
- A new downloader rewritten in Rust, with built-in torrent support
- Ascendara tells you when your drive can't keep up and is limiting the download speed
🛠 Improved
Ascendara Core
- Every download goes through the new downloader and starts instantly
- The download card has been redesigned with download, unpack and verify phases, disk read and write activity and unpack status
- The speed graph holds still while every download is paused
- Downloads now use 16 threads by default
- Connection timeouts are explained, and Windows users are pointed to the portable version
🐛 Fixed
Ascendara Core
- Downloads are only limited to one connection when single stream is chosen
- The downloader reads the settings of the app that started it
- Games with only a wide header saved use the portrait grid image as their cover
Full list of code changes: 12.2.2 → 12.2.3