BlueHeisenberg/SCSKiller v1.1.1

SCSKiller 1.1.1

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This build isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen will probably show "Windows protected your PC" the
first time you run it. Click More info, then Run anyway. You see it once per install: updates are downloaded
by SCSKiller itself and never trigger it.

Why: code signing through the SignPath Foundation is in progress, for stable releases (alpha and beta builds stay
unsigned). To check that the download arrived whole, compare its SHA-256 with the one at the end of these notes
(PowerShell: Get-FileHash <file>); these notes aren't signed, so that doesn't prove who built it. The source: https://github.com/BlueHeisenberg/SCSKiller/tree/v1.1.1.

Smart App Control (Windows 11) blocks unsigned apps outright, with no Run anyway. If it's on, wait for a signed release.

Added

• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's DirectX 12 build compiles without a recording on NVIDIA: SCSKiller reads its shader caches
  and the pipelines its materials use.

Changed

• Clicking the Library's refresh button also fetches everything from the server, whatever its age (at most every 10
  minutes): the known-stutter and tested-engine lists, community recordings and shared packs, your supporter status and
  the update check.
• Every game's compile plan is rebuilt once after this update, while the PC is idle; a compiled game whose new plan adds
  pipelines says how many more it can compile. Plans for games with tessellation and geometry shaders, or with ray
  tracing, cover more pipelines.

Fixed

• A game started through its launcher, such as The Witcher 3's REDprelauncher, is found by the exe the launcher starts,
  so its recorder goes where the game loads it. A recorder already next to the launcher moves there once neither runs,
  with the last session's report and frame times.
• A GPU driver updated while SCSKiller runs is noticed within minutes: the driver shown, the games that need compiling
  again and the driver-update notification follow it without a restart. A GPU of another vendor asks for a restart.
• The app, the command line and the scheduled task no longer compile the same game at once: the second one waits.
• A compile that was stopped and then continued reports the pipelines that failed before the stop, and starts over
  after a driver update.
• A game updated since the last scan is compiled with the engine and checks of the installed build.
• NVIDIA: a compiled game whose shader cache was removed (a shader cache reset) shows as needing a compile again.
• A failed compile's message points to a log that is still there.
• A recorder chained to a mod's d3d12.dll whose install was cut off gets its settings file back, so the mod loads.
• A launch played while a recompile ran no longer judges the compile that ends after it.
• A recording imported just before SCSKiller was closed or crashed is always taken into the next compile.
• Turning "Share anonymous shader hashes" off stops a sharing pass already under way: nothing more is uploaded.
• Signing out and in again while the app renews its sign-in in the background no longer signs the new sign-in out.
• A damaged record in a game's scskiller.db fails only that game's import, not the whole library scan.
• A known-stutter or tested-engines list from the server with an empty entry is ignored instead of stopping the other
  list from updating.
• While the community database refuses or can't be reached, the app waits before asking again instead of asking once
  per game.
• Clear cache also finds a game's D3D shader cache when its path has non-ASCII characters (an accented user name), and
  deletes read-only cache files too.
• Stable updates are found while the SCSKiller server is down, also with an expired sign-in. Beta and alpha also offer a
  newer stable release.
• A game update that changes only its shipped pipeline list or its inline shaders gets a new plan.
• Games are found more reliably: an Epic game whose manifest names itself as the main game, Xbox games on any drive,
  and games installed under a folder named like Setup or Redist.
• A RE Engine game with a patch file that can't be read shows as unsupported instead of compiling outdated shaders.
• Frame times: failed presents no longer count as frames, and a frame file that can't be written no longer shifts the
  times after it. Games that create their device through ID3D12DeviceFactory are recorded.
• A compile that fails while it is being watched no longer leaves its process running.

SHA-256:

eef3a6ebe8c12ea13ceb102a9f99066338c8bff8f0dc17dcea2d13ecd431add2  SCSKiller-1.1.1-Portable.zip
44454cb6d8a6798998fa171ba85d6c259212d33e2d174ec685bd4dd6a9075f63  SCSKiller-Setup.exe

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