BlueHeisenberg/SCSKiller v1.4.6

SCSKiller v1.4.6

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Click More info, then Run anyway. Updates never show it.

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Get-FileHash <file>). These notes aren't signed, so that doesn't prove who built it. The source: https://github.com/BlueHeisenberg/SCSKiller/tree/v1.4.6.

Smart App Control (Windows 11) blocks unsigned apps outright, with no Run anyway.

Improved

• A compile writes far less to disk. A small top-up writes a few MB where it rewrote the whole plan, and the plan stays in
  RAM when there's room.
• The question about deleting a game's old shader cache comes before a compile you start, not after it ends, and it no
  longer recommends deleting. Keep it is the default, and a compile nobody answers for goes on.
• SCSKiller asks once whether you'd like to support it on Patreon, after 3 days of use and a compile that did its job,
  never during a compile, with a game open or when signed in with Patreon.

Improved on Windows

• A game whose compile only waits for one run of the game shows as Warmed, with a line telling you to launch it once and
  close it.
• A running game whose compile waits for its exit shows as Warmed with "Close the game first", and a damaged compile
  shows as Needs rebuilding.
• The background shader read after a compile stays within the background memory limit.

Fixed

• A compile no longer restarts forever around one spot when memory runs short.
• A compile whose process is killed from outside goes on from where it stopped.
• Stopping a compile ends it cleanly instead of showing it as failed.
• A compile with plenty of free RAM no longer restarts to free memory, and a restart no longer repeats what it finished.
• A small plan change after an update no longer marks a compiled game Needs rebuilding. Fewer new pipelines than 1% of its
  plan, at least 500, wait for its next compile.

Fixed on Windows

• With NVIDIA, a first compile of Hogwarts Legacy without a recording reaches the game from its first launch.
• With AMD, a compile with nothing to do no longer makes a working game show Needs rebuilding after its next launch.
• With NVIDIA, a first launch after a first compile without a recording no longer reads Stale for pipelines the compile
  already made.
• An AMD game no longer stays Not compatible after one launch. It offers a compile again, and Clear cache always does.
• With NVIDIA driver 621 or later, a game whose compile is working no longer shows as Not compatible.
• With NVIDIA driver 621 or later, a lost compile shows as gone on Windows 10 and Windows 11 23H2 instead of staying
  compiled.
• A shader cache restored from a backup or copied across drives no longer shows as partly gone.
• On Hades II, the recorder goes beside the exe Steam starts.
• The game page's "in use" figure no longer counts a shader cache file another process holds as full.
• A game whose store entry names a launcher or Epic's bootstrapper is detected by its real exe.
• The Cache page no longer names an old entry on a game's rows when the game now lists under another store, and deleting
  that row keeps the old entry's own data.
• Remove recorders no longer warns about Vulkan registrations on a PC that never used the Vulkan recorder.

Fixed on Linux

• Clear cache removes what a compile placed in Steam's files and every set in the game's folder, and a game launched after
  its compile keeps its own cache working.
• A compile goes on after pipelines hang the NVIDIA driver, where it ended with its cache half used, and the game page says
  how many pipelines weren't compiled when a compile ends early.
• A compile too large for Steam's files no longer writes its whole placement twice.
• A Faugus game on Proton-CachyOS compiles without Steam's copy of the Steam Linux Runtime.
• The game page says Steam reads a game's cache only after a launch confirms it. With Steam's Shader Pre-caching off, the
  note to turn it on shows during the launch.
• Turning off Steam's Shader Pre-caching no longer makes the next compile replay everything.
• A compile that runs out of room during Steam's pipelines counts only the ones it reached, so its coverage is no longer
  overstated.

SHA-256:

394ee677bd6f0b167d4079db8603c2b593b71f04c23880254b892a893376e142  SCSKiller-1.4.6-Portable.zip
b847e516174c1ae34cf781d5478c521128575daf6d641c9a32b5e7d02c0e1ef6  SCSKiller-Setup.exe
605c26ceccb0745304d46cadb9afd75734a771a97c388344e627fdd827056c9c  SCSKiller-x86_64.AppImage

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