Vibeshine 1.14.11 — 2026-03-05

Notice: Vibeshine may trigger false-positive antivirus alerts. Details and workarounds are documented here: #59

Highlights

Fixed Windows virtual display sessions changing desktop layout or physical monitor refresh rates after stream startup.
Reduced long hangs during display-helper reconnects and app teardown, improving recovery when streams stop or fail mid-cleanup.
Improved Playnite recovery when the plugin is missing, with safer autosync handling and clearer dashboard actions.
Restored P1 as the real default NVENC preset and aligned the web UI and docs with that behavior.
Reduced cases where canceled non-virtual sessions would incorrectly revert desktop display state.

Virtual display sessions now preserve saved layout orientation data more accurately, including monitor arrangement metadata needed for rotation-aware restores.
Unified the frame generation capture fix flow so app settings and runtime behavior stay on the same path.
DLSS Frame Generation, exposed through the Game Provided option on supported NVIDIA setups, now uses NVIDIA Reflex instead of Front Edge Sync. This was changed to fix a case where Front Edge Sync could effectively double latency on that specific DLSS path.
Front Edge Sync remains the preferred behavior for other frame generation options, including Lossless Scaling and NVIDIA Smooth Motion, because it does not have that doubled-latency issue there and still provides the best latency and fluidity balance for those modes.

Added clearer dashboard recovery actions when Playnite-managed entries exist but the Playnite extension is missing.
Added warnings when older saved display layouts need to be refreshed to fully preserve newer layout metadata.
NVENC preset labels are now clearer in the UI, with P1 shown as the default and P4 described more accurately.

Display-helper monitor position overrides now retry within a bounded window instead of failing too early while Windows is still settling devices.
Display-helper IPC reconnect behavior is more resilient and less prone to cascading reconnect delays.
App teardown now bounds wait time for undo commands so display revert and cleanup can still complete even if an undo command stalls.
NVIDIA Control Panel override ownership and restore timing are now tracked more safely across overlapping or shared sessions.

Playnite autosync now guarantees UUIDs for synced entries, improving compatibility with app parsing and list transitions.
Legacy saved display snapshots are now versioned with layout metadata so older configurations can be identified and upgraded more safely.

Fixed physical monitor refresh rates being reset after virtual display setup.
Fixed virtual display sessions stealing primary display positioning or restoring incomplete monitor layouts.
Fixed frame generation capture-fix settings being split across old first-generation and second-generation paths, which could lead to inconsistent runtime behavior.
Fixed the default NVENC preset drifting away from P1 in runtime configuration and the web UI.

Fixed Playnite dashboard recovery flows when the Playnite plugin is missing but managed entries are still present.
Fixed purge handling so failed Playnite app refreshes are no longer treated as empty app lists.
Fixed stale fullscreen-entry and config state remaining in the dashboard after Playnite cleanup actions.
Fixed preset labeling inconsistencies that could show incomplete or misleading NVENC preset names.

Fixed non-virtual Windows sessions triggering display cleanup and desktop revert on cancel or terminate.
Fixed partial display layout application when monitor position overrides were attempted before devices were ready.
Fixed display-helper IPC livelocks that could cause 20+ second hangs during pipe reconnection.
Fixed teardown paths where a stuck undo command could prevent display revert from being dispatched.
Fixed fragile restore timing for NVIDIA Control Panel overrides when multiple sessions touched the same override lifecycle.

Fixed Playnite autosync creating entries without UUIDs, which could cause repeated app-load errors and unstable app-list transitions.