This update adds Vulkan on Windows, higher frame rates, restored dialogue, cinematic bars, pipeline precompilation and a new Support page, alongside launcher startup fixes and improvements to widescreen layouts, Ko-op and in-game settings.
Graphics and performance
- Added Direct3D 12 / Vulkan selection to the launcher's Play page on Windows.
- Added automatic fallback to Direct3D 12 for the current session if Vulkan initialization fails.
- Added 60 and 120 FPS options with V-Sync disabled. With V-Sync enabled, rendering targets the monitor's refresh rate.
- Added interpolated rendering above 60 FPS while keeping gameplay simulation at 60 Hz.
- Added shader and pipeline preparation during loading on both renderers, reducing compilation stalls from the first session.
- Expanded background compilation and pipeline reuse across sessions.
Note
Some effects can still pause briefly on first use.
Restore Lost Dialogue
- Added Restore Lost Dialogue to Enhancements, enabled by default.
- Recovered story lines previously skipped when another voice was playing.
- Restored Johnny Cage's ledge instruction and wheel reactions, missing Goro's Lair dialogue, escape warnings and Living Forest hints.
- Added unused boss dialogue, taunts, reactions and laugh variations, including Ermac's phase dialogue.
- Added voices to selected tutorial captions and contextual responses throughout the campaign.
- Corrected solo Kung Lao dialogue during the Baraka encounter.
- Uses the original recordings and selected voice language.
Cinematic Bars
- Added optional animated black bars during in-game cutscenes. Available in Enhancements, disabled by default.
Widescreen and interface
- Corrected widescreen camera aspect-ratio handling.
- Improved solo and Ko-op positioning for health bars, names, experience, combo counters and praise.
- Corrected tutorial panels, text and confirmation prompts across aspect ratios.
- Improved Level Select backgrounds, arena previews and transitions on widescreen displays.
Controls and pause settings
- Improved Ko-op controller assignment, disconnection and reconnection handling.
- Added keyboard and mouse takeover when player 1's controller disconnects.
- Connected controllers retain their player slots, and replacement controllers fill empty slots.
- Any connected controller can navigate recompilation settings and remap controls.
- Fixed Start skipping Versus introductions without immediately opening pause.
- Reorganized pause settings into Display, Graphics, Controls and Audio, with corrected Back navigation.
- Expanded pause-menu graphics controls with 25%–400% render scale, V-Sync, FPS display and frame-rate selection.
Launcher stability
- Fixed startup failures on Windows profiles where the Saved Games folder had not been created yet.
- Improved handling of launcher graphics initialization failures, rendering errors and GPU timeouts.
- Added safer handling of font and interface resource creation, with a system-dialog fallback when the graphical launcher cannot initialize.
- Improved startup diagnostics, including logging when application folders cannot be prepared.
Support and crash reports
- Added a Support page with Generate report, Open reports and Report a bug actions.
- Diagnostic ZIPs collect recent session logs, selected settings, installed mod versions and available crash dumps.
- Added automatic diagnostic ZIP creation after unexpected launcher or game exits, without requiring the launcher to be reopened.
- The error message shows the ZIP location and reporting instructions. Selecting OK opens its folder.
- On Windows, automatic crash reports include a dump captured for that crash when one can be created. Manual reports include the latest completed dump when available.
- Reports are still generated with logs and other diagnostics if a dump cannot be created.
- Added filtering of account and computer names, personal paths, network addresses and credentials in text logs.
- Reports exclude saves, game files and screenshots. Nothing is uploaded automatically.
- Added
--support-reportto generate a diagnostic ZIP without opening the launcher.
Validation
- Automated regression tests: 109/109 passed on Windows and 71/71 passed on Linux.
Special thanks
Special thanks to @Joao13Traducoes for the additional testing