RankFTW/RHI RHI-2.7.3

RHI 2.7.3

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v2.7.3

New

• UE-Extended games now show a status icon next to the addon name — a green ✓ for mods marked complete, and 🔨 for mods still in progress.
• You can now select individual files from your Custom Shaders folder in the shader picker. Files from %LocalAppData%\RHI\reshade\Custom\Shaders\ and \Textures\ appear as a "Custom Shaders" section between Recommended and Extra packs, grouped by subfolder. Tick or untick individual files to control exactly what gets deployed. An "Open Custom Folder" button in the Profiles panel opens the folder directly.
• DXVK has moved to the Extras section, under a new "API Upgrades" sub-header. The install button is always available on eligible games (DX8/9/10). Variant selection (Lilium HDR by default, Development, Stable) and the Lilium preset are now in the DXVK cog alongside the existing present method settings.

Neural Rendering

• Feeder and Bridge version selection — you can now pin a specific release version of the Feeder or Bridge addon instead of always using the latest. The dropdown shows the full release history (28+ versions including betas).
• ShortFuse (DLSS Tool) is now available on all 64-bit games except OpenGL — previously it only showed on games with native DLSS.
• Fixed Feeder installing the wrong dgVoodoo2 file on 64-bit DX9 games — the 32-bit version was always used, so dgVoodoo2 did nothing and the shader failed to compile. Reinstall Feeder on any affected game to fix it.
• Fixed global shaders not being removed from the game folder immediately when Feeder is installed.
• Fixed DLSS5_Feed.fx not deploying to the game folder on install.
• Fixed the Neural Rendering panel not building on some sessions.

Game Detection

• Unity games now correctly report their API based on Unity's own configuration file, rather than PE import scanning (which reads the Unity player DLL and sees every API). This fixes games like Caves of Qud showing DX12 instead of their actual runtime API.
• Games with a trademark symbol in their name (®, ™) now correctly match against RHI database entries — Borderlands® 4 and similar were not being found.
• Unreal Legacy (UE1/2/3) games that have a DX11 compatibility shim in their imports now correctly show DX9 as their primary API.
• PCGamingWiki API detection now reads DX9, DX10, Vulkan, and OpenGL in addition to DX11/DX12. Games where PE scanning returns no result will now use PCGW data as the source of truth.

Bug Fixes

Crashes and freezes

• Fixed intermittent UI freezes affecting installs, Nexus sign-in, drag-drop, Update All, Luma installs, and app launch with --launch.
• Fixed a slow memory and connection leak that built up over a long session.
• Fixed a leak where event handlers accumulated every time a game card was opened.

Luma

• Fixed Luma uninstall removing the shader folder even when ReShade was still installed — shaders are now kept and redeployed.
• Fixed Luma uninstall leaving a reshade-shaders-original folder behind.
• Fixed Luma uninstall leaving reshade.ini in a Luma-configured state — a fresh copy is now deployed with your hotkeys and settings intact.
• Fixed Luma uninstall leaving nvngx_dlss.dll behind.
• Fixed Luma mods on Nexus showing "Update Available" repeatedly — this was a false positive from comparing page edit timestamps rather than actual file releases.

Game Pass

• Fixed ReShade being lost after a Game Pass game updates — Windows replaces the install folder with a new versioned path on update. RHI now detects this and reinstalls ReShade automatically on the next launch.

Other

• Fixed PCGamingWiki links never appearing on game cards.
• Fixed the render scale input box keeping keyboard focus after pressing Enter.
• Fixed occasional incorrect DLSS scan counts when multiple games were scanned at the same time.
• Fixed file cleanup silently stopping partway through if a file was locked by another process.
• Window position and size are now saved whenever you finish moving or resizing the window, not only on a clean close — so your layout is preserved even if RHI is force-closed or restarted by an update.
• The version number in the status bar is now clickable and checks for app updates.

Manifest Updates

• Added "Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden - The Wanderer Set DLC" to blacklist — was being incorrectly detected as a game.
• Removed Elden Ring and Elden Ring: Nightreign from the external-only list — both mods now have direct download links in RHI.
• Added engine hint for Insurgency: Sandstorm.
• Added DX9 API override for Outlast and Outlast 2 — both were showing DX11 due to a Unreal Legacy PE import shim.
• Updated engine hint for MGS4 and Peace Walker (Master Collection) to KojiPro Engine.

Diagnostic Logging

This build includes enhanced session logging to help track down a UI freeze that occurs intermittently. Every major UI rendering operation logs timing and state to the session log. If the app freezes, close it and share the log from %LocalAppData%\RHI\Logs\ — it will help narrow down the cause.