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Automatic build of nx2 at 17baed7.

What changed since build 130

Build 150 was built from nx2 17baed7. Build 130 was 3dae119. That's 51 merged changes.

Big fixes

• Ocarina of Time: white wash / blown-out lighting fixed. Destroyed GPU memory kept its old backing, so reused memory showed stale pages. Diagnosis and fix by 99ivs, with a safety refresh by PantACRO4life (#1236).
• Mario Kart World: dark characters and karts fixed. Compute shaders reading lighting data were cut off at 8 MiB and now see the whole buffer (#1231).
• Ocarina of Time: out-of-memory crash on Windows. The texture cache now stays within Windows' memory commit limit (#1210).
• Ocarina of Time: ocarina crackle fixed (ADPCM sign) (#1196).
• Ocarina of Time: dark fairy fountain and Water Temple walls. These are dumps with damaged texture members. Lichii now serves a stand-in instead of black (#1197).

New features

• NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 settings. Pick the model preset (E/F/J/K/L/M or NVIDIA default; M is the default) and the quality (Automatic, Native DLAA, Quality, Balanced, Performance, Ultra Performance). The status bar shows DLSS <mode> <preset> while DLSS is active. Native DLAA path ported from myshadowww's #840 (#1249).
• DLSS stays on when NVIDIA warns about the VRAM budget, instead of switching itself off. By Christopher Peters (#941).
• Ocarina of Time: AMD FSR 3.1 and FSR 4 in place of the game's anti-aliasing network. FSR 4 uses AMD's official runtime, downloaded on request. Includes camera jitter and LOD bias (#1060, #1061, #1062).
• Lichii now has its own data folder (%APPDATA%\lichii, ~/.local/share/lichii), with a safe import from Eden. Copy keeps your old data, and an interrupted import can be retried (#1253, a port of gabriel-accetta's #1148).
• Generated-frame FPS is shown next to the FPS when frame generation is on. By Zarigis (#796).
• No more recommended-settings pop-up on game boot, so frontends launch cleanly. You can still apply the recommended settings from the Help menu (#1264, #1200).
• UI translations ship in releases, the status bar is translated, and zh_CN and es were updated. By janvitos, cirnoice9 and DevMikeRoger (#819, #826, #827, #893).

Performance

• Fewer GPU commands per frame: dispatch barriers recorded with their dispatch, and in-order uploads batched. By jpkto (#1245, #1246).
• Faster texture swizzling on the CPU. By Marc Stampfli (#784).
• Skips texture uploads that a layer copy overwrites anyway (#1079).

Crash and stability fixes

• Right-click in the game list no longer crashes on paths with non-ANSI characters (#1258).
• No crash when a buffer allocation goes over the memory budget. By Marin Salinas (#959).
• Changing settings while a game loads no longer freezes the UI. By Jay (#1168).
• Shutdown no longer hangs on threads waiting for the GPU. By jpkto (#1058).
• Lichii starts even when Windows blocks nxformat.dll, and nxformat is updated to 1.0.1 (#1127, #1078 by Bruno).
• The kernel shuts down cleanly when a file has no loader. By Eduardo Gomes (#972).
• Fixes a stale storage pointer when an evicted pipeline is rebuilt (#1143), and a GPU unmap on service command 102 (#1199).
• A clearer error when a pipeline fails because Windows ran out of commit memory. By janvitos (#807).

Games and content

• DLC packaged inside a NUP is now found (#1257).
• The Duskbloods: colour grading fixed (3D texture slice copies). By cerroverb (#853).
• Audio no longer drops out on PipeWire and Steam Deck. By cerroverb (#850).
• IPSwitch patches: \e is read as ESC. By Amix (#1108).

Platforms and packaging

• macOS: the app launches again on macOS 15.0–15.3 (#1254). macOS builds compile again (#1212, plus a fix in #1249).
• Linux: the tar.gz is now self-contained, built from the AppImage's AppDir. It needs glibc 2.39, the same as the AppImage (#1255).
• The updater retries a download up to three times (#1101).
• Build fixes for MSVC, GCC 16 and -Werror (#1154, #1128, #1126, #1045).

Diagnostics and docs

• DLSS presets E/F accepted by the EDEN_NX2_DLSS_PRESET env variable, and DLSS memory logged (#1098). Removed dead service stubs (#1252). Added tests (#1100).
• Docs: Linux Bluetooth HFP note, a Visual Studio 2022 Qt link note, CPMUtil link, and new program ids (#946, #835, #795, #1260).

Thanks to everyone who contributed fixes in this build.

Downloads

Linux

Linux packages come as an AppImage and a tar.gz. Both are self-contained and need glibc 2.39 or newer (Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40, Debian 13, Arch). The tar.gz holds the same files unpacked, for systems without FUSE: extract it and run lichii/lichii.

Windows

Windows packages are in-place zip files: extract and run lichii.exe, or eden-cli.exe from a terminal.

macOS

The PGO builds are the same programs compiled with profile-guided optimization. Linux uses clang with Eglantine's profile; Windows uses clang-cl and ThinLTO with a profile trained in Lichii on Ocarina of Time, so other games gain less. Prefer them when your CPU supports it.