• Show incompatible mods as disabled, to make it clearer why UUVR doesn't show for some games.
• Fix error popups when Epic isn't installed.

0.17.0:

• Add preliminary for remote configs/profiles. This will allow Rai Pal to automatically download the best configs for mods like UUVR and UEVR.

Add preliminary for remote configs/profiles. This will allow Rai Pal to automatically download the best configs for mods like UUVR and UEVR. More info coming soon.

• Fix startup crash for first time users.
  0.16.0:
• Should hopefully improve game scanning speed for most people.
• App hangs a lot less while loading, keeps it usable while your libraries are being scanned.
• Add translations to the app text (AI-generated for now, open to contributions if you find anything weird). Language gets auto-detected, but you can pick it in the menu on the top right.
• "Tools" tab is gone in favor of a small dropdown menu.
• Refresh button only refreshes local stuff by default, to make it faster. You can optionally also re-download remote databases by clicking the dropdown on the same button.
• Fix newly added manual games not showing immediately.

⚠️ Assets removed from this one because it had a catastrophic bug, use 0.16.1 instead.

• Should hopefully improve game scanning speed for most people.
• App hangs a lot less while loading, keeps it usable while your libraries are being scanned.
• Add translations to the app text (AI-generated for now, open to contributions if you find anything weird). Language gets auto-detected, but you can pick it in the menu on the top right.
• "Tools" tab is gone in favor of a small dropdown menu.
• Refresh button only refreshes local stuff by default, to make it faster. You can optionally also re-download remote databases by clicking the dropdown on the same button.
• Fix newly added manual games not showing immediately.

• Fix remote game database (for getting the engines of owned games) not being fetched properly at startup.

(if you're trying the prerelease, this also has the changes from 0.15.0)

• Make it so disabling a tag in the filters hides all games that have that tag, even if they have more tags.
• Add display names to filter values again.

• Big rewrite, even though not much changed in terms of functionality.
• Merged owned and installed games tab into one. You can still use the filters to achieve the same result.
• Games table has a new look, organizes information a bit differently now, fewer redundant columns.
• Keep app responsive while parsing large game libraries. You should have no problem managing mods for any games while Rai Pal is still looking for games.
• Fix manual games disappearing when filtering by tags.
• Reduce false-positives for Steam owned games.

• Make game scanning a lot faster for very large game libraries.

• Games are shown as they are found. For very large libraries, this can make a huge difference, since you now start seeing some results immediately, instead of having to wait potentially minutes for the whole thing to be processed (especially for Steam games).
• We no longer directly fetch game engine info from PCGamingWiki. That information is saved in my own database, to avoid overwhelming their servers (plus it's a lot faster for you).
• Some data is cached, so you see relevant information much more quickly when starting Rai Pal.
• List of patrons in the Thanks tab ❤️ (only if they have a public profile).
• The "Demo vs Game" and "VR vs Flat" columns are now merged into a "tags" column. So you can hide demos or vr games by disabling that tag in the filter. This will probably also be used later for things like UEVR and UUVR compatibility scores.
• Definitely more suff I'm forgetting.

Note: I've removed the installer for this version since it lacked an auto-updater.

TL;DR: I need help testing this Rai Pal update. It should make the app a lot faster for people with very large game libraries.

I've been working on this update for a long time. It might not look like much has changed on the surface, but the app went through a major rewrite. Since I changed so many things, I'm releasing this prerelease, in the hopes some of you guys will help me test it and let me know if anything is any worse than before.

Besides making some changes to improve speed for people with very large libraries, I'm also making a bunch of structural changes to make it easier to add stuff like user-made tags, and automatic tagging of games that are compatible with UEVR, UUVR, etc, with their compatibility scores. These aren't there yet, but this update is an important step in that direction.

Some changes:

• Games are shown as they are found. For very large libraries, this can make a huge difference, since you now start seeing some results immediately, instead of having to wait potentially minutes for the whole thing to be processed (especially for Steam games).
• We no longer directly fetch game engine info from PCGamingWiki. That information is saved in my own database, to avoid overwhelming their servers (plus it's a lot faster for you).
• Some data is cached, so you see relevant information much more quickly when starting Rai Pal.
• List of patrons in the Thanks tab ❤️ (only if they have a public profile).
• The "Demo vs Game" and "VR vs Flat" columns are now merged into a "tags" column. So you can hide demos or vr games by disabling that tag in the filter. This will probably also be used later for things like UEVR and UUVR compatibility scores.
• Definitely more suff I'm forgetting.