Magpie Changelog

What's new in Magpie 0.11.0 Preview 2

May 11, 2024
  • Touch input support #900 #218
  • Changing this option requires administrator privileges. See About touch support for details
  • This feature is experimental, so please provide feedback if it doesn't work
  • Mechanisms for interacting with other programs #895
  • This allows you to listen to Magpie's scaling status or ensure that Magpie continues scaling when your window is in the foreground. See Interact with Magpie programally for details
  • Multiple UI optimizations #882 #885 #887
  • Fixed issue with incorrectly cropping certain fullscreen windows #877 #876

New in Magpie 0.11.0 Preview 1 (Apr 3, 2024)

  • New Features:
  • A brand new rendering system, with noticeable improvements in fluidity in most scenarios, especially optimized for heavyweight shaders
  • Implemented frame duplication detection to reduce power consumption when the game screen is static
  • Support for frame rate limiting #657
  • Substantial improvement in cursor fluidity, particularly noticeable at lower frame rates; cursor latency also significantly reduced
  • Vsync option no longer supported, as it has become redundant
  • Native ARM64 support #308
  • Optimized detection of the window client area, now automatically cropping the top border #864
  • Enhanced rendering effects for monochrome cursors and masked color cursors under bilinear interpolation #855 #853
  • Refreshed UI style
  • New Effects:
  • A plethora of RAVU and NNEDI3 variants (thanks to @hauuau) #806.
  • The CuNNy family, specialized for visual novel-style images, excelling in text handling compared to Anime4K (thanks to @cunnyplapper) #848
  • Anime4K_Upscale_GAN_x3_L and Anime4K_Upscale_GAN_x2_M
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where the cursor would sometimes jump when hovering the overlay or other windows #866
  • Fixed incorrect cropping when capturing title bar in Win11 #864
  • Other Changes:
  • Catmull-Rom downscaling is now consistently used, with no further modifications supported
  • Windows with higher integrity levels are now prohibited from being scaled. For example, if Magpie is not launched with administrator privileges, it cannot scale windows with administrator privileges #867
  • Changed the global configuration file path to avoid losing settings when using two versions simultaneously #872

New in Magpie 0.10.6 (Mar 5, 2024)

  • Fixed a crash caused by the in-game overlay #649 #840
  • Fixed the inability to switch to CPU rendering when no compatible graphics card was detected #838 #839
  • Updated translations for various languages #823 #824 #827 #834

New in Magpie 0.10.5 (Jan 26, 2024)

  • Fixed the issue of scaling window not being able to span multiple screens #808 #812
  • Updated translations

New in Magpie 0.10.4 (Nov 26, 2023)

  • New effects: Anime4K_Restore_S and Anime4K_Restore_Soft_S
  • Support for Indonesian, Italian, German and Vietnamese languages, some languages are not fully translated yet, check out Weblate for progress (thanks to all contributors who created or maintained translations)
  • Multiple UI optimizations
  • Fixed the issue of some effects failing to compile when the “Make effect parameters inline” option is enabled
  • Developer options are hidden by default now
  • Reduced software size
  • Updated a lot of infrastructure to make compilation easier, please refer to the compilation guide

New in Magpie 0.10.3 (Jun 8, 2023)

  • Add Anime4K_Restore_Soft_UL, Anime4K_Restore_Soft_VL and Anime4K_Restore_UL
  • Support Portuguese (Brazil) and Korean
  • Optimize the style of the main window
  • Add an option to allow scaling maximized or fullscreen windows
  • Allow changing the executable file used to launch the program
  • In-game overlay supports localization now
  • Optimize the size of the software

New in Magpie 0.10.2 (May 7, 2023)

  • New logo #573 (thanks @WluhWluh)
  • Support Japanese (thanks @soulset001), Turkish (thanks @SerdarSaglam) and Spanish (thanks @AndrusGerman), improve traditional Chinese translation (thanks @a0193143)
  • Fixed the issue of Alt+Space and Alt+F4 not working
  • Support custom launch parameters when starting the programs #575
  • Enable Segoe UI Variable in Win11 #590

New in Magpie 0.10.1 (May 7, 2023)

  • Fixed an issue where "always run as administrator" could not be started #511
  • Optimized support for RPG Maker MZ #508
  • It is now possible to create configuration files for windows as administrator without running as administrator
  • Support Traditional Chinese #518 (thanks @NeilTohno)
  • Fixed the problem that the high-privilege window cannot be interacted with when zooming #515
  • Fixed bug with RAVU_Zoom_R3 #516