• Fixing a bug in the ps.3.0 shader code translator (FFXIII crash)
• Fixing a bug in the D3D12 backend related to compressed textures (FFXIII Lightning Returns crash)
• Fixing a DX frontend bug causing missing cutscenes (Ascension to the Throne)

• Fixing DDraw bugs (Konami Collector's Series: Castlevania & Contra, Blackstone Chronicles)
• Workarounding a DDraw internal resource sharing problem
• Fixing DDraw clipped cursor problem (like with the config app of game Driver)
• Fixing D3D5 vertex clipping (regression) (Jet Moto)
• Removing paletted texture format support of the GF9800 virtual card
• Fixing a potential D3D8/9 swapchain leaking bug
• Fixing a D3D9 frontend bug (The Mark)
• Fixing stenciling without a stencil plane in the D3D12 DX backend (Test Drive Unlimited 2)
• Fixing potential descriptor corruption with sRGB textures in the D3D12 DX backend (Test Drive Unlimited 2)
• Some minor refactoring in the DX frontent/backends
• Fixing a clip coordinate space bug with sst origin lower left in Glide3+

• D3D12 changes
  • Fixing a caching bug in the 2D D3D12 backend causing black screen (La Mulana)
  • Fixing an optimization bug in the 2D D3D12 backend causing crash (scene demo Platipus)
  • Minimum stack size for the D3D12 background threads (Call of Duty 2) (but increase the stack reserve size of the exe instead)
  • Some internal D3D12 improvements
  • Workaroundig a resource state transition bug in D3D12 NV drivers (GF 10xx series?) (Glide/DX)
• Common backend
  • Various changes and minor optimizations in the code generators
  • Fixing a bug in the FF ps code generator (Terrorist Takedown)
  • Fixing a DDraw backend bug (Wing Commander 3)
• General D3D
  • Fixing the lighting incompatibility with MS D3D8/9 (my own tests)
  • Fixing a regression bug in lighting (Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Versus Mode)
• D3D8
  • Workarounding a ChromeEngine specific hack in D3D8 (Chrome, Chrome Specforce fog)
  • Fixing a thing in D3D8 (Lord Of The Ring - Fellowship of The Ring)
• D3D9
  • Improving the implementation of D3D9 queries in the D3D12 backend to get far better response time (performance)
  • Fixing a D3D9 bug (Arcania - Gothic 4)
  • Fixing a bug and a leak in the D3D9 frontend
  • Minor fixes in the D3D9 debug layer
• Glide
  • Changing the version number of Glide2 to 2.60 (Heretic II 3Dfx renderer)
  • Some new error messages in the Glide debug layer for DllMain operations
  • Optimizing Glide Draw calls with small amount of vertex/index data in the D3D12 backend for performance
  • Fixing an lfb-writeback thing in Glide (Mech Warrior 2)
• Control Panel App
  • Increasing the vertical size a bit
  • A fix for a resizing bug during DPI changes

I reuploaded this release with a bug fixed on 2023.12.26

• Refactoring the FF ps code generator to produce a bit more optimal code
• Fixing a lighting D3D incompatibility with MS D3D (Project I.G.I.)
• Fixing a broken shader for D3D11 FL11.0 (Blood 2)
• Adding Green Sardine/Cezanne AMD architectures to the D3D11 blacklist (device ID: 0x1638)
• Fixing a bug in the blt shader code generator (Morrowind)

• Remapped D3D/8/9 lights to reduce the number of FF shader variants (UT2004, RavenShield, games using FF vertex pipeline)
• Fixing the 2D blitter and 3D texturer to handle colorkeyed ARGB2101010 and ARGB16161616 format textures properly
• Compiler toolset upgrade

I reuploaded this with a minor bug fixed:

• D3D/8/9 improvements and fixes
  • Hardware vertex buffers in D3D6/7
  • Improving the PS shader code generator to handle D3D colorkeyed textures (also fixing the D3D12 LOD-problem)
  • Overhauling the general pipeline code and the capabilities of the FF pipeline
  • Adding support for the reference device in D3D8/9 (Operation Blockade)
  • Improved DD/D3D API tracing, some bugfixes/changes and additions in the DX debug layer
  • Clipping / vertex layout / fog bugfixes (Extreme Paintbrawl 4, Max Payne, Off Road Arena)
  • D3D9 fixes (fr-054 Polar, Crush, Nitro Stunt Racing, Trackmania Sunrise Extreme)
  • Fixing the "clipped cursor" issue when exiting D3D8/9
  • Improving DDraw compatibility (Legion Gold)
  • Improving DirectShow compatibility (Project Eden)
  • Forcing texture filtering did not work properly in D3D, fixed
  • Fixing a regression bug in DDraw compression Blt (Eurofighter Typhoon)
  • Fixing a windowed Blt bug in DDraw (my own test app)
  • Fixing a regression crash in D3D12 UP Draw (Tomb Raider 5)
  • A bugfix in the cpu code generator
  • A bugfix in the blitter shader code generator
  • Auto mipmap-generation (changing option DirectX\DisableMipmapping to DirectX\Mipmapping)
• Glide fixes
  • Fixing a rendering incompatibility (Outlaws)
  • Fixing a freeze/crash bug in Glide D3D12 dynamic resolution changing
• General improvements
  • Changing/fixing a lot of things in the source using a code analyzer
  • Doubling the tooltip appearance time in the Cpl
  • Implementing loader lock detection for all (missing) platforms (x64, arm64/ec)
  • Internal changes and code refactoring under the hood

Reuploaded on 2023-09-07 with a regression bug fixed

• Some D3D12 fixes
• Some bugfixes in the CPL
• Fixing a common cache bug affecting both D3D11 and D3D12 (Earth Defense Force Insect Armageddon)
• Improving the performance of user ptr Draw-calls in the D3D12 backend for small amount of vertex/index data (D3D/D3D8/9)

• Fixing a D3D12 cache bug (banded shadows in some games)
• Some D3D12 bugfixes (in both Glide and DX)
• Adding new AMD GPU architectures to the D3D11 blacklist (Renoir/RX4xx/RX5xx series)
• Fixing a deadlock when QuickTime player is active (regressive bug) (Septerra Core)
• Modifying some code handling vertex data to get better performance on new CPU architectures (Sacrifice stress test)
• Fixing a minor bug in the CPU code generator

• Fixing a regression bug that can break DirectShow movie playback
• Fixing another regression bug causing crash

• A refactored 2D blitter architecture with a shader code generator for lower GPU-usage
  • Comes in handy with integrated GPU's
• A bugfix in the x86/64 VS CPU code generator
• Fixing the AMD D3D11 solid-color-texture bug on certain GPU architectures (Vega as of now)
  • D3D11 runs on an unoptimal but working path with those GPU's
  • You can suppress it by enabling option DirectXExt\SuppressAMDBlacklist to check out
    if a new driver release fixes it
• Experimental output color spaces are added for HDR/SDR WCG rendering
  • Option GeneralExt\ColorSpace to choose between SDR/HDR outputs
    (Precision of the internal DX rendering is adjusted to the colorspace by default)
  • Option DirectXExt\Default3DRenderFormat is modified to only control the internal
    rendering quality - you can override the default associated with the current colorspace
• DDraw/D3D fixes:
  • Implementing a flip-chain incompatibility with MS DDraw (Seven Kingdoms II HD)
  • Implementing a missing optimization for 8 bit surfaces (Colin McRae Rally)
  • Wrong rendering with forced resolution in certain cases
  • Fixing palette update on integrated GPU's in the D3D12 backend (Colin McRae Rally)
• D3D9 changes:
  • Generating more optimal vs/ps shaders for D3D9 along with some performance improvement,
    in certain cases
• Fixing broken clipping planes with D3D11 FL11.0 output (Tomb Raider Underworld)
• Fixing D3D12 leaks
• A lot of internal changes in the backends