1.2.78

[GreemDev]

Significant changes include:
JIT Sparse Function Table (original work by @riperiperi, work repurposed & PR opened by @LotP1),
Custom Refresh Rate (original work by @jcm93, work repurposed & PR opened by @KeatonTheBot),
A fix for the min/max/close controls being too wide on Windows with the new title bar (by @Daninator1),
And a prod.keys installer helper (by @nicola02nb).

Merged PRs in this release (in the order they were merged):
#280, #282, #285, #258, #281, #250, #309, #310, #238, #313, #311, #95, #302, #257, #233, #329, #319, #330, #331, #339, #340, #352, #353, #332, #343, #342, #363, #356, #371, #338, #381, #383

UI

• Adapt accent color to the system theme
  • Works flawlessly on Windows, and has support on Linux depending on your system configuration.
• Moved shader compilation hint, current GPU, and graphics backend to the right side of the status bar, next to the firmware version.
• Moved to a new icon made by @matthew-5pl in New macOS icon #381, which is now used everywhere
• Removed the "Game:" prefix in front of the FPS counter.
• Fix missing total DLC count in the Manage DLC window.
• When clicking the Check for Updates button, it will allow you to click a button to open the changelog of the current version.
  • When an update is incoming this button is also present, to show you what the new version has.
• Fix Github & Discord icons getting cuttoff in the About window (UI: Fix icons getting cutoff in the About window #310)
• The about window now has my name and my name only under the maintainer section, and moved the other names previously there below it to "Formerly Maintained By"
  • This was done to clear up confusion that the OG maintainers are involved, when they are not.
• Added FAQ, Setup, and LDN guides to the "Help" menu dropdown (UI: Add faq, setup and multiplayer guides to the Help dropdown #383)
• RPC:
  • Added the following games:
    • Diablo 3 Eternal Collection
    • TSUKIHIME -A piece of blue glass moon-

I18N

• Updates to the Korean translation by @Hackjjang (Update Korean translation #313, Update Korean translation #329, Update Korean translation #352, Update Korean update... #371)
• Updates to the Spanish translation by @maxdlpee (Update Spanish translation #332)
• Updates to the Ukrainian translation by @rrondo (Some changes to Ukrainian localization (uk_UA.json) #356)
• Norwegian translation by @Daenorth (Create no_NO.json - Norwegian Translation #338)

HLE

• Cabinet applet (Add the Cabinet Applet #340)
• Custom refresh rate mode (Add custom refresh rate mode to VSync option #238)

  • This does not magically make games able to run at higher framerates without mods.

  • This is more akin to a framelimiter, for games which don't have such restrictions, or for when you have mods which enable such framerates.

Nerd Zone

• Collapsed XCIFileTrimmerLog implementations into one static class with 2 inner classes.
• Added firmware prefix when the firmware application is loaded
  • Additionally allowed providing custom application names & versions, namely for firmware applications.

ARMeilleure

• JIT Sparse Function Table (Jit sparse continuation #250)
  • Minor performance increase in some games, bigger increase in others.
  • Degrades performance on systems with DDR3 memory.
• Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit now boots (Implement and stub services required for Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit #331, Stub Ldn.Lp2p.ISfService: 776 (DestroyGroup) #353)
• Super Tux Kart latest preview now boots (ARMeilleure: Implement TPIDR2_EL0 #280, ARMeilleure: Allow TPIDR2_EL0 to be set properly #339)

Vulkan

• Fix PushDescriptors logic (Fix logic surrounding PushDescriptors in Vulkan #257)

[Ammar-Sadaoui]

Is the steam deck considered as SLOW DDR4 for energy consumption optimization in the hardware?

[LotP1]

Is the steam deck considered as SLOW DDR4 for energy consumption optimization in the hardware?

I would consider DDR4 2133 MHz and below as slow ram.
The Steamdeck should not be negatively impacted by this update.

[Hackjjang]

#398 (comment)