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🚀 QualityScaler 2026.4 is here! A big one — under the hood and on the surface. Smarter hardware detection, a sharper (pun intended) AI pipeline, a redesigned file list, and a long list of rock-solid fixes for a smoother experience worldwide. 🎮 Your GPU, recognized instantly No
🩹 Bugfix / Improvements 🌍 International Compatibility Universal language support : Improved stability for users worldwide, fixing potential crashes on systems with non-English regional settings (such as Asian or Cyrillic locales) Enhanced character handling : The app now native
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Hi everyone! With this update, QualityScaler has reached a very stable and complete state. That said, I already have new features in mind to further improve upscaling quality and speed ; these will require some dedicated development time, and I look forward to working on them. In
▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS General improvements Various bug fixes and code cleanup Updated dependencies for improved stability and compatibility ▼ VirusTotal ▼ ROAD TO 5.0 Get ready! I am working to QualityScaler 5.0. Expect a variety of exciting new features, including powerful new
▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS General improvements Fixed an issue with upscaled video frame loss, particularly on fast PCs or when using AI multithreading with values >4 Optimised input / output scale system, now faster and less resource-intensive Various bug fixes and code cleanup
▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS Video upscaling improvements Improved memory management for video upscaling Fixed a disk I/O bottleneck during frame saving, leading to significant performance improvements Performance improved by ≈25% on test PC Performance gains on more powerful PCs may
▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS Administrator Permissions Required 🔒 ⊡ QualityScaler now requires administrator permissions to work ⊡ This change fixes a bug that was preventing access to the DirectML library on some PCs ⊡ Without access to DirectML , the GPU couldn't be used correctly
▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS New video frames extraction system ⊡ Introduced a new frame extraction engine based on FFmpeg ⊡ Up to 10x faster thanks to full CPU utilization ⊡ Slight improvement video frames quality Upscaled frames save improvements ⊡ Faster saving of upscaled frames w
▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS AI Engine Update (v1.22) ⊡ Upgraded from version 1.17 to 1.22 ⊡ Better support for new GPUs (Nvidia 4000/5000, AMD 7000/9000, Intel B500/B700) ⊡ Major optimizations and numerous bug fixes Video AI multithreading ⊡ Up to 4× faster performance on high-end CP
▼ FLUIDFRAMES 🚀 Hello! I’ve just released another AI-powered app: FluidFrames! It helps you turn low FPS videos into smooth high FPS ones. Check it out if you're interested! ▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS Video upscaling improvements ⊡ Fixed a bug that caused upscaling to fail when usi
▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS Fix video encoding issue ⊡ Fixed a problem that did not allow the encoding of the upscaled video with special characters in the path
▼ NEW Completely redesigned GUI ⊡ The app now presents file information more clearly ⊡ Many widgets have been repositioned and grouped by functionalities ⊡ All info widgets have been improved, now displaying additional details for each setting ⊡ Redesigned the entire graphical us
▼ NOTE Nvidia GPUs optimizations ⊡ Is essential to enable Windows Hardware Accelerated GPU scheduling option ⊡ This option can dramatically improve upscale performance ⊡ Enable it in Windows 10 / Windows 11 settings > Graphic Settings menu ▼ NEW Keep frames widget ⊡ Added new
▼ NEW AI models update ⊡ Updated AI models using updated tools ⊡ This led to have slightly better upscale quality GPU Auto selection ⊡ Added new "Auto" option in GPU Widget ⊡ Selecting “Auto,” the app automatically choose the most powerful GPU in the PC ⊡ This solves a problem wi
▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS FFMPEG audio passthrough ⊡ This feature allows audio to be processed without any alterations (lossless quality) ⊡ Supports multiple audio streams (when a video contains multiple audio tracks) ⊡ This function fix an issue where audio could not be applied to
▼ NEW AI engine improvements ⊡ Optimized AI models for "Half precision" ⊡ This resulted in lower VRAM memory usage and better performance AI multi-threading improvements ⊡ Optimized upscaling speed when using AI multi-threading ⊡ Is now possible to select up to 6 threads (6 video
▼ NEW Video upscale STOP&RESUME ⊡ Now is possible to stop and resume the video upscale process at any time ⊡ When restarting upscaling (with same settings) the app will resumes from the interrupted point ⊡ NOTE - If video temporary files are deleted, upscaling will start over
PLEASE, LET ME KNOW IF YOU FIND SOME PROBLEM ▼ NEW Antivirus problem fix ⊡ After contacting Microsoft, Avast and AVG ⊡ QualityScaler will finally no longer be recognized as Malware by these antivirus IRCNN AI improvements ⊡ IRCNN implementation is now divided into 2 separate mode
PLEASE, LET ME KNOW IF YOU FIND SOME PROBLEM ▼ NEW Build system ⊡ Changed build system tools (now using Pyinstaller) ⊡ Now using one-file mode (the build tool create only a single portable exe, instead of a folder) ⊡ This should fix the false-positive antivirus problem with Micro