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Shaders

Settings has a new Shaders (vkBasalt) switch. Turn it on to add sharpening and anti-aliasing over the game. It appears once vkBasalt is installed. On the Flatpak, that means flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.vkBasalt. Each profile gets its own config file the first time you turn the switch on. Edit it to change the effects; Cordial never overwrites it once it exists. docs/shaders.md has the install steps for each distribution and says where the file is.

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Text boxes

  • Multi-line text boxes, such as code and note editors in games, now get a proper multi-line editor instead of a single line stretched to the box’s height.
  • Resizing the window or switching fullscreen while typing no longer leaves the text you type at the old position, or off the edge of the window.
  • Text boxes a game aligns to the right or to the centre are no longer aligned to the wrong side.
  • The title bar no longer turns see-through while a text box is focused.

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What is still broken

The signed-in startup freeze is not fixed. It comes in bursts: some batches of ten launches in testing had none, and others had several. The cause has been narrowed to a wait inside the Roblox client during startup, but not yet found. The screen may still grey out when a text box takes focus in fullscreen (#53). The multi-line editor above may fix the case that was reported, but that has not been confirmed in a game yet. Games that put the cursor in a text box for you, such as some typing games, may not accept typing. No cause has been found in Cordial yet. If a game does this to you, please say which one. Shaders are untested in a game and on NVIDIA and AMD graphics, and vkBasalt’s on/off key does nothing on Wayland, which is Cordial’s default. Use the switch in Settings instead. A game’s DF FastFlags, such as DFIntTaskSchedulerTargetFps, can reset partway through a session, because the Roblox client refreshes them from Roblox’s servers on its own schedule. Some games show the mobile (touch) interface. Still open from earlier releases:
  • a crash after a second launch (#44);
  • a freeze and crash leaving fullscreen (#39);
  • a crash on first touch with a touchscreen (#36);
  • a crash on launch on some machines (#35);
  • no window on COSMIC, KWin or wlroots compositors (#38);
  • a hang on exit (#52);
  • pointer drift during camera drags on Hyprland (#56);
  • a rare crash just after startup (#63).
ARM64 builds are still untested on real hardware. VR is not supported.