5.6

If you are having performance issues after updating to Playnite 5. Try disabling or lowering quality of background blur. There's currently an issue with some Intel GPUs not handling it very well.

Fixed

• Epic account authentication fails with 404 error
• Crash when resizing Grid view
• Crash when updating game metadata

5.5

If you are experiencing inverted sorting by Name after an update, then you can change the order via ". . ." button on the main panel. It's a side effect of bug fix that was causing the order to be inverted in the first place.

If you are having performance issues after updating to Playnite 5. Try disabling or lowering quality of background blur. There's currently an issue with some Intel GPUs not handling it very well.

Fixed

• Attempting to log in on Battle.net freezes Playnite

5.4

If you are experiencing inverted sorting by Name after an update, then you can change the order via ". . ." button on the main panel. It's a side effect of bug fix that was causing the order to be inverted in the first place.

If you are having performance issues after updating to Playnite 5. Try disabling or lowering quality of background blur. There's currently an issue with some Intel GPUs not handling it very well.

New

• Option to configure width of panels
• Option to disable Grid view item backgrounds

Fixed

• Crash when opening empty game links
• Crash when changing game's platform
• Crash if Playnite doesn't have rights to write to library folder
• Selection border is not rendered properly on Grid view in some cases
• Download progress is not visible on update dialog
• Fullscreen mode doesn't render properly when using non-100% DPI scaling
• Option to close application after starting game not working in Fullscreen mode
• "Completion status" filter doesn't behave properly
• Sorting by ascending and descending in desktop mode is inverted
• Wrong default sorting options for some quick filters in Fullscreen mode
• "Set category" window doesn't remember size and position
• Battle.net login doesn't work properly if 2FA is enabled
• Fullscreen mode loosing controller input in some scenarios

5.3

Fixed

• Database upgrade can fail in rare cases

5.2

Fixed

• Bad performance if background blur is enabled
• Steam authentication doesn't work properly
• Database upgrade can fail in rare cases

5.1

Full release notes

5.0

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4.74

Fixed:

• Metadata download for GOG games not working properly
• Crash when using Fullscreen mode
• Crash when opening web links
• Crash when multiple application instances are started in quick succession
• Crash when editing game details
• Crash on startup if plugin fails to load

4.73

New:

• Option to show grouped items count #989 (by @stnzbass)

Fixed:

• Not all itch.io games being imported
• Background only shows up with the infobox in Grid view #977
• Source not being set for games from Epic Games Launcher #1010
• Crash when importing installed Steam games #997
• Crash on startup due to bad Itch client detection #1004

4.72

Fixed:

• Wrong error message is shown if old itch.io client is installed #983
• Unreal Engine installations being imported by Epic library plugin
• Import of large installed itch.io games fails #982
• Import of itch.io library fails #984
• Apex Legends not starting properly