Josef Nemec

Hi everyone, new Playnite 10 update has been released. This includes some overdue fixes and community contributions. As always, thank you very much for continued support! Josef New: Option to change game list navigation speed in Fullscreen mode Option to configure details properties panel width Opti

Hi everyone, Playnite 11 alpha 2 is now available. You can find list of changes and download link here. As with previous alpha, this is primarily still aimed at extension developers, but there are some user facing changes I would be happy to get feedback on (preferably on Discord), like new emulatio

Hi everyone, Playnite 11's alpha is now available for testing. This is primarily aimed for extension developers, but general feedback is also welcome. I prepared whole release/FAQ page for this release which you can find here. If you decide to test this, please read through that first. Thank you ver

Hi everyone, Small P10 update is now available. As far as Playnite 11, I unfortunately haven't spent as much time I wanted on it for past two months, mainly because I got sidetracked by Linux for most of that time. I recently announced that I plan to move to Linux in 2026, so I was testing things fr

Hi everyone, new Playnite 10 update has been release. Thank you very much for continued support! Josef Fixed: Fully manually added games no longer default to installed state Random game picker via F6 doesn't work in Fullscren mode Playnite doesn't open in Fullscreen mode when auto data backups are e

Hi everyone, new Playnite 10 update has been release. Thank you very much for continued support! Josef New: Added option to restore Playnite via playnite://playnite/restore uri Fixed: Window restoration is now more reliable in Fullscreen mode (by DenisionSoft) High memory usage during emulation scan

Hi everyone, New update for Playnite 10 is available. Unfortunately, P11 alpha is still not ready. I'm not happy with it enough to be released and I'm also doing some changes to built-in things being also handled as an "extension" for easier maintenance in future, which requires quite extensive refa

Hi everyone, This is just a small hotfix release for 10.36 update. Josef New: Added jgenesis emulator profile (by darklinkpower) Added Ymir emulator profile (by MuntKaicho) Fixed: Background music not restoring playback correctly after exiting a game gopher64 emulator profile not working properly Po

Hi everybody, New update for Playnite 10 is available. I originally planned to make it only to update controller input and web views dependencies, but in the end added some other stuff as well. I was kind of feeling burnt out by P11 so it was nice change of pace. As far Playnite 11, alpha is still n

Hello everyone! This is just a small update for Playnite 10, updating emulator profiles and fixing couple small bugs. As far as Playnite 11, I'm still working on alpha release, don't have much else to say about it, currently aiming for February. As always, thank you for continued support! Without yo

Hi everybody, Current release plan Here's my updated release plan for P11. I originally wanted to have something out by the end of this year but I don't think it's going to happen. I set new deadline to myself for end of January, to release something testable, so hopefully I can live up to that. Her

Hello everyone! This is just a small update updating web view component and controller input handling component. I'm still grinding away on Playnite 11. I currently don't have anything interesting to mention other that I solved my dilemma about WPF vs Avalonia and P11 will for sure use WPF on releas

Hello everyone! New update for Playnite 10 is available. This is mainly to update web view dependency (should fix some login issues) and SDL library (should fix issues with some controllers since we switched to SDL in 10.30 update). As always, thank you very much for continued support! Josef Fixed:

Hello everyone! I have another summary of what's been happening with Playnite 11 since my last update post. Web views I finally decided what to do with web views that I mentioned in previous dev post. I ended up using library that mostly works fine and is multiplatform. Although that multiplatform s

Hello everyone! Update: There's now hotfix 10.31 available which fixes crash on startup that can occur in some cases. This is the update with some back ported features from P11 I mentioned in the last P11 development report. I originally intended to include more but it would sadly require breaking c

Hello everyone! This is sum up of what's been happening with Playnite 11 since my last update post. Emulation support rework I originally started completely separating emulation features from P11, basically making it as a completely independent emulation library plugin. Mainly because this would be

Hello everyone, New Playnite 10 update is available. As far as Playnite 11, I'll have development update post about it up next week or week after that. Josef New: Global search result order ranking improvements (by darklinkpower) Data editing dialogs now show warning about unsaved changes when closi

Hello everyone, this is small update mainly to add support for controlling SafeSearch settings when searching for web images and dealing with some things that were bothering me with global search. Josef New: Option to control SafeSearch settings when using web image search Long running global search

Hello everyone! this is another post to catch you up with Playnite 11's development. UI framework situation First of all, I finally decided what the new UI framework will be used in Playnite going forward. It's going to be Avalonia. There basically isn't a "perfect" framework, sadly, but this is cur

This is just a small update fixing Playnite crash when an extension tries to query list of selected games. Josef

If you are encountering any issues with IGDB plugin no longer working after the latest Playnite update, make sure IGDB plugin is updated to the latest 2.7 version. Older versions of the plugin will no longer work on Playnite 10.17 and newer. Josef

Hello everyone! Small update fixing two SDK issues that came up recently. Josef New: Added BigPEmu emulator profile Fixed: Crash when installing a game via SDK Metadata plugins being incorrectly disposed during bulk metadata download

Hello everyone! This is a catchup on what I've been doing lately related to P11 and other things. First of all, I finally finished IGDB plugin rework, something I planned to do a long time ago. I'm now using local copy of IGDB (still running on Playnite server, but the entire IGDB db is copied there

Hello everyone! This is just a small hotfix update fixing issues related to Desktop mode window state introduced with 10.15 Josef

Hello everyone! New Playnite 10 is available, mostly fixing small issues that came up recently. As always, thank you very much for continued support! I should have some Playnite 11 development update post up this month. Josef New: Distinct options to remove or keep completion untouched after playing

Hello everyone! This is very small update mainly to fix new crash introduced with 10.13 update. Josef Fixed: Crash when editing filter presets via library manager "Xinput Device Support" setting reverts to its default behavior upon losing and regaining window focus

Hello everyone! New P10 update is now available! As far P11 news, I already started working on it. Nothing noteworthy for now, mostly refactoring of boring code and switching/updating dependencies. If you want to follow progress more closely, it's being worked on in net7 branch on GitHub. I will hav

Mostly fixing issues introduced with 10.10 update. Josef Fixed: Possible company duplication when downloading metadata via game edit dialog Creating new fields from game edit dialog is not working properly Compatibility issues with some existing themes Filter presets name changes not saving upon res

This update only fixes crash on startup if you have eMixedNite theme installed, no other changes. Josef

More sizable P10 update is now available. This will be for sure the last one (maybe some small bugfix release is possible) before I fully jump onto P11 development, I swear. As always, thank you very much for continued support! Josef New: Option to indicate number of days played in game time played

As far as P11 development, I'm still doing changes to Playnite's backend that I mentioned in the last development update (porting to .NET 7 and reworking IGDB support). I expect to be done with it by the end of the year and then I'm starting to work on P11 properly. Thank you very much for continued

I heard that people like these Playnite 10 updates so I made another one. Josef Fixed: Some windows don't remember last position and size Various issues related to metadata download from game edit dialog Crash when importing non-exe file as software tool Safe mode is not carried over when switching

Hopefully this is truly the final P10 update before P11 work starts :) Josef Fixed: Automatic install size scan overwrites manually set values Some theme styles can't be previewed in Blend Crash when importing emulated games after splitting them

Just a small update that fixes the issue with global search sometimes closing prematurely. Josef

Hello everyone! Update: If you are experiencing Fullscreen mode crashes after the update, install 10.5 hotfix. This should be the last Playnite 10 update, at least the last one with more substantial fixes. I'm now starting to work on Playnite 11. Check out my previous post if you want to know more a

Hello everyone! First of all, what I'm currently working on: The first thing is next Playnite 10 update, which should fix some left over issues introduced with P10 release and add minor enhancements. Next I finally decided to work on long delayed rework of IGDB integration, which should solve variou

Hello everyone! New update for Playnite 10 is available. As always, thank you very much for continued support! Josef New: Option to specify partial release date display format Fixed: Daily update triggers don't work properly Can't confirm changes when editing game field with a controller in Fullscre

This is just a small update fixing one issue related to play time import behavior. Josef Fixed: Play time data being lost in some cases if automatic time import is set to "Always"

Hello everyone! New update for Playnite 10 is available. This release is also now public and Playnite 10 is available to non-patrons as well. As always thank you very much for continued support. I'll post information about plans for Playnite 11 in couple days. Josef New: Sorting and grouping by rece

Just small hotfix which fixes media downloads from Google Images not working. Josef

Hello everyone! New update about Playnite 10 development is here, I'm getting close to finishing it. I had to remove couple features from P10 milestone because it turned out they would require breaking changes to the SDK, which would mean breaking all existing extensions and themes. This was mainly

Hello everyone! Just a small update for Playnite 9, mainly to update web view component. As always, thank you very much for continued support! Josef Fixed: Updated web view component Playnite not closing down properly during system shutdown Grid view rendering glitches when grouping is enabled Crash

Hello everyone! This is a small update primarily to fix various crashes that popped up since the last Playnite 9 update. As always, thank you very much for continued support! Josef New: PCSX2 nightly and dev emulator profiles Fixed: Selecting a game is laggy after switching views Updated localizatio

Hello everyone! Sorry for the lack of updates, I've been busy with some other things lately but I'll be spending way more time working on Playnite in April and May. You can see the full list of planned and finished features on GitHub. As always, thank you very much for continued support! Josef Here

This is just a small hotfix that resolves issues with view setting changes locking up Playnite for a long time if you have very large library (tens of thousands of games). Josef

New year, new Playnite 9 update :) Thanks to everybody for continued support! I'll have some updates about Playnite 10 soon. Josef Fixed: Folder scan ignores some executables incorrectly Crash when filtering only assigned items on game edit dialog Switching application modes doesn't work properly wh

This is truly the last update this year and I'm 99% sure it's also the last P9 update :) Josef Fixed: Crash when cancelling already cancelled progress dialog Possible deadlock when getting WebView cookies using SDK Publisher and Developer info not being saved properly in some cases

This is a small update that only fixes one issue with deadlock that will happen if you start add-on installation externally (for example from add-ons website). Josef

Hello everyone! Small update for Playnite 9 is now available. This really should be the last P9 update and my attention will be fully spent on P10 from now on. This is also most likely my last post this year, so happy holidays and happy new year to everyone! And as always, thank you very much for co