IMPORTANT!! MPC Beta 1.1 is up, and if you have an RTX 50 series card you want it.

Short version: Beta 1 shipped a graphics library from April 2024, and the RTX 50 series came out in 2025. That library has no code for those cards at all, so MPC could not use the GPU on them, fell back to the processor without saying so, and animated renders took hours instead of minutes.

A member with a 5070 sent me a diagnostics bundle instead of giving up on it. That bundle is the only reason this got diagnosed in a day rather than argued about for a month, and the testers with 50 series cards are now reporting the speed jump you would expect.

Beta 1.1 also adds a guard. If MPC ever fails to use your graphics card again, it stops and tells you, rather than quietly working at a tenth of the speed and letting you wonder.

If you have an RTX 50 series card, this is the fix, go and get it. Anyone else on the NVIDIA build, take it too. On the CPU build, nothing changes for you, but it is there so everything carries one version number.

The handbook is updated in the same post. The Prompt Cookbook is unchanged.

https://www.patreon.com/WandAndWidgets/posts/i-said-i-would-1-166601744