终极模组管理器（DMM）（Definitive Mod Manager (DMM)）

v1.7.1

• Fixed - - The Drop Rate preset in Mod Builder was making loot rarer instead of more common. It capped every drop chance at 1%, so ordinary drops fell while guaranteed ones kept dropping every time. Rebuild any mod you made with it. - - Mods that ship an outdated copy of a core game file are now caught at mount and named in the log. One of these was crashing games minutes into normal play with no mod blamed for it. - - A mod DMM refuses now shows a red Skipped badge. Before, the log said it had been skipped while the mod's own card still showed green Mounted, so it looked like it was running anyway. - - Crash reports no longer point at an ASI plugin just for writing to its log near the crash. That only shows the plugin was running normally, and mod authors were being blamed on the strength of it.

v1.7.0

• New - - The animal disguises are back in the Item Workshop. Shadowleaf, Bear, Wolf and Deer appear under their real names again, and they let you walk up to wildlife that would otherwise run. - Fixed - - "Revert to vanilla, then launch" could start the game without actually reverting. If Steam had an update queued and you picked the safe option, DMM sometimes launched anyway and let Steam patch over modded files. The revert is now required: if it can't complete, DMM cancels the launch and says so. - - The post-update setup sometimes didn't run after you updated DMM. It records which version ran last so it can unmount leftover mods and re-establish your baseline, but that record was being deleted every time you mounted, so DMM read every launch as a first run and skipped the step in silence. - - A mod carrying its own copy of a game data file built for an older game update is now skipped, and named. DMM used to accept it as-is, so your game could quietly run on out-of-date data with nothing reported anywhere — and if another mod edited the same file, mounting failed outright. - - Mounting no longer fails with a technical error when one mod replaces a game file that another mod edits. DMM keeps the game's own copy of that file, tells you which mod caused the clash, and mounts everything else normally. - - The mount log now names the mod behind every file it delivers. Working out which mod supplied a particular game file previously meant searching your mod folders by hand. - - Editing a mod's file while mods are mounted now remounts properly. DMM decided whether anything had changed by comparing which mods were enabled, so a direct edit looked like no change at all and Mount reported nothing to do. - - Exporting a transmog, preset or profile no longer fails over a stray space at the end of the name. The space is invisible as you type it, and it made the export fail with an error that pointed at the file rather than the name. - - Invalid export names now tell you which name is unusable, instead of failing with a filesystem error. - - The support bundle now lists your ASI plugins by name. They were missing from it entirely, so a crash report could show two plugins loaded with no way to tell what either of them was. - - Crash reports no longer say there was nothing to blame while ASI plugins were loaded into the game. The report could only mention plugins that keep a log file, and most of them don't. - - DMM stops re-copying an ASI plugin that your antivirus keeps deleting. It now gives up after two attempts and tells you antivirus is the likely cause, so you can add an exclusion instead.

v1.6.4

• Fixed - - Mods that add extra skills, drops or buffs across many records were landing on the wrong records. They looked correctly installed and did nothing in game. - - Gathering and harvest yield mods did nothing on game 1.18. They apply properly again.

v1.6.3

• Fixed - - Support for the Crimson Desert 1.18.00 update. The game update changed how a lot of its data files are laid out, and DMM could no longer read several of them. Rebuilt for the new format, so the Item Workshop, transmog pickers, Mod Builder and the mod editor all work again on 1.18. - - Some pieces of mods could be silently dropped when saving. Certain numeric values in the game data couldn't survive a save/reload cycle inside DMM and were being reset to zero. They now round-trip intact. - - Updating an ASI mod left the old copy behind. Nexus puts the upload date in the download's name, so every update of an ASI mod landed in a brand-new folder - and the old ones were never cleaned up. One mod could end up sitting in your mods folder five times over. Updates now replace the previous copy, and DMM clears out any leftovers it finds from earlier downloads. - - ASI mods packed as .7z or .rar could fail to install. The plugin was copied into place and then immediately deleted again, so the mod looked installed but nothing was there. Only .zip archives were unaffected. - - Crash reports now name the exact mod when the game says what it choked on. When the game refuses to start over one specific item or character, DMM checks which enabled mod actually edits that record instead of listing everything that touches the same file. If only one mod does, it's named outright - no more "six mods edit this, disable them one at a time."

v1.6.2

• New - - New Mod Builder option: Cloud Cart Cooldown Remover, sitting right under the dragon one. Hop off the cloud cart in town and you can call it straight back instead of waiting hours. - - DMM now warns you on startup if you are running it from inside the .zip. Windows runs it out of a temporary folder it can delete at any time, and that is also where your backups of the original game files end up, so extract DMM somewhere permanent first. - Fixed - - Fixed a launch crash caused by character customization mods. The game would close during startup with "failed to load game data", and it only happened on one file out of several that looked identical, which made it seem random. Reported with a support bundle by a user running Character Creator, Barber Enhanced and a makeup mod together. - - Mod Builder's "Enemy Spawn 2x" now actually adds enemies. It was scaling the farmers, merchants and wandering traders that populate roads and towns, so it applied cleanly and changed nothing you would ever notice. It now doubles the enemies garrisoning forts, camps and bases and the size of roaming faction patrols, and leaves scripted story encounters alone. Rebuild the preset to pick this up. - - The crash helper now names the right mod for a lot more crashes. Around twenty game files are known to the game by a different name than the file is called, so for those the report used to list mods that edit something else entirely and leave the real one out. Each suspect now also says which file it edits instead of a broad category. - - A crash in one of those files is no longer mistaken for a damaged game install and no longer sends you to Steam's Verify integrity for nothing. - - The crash report no longer lists files that do not exist. Some entries in the game's log name a block inside a record rather than a file, and DMM now says where in the data the problem is instead. - - When several files failed, the one the game actually choked on now leads the list instead of whichever happened to be shared by the most mods. - - One more recovery attempt when DMM's window never appears. If the window fails to open and the usual repair does not help, DMM now retries once more with a different graphics mode before giving up.

v1.6.1

• New - - Enemy HP presets in Mod Builder are now split into regular enemies and bosses, so you can scale one without touching the other. Pick one from each group for the old combined behaviour. - Fixed - - Stormy Retribution (Gale Shield) and Ironwrath could only ever be added to shields. They now work on melee weapons like the other shield abilities.(these still require shield equipped like the other I just forgot the text ill add it next version) - - Companion Cooldown now describes what it actually does: it removes the wait before you can call Kliff, Damian or Oongka back after they go down. - - Settings that were being silently discarded every time DMM saved now stick, including a dismissed update notice. - - Fixed the game being started from the wrong folder on installs DMM could not identify as a Steam copy, which could leave DLSS and other upscaler options missing from the graphics menu.(need more testing on this and need support bundles from people having the issue)

v1.6.0

• New - - Item Workshop attachments now work, and they are available on one-handed weapons for the first time — 165 more items you can put an ability on. - - Attachments are named by what they do instead of the item they came off. - - The Buffs, Passives and Stats lists dropped around 90 entries that were never gear effects. - - DMM warns you when Steam has an update queued while your mods are mounted, and offers to revert first. - - DMM warns you when a DLL is installed that stops your mods doing anything in game. - - Mods that replace a whole game archive built for an older game version are now blocked. - - You can switch the ASI loader between winmm.dll and version.dll — worth trying if DLSS vanished from your graphics options. - Fixed - - Max Charges was overwriting the charge shields' own ability counter. Re-export your mod from Mod Builder to pick up the fix. - - DMM will no longer save a modified game archive as your vanilla backup. - - Clicking Mount when nothing has changed no longer runs a full unmount and remount. - - The ASI Loader status could report no loader while one was installed and working. - - DMM now tells you when another program owns the Nexus one-click download links. - - Nexus Download with Manager no longer does nothing when DMM was closed. - - Transmog was dropping 18 items, including Runewalker's shield and Ludvig's warhammer. - - Removing an ASI mod works on the first delete click on ASI mods that have extra files. - - The ASI tab no longer warns that plugins placed in bin64 will be lost — they are not. - - Support bundles carry a lot more detail for diagnosing mods that mount but change nothing

v1.5.9.2

• New - - Overlay mods built for an older game version can now be re-allowed with one click instead of having to delete the mod and add it again. - - Crash reports now check your ASI plugins and point out any that were running when the game crashed, so an out-of-date plugin is easier to spot. - Fixed - - Transmog and Item Workshop now read the game's original item data, so their lists stay correct while item mods are mounted. - - Clearer message when a Vanilla Baseline can't be captured because an earlier backup is incomplete.

v1.5.9.1

• New - - Use one-handed sword looks on two-handed swords and the other way round. Tick the box under "Make it look like" to show the extra looks. It works fully on two-handed swords. On one-handed swords only the main hand changes, so pair the transmogged sword in your main hand with a normal one-handed weapon in your off hand. - - DMM now keeps a backup of its own settings and restores them automatically if something outside DMM deletes them. - Fixed - - Fixed appearance swaps putting the wrong model in some equip slots, which could make a weapon invisible. - - Halberds are now listed under Spear instead of 2H Sword. - - Establishing a new Vanilla Baseline now removes baselines left over from older game versions. Your backup folder no longer grows with every game patch.

v1.5.9

• New - - Pets & Mounts tab. Make one animal look like another - your horse, wolf, bear, bull, boar, wagon, war machine, dog, cat, bird or small animal. Pick the animal you own on the left, pick the look you want on the right, and export it as a mod. Swaps stay inside a type so the skeleton and animations always match. A swap changes every animal of that breed, coat colours included, so if you own several in different colours they will all end up looking the same. - Fixed - - Stamina and spirit reduction presets in mod builder now work on abyss gear skills(re-export them to get the fix). The passive drain on crows, hounds and around thirty other boss skills was never being reduced by any preset, including Infinite. That drain sat in a part of the game data the tool could not read, so the presets looked like they were working while those weapons kept draining you at full rate. - - DMM now warns you when the game has updated instead of letting the game tell you your installation is broken. If Steam patches Crimson Desert while DMM is open, you get a clear message before launch rather than a reinstall prompt that has nothing to do with your mods. - - DMM now tells you when its settings file has gone missing instead of silently starting over. Some users found DMM acting like a first run after every reboot, creating fresh mod folders and sending them to verify their game files. DMM now recognizes that it has run from that folder before, says so, and points at the likely cause - antivirus quarantine, or running DMM from Downloads, Temp folder or Program Files. - - More of the app moved off the interface thread, so mounting, repairs and startup no longer lock the window.

v1.5.8

• NEW - - Item Workshop tab — add buffs, passives, stats and visual attachments to any item, then export it as a mod. The list is filtered to what the game already puts on that kind of item, so you can't build an invalid combination (which prevents infinite loading and other random item issues). Effects are named and described from the game's own data. - - Two-part abilities are handled for you. Some abilities are a passive plus a docked attachment and do nothing if you move only one half — adding either one now adds the other, and both are shown so nothing is hidden from you. - - Reopen and edit your mods. Hit Open to reload a mod you made and change a value, swap an effect or add another item instead of rebuilding it from scratch. - Fixed - - Voice mods that ship their own soundbank were mistaken for music mods and loaded into the wrong place. Their combat grunts worked but their spoken lines kept playing the original voice. It affected some characters and not others, which made it look like those mods were broken (Oongka female voice mod). - - Verified against game

v1.16.02

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v1.5.7.3

• Fixed - - The crash helper now tells you when the problem is the game, not a mod. If the game fails to load on files DMM never touched, DMM says so and points you at Steam → Properties → Installed Files → Verify integrity of game files, which repairs the game without a reinstall. - - The crash helper can now name the mod behind a missing character part. It previously only recognized mods that ship the part itself, so the mod merely referring to it was never identified and the report said no mod matched. - - A mod that is out of date for your game build is now skipped completely for the file it edits, instead of partly applied. Some edits could still land, leaving a game file half-changed.(this is only mods that REQUIRE an update many mods don't and will load fine)

v1.5.7.2

• Fixed - - Resolved and issue where DMM freezes or goes "Not Responding" during startup, and now starts faster. Clicking a tab before the mod list finished loading could grey the window out, and on some setups it never recovered. - - Dragging mods onto DMM could stop working under very specific circumstances. A drop could do nothing, or lock the window until the import finished. - - Mods that clear a value now apply. A mod written to empty out a field was silently skipped. - - The crash helper can now name the mod behind a model crash. It previously named the part but still said no mod matched. - Changed - - Support bundles now include DMM's startup log, so a startup hang can be pinpointed more efficiently.

v1.5.7.1

• Fixed - - The 1.16 patch changed the layout of four game data files, and DMM could no longer read them: world interactions, visual effects, faction/patrol spawn points, and item-use data. Any mod editing one of those was quietly skipped — it looked like it applied, and nothing said otherwise. All four are readable again, so those edits now actually reach the game. IMPORTANT: if you use a mod that touches one of these and has not been updated for 1.16, its edits are being applied again after a period of doing nothing, so you may notice its effects return — or misbehave, if the mod itself is out of date for this game version. If something looks wrong after updating, check that mod for a 1.16 update first. - - DMM no longer claims your game crashed when you closed it normally. If your game's log contained routine warnings — which is common, and harmless — closing the game normally could pop up a crash report blaming a mod. DMM now only reports a crash when the game actually failed to start or shut itself down. - - Crash reports can now identify mods that ship as a single packed archive. These mods keep their contents inside one file, and DMM could not see what was in them, so they could never be named as the cause of anything — no matter how clearly the game's log pointed at their content. DMM now reads inside them. - - Crash reports understand two more ways the game can refuse to start. The game will abort at launch if a character is wearing an item it is no longer allowed to equip, or if a mod supplies an outdated character part list that is missing a piece the game still expects. Both used to produce "no mod-attributable cause" even though the game's log named the exact item or part. DMM now explains what happened in plain language and names the item or part involved. - - Crash reports stop naming several mods at once as the "likely cause". When several enabled mods edit the same data, DMM cannot tell which one is at fault from the log — but it used to list them all as the likely cause anyway, which was no more useful than naming none. It now only says "likely cause" when a single mod is the only one editing the data that failed, and otherwise tells you how many mods are involved and to disable them one at a time. - For mod authors - - Two field names changed with the 1.16 game data update. In interaction data, a pivot's numeric "key" is now the pivot's name;
• in item-use data, the "label" field no longer exists. A mod written against the old names will be skipped for those fields — re-export it against 1.16 if you maintain one.

v1.5.7

• New - - Smart Sort. One click sorts your whole mod list into a sensible load order: file-replacement mods first, then table/preset mods, with mods that conflict placed so the more specific one wins. It shows you a full preview of every move before anything changes, and you can cancel. Your manual order is never overwritten without you confirming it. - - Scaling mode setting. The UI scale option now has two modes. "Scale window" grows or shrinks the whole window with the scale, so the layout stays put and nothing is clipped at the edge. "Scale content" keeps the window at the size you set and reflows the interface inside it. Pick whichever suits your monitor. - Fixed - - Game 1.16.00 support. Mods that edit game tables work again. Twenty of the game's data tables changed in 1.16.00 - including character, item, equipment slot, equipment type, store, NPC, skill, buff, tribe, vehicle, bank and inventory data - and DMM now reads all of them correctly. Every table DMM supports now round-trips perfectly on 1.16.00. - - Nexus said some mods had updates when none were shown. The "N of your linked mods have an update" count could include a mod whose card showed no update tag, because the mod had several separate file lines on Nexus and DMM could not tell which one your download came from. DMM no longer counts those, and tells you to re-link the mod instead of guessing.

v1.5.6

• New - - Rename mods for display: click the pencil on any mod card to give it your own name in the list. Display-only — it never touches the mod, its files, folder, or load order, and search/sort/categories still use the real name. - - Mixed-format variant mods: a single dropdown option can now bundle BOTH a loose game file (texture/mesh/appearance) AND a field-json (V3) game-data edit, and DMM applies both when you pick that option. Enables things like a one-click "resize this character" pack where each size scales the body model and the camera together. - Fixes - - Auto-merge no longer silently overridden. Mods that DMM combines rather than replaces (character appearance .app_xml, palettes, barber meshparam, UI css/html partials, descriptor XML, record-level game-data tables) now always merge together — even if an old conflict "pick a winner" choice was still saved for that file. Before, a leftover pick could quietly drop the other mods' edits. A pick now only ever decides a genuine whole-file conflict. - - Conflict panel is clearer. Files DMM auto-merges now show a green "Merged from" list of the contributing mods instead of a pick-a-winner selector, with an accurate "no action needed" note. Contested sections still fall to the later mod in load order (reorder to change which wins). - - "Establish failed: Access is denied" fixed. Capturing a read-only game file no longer aborts setup, and no longer leaves a read-only copy behind that broke the next capture. (If it still recurs on your machine, it points to a drive/permissions issue on the game folder rather than DMM.) - - Safer byte-patch relocation. Small byte-patch mods whose signature is ambiguous are now handled all-or-nothing instead of risking a misplaced edit.

v1.5.5.5

• Nexus downloads — automatic mirror failover. If your assigned premium download node is down, DMM now falls back to the other Nexus mirror servers instead of failing with a generic "error sending request." Dead nodes are skipped quickly so the download connects to a live mirror. - Fixed "write access denied" on read-only / OneDrive game installs. DMM now clears the read-only attribute and retries when writing game files, and checks writability before mounting — so instead of a cryptic mount error you get an upfront, concrete fix-list. Support bundles now also report read-only state and whether your game/exe sit under OneDrive (the top causes of "can't mount"). - Categories view now persists. The grouped Categories view on the Mods tab stays on when you switch tabs and come back — it used to reset every time. The "+ New category" button is back too. - Removed the Invisible transmog option. It crashed the game on launch for any item an NPC or preset wears (empty mesh failed the character validity check), and crashed the cloth sim on cloaks. There's no safe way to hide an item at the data layer, so it's been removed. Appearance swaps are unaffected.

v1.5.5.4

• New - - Mod Builder — Skill Damage presets. New 2x / 5x / 10x options under Player Stats that boost your skill damage across all four masteries (melee weapon, unarmed, grab, ranged) for Kliff, Damiane and Oongka. Flat per-level, so it works from level 1 regardless of mastery investment. Pick one tier. - Fixed - - Whole-PAB language packs can now be accepted as a custom baseline. Some full-translation mods (e.g. a Thai localization) ship a translated game archive larger than its index declares — which the game loads fine, but DMM read as a "torn" install and refused "Accept my current game files as the baseline." DMM now recognizes an oversized archive holding real translated content as intentional, not broken, and accepts it. Genuinely truncated archives and leftover write junk are still detected and healed. - - Removed a false "the loader never ran" ASI warning. It fired whenever no Ultimate-ASI-Loader.log was found — but the loaders DMM ships don't write that log at all, so it warned everyone, including people whose ASI mods worked perfectly. DMM no longer looks for it. - - No more spurious "can't read the game version" error on startup. DMM briefly used its built-in default game path before your saved path loaded, so anyone whose game is on another drive saw a harmless game-version read error in the log (and a little wasted startup scanning). DMM now waits until it has confirmed your real game folder before those startup checks run.

v1.5.5.3

• FIXED - • Your load order is now respected for JSON/table mods - DMM was applying table mods in the order they were added to your library, - not the order shown in your mod list. That meant a mod editing thousands of - records at once (a QOL/overhaul pack, for example) could silently overwrite a - smaller, more targeted mod - even when you deliberately placed that mod BELOW - it. Load order was effectively cosmetic for these mods. - Now the list order is what actually applies, so a specific tweak placed below - a broad mod wins, as you'd expect. If you ever had a small mod that "did - nothing," this is very likely why - try it again. - ADDED - • Mod Builder - new Misc tab. Longer Buffs and Trust now live here instead of - being buried under Drops. - • Mod Builder - Longer Buffs presets: 2x, 5x, 10x and 50x consumable buff - durations. - • Gathering presets now cover animal skinning and fishing counts.

v1.5.5.2

• New - DMM now updates itself. When a new version is out, a banner appears in the app — click "Restart & install" and DMM downloads the update from Nexus, swaps itself out, and relaunches automatically. Premium users get a direct download;
• free users are handed to the Nexus download page and DMM picks it up from there. A "Not now" button dismisses the banner for that version. - Mod Builder — Make Dyeable. New preset that makes more gear dyeable: armor, masks, and weapons that ship with dye turned off but whose model already supports it. Only gear categories that already have dyeable pieces are touched, so it can't enable dye on items that would just grey out. - Fixed - Infinite Stamina & Spirit actually covers spirit now. The preset zeroes spirit costs on skills and neutralizes the abyssal-weapon drain-over-time, and a bug that could stop stamina/spirit from regenerating with the preset active is fixed. Note: the extra elemental drain while channeling abyss abilities is engine-side and can't be removed by a data mod — spirit costs everywhere else are zeroed. - ASI diagnostics are clearer. The checker now leads with a plain verdict and separates real blockers (like the game being installed in Program Files) from harmless advisories. - No more false "orphaned files" warning when the mod overlay folder exists but is empty. - Removed - Drop Multiplier presets. Even with the 1.5.5.1 safeguards they could still break Abyss gates, so they're gone for good. The Drop Rate presets remain and are safe — quest and mechanic items are excluded.

v1.5.5.1

• Drop Multiplier / Drop Rate Mod Builder export no longer break Abyss progression. The previous update protected the Abyss Sky Bridges, but Abyss portals could still fail to activate with a drop multiplier on. The multipliers are now conservative — they boost your monster, animal, and farmable loot (legendary drops, fish, chests, animal parts, and the like) but never touch Abyss or gimmick/quest drops, so a drop multiplier can no longer break the completion of an Abyss gate, bridge, or portal — now or with future content. - Trade-off: Abyss drops (including Abyss Gear) are no longer multiplied — the safe choice to keep Abyss content working. Normal farming and gathering are unaffected. - • Refresh now picks up mods added straight to the folder. The Refresh button was only re-scanning JSON mods, so a loose-file mod (textures, meshes, .asi, language, or an add-on dropped directly into your mods folder) wouldn't appear until you restarted DMM. Refresh now catches everything immediately. - • "Upgrade to V3" no longer breaks multi-file mods. A byte-patch mod that edits more than one game file (e.g. Mission Efficiency, which patches both skill and faction data) was only converting the first file and silently dropping the rest, leaving a half-working mod. DMM now keeps those as byte-patches instead of offering a lossy upgrade.

v1.5.5

• NEW: Experimental native Linux build (AppImage) — runs without Proton/Wine. - - NEW: Player Health + HP Regen presets in the Skills mod-builder tab (2×/5×/10×, regen scales with pool). - - NEW: 1H Axe transmog category. - - Fixed: Drop Multiplier / Drop Rate no longer breaks Abyss Sky Bridge and other gimmick/quest unlocks (quest & gimmick dropsets are now excluded from scaling). - - Fixed: .pac_xml.patch mods now resolve to the correct in-game file. - - Improved: config cleanup removes stale entries for mods you've deleted.

v1.5.4.4

• Removed - .cdmod import support. DMM no longer imports .cdmod ("crimson-mod-package") files. To keep DMM squarely within Nexus Mods' terms of service, support for that format has been withdrawn. Mods packaged as native DMM / V3 mods are unaffected. - Added - Head-mod support. DMM can now apply a custom head/face mesh from a small head-patch mod and compose it onto whichever body mod is active — so a face swap and a body mod work together instead of one overwriting the other. Head-patch mods get their own card in the library. - Fixed - Max Stacks — reward materials stack again. Quest/boss reward materials that are non-stackable by default (like Aeserion's Scale and other sealed-item drops) are raised to a full stack again, so they no longer take one inventory slot each. Item containers like Kuku Pots are deliberately left alone so their contents stay intact. - Max Stacks — Silver display. Max Stacks no longer breaks your Silver balance (it could previously show a decimal like 9999.99). Silver now uses a large, clean stack value. - Texture-conflict infinite load. If two enabled mods replaced the same body texture at different resolutions (e.g. a 4K skin over a 2K outfit), the game could hang forever on the loading screen. DMM now detects this, avoids the crash, and names the two mods so you can disable one.

v1.5.4.3

• Added: .cdmod import now supports packages that carry a legacy byte-patch (e.g. Enemy Health x20, Dark Mode Map) — previously "nothing to import." Display Take & Steal Price isn't supported right now but working on it.

v1.5.4.2

• Fixed: custom weapon-texture mods (e.g. firearm reskins like the Cathedral Carbine) rendering grey/untextured in-game — new-slot weapon textures now route correctly. - Fixed: the "Max Stacks" mod builder option breaking KuKu Pots and other containers — it now only raises already-stackable items and leaves gear/containers alone. - Added: import support for older/community byte-patch mods that use the flat {file, offset, original, patched} format. - Removed: the "Bigger Bounty" preset in mod builder — the game caps total bounty at ~100 silver in engine code, so scaling the data couldn't actually raise it. (No Wanted Level still works.)

v1.5.4.1

• Follow-up hotfix to 1.5.4. - Fixes - .cdmod mods that ship files (meshes, textures, FX) now import. 1.5.4 only handled .cdmod packages that patch game tables — this adds the file-replacement kind, so all crimson-mod-package .cdmod files install now. Works by drag-drop and Nexus "Mod Manager Download," with auto-linking and update tracking either way.

v1.5.4

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v1.14

• support - Parser updated for the 1.14 patch. DMM's mod engine now reads and writes the new game data correctly (the 1.14 vehicle_info format change), so Mod Builder presets and V3 mods apply cleanly on the latest Crimson Desert patch. - New - .cdmod support — DMM now imports the new "crimson-mod-package" (.cdmod) format. Drag them in, or download straight from Nexus with Mod Manager Download — they auto-link and get update tracking like any other mod. - Bigger Bounty (Hard Mode preset) — make crime actually cost you. New 5× and 10× presets that scale the bounty you get for committing crimes. - Fixes - Drop Multiplier / Drop Rate no longer breaks quest gimmicks. Quest and mechanic items (Abyss artifacts, gate keys, puzzle pieces, mount/pet unlock tokens) are now excluded from the drop presets. This fixes Abyss Sky Bridges failing to open while a Drop preset was active. (Thanks to the tester who caught it.) - Imported and older mods no longer spam false errors in the mount log (“field not found in vanilla” / “wrong value”). Those mods were applying correctly all along — only the log was wrong. - Third-party tool data is no longer mistaken for a foreign artifact — DMM won’t warn about another mod tool’s live restore files.(TLM)

v1.5.3

• ═══ FIXED: DMM freezing on Start Game ═══ - If DMM locked up when launching the game — forcing you to close it and - launch via Steam instead — that's fixed. Two launch-path calls were running - on the UI thread and could freeze the whole window (worst on large Steam - libraries or slow/spun-down drives, which is why it hit some people and not - others). Both now run off the UI thread. - ═══ NEW: Transmog Tab ═══ - Change how your gear LOOKS without changing what it does. - • Browse an armor/weapon appearance catalog built from the game's own data - • Filter by character rig (Kliff / Female CC / Damian / Oongka), category - and material;
• search any panel by name - • Real localized item names — now read from YOUR active Steam language - • Tier/enchant dedup: one row per look, the swap covers every tier - • Exports as a clean V3 mod - ═══ NEW: Mod Builder Hard Mode Tab ═══ - A dedicated tab of difficulty presets — build your own hard mode: - • Enemy HP 2× / 3× / 5× (mobs + bosses, incl. scaled content) - • Enemy Spawn 2× - • Faster Durability 2× / 3× / 5× — gear wears out, so you maintain/replace it - • Consumable Cooldown 10s / 30s — food, potions and elixirs get a real use - cooldown (all 647 consumables) — no more heal-spam - • Reduced Gold Income ÷2 / ÷3 / ÷5 — kills, loot, animals and fishing drop - less coin (loot-selling income is unchanged) - • Craft Cost 2× / 3× — every recipe needs double/triple the materials - ═══ NEW: Presets ═══ - • Super Guard — just hold block and it negates essentially all blockable - damage, no perfect-parry timing needed (works unarmed too). Pair with - Infinite Stamina to stop guard-break. Unblockables/grabs/back-hits still land. - • Gathering 2× / 5× / 10× — yield from world nodes (ore, herbs, fruit, - mushrooms, baskets). Separate from Drop Multiplier. - • Dragon Cooldown Remover — Blackstar dragon summon cooldown 60 min → 1s - • Companion Cooldown — companion summon cooldown 10 min → 1s - • No Wanted Level — guards never escalate;
• zeroes bounty from every crime tier - • Infinite Durability is now GLOBAL — also covers the equipment-type - durability drain, so nothing degrades - ═══ FIXED ═══ - • ASI diagnostics now detect MULTIPLE ASI loaders — the usual reason ASIs - silently don't load. ReShade is correctly identified and never flagged as a - conflicting loader. - • Installing the ASI loader no longer gets blocked by ReShade. Previously a - normal ReShade install was misread as "ASI Loader already installed", so - you couldn't install the real loader and your ASIs never ran. - • "No runtime log" in ASI diagnostics no longer reads as an error — it's - normal when plugin logging is off. - • No Cooldown no longer breaks Kuku Pot items. - • Trust 100× correctly covers NPC friendship only (talk/donate). - ═══ UNDER THE HOOD ═══ - Presets are now resolved live against your installed game version, so they - automatically cover items/records added by game patches and export much smaller. Please remake any previously made Mod Builder mods to get the new format - ─────────────────────────────────────────────── - A few of the new Mod Builder presets — especially the Hard Mode ones - (Faster Durability, Consumable Cooldown, Reduced Gold Income, Craft Cost) — - could use more real-world testing. If something feels off, too harsh, or - doesn't behave the way you'd expect, please leave a comment and let me know.

v1.5.2

• Fixes - Fixed DMM freezing when launching the game. Some users (especially on HDDs, secondary/network drives, or with large Steam libraries) had DMM lock up when hitting Start Game — the window would freeze and the game wouldn't launch, forcing a taskbar-kill. The platform-detection and crash-diagnostic steps now run off the UI thread, so launching stays responsive. If you still see this, please export a support bundle (Settings) and send it(can upload to mediafire and send me the link) — it will tell me exactly where it's hanging. - New — Mod Builder - Drop Multiplier presets (2× / 5× / 10×), at the top of the Drops tab. These multiply the quantity of items per drop (how many you get), which is separate from the existing Drop Rate presets (the chance of a drop). Pick one — they're mutually exclusive. Item drops only;
• trust/friendship is unaffected. - Improvements - Trust 100× is now genuinely trust-only. It previously also inflated item drop quantities as a side effect;
• it now affects pure trust/friendship gain only, so it stays fully separate from the new Drop Multiplier. (Existing exported mods are unchanged — only new Mod Builder exports use the corrected behavior.) - The game-session crash monitor is lighter (native process check instead of repeatedly spawning tasklist), reducing background overhead during play.

v1.5.1

• DMM 1.5.1 — Hotfix - ⚠ CRITICAL FIX — Max Stacks preset - The Mod Builder's Max Stacks preset could crash the game on launch. It was making every item stackable, including special buff items the game requires to be non-stackable - If you built a mod using the Max Stacks preset, please re-export it in the Mod Builder. - New - Faction Contribution preset (World tab) — raises the faction contribution level cap from 100 to 999. - Improvements - Crash diagnosis now captures the game's own crash log. When a crash can't be traced to a specific mod file (a bad data edit rather than a missing file), the support bundle now includes the game's runtime log, which names the exact item/asset that failed. This makes "no mod-attributable cause" crashes actually diagnosable — please include a support bundle when reporting a crash. - The crash window now shows the raw failing-asset line inline, and points at the most common culprits (socket / enchant / mesh / animation mods) when no mod is directly named. - Fixes - Nexus update no longer orphans a mod when the author renames the inner file. Previously, updating a folder mod whose author renamed its .json would leave a stale "1 active mod missing from disk" entry. The active list and load order now follow the rename automatically. - Changes - Removed the non-functional Make Dyeable and All-Items Sockets presets. Both only flipped a single flag that did nothing in-game without additional mesh/socket setup, so they were pulled rather than mislead.

v1.5.0

v1.5.0

• —— New —— - • Mod Builder Tab — build your own data mods. Presets - across Item Mods, Skills, World Mods, Drops, Player Stats, and Bag Space, then - export a ready-to-mount mod. Includes a Resistance Ring and God Mode Ring - presets. Type in your preferred name tick on the ones you want and click export to DMM it will add a new mod right to your mods tab. All can be combined to one mod or you can export them individually. - • Crash Diagnosis — if the game crashes, DMM reads the crash log and tells you in - which mod is the likely cause and what it choked on. New - "Diagnose Last Crash" button in Settings that can disable the suspected mod(s) - and re-mount in one click, or export a support bundle. - • Mod-list Refresh button, and a confirm pop-up so "Start Game" won't launch with zero - mods mounted by accident. - —— Fixes —— - • Multiple transmog mods now stack. Two transmog mods no longer overwrite each other — every mod's swaps apply together. - • Corrupted-mod protection. Outdated byte-patch mods that used to silently - scramble game data — blank quest/faction menus, missing UI, untracked missions - — are now caught. DMM skips only the bad patches, keeps the rest of the mod - working, and flags it as needing an update. - • XML mods no longer silently dropped. A mod that ships a partial XML file with - no base file now installs instead of vanishing. - • Epic Games & Microsoft Store fixes. No more stray "Mod_Backups" folder - appearing in your Epic/Store library, plus a reminder to Unmount in DMM before - you uninstall or update the game (Epic and Xbox verify their own files just like - Steam does). - • Fixed a false "another mod is overriding this" conflict warning on the game's - container-index files. - • The Program Files install warning now stays dismissed across restarts.

v1.4.9.1

• fixed wrong version in update tag

v1.4.9

• ── New ── - • Edit whole groups of items in one line. V3 data mods can now use a "match" rule to target every item that shares a field value at once — for example "give every one-handed sword 5 sockets" instead of listing each item by hand. One small block can now cover hundreds of records. (For mod authors — see the new V3 JSON mod-authoring guide.) - ── Fixes ── - • Custom-NPC and custom-item mods now appear in-game. Mods that ADD a brand-new record (a new shop NPC, a new item) were being written to the data but not to its index, so the game couldn't find them. New and cloned records are now indexed correctly and show up as intended. - • DMM no longer closes when it's in the background during a mount. If you tabbed away to another window (Discord, a browser) while a large mod list was mounting, the display could crash and DMM would silently close. It now stays running no matter what window has focus. - • Fixed a conflict case where a turned-off mod could still hide another mod's files. A leftover "winner" pin from a mod you'd disabled could strip files from the mod that actually owns them. Conflict cards now also label pinned files as "resolved" so it's clear what happened. - • Nexus: more accurate download attribution, safer update selection, and hardened apply — fewer wrong-link and wrong-update situations. - • Pack several browser mods into one in a single step, with clearer folder-name labels.

v1.4.8.2

• ── Nexus updates & mod links── - Fixed mods getting linked to the WRONG Nexus page. An installed plugin or mod could pick up an unrelated mod's update — e.g. clicking "Update" on one plugin showed a completely different mod. Links are now tied to exactly what you installed, so this can't happen. - The "Update" button will no longer offer or install an OLDER version. Some mod pages list their old files in a way that made DMM think a downgrade was a new update — clicking it would have replaced your current mod with an ancient version. Updates now only apply when the file is genuinely newer. - Updating a mod now keeps a recoverable backup of the previous version. If an update ever lands wrong, your original mod is preserved instead of being overwritten. - Mods that share a Nexus file link (a mis-link) no longer show a false "update available." DMM flags them to be re-linked instead of risking an update that overwrites the wrong mod. - ── Conflicts ── - A newly added mod now wins file conflicts by default. Before, a mod you just imported or downloaded could be out-ranked by an OLDER mod, so the conflict picker defaulted to the wrong one. This was worst with multi-option packs (FOMOD / variant mods), which were incorrectly treated as if they loaded last. Now a freshly added mod takes precedence and is the default winner — and variant packs are ranked at their true position. (You can still pick a different winner per file.) - ── Notes ── - If a plugin/mod is currently showing the wrong update (from before this fix), use "Unlink" on it, then re-link it — it will track correctly from then on.

v1.4.8.1

• ── Load order & conflicts (major fix) ── - Load order is now authoritative for every mod that replaces a game file. The mod lower in your list reliably wins when two mods change the same file — across all mod types (browser, file-replace, pre-packed PAZ, field-JSON). Before, a large mod could silently override a lower one no matter how you ordered your list. - Your list order now always matches what actually loads in-game. Fixed a bug where a file-conflict winner could be decided by a stale internal order instead of the order shown — the cause of many "I put my mod at the bottom but another mod still won / my mod didn't load" reports. - The conflict-winner dropdown now works for every mod type (previously overlay mods only). Pick which mod wins any conflicting file — no reordering required. - Variant mods (multi-option packs) now sit at their correct load-order position and can be reordered — they were being pinned to the bottom and wouldn't move. - Removed false "silently shadowed" conflict warnings that flagged unrelated mods as conflicting. - Cleaner mount log — resolved conflicts grouped into one line per mod pair instead of one per file. - ── Fixes ── - Dragon texture mods (Flame / Emerald / Frost dragon, etc.) now apply correctly and no longer crash on summon. (some patch files I seen can cause crashes but the textures alone loaded fine) - Stopped false "didn't apply — different game version" warnings on clean, working mods. - The missing-mod banner now names which mod(s) are missing instead of only a count. - Fixed Nexus update detection for main mods with multiple file versions where the installed file had been archived. - ── Stability / UI ── - Window can no longer get stuck off-screen (auto-clamps back on launch). - UI zoom guards + a safety guard when converting preset mods.

v1.4.8

• Added - Crimson Desert 1.13.00 support. Complete parser update for the 1.13.00 game patch — every mod table (iteminfo, storeinfo, characterinfo, regioninfo, inventory, skill, equipslot, spawn tables, etc.) parses and applies on the new build. - Byte-patch relocation transparency. V1/V2 byte-patch mods now log every offset relocation ([V1V2_RELOCATE]) so you can see exactly which patches landed vs. shifted, and a new author flag (dmm_offsetautorelocate_disable) lets a mod author force literal offsets with no auto-relocation. - "View on Nexus" link on Nexus-linked mod badges — jump straight to a mod's page. - Changed - Mesh-bundled HD player skins now ride a full-resolution overlay instead of the in-place 2048 downscale cap, so bundled 4K/8K skins render at full res. - meshparam conflicts now show an "Auto Merge" badge instead of "File Conflict" (they're merged, not dropped). - Fixed - Random background crashes / "DMM just closed" (0xC0000374). The mount and analyze paths used a native LZ4 backend that could corrupt the heap;
• switched to a memory-safe LZ4 implementation across every compress/decompress site. - False "Steam restored your files" toast and "baseline drift / Re-establish" banner that fired while mods were correctly mounted — fixed on both the backend and frontend surfaces (cosmetic-only mod sets no longer trip it). - False "update your game" prompt from a stale iteminfo baseline cache — DMM now self-heals by re-reading the live game instead of blocking the mount. - Mods wrongly reported as "didn't apply" the V3 verify step was over-strict on array-of-objects edits;
• the edits were applying all along. - Nexus update detection for archived mods. Mods whose author archived the old file when uploading a new version (incl. multi-file mods) now correctly surface the update instead of showing nothing. - ASI companion .json files no longer flagged as a failed import.

v1.4.7.3

v1.4.7.3

• Mod loading & rendering - HD character skins (4K/8K) that ship bundled with a body mesh now load properly(i tested several all worked for me) - Barber / character-customization (meshparam) mods now auto-merge instead of being flagged as a file conflict — multiple customization mods can coexist, and they show an "Auto Merge" badge. - ASI mods that include config companion files (e.g. CrimsonDesertLiveTransmog's .auto_rules.json) no longer show a false "failed to install" popup — the companion files install correctly alongside the .asi. - Table / advanced (V3) mods - Fixed mod edits being silently dropped when a mod ships a standalone PAZ or grows a game table (regression from 1.4.7.1) — e.g. store/merchant (storeinfo) mods now apply correctly again. - When another mod's archive overwrites your changes, DMM now reports that accurately instead of labeling your mod as "broken." - Stability - Added a self-healing watchdog for a WebView2 startup hang (DMM "not responding" on launch). - Diagnostics - Support bundles now capture panic.log and stderr.log for better crash reports.

v1.4.7.2

• 1.4.7.2 - Installing DMM inside your game folder no longer blocks mounting. If DMM (or your mods folder) sits inside your Crimson Desert install, you'll now get a dismissible warning instead of a hard stop — you can mount anyway. - ⚠️ This setup is still unsupported: it can cause crashes or Steam re-verification loops, and issues caused by it will not be supported. Keeping DMM and your mods outside the game folder (e.g. DesktopDMM) is still strongly recommended. - Fixed a false "Update available" badge on some Nexus mods. When an optional file's update chain pointed at a different (main) file, DMM wrongly flagged an update — it no longer does that for a variant you deliberately installed as optional.

v1.4.7.1

• DMM 1.4.7.1 - If you run a language or localization patch (a fan translation, custom voice/text pack, etc.) that edits the game's base files directly, DMM 1.4.7 mistook those changes for corruption — it flagged "files changed from baseline," got stuck in a re-establish loop, and wouldn't mount cleanly. Worse, the Steam "Verify integrity" it suggested would have wiped your patch. - 1.4.7.1 adds a "Accept my current game files as the baseline" button. Click it and DMM treats your patched install as your intended baseline: it stops flagging those files, mounts your mods normally on top of them, and — key part — unmounting reverts to your patched files, not Steam-stock vanilla, so your language patch is never clobbered. It's scoped to your current game build (a game update re-checks), and the real corruption / torn-baseline guards still fire — this only relaxes the case where you deliberately installed a base-file patch. - Stability - • Fixed the window opening transparent/blank and needing several force-closes to load. - • Fixed DMM silently closing while in the background (minimized or behind other windows). - • Fixed a mid-mount crash that could silently revert your mods to vanilla ("closed with no mods mounted") — triggered by certain store mods. - Mod compatibility - • Fixed weapon re-skin mods (Rebellion-style longswords) crashing the game on draw. - • Standalone mods that grow a game table no longer break other mods' edits. - Nexus - • Fixed the false "Update available" badge when you've installed a mod's optional file. - Polish - • Quieter mount log.

v1.4.7

v1.4.7

• New - ReShade add-on support — install, enable, and disable ReShade add-ons (.addon64 / .addon32 / .addon) right from the ASI Mods tab;
• they appear with a "reshade" chip, and DMM warns if your ReShade build doesn't support add-ons. - First-run welcome guide for new installs — walks you through game path, mods folder, Steam-verify, and Nexus sign-in, with an inline paste fallback for the sign-in link. - "Mark as up to date" for Nexus mods you've already updated manually. - One-click Paste button on the Nexus sign-in step — browser-handoff sign-in could dead-end because Ctrl+V isn't reliable inside the app. - Fixed — crashes & stability - Random closes/crashes when DMM was in the background or behind other windows — the silent background crash is fixed. - DMM now fully exits when you close it — it no longer lingers in Task Manager holding its own .exe locked (which could block relaunch/updates). - Startup freeze / "Not Responding" right after launch (worst on browser-mod-heavy lists) — heavy startup scans moved off the UI thread. - Launch retry — launching the game now auto-retries if Steam drops the request (the "had to click Launch several times" issue). - Mount re-entrancy guard — clicking Mount during an auto-unmount can't start a racing revert + mount. - Fixed — audio & voice - Female combat grunts (jump, attack, exertion) reliably play female again — without breaking combat SFX or adding audio delay. - Cutscene & quest dialogue now plays the female voice (camp conversations, Black Witch / Hexe Marie dialogue, etc.) for voiceover mods — it previously reverted to male in cutscenes. - Music mods that ship their own soundbank no longer play silent. - Note: a few boss-fight grunts and some boss cutscene lines stay original — that audio is baked into the game's cinematic soundbanks and can't be replaced by a loose-voice mod (affects every voice mod) - Fixed — mods, scanning & Nexus - DMM no longer scans its own files (logs, backups, vault, activity log) as mods — fixes endless "invalid mod file" errors when the mods folder was pointed somewhere wrong. - DMM now blocks a mods folder inside the game install, and blocks running DMM.exe from inside the game folder (both corrupt the install) — with a clear banner and a Mount block. - Constant background scanning quieted — the periodic ASI re-scan now does nothing when nothing's changed (real changes still scan instantly;
• Refresh still forces a rescan). - Whole-table mods (full table-replacement packs) now mount correctly and keep their own index, so modded tables read right. - Subfolder ASI mods keep their Nexus update tracking across refreshes. - Revert button now appears on converted whole-file / browser mods. - A broken/malformed mod .json now warns and logs instead of silently disappearing from the list. - Deleting and re-importing a mod now re-reads its new JSON (no more stale cached details). - Fixed a false "didn't apply" report on certain item mods (the max-charged-count family). - Fixed — ASI / DLL safety - Disabling an ASI mod never deletes a bin64 file DMM didn't place, and never wipes shared graphics/runtime DLLs (DLSS, FidelityFX, XeSS, dx12, etc.) — it only removes files it created or restores backups. - Importing a mis-packaged mod that dumps the whole bin64/game folder now imports only the plugin and its configs (skipping the loose game DLLs and the exe), with a warning. - Changed - "Unmount" renamed to "Revert to Vanilla" (clearer wording). - Program Files warning is now a dismissible banner (per game path), not just a log line — running the game from Program Files causes Windows write-protection crashes. - A clean, fully-applied mount no longer shows phantom "errors surfaced to UI." - Quieter, de-duplicated logs with simple / verbose views.

v1.4.6

v1.4.6

• Fixes - Vortex / relocated launch: launching DMM through Vortex (or any tool that copies or relocates the .exe) no longer shows an empty mod list — DMM now detects it and points you to your real DMM folder. Always launch DMM directly from its own folder. - Config safety: your settings are no longer reset if config.json is briefly locked at launch by antivirus or cloud-sync (OneDrive / Dropbox) — DMM retries the read and preserves your config instead of falling back to defaults. - Mount button: fixed "Mount Mods" being greyed out on a valid baseline (a startup timing issue) — no more mounting from the ASI tab as a workaround. - Conflict log: byte-patch mods (animations / stats) that only partially apply after a game patch, or that overlap another mod, are now reported accurately instead of always saying the mod "needs an author update." - Changed - Conflict resolution: byte-patch mod conflicts now resolve last-loaded-wins, the same as file-replacement mods, so load order behaves consistently for every mod type. - Fewer false "file conflict" warnings from mods that bundle an unmodified (vanilla-identical) copy of a game file. - V3 convert: converting a mod to V3 now keeps its Nexus "Update available" link, so updates still reach you from the author. - Backups: renamed "Game Build" to "Backups" throughout, with clearer baseline-drift warnings (a game update or Steam "Verify integrity of game files" is the usual cause).

v1.4.5.3

• DMM 1.4.5.3 - Mod authors can opt out of V3 conversion. Add "dmm_v3upgrade_disable": true to your mod's JSON and DMM will never show the "Upgrade to V3" button for your mod or convert it — it stays exactly as you shipped it. Works for byte-patch JSON mods and whole-file table mods. For authors who don't test or support the V3 format. - Per-mod "keep as legacy." You can now hide the "Upgrade to V3" suggestion on individual mods you want to keep as byte-patch. Reset anytime from Settings → V3 upgrade suggestions. - Fixed: skill-tree mods clashing with skill mods. Skill-tree edits were sharing an overlay group name with skill.pabgb mods (like Infinite Skills), so they couldn't be used together. They now coexist. - - Fixed issue with settings menu not displaying

v1.4.5.2

v1.4.5.2

• Bug fixes: - - Maximize button fixed — the title-bar Maximize button had silently - stopped working (clicking it did nothing). It now maximizes and - restores the window correctly again. - - "Mounted" badge fixed — file-replacement and mesh/texture mods now - keep their "Mounted" status after you close and reopen DMM. Before, - they'd show "Pending" even though they were still applied in-game. - Safe drop-in update — just replace your DMM .exe with the new one. - No re-setup and no re-establishing your baseline;
• your installed mods - stay exactly as they are.

v1.4.5.1

• Fixes - Voice mods: fixed character voice cutting out / going silent during longer play sessions — voice now stays active for the whole session. - Voice mods: fixed missing combat grunts on voice mods that don't include their own soundbanks(Rumi's) — combat vocals now play correctly in the mod's voice. - New - Easy Upgrade: DMM now shows its current version, flags available updates with a Nexus badge, and runs a quick baseline check after a game patch to keep your mods stable. Just replace the old exe with new and start will see new popup to re-establish baseline

v1.4.5

v1.4.5

• Mod Converter ("Upgrade to V3") — one click converts legacy mods into update-resilient mods that resolve by name, so they keep working across Crimson Desert patches instead of silently breaking after an update(still usually needs DMM Parser update after each patch just not a mod update). Works on both byte-patch mods and whole-file table replacements (e.g. a full iteminfo.pabgb). DMM only offers it when the conversion verifies byte-identical;
• mods built for an older game build are clearly marked Legacy. Includes a Revert option. - Crash recovery — the biggest cause of "I had to reinstall the game" is gone: - A mount or unmount interrupted by a crash, power loss, or force-close now rolls your game back to vanilla automatically on the next launch. - If Steam "Verify integrity" (or a game hotfix) restores your files behind DMM's back, DMM now notices, clears the stale state, and tells you to re-mount — no more phantom "Mounted" status. - New Recovery Mode (Settings) — a rescue boot that skips all startup scans and gives you one-click vault restore / clear state / open mods folder when something's wedged. - Mount status indicators — a Mounted / Pending badge on every mod card with a correct count, plus a status chip pinned in the header so you can always see at a glance whether your mods are applied. Bundle cards now show their load-order position. - Cleaner baseline setup — when establishing the vanilla baseline, DMM now refuses to capture over a dirty/modified install and tells you (with an "Establish anyway" option), instead of letting the game later throw its cryptic "please reinstall." - Startup "Not Responding" — heavy startup work moved off the UI thread so the window stays responsive, plus a watchdog that detects a hung window on launch and relaunches DMM automatically. - Slow or stuck mounting on big / outdated mods — the "Applying group replacements" step that could crawl for minutes is now near-instant, and a mod clearly built for a different game version fails fast with a clear message instead of hanging. - Grey new accessory / clothing reskins — new-slot character and clothing textures now apply correctly instead of rendering grey. - Deleting an ASI mod sometimes needed two deletes to remove it — now just one delete/confirm;
• if the game is running it tells you to close it first and changes nothing. - Nexus download of a "zip inside a zip" showed a misleading "already installed" — now a clear message that the archive is nested. - Window maximize / restore on Windows now works correctly. - Better diagnostics — clearer mount logs and built-in self-checks that catch texture/streaming problems right at mount time, so issues are faster to spot and report. - Larger, more readable notification toasts on high-resolution displays.

v1.4.4.1

• 1.4.4.1 — Hotfix - - Fixed: "Mount" button greyed out / unable to mount after the 1.12.1 game - update. DMM now repairs the vanilla baseline automatically instead of - requiring a manual Steam "Verify integrity of game files". (this is assuming you did a verify before intital launch) - - Fixed: item-editing (V3) mods silently not applying after 1.12 — e.g. socket, - abyss-gear and stack-size mods. The bundled game parser is rebuilt for 1.12. - - Fixed: some older character-customization mods (e.g. Barber Enhanced) were - wrongly skipped;
• they now apply again. - - Internal: release builds are now verified against the installed game version - first, so a parser that lags a game patch can no longer ship. - If Mount is still greyed after updating: click Unmount once, then Establish - Vanilla Baseline. Steam "Verify integrity" only if that fails.

v1.4.4

v1.4.4

• — Game 1.12 / 1.12.1 support — - Full parser rebuild for the Crimson Desert 1.12 patch and the 1.12.1 hotfix — all 124 data tables re-verified against the new build (items, inventory, regions, factions, NPCs, character info, physics, quests, and more), so your table and field-level mods keep applying instead of silently dropping their edits. - Version-aware Vanilla Vault — detects a stale baseline after a game patch (or a Steam "Verify integrity of game files") and refuses to restore old files over the new ones;
• prompts you to re-establish first. - Fixed a recurring action-chart desync by handling the 0010 archive group as a full-copy group during restore. - — Texture rendering & routing — - Overhauled how textures are placed — a single routing authority now decides in-place vs overlay per texture, ending the long run of "fixing one texture mod broke another." - New-slot character and weapon textures can now ship at any resolution and render correctly (routed to a self-contained overlay). - Fixed crashes from upscaled weapon material maps (Iris / Witcher Steel Sword class) by capping oversized in-place maps to the slot. - Fixed dragon/monster reskins crashing on load — high-res body, head, and wing retextures route at the correct streaming class instead of being forced self-contained. - Fixed world/object textures (e.g. Stone Floor) rendering as noise or not at all. - Fixed grey "new-slot" textures by clearing the legacy DDS record tail. - Fixed blank eyes (e.g. Ciri iris) — a lone player-eye texture swap now stays in-place instead of being diverted. - Format normalization for BC7-over-DXT1 weapon textures (no more grey/black surface or crash from a format mismatch). - — Meshes, weapons & models — - Mesh (.pac) mods are auto-detected by content and injected in-place, so a bare-manifest mesh mod no longer silently does nothing. - Cross-slot mesh divert and new-slot weapon meshes route via the proven HWANDO overlay path. - Variant dropdowns are now honored on the in-place injection path — pick-a-variant weapon/gear mods apply the option you chose. - — Character descriptors & swap/transmog tools (HAWT, item hiders) — - New conditionalpartprefab descriptors (used by swap / transmog / item-hider tools like HAWT) now inject into the correct archive group and route in-place from the overlay path. - Encrypted-folder handling for new descriptor XML, so swap mods land in the format the engine expects (no more garbage-decrypt crash). - Structure-aware merging so two mods editing the same descriptor coexist instead of last-one-wins clobbering. - Older-version safety net: a character build/physics descriptor missing elements the current game added is quietly served from vanilla instead of crashing on load (the infinite-load / crash-on-character-spawn class). - — Audio / voice — - Multilingual voice mirror — voice mods are mirrored into every installed language folder so they don't drop out when the game pulls a different language's clip. - Audio de-duplication on the mount path (fixes combat-SFX bloat / delay). - — Nexus & updates — - Re-downloading a mod you already have no longer hangs on a spinner — it now tells you it's already installed and how to re-track it. - Friendlier conflict messaging — mods whose item/field edits actually coexist are no longer flagged as conflicts. - — ASI plugins — - Fixed the "Source must be an .asi file or a directory" error when downloading an ASI mod. - Downloaded ASIs now appear in the ASI Mods tab immediately instead of after the next scan. - — UI & quality of life — - Mod author shown in the card header;
• cleaner category view with reorderable sections and versions on bundle cards. - Companion field-JSON patches now show as sub-rows of their parent mod and follow its enable toggle. - Removed the redundant Scan button — the compatibility check runs automatically before every mount and the Health Check covers the rest. - Removed the "Unverified / ?" status (those mods reliably work;
• the tag just caused needless worry). - — Mod Health Check & diagnostics — - Health Check now flags mods shipping outdated character descriptors (built for an older game version). - Quieter mount log — false "may crash" warnings on perfectly-fine mods are gone;
• a single neutral, correctly-named line records a genuinely older-build mod for diagnosis if needed.

v1.4.3

v1.4.3

• — New / Additions — - > Collections — export your whole setup (load order, enabled state, Nexus links) - to a shareable file, and import someone else's with a preview before applying. - > Update All — one button to check + update every linked Nexus mod at once. - > Mod Tuner — retune any JSON mod's values (stamina %, drop rates, cooldowns…) - right inside DMM, no file editing. - > Performance Mode — optional toggle that kills idle animations, hides the - titlebar, and caps frame rate for weaker machines. - > Module packs — reorder modules inside a pack (▲/▼) to control which wins a - conflict;
• the pack's top checkbox is now a true on/off that remembers your - module selection;
• modules show their real edit count (not "0 patches"). - > Install .ASI/ReShade plugins straight from a downloaded zip. - > Category dropdowns on bundle/pack cards. - — Mod compatibility / formats — - > Real .prefab patching — V3 mods can now edit .prefab files (sockets, - attachments) directly. - > Typed XML descriptor patching — V3 can patch .sockets.xml / characterdescription - / appearance (.app_xml) by field. - > Localization (.paloc) field-patching — text/name-change mods apply reliably. - > Appearance/descriptor merging — multiple mods editing the same descriptor merge - per-section instead of last-wins, and no longer show a false conflict. - > Texture rendering fixes — resolved a class of bugs where modded character - textures showed rainbow, shredded, blank, or low-res (Abyss Corrupted Wings, - Smaller Crow's Wing, Berserker/SkullKnight Armor, etc.). DMM now conforms a - format mismatch only when a mod upscaled it, and upscales under-sized streaming - textures so they bind to their slot. - > Mesh (.pac) mods route correctly even with a bare manifest. - > iteminfo reliability — tolerate trailing-tail LZ4 blocks (fixes some mount - failures);
• if a stale byte-patch would corrupt the table, fall back to vanilla - so your other mods still apply. - > Inventory mods — back-compat for legacy field names. - — Nexus — - > Composite / module-pack mods download and update as ONE bundle — keeps load-order - position, enabled state, and the link (no disabled duplicate dropped at the - bottom). - > Fixed single-file JSON-mod updates getting mangled / "deleted on update." - > Multi-category packs show one card per category. - > Link/update dialog no longer flashes. - — Mod Health Check (icon by Enable/Disable All) — - > Warns on BC7/DX10 character + world textures that can crash or not render - in-place;
• tattoo-aware single-mip advice;
• smarter so it won't false-flag BC7 - normal maps. - — Conflict & log clarity — - > When two mods edit the same item, DMM names the actual other mod (instead of - looking like a mod conflicts with itself), suppresses the harmless "same mod - ships both an old and new format" case, and no longer falsely says a working - mod "needs updating." Cross-mod overlaps shown as info, not errors. - — Backups / Vault — - > Unmount restores your game byte-for-byte (no recurring "DESYNC" on remount);
• Vanilla Vault de-duplicates for less disk use;
• banner warns if your baseline - drifts. - — Other fixes — - > Drag-and-drop drops a mod where you release it (not the middle of the list). - > Upscaled weapon textures route to their own slot (sharp, no crash). - > Enabling a loose .asi no longer copies your whole mod library into bin64. - > Minimap loot/world icons render instead of boxes. - > UI polish: red dirty-unmount warning, clearer "skipped or conflicting" label, - last-card clipping fixed, em-dash text fix.

v1.4.2

• Crimson Desert 1.11 support — parser rebuilt for the new patch;
• JSON byte-patch mods apply correctly (full table coverage). - Legacy-mod resilience across game patches - Older offset-based table mods (iteminfo/skill/etc.) now auto-record a "record anchor" the first time they mount cleanly. If a future game patch shifts offsets, DMM re-locates the patch by record instead of the old byte-scan — so fewer "this mod stopped working after the update" cases. Fully non-destructive: it never edits your mod files, so Nexus update-detection/links are unaffected. This does not work for all mods and the log will reflect ones that need mod author update - New: Mod Health Check — one-click per-mod scan flags single-mip textures, DX10 icons, .dds.dds typos, dangling file references (game-aware), and duplicate icons. (mostly for mod devs it's little icon near the enable/disable all mods buttons) - Nexus updates install in place — keeps load-order position, enabled state, and the Nexus link instead of dropping a disabled copy at the bottom. Premium and free downloads. - Minimap mods fixed — loot/world-map icons render instead of boxes. - UI-patch support — .css.merge / .html.patch - Palette merging — multiple customization/tattoo palette packs now stack instead of last-wins. - Window size & position memory - DMM remembers its window size/position between launches. - Fixed: startup crash with some skill-table mods;
• more robust texture format handling (fewer black/garbled textures);
• better legacy byte-patch resilience across game updates. - ⚠️ Game updated? Re-establish your Vanilla Baseline: Unmount → Steam verify → Settings ▸ Game Build ▸ Establish Baseline.

v1.4.1

v1.4.1

• Crash fixes - • Fixed white / garbled faces on some makeup and face mods (e.g. K-Makeup) that use BC7/DX10 textures. - Crash prevention - • DMM now validates the patched game files before launch and automatically restores vanilla if it detects a problem. - • DMM now refuses to mount while the game is running, preventing a common cause of corrupted mounts. - Mounting & recovery - • Auto-unmount before mounting: if you forgot to unmount (when removing mods), DMM now cleanly restores vanilla first, then mounts — no more "incomplete restore" error. - • The Unmount button is now always available and no longer appears stuck/greyed after mounting. It's your recovery button and always restores vanilla. - • Self-healing: if a previous unmount was interrupted, DMM repairs the state automatically from its vanilla baseline instead of forcing a Steam verify. - • Clearer in-app messages when a mod is skipped, explaining why. - Compatibility - • Older appearance/texture mods (e.g. Kliff→Damiane-style face swaps) are no longer wrongly blocked after a game update. - • Nexus update detection: fewer false "update available" flags;
• optional sub-files are no longer mis-flagged. - Diagnostics - • Added a structured mount log to the support bundle for faster troubleshooting.

v1.4.0

v1.4

• New Features - Mod Categories — Organize your library into your own categories with sorting and a dedicated category view. Categories are display-only and never change your load order. - Nexus Mods integration — Link your Nexus account to get update badges when a newer version of a mod is available, install with the one-click "Mod Manager Download" button, and download + install updates directly. Updates replace the old version in place instead of leaving duplicate folders. - Vanilla Vault — DMM now captures a verified, locked-in clean snapshot of your game the first time you set it up. Unmounting always restores from that snapshot, which permanently ends the recurring "backup got corrupted / game won't return to vanilla" problems. - Texture & Character Rendering - Major texture rendering overhaul — Eyes, skin, faces, body tattoos, NPC skins, weapons, and upscaled textures now display correctly in-game. This resolves the long-standing white-eyes, blank-tattoo, and grey/garbled-face issues from earlier versions. - Automatic format & resolution matching — DMM now identifies each texture's slot type and re-encodes replacements to the form the game expects, so high-resolution and re-formatted texture packs render correctly instead of showing up white, black, or garbled. - Stability & Safety - Game-build protection — Mods (and pre-packaged archive mods) that were built for a different game version are now detected and safely skipped, with a clear warning naming the mod to update — instead of silently causing an infinite loading screen. - Backup integrity verification — Backups are checksum-verified before they're used to restore, so a damaged backup can never be mounted over your game. - Bug Fixes - Fixed rainbow/garbled UI — Certain UI-chrome textures (inventory slot frames, menu buttons) could render as rainbow static when a UI mod was mounted. Routing for those shared UI atlas textures has been corrected. - Fixed false "file conflict" warnings — Standalone-overlay mods share internal index files that were being mistaken for conflicting game files. These container/index files are now correctly ignored, so legitimately-coexisting mods no longer show a phantom conflict. - Faster startup — The app window now opens immediately instead of briefly showing "not responding" on launch. - Download progress indicator — Nexus downloads no longer make the app appear frozen while a file is downloading. - Recently-downloaded mods now land at the bottom of your load order automatically. - Unmount button is greyed out when nothing is mounted (it stays clickable as a recovery option). - Deterministic audio/voice routing — Voice and audio mods that span multiple language folders now resolve consistently instead of occasionally picking the wrong language.

v1.3.9

• b - Bug Fixes - Fixed: Several file operations in the mod install pipeline were not using DMM's retry-safe file writer — When mounting mods that write directly into game group directories (in-place mods, overlay backups, audio/texture orphan cleanup), a handful of file operations were still using basic Windows file writes instead of DMM's built-in antivirus-resilient retry system. These have been switched over, closing the last paths where an AV scan could cause a silent write failure mid-mount. - Fixed: "Dirty baseline" error blocking future mounts after a failed unmount - Related to the above — if a file write failed during unmount (due to the AV lock issue), DMM's integrity check would detect a problem and set a dirty flag that blocked your next mount attempt with a red error. Since the writes now succeed reliably, this flag should no longer get set erroneously. - Fixed: Mods appearing broken after remounting - Several user reports of mods "not working" that had worked in previous versions traced back to the same root cause — the AV lock causing a backup step to fail silently mid-mount, leaving the game files in an inconsistent state. This is now resolved.

v1.3.9

• Game File Parser & Overlay Fixes - V3 overlay format corrected. Item stat mods (Field JSON format) were writing a compressed version of the item table that the game couldn't read back reliably. It now writes in the format the game expects, so modded stats apply correctly every time. - Charge field auto-fix. Certain hidden fields tied to item charge counts were left in a state that could conflict with modded values. DMM now automatically zeroes those out when applying a V3 item mod, preventing the conflict silently. - Texture mip-level handling improved. Textures with a single mip level and textures with multiple mip levels now go through different compression paths. Previously both were handled the same way, which caused some textures to display incorrectly in-game. - Fixed a texture slot classification bug. Two specific texture slot types (used in some character and equipment mods) were being misidentified, causing grey textures or wrong icons. They now fall back to the correct type automatically. - Backup System - Fixed baseline contamination on unmount. If you mounted mods, then unmounted, the backup system could mistakenly save the already-modded game files as the "clean" baseline. The next unmount would then restore to a modded state instead of vanilla. This is now prevented. - Audio and texture backups now protected. The baseline guard that prevents contamination has been extended to cover the game's audio PAZ and texture PAZ backup files, not just the main overlay files. - Verify Backups button added. Under Settings there is now a "Verify Backups" button that checks whether your backup files are intact and match what vanilla should look like. Useful after a game update or if you suspect something went wrong. - ASI / DLL Mods - Companion file support for ASI mods. Some ASI plugins ship alongside .tsv or .csv config/data files. DMM now correctly installs and removes those companion files when you enable or disable the plugin. - Fixed leftover folder on uninstall. Uninstalling an ASI mod was removing the plugin file but leaving an empty folder behind in the mods directory. - Plugin log files cleaned up on disable. Log files written by ASI plugins to the game's bin64 folder are now removed when you disable that plugin. - JSON Mods - Per-change toggles. Each individual change inside a JSON mod now has its own on/off switch. You can disable specific parts of a mod without turning the whole thing off. - Search inside large mods. Mods with hundreds or thousands of changes now have a search bar that filters the list by entry or field name. - Active count badge. When you've disabled some changes inside a mod, the collapsed card now shows a small 10/12 active badge so you know at a glance it's been customized. - Raw JSON editor repaired. Use the edit button to the right of the json mod to edit the raw file directly. - Restore Default button added to editor. A new amber button writes your mod's JSON file back to exactly the state it was in the first time you opened it in DMM, even if you've saved changes multiple times since. - Multi-target mods now show all their changes. Mods that apply changes across several different game tables at once were showing "No intents" and appearing empty. All changes now display correctly grouped by table. - File Conflict Resolution. - Conflict log moved to the bottom. Conflict warnings now appear at the very end of the mount log under a clear header, instead of buried in the middle behind hundreds of progress lines. - False conflict warnings fixed. Mods that store their files directly in their root folder were triggering a conflict warning over mod.json — a metadata file that is never injected into the game. These false warnings no longer appear.

v1.3.8

• c - UPDATE: Fixed issue with V3 stamina mods not loading. Fixed issue with mods that silent tracks in the game getting skipped. Added merged conflict indicator when multiple mods hit the same file will show you a icon to the right of the mods put which one you want to win lower in the load order(these mods still merge but last mod in order wins any direct conflicts) this is not the same as direct conflict mods those have a different indicator. Found issue with backups not refreshing properly after several remounts which can lead to a crash on launch. Unmount and Reverify game files on steam this fix will prevent future mounts from having corrupt backups - Fully updated for 1.0.8. All V3 JSON(field json) tables fully implemented. All major texture issues resolved. Fixed several issues with bad backups preventing people from mounting. Resolved issue with DMM not warning you if vanilla game files are modded before doing a first mount on new version of DMM(VERIFY YOUR STEAM FILES BEFORE MOUNTING ON NEW VERSION). Fixed audio/voice mod handling over sequential mounts. Improved mount times to up to 10x faster than 1.3.7(first mount might be a little slow). - When upgrading make sure to unmount from previous version of DMM. Go to steam right-click Crimson Desert → Properties → Installed Files → Verify integrity of game files. - In your DMM backups folder: delete pathc_clean.bin and papgt_clean.bin. DMM will capture fresh baselines from the verified game files on the next mount.

v1.3.7

• Loose-Mesh Mod Support, Multi-Format Merge, Mount Speed - • - Loose-mesh mods using the "v1" / "mesh_loose_mod" manifest format now load correctly in DMM. Previously the "v1" format string was not recognized, causing these mods to either fail silently or be routed through the overlay pipeline instead of direct PAZ injection — producing stripe artifacts and UV corruption. DMM now accepts "v1" alongside the existing browser manifest format at all four manifest detection sites and routes these mods through in-place PAZ injection into the correct group (e.g. 0009). - • - Format 1/2 (absolute-offset byte patches) and Format 3 (typed field intents) mods targeting the same pabgb file now merge into a single overlay instead of competing. Previously each format produced its own full-file overlay group and whichever was last in PAPGT silently overwrote the other's changes. The v3 multitarget loop now detects any Format 1/2 patches for the same target in file_patches, folds them into merged_body before the typed install, then removes the key from file_patches so pabgb_patches does not create a second overlay. Confirmed working for Lemonheads Unlimited Dragon Flying (Format 1, characterinfo + skill) combined with Equip Everything (Format 3, same targets). - • - Standalone overlay mods (pre-built 0036/0.paz) now merge cleanly with v3 JSON mods targeting the same pabgb. Five guards prevent competing overlays: pre-scan reads standalone pabgb bodies before the v3 loop;
• v3 uses the standalone body as the base;
• the raw standalone overlay entry is suppressed;
• pabgb_patches skips byte-level reprocessing;
• and the semantic merge block is blocked. When the standalone body causes a typed walker failure (CArray overflow), DMM automatically retries with vanilla body so v3 intents still apply. - • - Vanilla retry for standalone-based typed walk failures extended to all pabgb targets (previously iteminfo only). Any target whose merged_body was built from a standalone overlay base now retries with vanilla if the typed walker fails. - • - Mount speed: initializing stage dropped from ~13s to ~0.02s on second mount via PAZ injection fingerprint caching — skip the full 870MB read/write if mod files are unchanged. Game index pre-warm fires on startup so the 1.29M-entry PAPGT index is ready before the user clicks Mount. Parallel mod JSON parsing. WEM audio mods (>50 .wem files) auto-detected and routed to in-place injection. - • - Mod disable now works without explicit unmount. PAZ backups are restored at the start of every mount before re-injecting only the currently active mods, so unchecking a mod and remounting removes it immediately. - • - dmm-parser: added missing field aliases for character_info — lookup_24 (_lookup24), lookup_25 (_lookup25), flag_c (_flagC). Fixes Kliff_Damiane_Runtimepackages.field.json and any other v3 mod setting these fields. - • - Removed Optiscaler from DMM.

v1.3.6

• b - Texture Pipeline Fixes — CYM HUD, Mesh Mods, PATHC Sync - • - DX10 overlay textures no longer render as rainbow noise. IDA verified via sub_101C1C3E4: the engine reads a 148-byte DDS header for DX10 textures (128 + 20 byte DX10 extended header) and starts the LZ4-compressed body at offset 148. DMM was hardcoding 128 for every DDS, so for DX10 textures the 20 bytes of DX10 extended header got LZ4-wrapped along with the pixel body. The engine then read pixel data from offset 148 of the decompressed payload, hit garbled LZ4 codes for the extended header, and rendered rainbow corruption. The header-size split is now derived from fourcc — 148 when 'DX10', 128 otherwise. Fixes the Customize Your HUD skill-icon corruption on every BC7/BC6H/DX10 texture mod. - • - Direct-injection mesh mods (CrimsonForge mesh_loose_mod) now actually overwrite the slot they target. apply_in_place_mod was writing payloads to {group}/0.paz but leaving the PAMT file_record's paz_index untouched. For files vanilla stored in non-zero chunks (sword .pac at chunk_id=1, .pac_xml at chunk_id=6, character textures at chunk_id=30, item icons at chunk_id=3), the engine then looked them up in {group}/{vanilla_chunk_id}.paz at the new offset DMM wrote — finding garbage. paz_index is now forced to 0 in every rewritten record so the engine reads from the same PAZ DMM actually wrote to. - • - Reserved1[0..3] mip sizes are now patched into every directly-injected DDS. IDA verified via sub_101C685A8: the engine's multi-mip walker accumulates pixel-data offsets per mip using Reserved1[0..3] for mips 0..3 (then computes 4+ from dims+format). Modder DDS exports almost always leave those four DWORDs at zero — the engine then treated mips 0..3 as empty and started reading mip 4's pixel data from the wrong file offset. apply_in_place_mod now calls get_dds_metadata and writes the four mip sizes into bytes 32..48 of any DDS payload before injection, matching what the overlay path already did. Required for Fusion Sword, Buster Sword, Wolf Gravestone, and any other CrimsonForge mesh_loose_mod ship. - • - Direct-injection mods now update PATHC. The engine consults meta/0.pathc via sub_101C67A40 for cached texture dims/format on every load — for cd_phm_02_sword_0039_ma.dds vanilla PATHC says 512×512 DXT1 with 10 mips, but Owlanders ships 2048×1024 with 12 mips. Without the PATHC update the engine created a 512×512 texture and only read the first ~128KB of our 1.4MB payload, producing pixelation. apply_in_place_mod now queues (vpath, dds_bytes) for every DDS it injects;
• a standalone PATHC drain runs immediately after the AUTO_INPLACE phase (covers mesh-only mounts) and the overlay PATHC block drains the same queue (covers mixed mounts). Vanilla's class code at byte 124 is preserved per file. PATHC grows by the number of new modder templates per mount.

v1.3.6

• Mod Card Granularity, Load Order Persistence, ASI Resync, UI Polish - • - Field JSON mod cards now have per-entry toggles. Every entry group in a v3 mod's expanded view has its own switch that disables or enables every intent under that entry atomically. The disabled-state is persisted in `config.activeMods[i].disabledIndices` (same flat-index scheme as Format 1 per-patch toggles), so toggles survive remounts and app restarts. Disabled intents are filtered out of the v3 collect step before any overlay is built — the mount log now reports `parsed/skipped/disabled` per target so you can see exactly which intents made it through. - • - Load order no longer changes after an unmount. Root cause: `apply_mods` was persisting the load-order-resolver-mutated active_mods to `mounted.json`, so any code that later read mounted state surfaced the resolver's order instead of the user's. Fixed by snapshotting the user-supplied order before the resolver runs and writing THAT to mounted.json. First-scan sort also now prefers `definitiveLoadOrder` (the user's authoritative drag/auto-sort order) over `activeMods` position, so app restarts can't surface filesystem-iteration order in place of the user's intent. Bundle members map to their parent's `bundle:` slot so bundles stay grouped after reorders. - • - ASI mods stay enabled across DMM restarts. `config.activeAsiMods` is now the user-intent source of truth — every enable/disable updates it. On every ASI scan (which runs at app start), DMM re-deploys any plugin the user wants enabled whose `.asi` is missing from `bin64/`. Covers Steam Verify, game patches, and manual cleanup that previously wiped your ASI deploys and forced you to re-toggle everything on relaunch. Symmetrically clears intent for plugins whose source vanished from `mods/` so it stops trying to redeploy a deleted mod. - • - Mod card expand animation no longer overlaps the next card. The TanStack virtualizer needs a `data-index` attribute on each row to map its internal ResizeObserver events back to the correct virtual row — the attribute was missing, so when a card expanded the row WAS observed as growing but the virtualizer couldn't update subsequent rows' top offsets. Result: the next card stayed at its old absolute position and overlapped the expanded body. Adding `data-index` fixes every card position, not just the last one in the list. - • - Tightened mod card vertical spacing. Trimmed paddingBottom on the row wrapper from 12px to 4px — the card list is now denser without the expand bug to compensate for. - • - Sidebar footer buttons stacked vertically and renamed. `Discord` / `Mod Directory` / `Game Directory` (was `Mods` / `Game`). Easier to read and labels are no longer ambiguous about what they open. - • - Sidebar reorganized. Profiles moved out of `Sharing` and into `Manage`, directly below Language — the section it's most often used from. Packs and Community are now behind the Developer Mode flag;
• the entire `Sharing` section is hidden when Dev Mode is off so the sidebar is cleaner by default for users who don't use those features. - • - Stale `dmmv3_*` overlay entries in PAPGT are now dropped on next mount. Previously the rebuild blindly preserved every `dmmv3_*` entry it found, even when the corresponding overlay folder/PAMT had been deleted. Result: PAPGT slowly accumulated orphan entries that pointed at nothing and could trip 'There may be a problem with the game installation' on launch. Now: any `dmmv3_*` entry without a matching `0.pamt` + `0.paz` on disk gets dropped, mirroring how foreign-tool entries are handled. - • - characterinfo overlay pabgh now matches body bytes exactly. `build_pabgh_dispatch_aware` was using re-serialized record sizes (parser round-trip can drift by a few bytes per record) while the body builder used vanilla bytes for untouched records — the cumulative offset drift pushed the last pabgh entries past the end of the body and the game crashed on read. Fixed by mirroring the body builder: touched records use the re-serialized size, untouched records use their vanilla pabgh-derived size. Applies to every typed-table overlay, not just characterinfo. - • - equip_slot_info + skill_info now have a tracked-offset apply path. Previously these two tables errored out with `table uses a special-case serializer;
• tracked-offset path not yet wired` on any v3 mount attempt. Mounts that touch slot/skill data now succeed. - • - Executable renamed to `DMM.exe`. The Windows binary used to be `definitive-mod-manager.exe` and included no version in the filename — pinning the taskbar icon worked, but the bundle path still moved between versions. With a stable `DMM.exe` name, dropping a new version into the same folder preserves taskbar pins, file-manager hover state, and any shortcuts that target the path. - • - Texture-mod corruption after unmount is fixed. Root cause: DMM's startup code (`initialize_app`) was using a hardcoded 4-name needle list (`dmmsa` / `dmmgen` / `0036` / `0037`) to decide whether the install was currently mounted. v3 overlay groups like `dmmv3_iteminfo`, `dmmv3_skill`, `dmmequ`, and `dmmski` weren't on that list, so when a user closed DMM with v3 mods mounted and reopened, the version-fingerprint mismatch path fired and overwrote BOTH `papgt_clean.bin` AND `pathc_clean.bin` with the currently-modded live bytes. The next unmount then 'restored' that poisoned state back onto disk — vanilla textures stayed corrupted because the 'vanilla' backup wasn't vanilla anymore. The detector now enumerates every PAPGT entry name and consults `is_dmm_owned_group` (which already knew every overlay pattern), and an extra on-disk overlay-directory check refuses to refresh baselines whenever ANY DMM-owned overlay folder still exists, even if PAPGT looks clean.

v1.3.5

• pr4 - A Test version that should address a lot of the backend issues mentioned by a lot of people. Too much to address here, just test it out and if it works. AWESOME

v1.3.5

• Mount Stability, Author Diagnostics, Wider Field-Level Coverage - •Mount no longer crashes the host on parser panics. Every typed-table parse now runs inside an isolated worker. If a single record fails, the mount continues with that target skipped and the failure is logged. The previous behavior closed DMM with a 0xC0000409 fast-fail on certain data in skill, condition, and effect tables. - •Full revert to vanilla on unmount. Every overlay, registered group, and self-healing PAMT change DMM made is rolled back. Switching mod managers no longer leaves stranded entries in PAPGT. - •v3 Strict Mode (Settings, requires Developer Mode). Surfaces per-intent skip reasons during mount: missing field, type mismatch, unresolved entry, unsupported op. Mod authors now see exactly why an export 'did nothing' instead of having to grep mount_log.txt by hand. - •Skip detail in mount_log even with strict mode off. Mount log now shows up to 50 [V3_INTENT_SKIP_DETAIL] lines per mod whenever any intent fails to apply, capped to keep the log readable on broken bulk exports. - •Activate-to-top now works for every card kind in the Mods list. Enabling a texture mod, a file-replacement mod, or a bundle variant lifts the card to position 1, matching the JSON mod behavior. Previously only JSON mods moved. - •Browser file-replacement conflicts refresh as you toggle. The Conflicts tally and details panel update on every enable/disable instead of waiting for an app restart. - •Wider field-level coverage. Roughly 127 game tables are now editable through structured Field JSON v3 instead of byte-swap, including StoreInfo, FactionInfo, GimmickInfo, CharacterInfo, InteractionInfo, ElementalMaterialInfo, SpecialModeInfo, FactionNodeInfo, GimmickGroupInfo, and the full ConditionInfo / BuffInfo / BranchConditionInfo families. v3 mods targeting these survive game patches that previously broke byte-level edits. - •v3 multi-target file formats. Field JSON v3 now applies to paac (character archetypes), paatt (attack tables), pamhc (motion handlers), and pappt (prefab tables) in addition to pabgb. A single mod file can edit several different file types in one shot using the targets[] envelope. - •Polymorphic family decoders. ConditionData (405 variants), BuffData (120 variants), BranchConditionData (14 variants), and the GameEventHandler family now round-trip cleanly. Mods touching skill effects, status conditions, and event-driven gimmicks apply by intent instead of relying on raw byte payloads. - •Self-healing PAPGT and PAMT. If a previous mount left a partial group registration or a drifted hash, DMM detects it on next mount and rewrites the offending bytes from the captured vanilla baseline. - •PAPGT strip-hash offset bug fixed. Mount/unmount cycles no longer occasionally leave a 'Checksum mismatch' on next parse from an off-by-one hash write. - •In-app code editor for mod files (Monaco-based). Read-only view of any mod file from the mod card, syntax-highlighted, no external editor needed. - •Standalone overlay PAZs from other tools are validated at scan time. Malformed overlays are flagged in the UI before mount instead of corrupting state at apply time. - •Dropset, iteminfo, and equipslot intent merging is intent-aware per (field, value). Cross-version mods (one built against an older game version, one current) coexist without overwriting each other when they touch different items. - •Force Reset DMM State (Settings, Game Maintenance) now also clears stale v3 overlay registrations. Last-resort release valve for stuck state. Touches DMM metadata only, never game files. - •ASI tab: live in-game loaded indicator and per-plugin delete button (carried over and stabilized from 1.3.4). - •Translation parity restored across all 14 supported UI languages for new strings added this cycle. - Re-upload to the original 1.3.5. Fixed mod regression.

v1.3.4

• pr.2 - Throwing this out here for now. Not everything is feature rich, but there is some back-end updates that I thought were a good idea to push out to the public to get things working until I finish up 1.3.4 and push as a FULL release.

v1.3.4

• b - Mount Crash Fix, 1.05.01 Schema Restored, Full-Coverage Crash Logging - • Fixed the silent close that took DMM down at 0% / 50% during the Mount Mods step. Root cause: the iteminfo parser had drifted ahead of the actual game data — it was reading 12 fields per item that don't exist in your installed game version, which misaligned every downstream length prefix and produced an unrecoverable abort on items with renamed or restructured data (e.g. item 1002151 'Sturdy Gatherables Chest' / 'Item gimmick resourcestorage 0001'). Schema reverted to match the game binary exactly per IDA decompile of CrimsonDesert_Steam. - •Per-item Tier 2 fallback. If a single item still fails the full-schema parse, the parser falls back to a minimal key + name + is_blocked decode and continues mounting instead of crashing. Mod intents that target the item by key for those three fields still apply. - •8 MB stack for the parse worker. Default 2 MB Tauri stacks were running out on items with deeply-nested data lists, causing stack-overflow aborts that no Rust handler can catch. Now we get 4× the headroom. - •Seven layers of crash capture. Any future silent close leaves a fingerprint on disk: panic.log gets the rust panic / SEH exception / rayon worker panic / atexit marker, stderr.log captures CRT abort messages, and a current_item.txt sentinel pins the exact item being parsed at the moment of death. Frontend errors (window.error, unhandled promise rejection, console.*) now mirror to panic.log too, so a webview crash no longer goes unrecorded. - •Per-table forensic checkpoints inside analyze_semantic_conflicts. The last [PHASE] line in panic.log identifies which table + which step (extract / parse / collect / merge) was running when something failed. - •Tauri command isolation. Every panic that escapes a parser is now caught and surfaced as a logged error string instead of crashing the host. Mount continues with whatever tables succeed. - •Release builds now write backend logs (was debug-only). The previous gate left every shipped exe with zero diagnostics, so panics + warnings vanished. Logs now go to /logs/Definitive Mod Manager.log on every launch.

v1.3.4

• v1.3.4 - May 2026 - 1.05.02 Compatibility, V3.1 Stability, Recovery From Game Updates - •Compatible with Crimson Desert build 1.05.02. Field-level edits across 121 game tables apply cleanly. - •V3.1 multi-target mods now apply 100%. Nested array paths (skill buff levels, nested spawn lists) resolve correctly. - •Multi-language voice mods coexist. Two voice mods for the same character in different languages mount together cleanly. - •Audio mod mount no longer hangs at 50%. .wem and .bnk files mount on first try. - •Legacy mods that ship whole-record payloads still apply without needing re-export. - •Auto-recovery after game updates. DMM detects a clean install and rebuilds its baseline silently. No more 'No clean PAPGT backup' lockup after weekend patches. - •Force Reset DMM State button in Settings → Game Maintenance. Release valve for stuck tracking state. DMMmetadata only — never touches game files. - •ASI tab: live in-game loaded indicator (green/grey dot per plugin while the game is running). - •ASI tab: delete button on every plugin row. Removes source + deployed copy in one click. - •Mod delete no longer corrupts load order. - •Cross-subdirectory filename collisions no longer trigger false binary conflicts. - •field_info parser realigned for 1.05.02. - •23 additional translated UI strings across all 14 supported languages.

v1.3.3

• v1.3.3 - April 2026 - Overlay Reliability - • Byte-patched data tables now apply correctly in game. Companion index files are paired with their data file inside the overlay so edits actually take effect at runtime instead of silently rolling back to vanilla. - • Overlay pre-flight safety check. The installer refuses to write an overlay when the in-built parser cannot perfectly preserve vanilla bytes, preventing silent file corruption. - • Browser mod path resolution. Loose-file mods that ship a manifest plus a files/ wrapper now route to canonical game paths automatically. - • Internal blob-table runtime now handles both u32 and u16 keyed table formats, expanding the set of mods that round-trip cleanly.

v1.3.2

• v1.3.2 - April 2026 - Definitive Load Order, Skill Tuner, Wider v3 Mod Support - •Definitive Load Order. Drag any mod (any type) to its exact position in the unified list and the position persists across restart. No more enabled-first auto-sort, no more disabled mods snapping to the bottom. - •Skill Tuner. Field JSON v3 mods that scale stamina, spirit, cooldowns, or other scalar values now show per-skill toggles and percentage sliders inside the mod card. Apply writes a customized copy of the mod ready to mount. - •Wider v3 mod support. Field JSON v3 mods that target tables beyond iteminfo (skill, inventory, others) now apply correctly to the game. Previously these mounted clean but produced no in-game effect. - •ASI plugins detected automatically when DMM opens. No more clicking Refresh to populate the list. - •Mount summary correctly reports Backup created when capturing vanilla state for revert.

v1.3.1

• v1.3.1 - April 2026 - Field JSON v3 Support, Mixed-Mod Coexistence, Compatibility Fixes - •Field JSON v3 mod support. The byte-offset-free authoring format applies cleanly. Mod cards show intent counts and a FIELD JSON badge. - •Mixed v2 + v3 coexistence. When older byte-patch mods and newer field-based mods both target the same game file, both sets of edits now apply together. Older changes are folded into the v3 overlay so the in-game result reflects every active mod. - •Loader choice. Two ASI loader builds are now bundled. The Standard loader installs as version.dll, the Alt loader installs as dxgi.dll. A Switch button on the loader badge swaps between them in one click. Use the alt if the standard conflicts with anti-cheat or other DLLs. - •Purge All Overlays in Settings, Game Maintenance. One click removes every overlay registered with the game and restores vanilla, useful before switching mod managers or after a game update. - •Open ASI configs in Notepad++ when installed (falls back to the OS default editor). - •Cross-version UI-file merge fix. Older mods that diff as deletions against current vanilla no longer strip content when paired with mods that preserve or modify the same rules. - •ASI tab improvements. New Diagnose button reports loader, plugin, and runtime-log state. Loader install drops a default config with logging on. Plugin list deduplicates when the same file appears in more than one place. - •Browser and mesh mod fixes. Path resolution corrected for nested asset layouts. Backup directories and non-game image formats inside mod folders are skipped at collection time. - •Smarter byte-patch handling. DMM now auto-detects the offset convention each mod was authored with and applies edits using the right one. Patches no longer get silently relocated to unrelated records when the file layout drifts between game versions. - •Record-header write protection. The first bytes of every record are guarded against accidental writes, preventing a class of game crashes from misaligned patches.

v1.3.0

• b - 1.3.0 hotfix in build now: UI-file merger no longer drops edits when two mods touch the same CSS / XML / HTML file in different ways (one prepends rules at the top, the other modifies the existing top). Both edits now coexist. Fixes the symptom where Customize Your HUD + Bigger Minimap StatusBar were stepping on each other in statusgaugeview2.css.

v1.3.0

• hf.1 - UI-File Merger Fix - • - Fixed UI-file merger losing edits when one mod prepended content (e.g. extra style rules at the top of a CSS file) and another mod modified the existing top of the same file. Both mods' edits now coexist instead of one being silently dropped. Affects mods that ship modified statusgaugeview2.css, minimap CSS, and similar HUD layout files.

v1.3.0

• DMM 1.3.0: Interface Refresh & Backend Overhaul - What's new: - • Completely refreshed interface. - • Broader mod compatibility. More mods apply cleanly without authoring changes, and patches that previous builds silently skipped now make it through. - • Variant auto-repair. Mods where earlier builds over-aggressively disabled patches are fixed on first launch, no user action needed. - • Upgraded the bundled ASI loader to the latest Ultimate ASI Loader. Fixes reports of recently-updated .asi plugins not loading. - • One-click OptiScaler install (DLSS / FSR / XeSS upscaler proxy). Available under the ASI Mods tab as "Upscaler proxy". Bundled locally, no network fetch. Uninstall removes everything it placed. - • Improved mount-time diagnostics and log consistency.

v1.2.4

• b - 1.04 Compatibility - • Updated for Crimson Desert 1.04. Mods that worked in 1.03 continue to work after the game update. - • Minor stability polish in the mod merge pipeline. - • Other misc bug fixes and mod compatibility.

v1.2.4

• DMM 1.2.4 — Released - What's new - Expanded mod compatibility. DMM now mounts a range of mod layouts and content combinations that previous versions couldn't handle. If a mod you had would show up but not apply — or apply partially and leave features missing — try it again on 1.2.4. Multi-file mods that wouldn't cooperate before should now apply cleanly. - Interface scaling. New Settings → Interface Scale option with presets from 50% up to 200%. Takes effect immediately, persists across restarts. Useful on 4K displays, laptops, or anywhere the default size doesn't fit your screen. - Release hardening. The shipped binary is now hardened against casual reverse engineering. - Minor UI polish and log-message cleanup throughout.

v1.2.3

• DMM v1.2.3: Byte-Overlay Iteminfo Pipeline - Full-file iteminfo mods (buff packs, gear rebalances), stackable-count mods (max_stack raisers), and socket-inserter mods (sockets on rings/earrings/cloaks) now coexist cleanly on the same mount. - What changed: - • Byte-overlay iteminfo pipeline. The merge path was rebuilt as a pure byte overlay on top of the full-file mod's iteminfo. Every JSON byte patch and Format 2 insert lands at its intended position, the companion pabgh is regenerated with shifted offsets. No record parsing, no re-serialization, no layout drift. - • Format 2 resolver correction. Entry-relative patches (entry + rel_offset) now resolve from data_start (after the record's key + name header) instead of record_start. That was the root cause of socket-adder mods silently writing to the wrong bytes. - • Pattern scanner safety. When a Format 2 patch's original bytes don't match current vanilla for a specific record (game version drift on one item), the scanner no longer hunts ±512 bytes looking for a pattern. It skips the patch cleanly with a [STALE] log entry. Stops mods from corrupting adjacent records. - • Intra-mod collision detector skips .pabgb. The fake 411-member collision dialog at @ 0x0 that was silently disabling most of socket-adder mods' patches is gone.

v1.2.2

• c - DMM v1.2.2c — Hotfix - Two fixes for file-replace mods that mounted cleanly but did nothing in-game. - What's fixed - gamedata/ wrapper strip for Nexus-style layouts - A lot of Nexus mods author their files at gamedata/character/foo.pac, gamedata/ui/texture/icon.dds expecting the installer to peel off the outer gamedata/ directory. Crimson Desert's actual virtual filesystem has character/, ui/, object/ etc. as siblings of gamedata/, not children. Without stripping, files landed at virtual paths like gamedata/character/foo.pac that don't exist in vanilla, and the game silently ignored them. DMM now detects this layout and strips the wrapper. Legitimate gamedata/binary__/... paths (real game data files) still work unchanged. - Vanilla compression flag mirroring in the overlay encoder - PAMT records compression and encryption flag bits, and the asset loader trusts them — but some loaders for .app.xml and certain character .pac types appear to have hardcoded format expectations and ignore the compression bit. When DMM compressed a file vanilla had stored raw, the loader read garbage and the game silently fell back to vanilla (mod had zero in-game effect). Fix: when vanilla flags exist for the exact file path, mirror vanilla's compression decision exactly. New files keep the original compress-if-smaller behavior. - Repro cases - DragonSlayer-Berserk: Darkbringer sword replacement — shipped 8 files under gamedata/character/... and gamedata/ui/..., mount succeeded but game saw none of them. Now applies correctly. - Damiane Mid-Length Layered Hair: appearance + new hair .pac. Files were routed correctly but flag mismatch (vanilla 0x0030/0x0001 → DMM-written 0x0032/0x0002) made the loader skip them.

v1.2.2

• b - DMM v1.2.2b — Hotfix - Three regression fixes for issues introduced in 1.2.1 and 1.2.2. - Surgical iteminfo mods work again - The per-(field, value) drift filter from 1.2.2 was killing surgical mods like instant cooldown and fat stacks. A mod that sets the same field to the same value across many records (e.g. cooldown=0 on 50 items) was being misclassified as version drift and dropped. Removed the filter. JSMM and CDUMM both run the semantic merger straight without drift heuristics — DMM now matches that. Cross-version coexistence still works via the safer vanilla-fallback path described below. - BOM-resilient XML merge - When two mods replace the same XML/CSS/HTML file and one has a UTF-8 BOM and the other does not, every line shifted by 3 bytes — LCS found zero matches, flagged every line as changed, produced a corrupted merge. Now strips BOMs before LCS comparison so content-equivalent files align correctly. Multi-mod XML merge from 1.2.2 still works unchanged. Fixes mods that worked in 1.2.0 but broke after 1.2.1's line-level merge. - Silent conflict auto-resolution - The merge backend was already using vanilla for unresolved field conflicts (safe default), but the UI was popping a scary "658 conflicts" dialog and blocking the mount. The phantom conflicts came from two cross-version mods (e.g. God Mask + Axiom of Excellence) targeting different items but whose tool-encoded baselines disagreed on shared drift records. Mount now proceeds with a log line: N field conflict(s) auto-resolved to vanilla (safe default). Strict mode (opt-in) preserves the block-mount behaviour. - Bonus UI fix - Conflict badges on mod cards now distinguish auto-mergeable conflicts (green auto-merged) from real conflicts (orange shared). Two mods that both ship iteminfo.pabgb for different items show green instead of an alarming orange warning.

v1.2.2

• DMM v1.2.2 - Cross-version iteminfo intent filter - Mods built against an older game version (v1.03.00) ship full iteminfo files where ~1500 records technically differ from current vanilla due to game-patch rebalancing. Naive merge treated all 1500 as intent and either crashed the game or silently overwrote later mods' changes. - DMM now analyzes records at (field name, value) granularity. A specific value shared across many records is drift (dropped, vanilla wins). A value applied to only a few records is intent (kept, applied). - Canonical test: Reduce Fall Damage + Rings of Power CDUMM both active. Lanterns reduce fall damage AND rings show their item buffs simultaneously. No crash. ~5 records rebuilt out of ~1500 that looked changed. - Multi-mod XML / CSS / HTML merge - When 2+ browser mods ship full replacements of the same file (Better Radial Menus + Menu Buttons Swap both replace ui/inputmap_common.xml), only last-loaded used to apply. DMM now runs cumulative three-way merge against vanilla so both mods' edits stack. - Variant picker for mod packs - Mods like BetterGlide ship mutually-exclusive variant subfolders (ui_aio/, ui_erdj/, ui_evaderoll/). The scanner detects them and shows a purple dropdown on the mod card. Pick one, only that variant mounts. Choice persists across restarts. - Persistent mount state - "Mounted" badges no longer reset every time DMM reopens. A mounted.json record persists across restarts so the UI reflects what's actually applied on disk.

v1.2.1

• DMM v1.2.1 - Save Item Pipeline - Item mods that donate save files or ship CSE-compatible item pack JSONs now work with multi-mod coexistence. DMM decrypts donated saves, scans for items using the game's sentinel pattern (58-byte fixed field block per item: itemNo, stackCount, enchant, endurance, sharpness, etc.), diffs each donor against your save, and merges changes from all enabled mods. Last-mod-wins on conflicts. Your save is auto-backed up before any modification. - Line-Level XML Merge - Multiple mods replacing the same XML, CSS, or HTML file now merge at the line level using LCS alignment. Previously the merge bailed when file sizes differed (first mod won, everything else dropped). Now each mod's changes are identified relative to vanilla and combined. Three mods that each modify different lines of input.xml all coexist. Same-line conflicts resolve to later mod in load order. - Fixes - • ASI scanner no longer freezes the UI on tab switch (results cached) - • ASI mods removed from the mods folder now auto-clean from bin64 (manifest adoption for pre-beta.9 deployments) - • File replacement conflicts show "File Replacement Conflict" instead of "Offset Collision 0x000000" - • Pre-flight check no longer flags sequencer/*.pastage files as missing (LET ME SLEEP fix) - • Fixed stale "v1.2.0-beta.9" version string in startup log

v1.2.0

• beta.9 - v1.2.0-beta.9: mount engine hardening + collision detection + XML engine - Mount engine - - async commands (19+): no more "Not Responding" during long mounts - - MountLock RAII: second instance refused during active mount - - MountTracker: stage progress events emitted to UI (stage N of 8) - - atomic_write for config: power-loss-safe persistence - - PAZ/PAMT validators: malformed standalone overlays rejected at scan/mount - - Phase 5 XML engine (xml_engine.rs): semantic XML merge/patch with 12 unit tests - PABGH parser - - 6-byte entry format supported (u16 key + u32 offset) — regioninfo.pabgh - - Existing 8-byte formats unchanged (characterinfo, skill, questinfo) - - Insert rebuild handles 6-byte format correctly - - Diagnostic logging dumps raw header bytes per file in mount_log - Patch collision system - - detect_intra_mod_collisions: new command finds same-offset patches within a mod - - preset_group schema: optional JSON field for declared mutually-exclusive patches - - Mount-time mutex enforcement auto-picks winner per preset_group - - CollisionResolverModal: radio-button UI for undeclared collisions - - Trivial duplicates (identical original+patched) auto-skipped - Scanner - - Case 2d nested variant walk (2 levels): catches VAXIS BLOOD, CC Female Goblin, - user bundles where mods live one folder deeper than scanner expected - - files// layout in apply_mods: collects overlay files correctly - - Bundle mutex at UI level: radio selector, self-heal on load, enableAll respects it - Semantic merge - - Standalone file-replacement mods for iteminfo.pabgb go through record-level merge - - Rebuilt pabgh packed into overlay — no more stale index for modded iteminfo.pabgb - UI / UX - - Missing-mod banner consolidated into single useEffect - - Conflict detection includes activeBrowserMods dep (stale data bug fixed) - - Category toggle race fixed: single atomic onSetPreset replaces per-change loop - - ModCard bundle card with variant radio selector - - Preflight + semantic + collision gating chain into doMount

v1.2.0

• beta.6 - Nexus Browser - Browse NexusMods directly inside DMM. Downloads auto-extract and import to your mods folder. - -Back, Forward, Refresh controls with read-only URL bar - -Downloads route to mods folder with auto-import (zip/7z/rar) - -Login persists across sessions (WebView2 cookies) - -Webview resizes with window and log panel changes - Paired Insert/Replace Application - -Mods with interleaved insert+replace operations (like Kliff Wears Damiane) now apply changes in order with cumulative offset tracking instead of split passes. Eliminates pattern scan mismatches on large mods with 200+ changes. - Signature-Based Offset Resolution - -Mods with a "signature" field (hex byte sequence) now find the correct record location regardless of game update offset shifts. Fixes mods like CD Inventory Expander that use short byte patterns. - JSON Auto-Repair (Improved) - -Rewrote the JSON fixer with a line-based approach. Handles missing commas between key-value pairs and trailing commas before closing braces reliably. - Stale Cache Detection - -Fixed a bug where cached pabgb extracts from previous mounts could contain already-patched data, causing double-patching and crashes. - UI Improvements - -Enabled mods now sort to the top of the list automatically - -All mod cards capped at 2 lines (author truncated, description truncated) - -Browser toolbar enlarged for readability - -Removed "Create Mod (Coming Soon)" from sidebar - -Error log colors: red for skipped/malformed, orange for warnings - Drag-and-Drop Fix - -Fixed drag-and-drop broken by multi-webview feature flag. Now uses webview events instead of window -events.

v1.2.0

• beta.5 - JSON Auto-Repair - DMM now automatically fixes common JSON syntax errors in mod manifests and mod files. Missing commas, trailing commas, and BOM characters are repaired on-the-fly before parsing. Mods with broken manifest.json (like Bigger Silverfang) now mount successfully without users needing to manually edit the file. - The log will show [AUTO-FIX] when a manifest was repaired automatically. - Beta Badge - Titlebar now correctly shows the current beta build number (Beta.5).

v1.2.0

• beta.4 - DMM now supports mods that use named record entries with relative offsets. Instead of hardcoded byte positions, mods can specify "entry": "Item_Active_Potion_DDD" + "rel_offset": 25 and DMM resolves the absolute position by looking up the record in the companion pabgh index. Falls back to absolute offset + pattern scan if the record name isn't found. - Mods like Extended Elixir Effects that use this format now load and mount correctly. - DMM now supports mods that use named record entries with relative offsets. Instead of hardcoded byte positions, mods can specify "entry": "Item_Active_Potion_DDD" + "rel_offset": 25 and DMM resolves the absolute position by looking up the record in the companion pabgh index. Falls back to absolute offset + pattern scan if the record name isn't found. - Mods like Extended Elixir Effects that use this format now load and mount correctly.

v1.2.0

• beta.3 - Encryption Fix — File Replacement Mods - Fixed a critical bug where .app.xml and other non-UI XML files were being incorrectly encrypted with ChaCha20 (flags=0x0032). DMM now checks the original file's flags from the game's PAMT instead of guessing by extension. This fixes mods like Bigger Silverfang and any file replacement mod targeting character/appearance data. - Format 2 Fixes — Insert + PABGH Rebuild - When Format 2 mods use "type": "insert" operations that grow the file, DMM now rebuilds the companion .pabgh index with corrected record offsets. This ensures the game reads the modified data at the right positions. - RAR Archive Import - DMM now imports .rar archives alongside .zip and .7z. Requires 7-Zip installed (uses 7z.exe to extract). - Malformed Manifest Reporting - Mods with broken manifest.json or mod.json (invalid JSON syntax) now show a clear error in the log instead of being silently skipped. - Mount Log File - Every mount now writes a detailed mount_log.txt next to the exe. Contains every file processed, encryption decisions, overlay entries with flags/sizes, pattern scan results, and full timing. - Game Maintenance (Settings) - New card in Settings above Language: - Verify Game Files — sends verify command directly to Steam - Refresh Backups — forces fresh vanilla PAPGT/PATHC backup, clears stale caches, rebuilds vanilla manifest - GitHub + Discord Buttons - Sidebar footer now has GitHub and Discord buttons that open in your default browser. - UI Uniformity - All mod cards (JSON, browser, bundle) now use consistent sizing: 15px titles, 13px details, matching padding and badges - Log panel text bumped to 14px - Status bar text bumped to 13px - Sidebar footer buttons enlarged for readability - Translations Updated - All 36 new i18n keys translated across all 13 supported languages.

v1.2.0

• b.10 - v1.2.0-beta.10: dual-group overlay, DDS pipeline rework, mount correctness fixes - Overlay architecture - - Split into two groups: 0036 for pre-built standalone overlays (bytes copied - verbatim when exactly one standalone mod is active), 0037 for DMM-generated - content. PAMT rebuild is skipped for the single-standalone case so the dir - block layout, fn ordering, and CRCs stay byte-identical to what the mod - author shipped — required for overlay lookup to succeed on some mods. - - Unmount cleans both 0036/ and 0037/. - - PAPGT always rebuilt from the vanilla backup plus CRC updates for replaced - groups. Mod-supplied meta/0.papgt files are ignored to prevent stale CRCs - from older game versions breaking the integrity check. - Core parser fixes - - hashlittle("") now correctly returns 0xDEBA1DCD (was returning 0). This was - causing every overlay entry in the game's root directory to have folder_hash - = 0 instead of 0xDEBA1DCD, so the game's hash lookup silently missed them. - - parse_pabgh supports a 6-byte entry format (u16 key + u32 offset) in - addition to the 8-byte format. Fixes regioninfo.pabgh which uses the - smaller layout. Existing 8-byte paths untouched. - - PABGH rebuild during inserts now detects entry size and writes offsets at - the correct byte position. - DDS pipeline - - Route by mip count, not DX10 fourcc. Multi-mip DDS (>1 mip) goes through - raw passthrough with mip-0..mip-3 sizes in Reserved1. Single-mip DDS gets - inner-LZ4 compression with [lz4, decomp, 0, 0] in Reserved1. Previous - DX10/not-DX10 branch incorrectly handled edge cases (multi-mip DXT5, - single-mip BC7). - - Path resolution: strip ALL leading numeric directory prefixes (not just the - first), then try (a) per-group PAMT lookup, (b) global cross-group filename - index, (c) per-extension + top-dir canonical-directory inference (DDS under - character/ → character/texture/, etc.). Enables mods shipping files under - 0009/32/character/ layouts. - - Added mount_log diagnostic lines per DDS showing mip count and payload mode. - Scanner - - Added `sequencer` to GAME_TOPLEVEL_DIRS for .paseq mods. - - Case 2d nested-variant walk: scanner walks two levels deep to find mods - wrapped in an outer folder (preset packs, etc.). - - read_modinfo falls back to mod.json (with nested "modinfo" wrapper) and - manifest.json when modinfo.json isn't present. - - files// layout now collects overlay files correctly in apply_mods. - Mount engine hardening - - dedup stage builds a vanilla-flags cache once per mount instead of calling - find_file_in_game per file. Mods with hundreds of files (one test case had - 858) previously hung the dedup stage for 8+ minutes;
• now it finishes in - seconds. - - MountLock checks if the PID in an existing lock file is alive via sysinfo;
• dead PID triggers immediate reclaim instead of waiting for the 30-minute - staleness cutoff. - - Async mount commands across the pipeline. MountTracker emits Tauri events - per stage so the UI shows "Stage N of 8: ..." instead of a spinner. - - Atomic config writes, PAZ/PAMT validators reject malformed standalone - overlays at scan/mount. - - Phase 5 XML engine: semantic XML merge/patch with 12 unit tests. - Overlay encryption - - XML files under character/, ui/, gamedata/, object/ are now encrypted - with ChaCha20 when vanilla_flags lookup returns 0 (file is new). Empirical - scan confirmed 100% of vanilla XMLs in these directories are encrypted, so - the game would silently fall back to vanilla for unencrypted overlay XMLs. - Collision detection + preset groups - - detect_intra_mod_collisions scans active mods for patches targeting the - same (game_file, offset). Trivial duplicates (identical original+patched) - are filtered out silently;
• real conflicts surface a pre-mount resolver. - - CollisionResolverModal switched from radio to checkbox — user picks any - subset per collision group. "first only" and "keep all" quick buttons. - - preset_group JSON schema: authors can declare mutually-exclusive patches - in a mod file. Mount-time mutex enforcement auto-picks the winner. - UI polish - - Bundle mutex for nested browser variants (radio selector, self-heal on - load, enableAll respects the mutex). - - Missing-mod banner consolidated into a single useEffect driven by all - active mod sources. - - Conflict detection deps include activeBrowserMods so the banner clears. - - Category toggle race fixed: single atomic onSetPreset call instead of - per-change onTogglePatch loop that read stale config. - - Titlebar bumped to Beta.10.

v1.2.0

• Path-routed smart-merge - Older CDUMM mods (Rings of Power, item-buff packs) target the wrong PAZ group because Crimson Desert reshuffled groups between game versions. The old wholesale-replace path nuked hundreds of unrelated vanilla files (e.g. a mod targeting 0001/ for iteminfo wiped 9582 tree assets because group 0001 is now tree data). DMM now reads the mod's PAMT, looks up where each file actually lives in your current vanilla via path lookup, and surgically appends + redirects only the matching record. Wrong-group mods route to the correct group automatically and never crash the game. - Path-routed smart-merge - Older CDUMM mods (Rings of Power, item-buff packs) target the wrong PAZ group because Crimson Desert reshuffled groups between game versions. The old wholesale-replace path nuked hundreds of unrelated vanilla files (e.g. a mod targeting 0001/ for iteminfo wiped 9582 tree assets because group 0001 is now tree data). DMM now reads the mod's PAMT, looks up where each file actually lives in your current vanilla via path lookup, and surgically appends + redirects only the matching record. Wrong-group mods route to the correct group automatically and never crash the game. - Iteminfo multi-mod merge engine - Most CDUMM-style item mods ship a fully-modified iteminfo.pabgb (6019 records). Mounting two meant the second wiped out the first. DMM now parses each enabled iteminfo mod, diffs it against your current vanilla to find what records that mod actually changed, then merges every mod's changes into one combined iteminfo. Disjoint changes coexist;
• same-record conflicts resolve to the later-mounted mod. Triggers automatically with 2+ iteminfo mods. Full byte-roundtrip preservation across all 6019 records, verified by integration tests. - Also in 1.2.0 (rolled in from the beta cycle): - • Dual-group overlay (0036 standalone / 0037 generated) with byte-perfect PAMT preservation - • Semantic field-level merge engine for .pabgb records - • Save Engine + UI: verify / backup / restore save slots, ChaCha20 + HMAC + LZ4 pipeline - • Steam language auto-detection with in-place _kor.paloc → _eng.paloc remap - • ASI/DLL security scanner - • Monaco-based in-app mod editor - • Nexus Browser inside DMM with auto-import - • Mount preview, mount history, Vanillafy recovery - • Patch collision detection with preset_group schema - • 14-language UI

v1.1.9

• 1.1.9 Update - - DX10/BC7 and DXT5 texture support — all DDS formats now handled correctly with PATHC metadata updates - - Unified mod list — JSON patches and file replacement mods in one drag-and-drop list with shared load order - - XML auto-fix — BOM, CRLF line endings, and XML declaration cleanup applied automatically - - 7z archive import — import mods from .7z archives alongside .zip - - Various bug fixes and backend optimizations

v1.1.8

• v1.1.8 - UI/UX Improvements & Backend Optimizations - What's New - - Multi-language support — 14 languages now available in Settings - - File replacement mod load ordering — drag-and-drop reordering for texture, archive & file mods - - Mod conflict detection — shared file warnings with per-file override picker and smart load order recommendations - - Various UI/UX improvements and visual enhancements - - Various bug fixes and backend optimizations

v1.1.7

• b - v1.1.7b - Settings Path Fix & WEM Raw Injection - What's Fixed - Settings path input no longer creates folders on every keystroke — editing the game or mods path in Settings now only saves when you press Enter or click away from the field - WEM audio files injected raw — matches the game's native uncompressed storage format, fixing potential audio issues with voice replacement mods

v1.1.7

• WEM audio mod support — audio files are now injected directly into base PAZ archives instead of the overlay, fixing crashes with voice/sound replacement mods - - Batched PAZ injection — mods with thousands of files (e.g. 3000 WEM voice files) now inject in a single read/write pass instead of per-file, dramatically improving mount speed - - PAZ replacement CRC fix — full PAZ replacement mods now correctly update PAMT and PAPGT integrity hashes, preventing game crashes on load - - ASI mod cleanup — disabling or uninstalling ASI mods that were already removed from disk no longer errors - - PAMT lookup fix — mods referencing game files with short paths now resolve correctly to deeper archive paths - - UI improvement — non-JSON mods now display at the top of the mod list instead of being hidden below an empty state

v1.1.6

• b - 1.1.6 - - Direct PAZ injection for all mod file types — CSS, HTML, THTML, XML, and DDS textures are now injected directly into game archives - - ChaCha20 encryption — non-DDS mod files are properly encrypted before injection, matching the game's native format - - Improved DDS texture handling with correct split compression and header metadata - - Various bug fixes and backend enhancements - 1.1.6b Hotfixes - - Fixed game file lookup failing for mods referencing pabgb files with short paths (e.g. gamedata/inventory.pabgb) — the resolver now correctly matches files stored at deeper PAMT paths like gamedata/binary__/client/bin/inventory.pabgb - - Improved basename disambiguation when multiple files share the same name across different directories

v1.1.2

• v1.1.2 - - Improved mod merging across all mod formats - - Better cross-format compatibility for mods targeting the same game files - - Improved mod detection for non-standard folder structures - - Mod category toggles for non-exclusive mod groups - - Auto-cleanup for deleted mods - - Various crash fixes and stability improvements - - Improved mount logging

v1.1.0

• b - Record-Level Merge Engine — Save Editor + JSON Mod Coexistence - •Record-level merge engine — uses PABGH record index to merge mods at the item level instead of byte level. Save editor mods and JSON patches coexist on the same file without corruption - •PABGH sequential walk — builds accurate record indices for save editor mods by walking the body in vanilla key order. Eliminates false sub-record matches that caused crashes - •Per-record contextual scan — when a save editor re-serializes a record, JSON patches find the correct field position by searching within the ~800 byte record instead of the entire 4.8MB file - •Multiple standalone overlay support — multiple save editor mods providing the same file are all merged via record-level diffing against vanilla - •Duplicate overlay entry fix — removes ALL entries for a file when record merge produces a new version, preventing the game from seeing multiple copies - •Short pattern safety — 1-2 byte JSON patches verify ±16 bytes of surrounding context before applying, preventing false matches on re-serialized records

v1.0.6

• b - Security Hotfix - •Fixed ZIP Slip vulnerability — malicious ZIP archives can no longer write files outside the mods directory - •Fixed path traversal in backup restore — backup filenames are validated to stay within the game directory - •Added LZ4 decompression bomb protection — files claiming to decompress to over 100MB are rejected - •Enabled Content Security Policy (CSP) — prevents script injection in the app window

v1.0.5

• c - File Replacement Hotfix — Encryption Flag Fix - • Fixed CSS/HTML/XML file replacement mods crashing the game — the 0x0030 flag in the base game means encryption, not file type. Overlay files now correctly use 0x0002 (plain LZ4) which the game loads without decryption

v1.0.5

• b - File Replacement Fixes, PAZ Group Replace & ASI Folder Picker - • Fixed file replacement mods (CSS/HTML/XML) — overlay now uses correct game flags (0x0032 for UI files) so the game actually loads them - • PAZ group replacement — language and localization mods that replace entire PAZ groups (e.g. 0020/) are now fully supported with automatic backup and PAPGT CRC updates - • Custom ASI mod folder — users can now select a custom folder for ASI mods instead of defaulting to bin64 - • Language mod folder — dedicated _language/ folder for folder-based language mods (PAZ group replacements), separate from the main mod library - • Import Language Mod button now accepts folders and ZIP files in addition to JSON - • Enable All / Disable All buttons now include texture, archive & file mods alongside JSON mods - • Auto-refresh now detects version changes in mod manifests, not just folder name changes - • Drag-and-drop now triggers language mod scan after import - • Standalone overlay mods (like Axiom Bracelet) now work correctly alongside other file replacement mods - • DDS texture overlays use correct uncompressed flags matching base game format Version 1 - ASI Pipeline Rework - -Fixed: ASI mods duplicating in list on every scan/unmount cycle - -Fixed: ASI mods being silently deleted from bin64 by aggressive cleanup - -Reworked: ASI mods now use mods folder as source of truth — check to deploy to bin64, uncheck to remove from bin64 - -Reworked: No more .asi.disabled renaming — enable/disable is a clean copy/delete cycle - -Added: Full companion file support — .ini, .cfg, .dll and other config files deploy alongside .asi - -Added: Subfolder ASI mod detection — mods in folders (e.g. mods/MyMod/Plugin.asi + Plugin.ini) are fully supported - -Added: Red warning banner in ASI view — warns users not to place mods directly in bin64 - -Removed: Trash/uninstall button from ASI view — mods are managed through the mods folder only - -Fixed: ASI scan log spam — status message now only appears once on startup and when plugins change - Notes - -If you have existing .asi.disabled files in your bin64 folder from beta.6, they will be cleaned up automatically as you toggle mods - ASI mods installed directly to bin64 outside of DMM will still appear in the list but should be moved to the -mods folder for proper management - Game-State Diagnostic Fix, Mod-Delete Cleanup - • - Game-State check no longer warns "Backup State: state.json exists but could not parse: missing field applied_mods". Root cause: the diagnostic check + interrupted-apply recovery code read backups/state.json into an ApplyState struct that strictly required `applied_mods`, but every actual writer of state.json emits a MountState shape (in-progress tracker — `in_progress`, `started_at`, `stages_completed`, no `applied_mods`). The source of truth for which mods are mounted lives in `mounted.json` as `MountedRecord.active_mods`. ApplyState is now lenient (` [serde(default)]` on every field) so a MountState-shaped state.json parses cleanly as an empty ApplyState. The diagnostic check reads "No mods recorded as mounted in state file" on freshly-mounted machines instead of the parse-error warning. - • - Mod delete now cleans up Nexus wrapper folders. The Nexus auto-unpacker leaves mods at paths like `mods/Customize_Your_HUD-1457-2026-05-10-1778404464/Customize Your HUD/`. Previously `delete_mod` removed the inner `Customize Your HUD/` folder via `remove_dir_all` but left the outer version-tagged wrapper sitting empty in `mods/`. Now after the removal DMM walks parent directories and prunes any that became empty within the mods root — stops the moment it hits a non-empty parent, the mods root, or a permission error. Never deletes `mods/` itself. - • - Fixed a casing-sensitivity build break introduced by the frontend UI polish merge. `Titlebar.tsx` (lowercase b) was the file on disk, but `App.tsx` was importing from `@/components/TitleBar` (capital B). Windows accepts it at runtime;
• strict TSC + case-sensitive CI builds rejected it. Import now matches the on-disk filename. - • - UI Improvements by CiscoStu include: - fix(css): move global reset into @layer base so Tailwind utility classes (py-, px-, gap-, m-) are no longer overridden by the unlayered * { padding: 0 } rule (Tailwind v4 cascade regression) - fix(views): replace h-full with flex-1 min-h-0 on all view roots so content is not clipped when the game-modified banner is visible - fix(modlist): activating a mod no longer jumps it to the top of the list — definitiveLoadOrder position is preserved on toggle;
• new mods append to the end instead of prepending - feat(titlebar): add app logo before title text;
• reduce particle count overhead (remove willChange + boxShadow blur, stable random values) - feat(about): replace DMM text placeholder with real app logo - fix(banner): border-radius + full border on GameModifiedBanner - fix(layout): hide LogPanel on settings and about views - fix(modlist): reduce inner horizontal padding (header px-8→px-3, scroll container pl-8 pr-10 → pl-3 pr-3) - fix(about,compatibility): add missing pb padding to scroll columns