Simplode Suite News

2025-11-13 - Released Version 1.1.1.917

• Changed the default hotkeys for volume up and volume down so that they would no longer conflict with some keyboard locales.
• Changed the window tiling default hotkeys, since Windows itself uses those hotkeys now.
• Fixed several cases where hotkey binding would fail.

2025-09-19 - Released Version 1.1.1.910 - Security Update

• Updated the LibreHardwareMonitorLib dependency to remove use of the WinRing0 driver. According to CVE-2020-14979, the driver is vulnerable to privilege escalation attack, meaning that if a user were to download and run malicious software, that software could exploit a running instance of the WinRing0 driver as a method to gain administrator rights without asking the user through a User Account Control prompt.

• Made adjustments to how window opacity and click through state are changed to hopefully make it more reliable in different environments.
• New options are now available for Click Through Overlay and Ghost Window functionality. By default, windows will become temporarily clickable while focused. Once you switch to a different application, click-through functionality will be restored. This allows you to easily make adjustments to your click through overlays without having to toggle them off and on manually. To focus on the unclickable window, you can use the task bar, task ring, task menu, or alt tab. Additionally, you can still select the old functionality of the window never being clickable or make it so that it loses its transparency while its clickable.
• Fixed some issues with window targeting where some invisible windows would become the target of actions. This primarily effected the drag click features of many tools, such as Borderless Fullscreen and Click Through Overlay, where you hold the orb button with the left mouse click and then right click on the desired window. This does not effect focused window targeting, which is when you simply press the orb button and it targets the currently focused window.
• Fixed a bug in Glass Apps that would cause it to perform unnecessary calculations when not enabled.
• Added a content font setting in the style menu. For now, this field will require manually entering the exact name of the font family desired.
• Added more color style options for orb buttons. Some of the color settings do not have live preview enabled, so you may need to open a new flyout window to see your changes.
• Adjusted the behavior of "Flyout Auto Remove Topmost" to activate when the majority of a newly focused window is covered by a Simplode flyout window so that it will not cover the newly focused window. I am still unsure what the best strategy for it should be, so feedback would be nice.
• Added the "Legacy" window flyout option. This will cause all Simplode flyout overlay windows to have their style overridden to that of a standard window with no animations or transparency, resulting in increased application efficiency and a more classic application appearance. The option itself is available under "Customize Style"->"Flyout Mode" and can also be triggered by the new "Legacy" performance preset in the "Welcome" screen.

• Fixed a race condition issue that could cause Chill Boost to crash.
• Updated Chill Boost to improve support for newer processors.
• Changed Chill Boost Efficiency Locker Mode default to Performance. This should be a better default setting for people first trying Chill Boost, as it still improves efficiency of heavy background tasks without negatively impacting foreground performance most of the time. Users who desire greater energy efficiency should still try the Efficiency Optimized mode.
• Adjusted Efficiency Locker to be automatically deactivated when another user is in an interactive session. This effects when Simplode Suite is still running under one user but the interactive session is now operating under another user. In this case, thermal and load limits will remain active. If the other user's session has Chill Boost activated, it will take over power control. This fixes a problem where performance can be unintentionally reduced when switching to another user, but retains full efficiency benefits of the efficiency locker if your PC is in the lock screen.
• Fixed bug in error logging code which can cause the application to become unable to launch.
• Fixed bug that could state desynchronization between separate processes within the application.
• Removed some notifications regarding product registration for Steam users. These messages have been causing confusion, as it was not immediately clear that the registration was optional and left users wondering if their Steam purchase was properly recognized. Steam users should only need to register if they want the ability to reliably run Simplode Suite's tools while Steam is not running.
• Upgraded application to .NET Framework 4.8, which should result in minor performance and efficiency increases throughout the application. This change was required to update dependencies needed for modernizing Chill Boost.

• Included a DPI fix for older operating system versions.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the tool to become unresponsive after a rendering failure.
• Fixed an issue when using the tool to launch other programs, they would not have a working directory causing some programs to fail.
• Made improvements to window detection to make it more reliable and up to date, helping the tiling window manager and other features that target application windows to work more reliably.
• Added "(Language)" to the label for the language selector, in case you change the language and can no longer find the language option.
• Added a webcam settings editor utility in beta.
• Fixed issue when uninstalling the Steam edition of the product with auto start enabled, a useless task scheduler entry would remain post installation.
• For the local documentation generation, fixed the super ring map animations.
• Added video references to the local documentation. The videos are still hosted remotely, but now they can be viewed within the local documentation.