Adopt the Apple client's 2026-07 settings structure so the two desktop
clients read the same way. Category map is now theirs verbatim -- General
(session/app behavior), Display (everything about the picture), Input,
Audio, Controllers, About -- which moves four things: statistics and the
game-library toggle out of Video/About into General, controllers out of
Input into their own category, and the codec/bitrate/HDR/decoder controls
out of the old Windows-only "Video" tab into Display, where Apple keeps
them. Sub-section headers (Resolution / Quality / Decoding / Host output)
mirror their Sections, as do the two "applies from the next session"
footers.
Every field now carries its explanation directly under it instead of only
in a hover tooltip -- the same move Apple made, for the same reason. The
old comment here argued against prose in the card because a paragraph
ABOVE a control reads as its label; that holds, so the caption goes below,
which is what Apple does and what Windows Settings itself does. Wording is
shared verbatim wherever a setting means the same thing on both platforms.
Where behavior differs the text stays Windows-specific -- notably the
forwarded-controller picker, where Apple forwards one pad as player 1 and
this client forwards every controller as its own player.
Two fixes fell out of the sweep: the decoder picker never offered D3D11VA
even though the chain accepts it (and 40030e90 made it Intel's default), and
settings opened on Display rather than the first sidebar item.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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