System Center and Command Palette
Ascendara includes a command palette for quick navigation and a System Center for diagnostics, storage, and recovery. None of these tools change how Ascendara stores your games.
Command Palette
Press Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on macOS) anywhere in Ascendara to open the command palette. Type to search across:
- Game Index: Games you can download
- Library: Your installed games
- Settings: Every setting, so you can jump straight to it
- Commands: Ascendara actions
Ctrl+F opens the same search focused on the page you're on: your games in the Library, settings on the Settings page, and everything elsewhere. Use the arrow keys to move, Enter to select, and Esc to close.
Commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| Open System Center | Opens the System Center. |
| Run health check | Opens the Health tab. |
| Open Storage Manager | Opens the Storage tab. |
| Open Recovery tools | Opens the Recovery tab. |
| Create Settings Recovery Point | Saves a snapshot of your current settings. |
| Restore Latest Settings Recovery Point | Restores the newest snapshot and reloads Ascendara. |
| Rollback to Previous Ascendara Version | Reinstalls the previous official release (Windows, Live branch only). |
| Manage Game Profiles | Opens Game Profiles. |
| Open Smart Collections | Opens Smart Collections. |
| Enter Big Picture Mode | Switches to Big Picture Mode. |
| Refresh Local Index | Opens Your Game Index. |
| Open Settings | Opens Settings. |
| Reload interface | Reloads the interface without changing your library or settings. |
System Center
Open the System Center from the command palette with Open System Center. It has three tabs.
Health
Checks your current configuration without changing it:
- Settings: Whether Ascendara can read its configuration.
- Game directory: Whether a download directory is set, whether Ascendara can write to it, and how much space is free.
- Game Index: Whether your local index or external source is available.
- Ascendara services: Whether the Monitor, API, CDN, LFS, and R2 endpoints are reachable. Local features keep working when some services are down.
- Optional tools: Which optional tools (sidecars) are installed.
- Windows game dependencies: Which game dependencies are installed (Windows).
- UMU Launcher: Whether UMU-Launcher is installed (Linux).
- SteamCMD: Whether SteamCMD is installed for the Workshop Downloader.
Each check that needs attention has a button to fix or configure it.
Storage
Shows the space used by games, free space, and total capacity for each configured download location. Select Manage folders to change your download locations.
Recovery
- Safe UI Mode: Reduces animations, transitions, and transparency effects. Use it if the interface renders incorrectly or is slow.
- Reload interface: Reloads the interface without changing your library or settings.
- Clear browser data: Clears Ascendara's Chromium cache, cookies, LocalStorage, and IndexedDB. You may be signed out. Your games and settings are not deleted.
- Settings recovery points: Snapshots of your settings, stored outside browser storage. Create one manually at any time. Ascendara also creates one automatically before installing an update and before a rollback. Restoring a point keeps settings that were added by newer versions.
- Version rollback: On Windows builds from the Live branch, Ascendara can reinstall the previous official GitHub release. It creates a settings recovery point first, downloads the official installer, and closes.
- Developer diagnostics: Opens DevTools for support and development builds.
Other Support Tools
- Server status: The dot in the navigation bar shows whether Ascendara's servers are working. Click it for details on each service.
- Upload Logs: If the support team gives you a 6-digit support code, enter it in Settings to upload your logs. The logs include download and game-handler activity, your download directories and file paths, and your Windows username. They're deleted after your support case is resolved.
- Report Issue: Right-click anywhere in Ascendara and select Report Issue.