WinEQ v1.35 Released

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WinEQ v1.35 Released

Post by Lax » Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:25 pm

This update to WinEQ solves some crash issues and various annoyances, and introduces some important new features. You do not need to re-download WinEQ if you currently have WinEQ 1.31. WinEQ has had the ability to patch itself since version 1.31. In fact, chances are if you had version 1.31 you were updated to v1.35 before reading this announcement. Here is the list of changes

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1.35
- Added locale selection per profile.  Also attempted to solve an issue with non-English keyboards
  not responding in WinEQ sessions.  Please post WinEQ.log if you have issues with your locale
- Fixed Toggle Memory Indicator hotkey
- Added menu item to tray program to open WinEQ.log in notepad.  This will help those who are not
  very Windows literate in giving us information to troubleshoot their problem
- WinEQ no longer creates or deletes nosound.txt.  Instead, it makes EQ *think* the file is
  there or not, depending on your sound preference set per profile
- WinEQ now forces EQ to use a separate eqlsPlayerData.ini file per profile.  These files are
  eqlsPlayerData.WinEQProfile*.ini where * is a number designated by WinEQ.  This means you
  should no longer have to retype your login name, select your server, etc. if you always use
  the same account on any given profile
- WinEQ should display memory over 2GB correctly in the memory indicators
- WinEQ no longer allows screen ratio distortion.  The screen ratio will always be calculated
  from the EverQuest resolution, and applied to the desired screen height to calculate the correct
  width for your screen mode.  This applies to tiny mode, normal mode, and picture-in-picture.  
  Tiled, quarter, and full screen modes always use your windows display ratio, regardless of 
  EverQuest's display ratio.  Additionally, when dragging the edge of the window to select a new
  size, the window will only resize in increments of 16 height (or 8, depending on your EQ
  resolution) to reduce the effects of blurry text with custom heights -- you can still set any
  height manually through the preferences or ini file.
  ** This should correct any blurriness issues.  HOWEVER, be aware that any time the window is 
  scaled to a custom size, text will probably not be crisp!
- Corrected issues caused by color depth differences in Windows and EQ
- Corrected issues caused by EQ resolution being higher than Windows resolution
- Attempted to correct issue where the Memory Indicator is blurry on some systems.  May have solved
  this issue as well as the issue where the Memory Indicator causes a framerate penalty
- WinEQ now allows usage of command line parameters to automatically start EQ with specified profiles.
  WinEQ processes each parameter separated by spaces.  For multiple-word parameters, place quotes
  around the entire parameter.  There are 4 flags, being patch, nopatch, test, and live.  These flags
  tell WinEQ that the parameters following the flag should either 1) run the patcher, 2) not run the
  patcher (default), 3) run on test server, 4) run on live servers (default).  Any parameter that is
  not a flag is expected to be a profile name.  You may start any number of profiles automatically
  with this system.  It does not matter if the WinEQ tray program is running or not, so you may use
  a desktop shortcut per profile if you wish to do so.  If the tray program is NOT already running,
  and a WinEQ update is available, the WinEQ tray program will update and start without loading 
  your new sessions.
  
  Examples:
  Start WinEQ with the default profile, do not patch
   WinEQ.exe "WinEQ Default Profile"
  Start WinEQ with the default profile, do patch
   WinEQ.exe patch "WinEQ Default Profile"
  Start WinEQ with the default profile on test server, do patch:
   WinEQ.exe patch test "WinEQ Default Profile" 
  Start WinEQ with 4 different profiles, all on live servers, do not patch any of them
   WinEQ.exe "WinEQ Default Profile" "Primary 1" "Primary 2" "Primary 3" 
  Start WinEQ with 5 different profiles... 
  Default: Live and no patch
  Primary 1: Live and patch
  Primary 2: Test and patch
  Primary 3: Test and no patch
  Primary 4: Live and no patch
   WinEQ.exe "WinEQ Default Profile" patch "Primary 1" test "Primary 2" nopatch "Primary 3" live "Primary 4"

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