Program: TweakCoH
Latest Version: 2.1.0.0
Date: 03/08/2007
Copyright: (c) 2004-2007 by Todd D. Perlmutter, all rights reserved

2.1.0.0 (03/08/2007)

- Fixed issue with reading in bloom value properly

- Vista compatible

- Added "Fonts" tab. This tab allows for overriding of game client fonts. The system is extensible via XML.

2.0.0.0 (12/05/2005)

- Sliders are now not shown directly in the GUI, but instead popup on a left click using Combo/Slider pairs, allowing the user to edit them. This saves a lot of GUI real estate

- Changed warning messages slightly

- Added a Low button that will allow the user to set the lowest sensible settings for all the values on the current page

- Renamed Misc page to Sound/Controls

- On Display Page:

a) Combined Fullscreen and Windowed Radio into a single Fullscreen check

b) Added a Maximized check that is available when Fullscreen is unchecked, this will force the client window to be maximized to the display space

c) Removed Desktop Bits per Pixel

d) Refresh Rate is now selectable in Fullscreen mode. All possible monitor refresh rates are available. Note that in windowed mode (when Fullscreen is not checked) you must use MS Windows Display settings to adjust the Refresh Rate as a window will pick up the desktop Refresh Rate.

e) Adjusting the Refresh Rate will now update the possible selections for Screen/UI Resolution both on the Display Page, and on the Demos Page

f) Addded 3D Resolution Scaling Combo/Slider, and display of scaled X/Y values

- On Graphics1 Page:

a) Removed Gamma (moved to Graphics2)

b) Added Character Texture Quality Combo/Slider

c) Added World Texture Quality Combo/Slider (formerly Texture Quality, moved from Graphics2)

d) Added Very High to World Texture Quality

e) Changed Character Detail and World Detail to Combo/Sliders

f) Added checkbox to turn Depth of Field (DOF) on/off

g) Added Depth of Field (DOF) Amount Combo/Slider

h) Added Blook Effects combobox with None, Regular, and High as choices

i) Added Bloom Amount Combo/Slider

j) Added Shader Quality combobox with Low, Medium, and High as choices

k) Added checkbox to turn on/off Particle Physics

l) Changed Max Particle Count and Max Particle Fill to Combo/Sliders

m) Added checkbox to turn Lightmaps on/off

n) Added Water Effects combobox with None, Low Quality, and High Quality as choices

- On Graphics2 Page:

a) Added Gamma (Combo/Slider - moved from Graphics1)

b) Removed Texture Quality (moved to Graphics1)

c) Added Vertical Sync checkbox

d) Added Full Scene Antialiasing (FSAA) combo, will provide proper choices to match GPU

e) Adjust Anisotropic Filtering combo so it will provide proper choices to match GPU

- On Sound/Controls Page:

a) Added 3D Sound checkbox

b) Renamed Enable Joystick to Joystick Input (to match CoH GUI)

c) Changed Sound Effects Volume to Sound FX Volume (to match CoH GUI)

d) Changed Sound FX Volume and Music Volume to Combo/Sliders

e) Changed Music Volume Default to 60% (to match change in CoH GUI)

- On Diagnostics Page:

a) Small tweak to speed up timeout on lookup failure (noticed because mapserver is no longer always registered with DNS)

- On Demos Page:

a) Changed Fullscreen/Windowed Radios to a single Fullscreen Checkbox (to match Display Tab)

b) As mentioned above, changing Refresh Rate on the Display Page will affect possible Resolution Choices on this page

1.8.0.0 (10/05/2005)

- Split graphics settings into two pages, Graphics1 and Graphics2

- Added Anisotropic Filtering setting to the Graphics2 page (default 4x)

- Added Texture Crispness setting to the Graphics2 page (defaut Smooth)

- Added warning about mixing Crispness and Anisotropic Filtering

- Added UK, FR, and DE hostname/port pairs to the Servers pulldown on the Diagnostics page

- Now display IP Address and Port pair next to the hostname in the Servers pulldown

- Sped up startup and time switching between installations (CoH vs CoHTest) time by delaying population of the Servers pulldown on the Diagnostics page until after the Diagnostics page is selected. If the Diagnostics page is set while switching between installations then teh Servers pulldown will immediately reload.

1.7.0.0 (06/23/2005)

- Added About (Help) button that will bring up the About dialog, F1 will also bring up the About dialog

- Changed "In Game How To" from a tab to a button that brings up a window with the same information as before. This button is found at the top of the GUI

- Changed "Demo How To" from tab to a button named "How To Record & Use" that brings up a window with the same information as before. This button is found on the "Demos" tab

- Added a "Diagnostics" tab

- Moved "Servers" combo from the "Basic" tab to the "Diagnostics" tab

- Added "Last Transfer Rate" to the "Diagnostics" tab

- Added "Reverse DNS" lookup to the "Diagnostics" tab, the Reverse DNS lookup is for the currently selected server in the "Servers" combo

- Added "Server Tests" ("PathPing", "Traceroute", "Connect", and "View") to the "Diagnostics" tab which will allow you to test your connection to the currently selected server in the "Servers" combo

- Added "System Info" buttons the "Diagnostics" tab that allow you to bring up "IP Configuration", "Netstat", and "DxDiag" information in a separate window

- Added "DNS Client Tools" which allow you to control the "DNS Client" ("Dnscache") service on your system, including enabling/disabling, starting/stopping, and displaying/flushing your DNS cache

- Added "Eula Web Page" to the "Basic" tab

- Changed "Launcher Web Page" and "Eula Web Page" from buttons to combo boxes that will list core web pages, as well as registry set web pages (including localized versions). All known versions will be listed in the respective combos and can be selected and then displayed in the default browser using the corresponding "View" button

- Added "Suppress Extra Player FX" to the "Graphics" page

- Slight layout changes to most tabs

- Progress dialog during initialization

1.6.0.1 (03/03/2005)

- Small fix for bad command line parameters being passed for demodump and demodumptga during demo playback

1.6.0.0 (03/03/2005)

- Adjusted upper and lower limits of several settings to match in game changes

- URLs clicked will now launch default browser rather than just Internet Explorer

- On "Basic" tab added: "Installer Language"

- On "Basic" tab renamed "Auth Server IP" to "Servers"

- "Servers" is a pulldown containing the name resolved Auth Server (different for live and test), and cohupdate.coh.com

- "ping" and "tracert" buttons will now ping and tracert to the server selected in the "Servers" pulldown

- Renamed "Sound" tab to "Misc"

- On "Misc" tab added: "Sound Playback". Can be set to "Performance" or "Compatibility"

- On "Misc" tab added: "Enable Joystick" checkbox

- On "Misc" tab added: "Reverse Mouse Buttons" checkbox

- Added "Demo How To" tab and moved demorecord directions to this tab

- On "Demo" tab added: "Display Mode" can be set to "Fullscreen" or "Windowed"

- On "Demo" tab added: "Display Resolution" can be set to a fixed or custom display resolution (not all resolutions are guaranteed to work, so choose wisely)

- On "Demo" tab added: "Frames Per Second" (defaults to 30 fps which is video standard fps)

- On "Demo" tab added: "Disable Text" allows the user to turn off text messages during demo playback

- On "Demo" tab added: "Dump to Files" can be set to JPG (JPEG) or TGA (Targa) for getting demo screendumps

- On "Demo" tab added: "Set File Association" uses all demo settings (except for "Dump to Files") to create a file association in Windows Explorer. This will allow a user to be able to double click a demo file in Windows Explorer and have it automatically play

1.5.0.0 (08/13/2004)

- Added support for training room (CohTest) options. Changed via pulldown.

- On "Basic" tab added: "Start Menu Folder" and "Patch Info Web Page"

- On "Basic" tab changed: "MOTD Web Page" to "Launcher Web Page"

- On "Graphics" tab added: "Geometry Buffers On" and "Texture Quality"

- Added a "Demo" tab which can be used to playback demos found in client_demos folder for current selection (Coh vs. CohTest). If client_demos folder will allow user to create.

- Added a "Defaults" button which allows the user to set a Tab's values to default settings.

- Added a "Reset" button which allows the user to return a Tab's values to their last set values (either from startup or Apply).

1.1.0.0 (05/03/2004)

- Added "In Game How To"

1.0.0.0 (03/27/2004)

- Initial Release