CoD2x - Mod (Windows) 1.4.4.6

Game:

• Administrator rights - more info
  • allowed to run as non-admin to increase security
  • check if user has rights to write into game folder (to prevent writing into Virtual Store folder), showing error dialog if it fail
  • migration of registry virtual store location to fix duplicate settings when running as admin vs non-admin
• Check for too long path that makes the game unable to run
• Check for non-standart characters in path that makes the game unable to work properly
• Fix console not able to be closed when fatal error occured for server
• HWID2: Improved GPU name detection

Code:

• Extracting command line parameters for process restart
• Getting info about compatibility flag and admin elevation
• Disable sending error when in debug mode

Game:

• Fixed bulb icon appearing above players head when player dies and the player was typing
• Fixed drop sound of body of dead player

ℹ️ These changes are server-side, the server needs to be updated in order to activate the changes

Code:

• New debug window
• HWID2 restart fix

• Improved detection of Singleplayer
• Disable prompt for admin rights if running on Wine
• Switched disc info reading for HWID2 to WMI version for fix error on Wine
• Added fallback to read volume serial if model serial is not available when generating HWID2
• New system info string (Windows version, Wine version, Virtual Machine check), sending it to update server

Game:

• Gamma in windowed mode
  • the gamma change works by applying gamma to entire screen
  • you can now play in borderless mode to avoid alt-tab crashes
  • you can switch to windowed/borderless mode by typing /r_fullscreen 0 and /vid_restart
• Cvar r_lodScale made changeable to be able to set maximum model details in distance
  • Each model (character, tree, tank, grass, boxes, ..) has multiple versions with different model detail
  • More far away you are from the object, the less detailed model is rendered
  • You can affect the distance when the model changes via cvar r_lodScale
    • r_lodScale <value>
      • r_lodScale 1 (default) - original LODs
      • r_lodScale 0.5 - better model detail in distance
      • r_lodScale 0 - best model detail in distance
• Improved HWID2 generation
• Downloading screen font size made smaller
• The "RECORDING" text shown during the demo recording was made smaller
• Fixed crash at 0x0054e658 when downloading IWD files from server

Code:

• Detection of version downgrade
• Removed UUID from HWID2, added drive serial, new method for reading drive data
• Removed memory size from HWID2
• Error sending to update server, refactored code for crash sending
• Logger
• Registry check to ensure correct install and to detect change of CoD2x version
• Avoid showing freeze error when game fatal error occurs