Test Hotfix 07/11/2024 - Patch Notes and Discussions

[EQ Dev]

July 11, 2024
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*** Quests & Events ***

- Tides of Time, Year of Darkpaw - Oasis of the Jungle - The Heroic Adventure should now be completable.

***UI***

- The maximized desktop window no longer flashes when switching the active window.
- The in-game windows will use existing windowed mode positions and sizes, if any, when the game is launched in fullscreen or maximized windowed modes for the first time.


- The EverQuest Team

 

[Angahran]

July 11, 2024
- The maximized desktop window no longer flashes when switching the active window.

Woohoo!!! No more migraine inducing flashing!

 

[Deloehne]

I don't believe the second line of the UI section is correct. I just loaded 109 rogue "Dipps" whose default UI reset to a more or less random layout. The 'flash on switch' issue does appear resolved, pending further testing.

 

[Cairbrae]

I don't believe the second line of the UI section is correct. I just loaded 109 rogue "Dipps" whose default UI reset to a more or less random layout. The 'flash on switch' issue does appear resolved, pending further testing.

If you previously logged that character onto Test server, since the July 11th update, then it's not the "first time" anymore because its UI .ini file had already been updated.

If you test with a fresh character, whose UI .ini file has not been updated, then the maximized window layout should be reasonable, based on the previously stored windowed mode. This is instead of basing off of default (1280x1024) values.

 

[Captain Video]

I don't understand what's going on here. It is no longer possible for me to launch the client in fullscreen. The server select window forces the client into windowed mode no matter what I do. If I then go back to fullscreen mode, it no longer recognizes by desktop resolution, and I have to go through a multi-step process to get back to my preferred fullscreen resolution, and then restore (frrom backup) my UI layout. This was all working perfectly fine for me prior to the latest patch cycle. Nobody else seems to be complaining about it though. I hate having to go through this every single session, especially since we went through such a tortuous process to get fullscreen support back into the client in the first place.

 

[Ainchoo]

For me the default launch is now in windowed mode. When I try to go full screen my UI is all messed up and there are only 4 low resolution options to choose from. Until they can fix it I am out of game.