Wurm client release notes

This is a shameless, unofficial copy of the Wurm client release notes from the forum's City hall section.

The section headings are the date the client was updated; YYMMDD. Please note that this page was not created by Code Club AB, so it is not an official document.

Release notes by year:

2011 - 2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006

3.0.1 (2011-05-24)

Some bugs with LWJGL were fixed and there are a lot of new great special effects from Haradur.

Known bugs:

• OpenAL: Excessive echo effect on 64-bit systems (only?).
• Mouse bindings: only middle mouse button (mouse2) bind actually works.
• Pressing Alt or F10 key on Windows stop rendering.

Changes since 3.0

• Bugfix: Windowed resizable mode freezes.
• Bugfix: "Resize" cursor not turning back to normal.
• Bugfix: Arrow orientation.
• Scorn of Libila effect. (Haradur)
• Smite Effect. (Haradur)
• Light corona on lamps (Haradur)
• Drain Health Effect (Haradur)
• Rebirth Effect (Haradur)
• Cure Serious Effect (Haradur)
• Cure Light Effect (Haradur)
• Cure Medium Effect (Haradur)
• Heal Effect (Haradur)
• Fix flame and lighting issues.
• Added PRAY key binding.
• Add support for candle flames.
• Change amount of available tool belt slots to one per 10 QL.

3.0.0 (2011-04-26)

After a rather long development cycle due to the switch to LWJGL, there's a new client with exciting new features.

Due to recent server code advancements making a release necessary, not all bugs could be fixed in time. Known issues:

• Windowed resizable mode is known to cause freezes - do not use it in critical situations.
• OpenAL: Excessive echo effect in combination with EAX.
• Mouse bindings: only middle mouse button (mouse2) bind actually works.

Most important changes since 2.7.5g: (see the client development thread for full details)

• Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements.
• Direct LWJGL is now the only renderer, replacing JOGL and indirect LWJGL.
• Upgrade to LWJGL 2.6.
• Added 'resize' console command to resize the window.
• New window icons.
• Support for binding mouse buttons (apart from LMB and RMB).
• Use pbuffers for offscreen rendering if FBO is not available. This makes it possible to use terrain and reflection textures larger than the window, should you want to.
• Disable Pbuffer support in the compatibility tab if rendering performance with pbuffers is too low.
• BUTCHER and BURY keybinds.
• Add options window for changing options without going via the console.
• "Toggle spacing" option for fight window.
• Option to mark text as read in the chat windows.
• Creatures are now rotating according to terrain slopes.
• Support for visible fence and wall decay.
• Cart wheels are now animated.
• Less smoke in caves.
• The selected tab will now blink on activity if the tab group is minimized.
• Support for loading Collada models.
• Add support for new outline of players who are on your friends list.
• Support for coloring player names in chat name lists (local, village) according to their outline - if they are in your local. This is applied for friends, villagers and allies, and GMs.
• Option to disable caching of decoded sounds - use it if you're really low on memory and rather want to get sounds read from disk and decoded every time they play.
• Options to disable crafting/work, combat, emote and door sounds. Those can also be changed with the ingame settings GUI.
• Display Local list in Combat tab as well if it's moved to the event window.
• At high mining skill, the tooltip shows if cave floors are flat.
• Improved JPEG screenshot quality.
• Added an option to disable fire and smoke.
• Rain turns to snow in winter.
• Spell effects for Fire Pillar, Fungus trap and Ice pillar
• Improved compass and tool belt.
• Fixed music being played in software sound engine even when turned off in settings.
• Added ambient sound for fires.
• Carts now produce sound when dragged or driven.
• Added flying arrows.
• Added keyboard layout setting (in the text tab) to enable non-latin1 input on Windows systems.
• Fixed player footsteps being played while riding.
• Clouds now have an effect on ambient light.

Troubleshooting: Client crashes on startup!

• Make sure you fetch a new jnlp file from the web site: http://www.wurmonline.com/client/wurmclient.jnlp

Low frame rate since the update!

• Try disabling pbuffer support in the compatibility tab.
• Try reducing terrain resolution.

Cyrillic / greek text input does not work anymore!

• Change "Windows only: Keyboard layout" setting in the text tab.

Excessive echo when using OpenAL and a sound card with EAX support!

• Try using software sound. Post your console log in this thread: http://wurmonline.com/forum/index.php?topic=52672