9 years after the initial two releases! 😲
The main reason for a new version is that I tried to run Warrior Kings Battles on Linux with Wine, once on my current laptop, then on another given to my father, but of course it was not without any issues, and the patch did not work at all! So I spent almost two weeks to fix these issues.
At least now both Warrior Kings and Battles work fine on Wine now, which is good for preserving these games and keep these games playable whenever Windows dies or something.
Changes:
- Fix patch compatibility with Wine.
Previously, when using the patch on Wine, the game would crash at launch. - WKB Fix music freeze issue that was still present on Wine (as there is no Microsoft MPEG codec).
In theory this should also fix the issue on Windows when using a MPEG codec other than Microsoft's one. - The WKB Map editor button is now disabled by default.
It is highly recommended to use the alternative map editor wkbre instead.
See https://github.com/AdrienTD/wkbre or its improved fork https://github.com/kbhau/wkbre
If you still need it, enable it back in "wkuup_settings.txt" with:map_editor_button 1 - The version of the patch is now displayed in the main menu, below the game's version, in green.
- WKB Fix a bug that renders text of message boxes two times. This can help reduce lags in the Campaign province descriptions a little bit.
- WKB UI Performance improvements (experimental)
The patch contains some rewritten parts of UI rendering code to improve the framerate.
This is especially noticeable in places where there is too much text, like the AI general description, Campaign province description, and the Load Game menu.
These improvements are disabled by default (due to bugs with some drivers), and must be enabled manually through "wkuup_settings.txt" by adding this line:ui_performance_improvements 1