MHForever 0.3.0: in-game menu, live video and audio settings

New

• In-game menu. Press Escape (or the controller's guide button) while playing: the game pauses over a blurred picture of where you were, and a full-screen menu opens with tabs for Game, Audio and Video.
• Change video and audio while you play, no restart. Music and sound effects volume, internal resolution (1x to 10x), frame rate (30 to 180 fps), fullscreen and smooth textures.
• Works with the keyboard (arrows, Enter, Esc, Q/E or Tab to change tab), a controller (D-pad or stick, A to select, B to go back, shoulder buttons for tabs) and the mouse (hover, click, drag the sliders, wheel).
• The launcher's resolution setting now goes up to 10x.

Improvements

• The system dialogs (save, load, on-screen keyboard) now share the menu's look.
• The size of the next game's menu is set by what is on it: nothing is stretched, and it fits any window shape.

Notes

• Changes made in the in-game menu apply to the current session; set your usual values in the launcher's Settings.
• Very high resolutions (8x to 10x) need a lot of video memory. If the game slows down or fails, go back to a lower one.
• Windows 64-bit only. Only Freedom Unite (European release) is playable.
• Saves live in Documents\MHForever\saves, so updating never loses them.
• Early software, expect rough edges. Online multiplayer is not available yet.

Download

MHForever-0.3.0-windows-x64.zip: unzip it anywhere you can write to and run MHForever.exe. You need your own copy of the game; the launcher prepares what it needs from your disc image on your PC. The zip contains no game data.

MHForever.exe and mhfu.exe are not digitally signed, so Windows SmartScreen may show "Windows protected your PC": choose "More info" and then "Run anyway".

The code is on GitHub under GPL-3.0-or-later.