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@Shagg88 Shagg88 released this 26 Oct 18:37
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1.6.1
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Press Update in the launcher, or unzip it over your Athelas folder: your settings, saves and achievements are
kept. Everything in 1.6.0 is in this release too.

Fixes

  • The Return of the King (PC) closed straight after starting on a PC with no Vulkan driver
    (#27), such as a virtual machine. Without Vulkan, the Vulkan renderer (DXVK) ended the game
    instead of letting ROTK Fix fall back. ROTK Fix now checks for a Vulkan graphics device before it loads DXVK and
    uses Windows' own Direct3D 8 without one, with the reason in ROTKFix.log. This also works when rotk.exe is
    started directly.
  • The launcher no longer resets Renderer = native in ROTKFix.ini to dxvk when it loads the PC game's
    settings, so a renderer set by hand is kept.
  • Valar Boons: the first boon was on from the start, with no time limit (a setting left over from testing). Every
    boon now starts off and lasts its own duration when you call it.
  • "Last played" after a game that didn't start: a game that couldn't start no longer shows as played, and
    The Return of the King (PC) is marked played only once it has actually started.

Fixes in all three Xbox ports

From an independent review of the code, each finding checked against the games before it was changed:

  • A rare wrong result in a math instruction (PMADDWD) that The Return of the King and The Fellowship of the
    Ring use: for one combination of values the recompiled code's result was undefined.
  • Copies between two rendered pictures kept at different scales read the source at the wrong scale; they are now
    drawn across at the right size.
  • Safer handling of unusual requests from the game: memory released past its block is refused, a damaged game file
    is turned down with a message instead of being read past its end, a folder listing no longer skips a file when the
    game's buffer is small, the file position is updated safely when two threads share a file, a cancelled background
    task no longer runs, an oversized drawing call is skipped and logged, and nan in settings.toml is ignored.

Thanks to dqunbp for the detailed report on #27, and to the reviewer who went through the code.

Checksums

  • Athelas-1.6.1.zip: 9591c2aacdc7d79a554d93654fc2618a95198d3ff346b5d1c19a34e08d37fe77
  • Athelas-1.6.1-arm64.zip (Windows on ARM): 75dafcf6ea7a091c5591060528ab62480c2e5f6ea3dd4b10d48c1d2cec6fb672
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