v0.8.0

me3 v0.8.0

v0.8.0 comes with support for Dark Souls 3 and the ability to use a different savefile per me3 profile.
As Dark Souls 3 does not come with any anti-cheat software to prevent you from loading into an online session with mods a new start_online option is available in profiles and will be disabled by default.

Windows Installation

Download the me3_installer.exe setup wizard.

Already have me3 installed? Update to the latest version by opening the run prompt (Ctrl + R) and running me3 update.

Linux Installation

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSfL https://github.com/garyttierney/me3/releases/download/v0.8.0/installer.sh | sh

me3 - v0.8.0 - 2025-09-05

🚀 Features

• 1f2f438 (cli) Make --auto-detect optional when launching a profile in #454

• 4c0db4e Parallel recursive override discovery

• 3516037 Allow for changing default savefile name and location for supported games

• a4466e4 More anti-anti-debug features in #452

  Address SteamStubDRM calling NtSetInformationThread with
  ThreadHideFromDebugger on the main thread (and block
  ThreadHideFromDebugger period)

• dde3047 Dark Souls 3 support with dearxan and online play protection

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 94b375f (host) Add missing ANSI filesystem functions in #400

• a423c73 (linux) Support proper compatibility tool lookup in #473

  All valid directories that can contain a compatibilitytool.vdf file are
  now queried for a manifest matching the tool we're interested in.
  Additionally, we also check the actual name contained in the manifest
  instead of relying on the name of the directory.

  Fixes #425, #426

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• 8e16791 (linux) Check all Steam libraries for Proton prefix in #474

  This resolves an issue on Steam Deck where Steam keeps Proton prefixes
  in the main Steam root when the game is located on an SD card.

  Fixes #269

• 7c7c75b (linux) Remap launcher/DLL paths under /usr in #472

  Partially resolves #416

• 44a6859 (linux) Allow existing values in LD_PRELOAD in #471

  Merges any existing paths put in LD_PRELOAD into the value set by me3 to
  allow other external tools like MangoHud and gamemode to run.

  Fixes #456

• 0812fd4 Consistent native and package load order in #484

  Fixes a bug where profiles with multiple packages and natives did not
  have a deterministic load order without using the
  load_before/load_after keys.

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• 05ad74e Crash in DllMain, to be flushed in the crash handler

• 39d7922 Unowned dirs in #417

• 41f6b13 Prepend to Windows PATH instead of append in #396

  A new path entry added by Windows seems to be interfering with PATH
  resolution. Prepend our path to the front of the list until Microsot
  deal with this.

• 76eabf9 Missing nightreign-mods folder in Windows dist in #392

Other

• f02d788 Quote var in #420

  In the unlikely event that NEXT_VERSION contains spaces

• 8d3454e Truncate old versions

  Resulting list will have: prerelease, NEXT_VERSION, and last 4 versions

• 481c774 Insert NEXT_VERSION after prerelease

  .[0:1] means from index 0, length 1
  .[1:] means from index 1 until end

  See https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/operators/slice-array

• 7ff9d7a Safer yq

  Target by id, not index

• 57cb74e Cleanup versions in bug report template

  Keep it simple so we don't need to overengineer the yq command in release.yml.
  Right now it just adds the next version on top.

  Maybe remove old versions at some point (>1 minor version ago)?

🚜 Refactor

• adf7f41 Move disable_arxan to the mod profile in #457

  Introduces a special behavior for disable_arxan, making it required if
  either the mod profile or the command line requires it.

• 4170e30 Override savefile name instead of the full path

• e756aae Target latest stable version with RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP=1

• d7889d1 Find FD4 step function tables in the binary analysis crate in #408

• 009bf6e Split out C++ types in mod-host-types and replace cxx-stl in #424

  Drop cxx-stl and its C dependencies in favor of
  rdvec. Use it to provide a
  generic interface over C++ std::vector and std::string for future
  game support (Dark Souls 3 and earlier games).

  Also split out basic STL types into a separate mod-host-types workspace
  crate.

📚 Documentation

• 15ad781 (cli) Improved command-line help formatting and language in #440

  Edited CLI help for typos, errors, length, language. There is now
  extended --help vs short -h for some options. Option descriptions
  wrap nicely based on terminal width.

• ee1bc36 Update configuration reference

• b62d3e2 Update docs for 0.7.0 in #398

• 0da622c Add linkback to GitHub/bsky in #393