COGBox 0.2.0
Fixes
- Black screen on Windows 10 with DirectX 12 (#9) - the ports now bring their own DirectX 12 runtime
- If the graphics can't start, a message says why instead of a black screen
- Gears 3 crash with AMD FSR (#6) - fixed, and if FSR ever fails again that game switches to SMAA and tells you
- Judgment start-up crash (#1) - Title Update 4 is required for now, and COGBox tells you so
- Steam Deck / Linux: games greyed out after unzipping (#3, #7) - COGBox detects a flattened unzip and says how to fix it
- Steam Deck / Linux: "Error initializing network layer" (#11) - should be fixed, please report if you still see it
- Mouse look (#2) - real mouse look: the mouse now turns the camera through the games' own PC mouse controls, with no stick dead zone, speed cap or drift, in all three games. Mouse sensitivity goes from 0.05 to 2 (0.5 to start; lower for a high-DPI mouse)
- Camera shake (roadie run) Less / Off now work (#12)
New
- COGBox in 11 languages, with a language prompt on first start (Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean)
- Game language setting for each game - every language the US and European releases have (#4)
- DLC support - add DLC packages from your console on a game's About tab, or drag a package (or its folder) onto the window
- Mod loader - add a mod's .zip on a game's About tab, turn mods on and off, set their order
- 21:9 ultrawide for Judgment (all three games now have it)
- "1080p" render resolution - 720p upscaled and sharpened, for weaker graphics cards
- Keyboard keys can be changed on the Controls tab
- Button hints follow what you used last (controller or keyboard and mouse)
- In-game menu in the Gears style; the game ignores your input while it's open
- COGBox comes back to the front when a game closes
- Desktop shortcuts for COGBox and each game
- Popups recommending each game's title update (with "Don't show this again")
Thanks
- The native mouse look method comes from the open-source gow3-recomp (Flippage) and gow2-recomp (Santiago Quiroz Upegui) projects
Updating
- Use the UPDATE TO 0.2.0 button in COGBox, or unzip over your old folder (keep the folders). Your games, saves and settings are kept.