Shagg88/COGBox 0.2.1

COGBox 0.2.1

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COGBox 0.2.1

Extract over your current COGBox folder (close COGBox first), or use the launcher's updater.

Fixed

• Gears of War 2 mouse look (Title Update 6) now uses the game's own mouse aiming, like Gears 3 and Judgment. It no longer falls back to the right stick.
• Camera shake Off now works in Gears 2 with Title Update 6. The update carried its own camera setting that put the roadie run shake back on.
• In-game menu (Back + Start) no longer pauses the game or controls the game's menu behind it.
• FPS counters (NVIDIA overlay, RTSS) now match the game's real frame rate. Before, the fps bar and the shader note made them read your monitor's refresh rate instead (#18, #23).
• Audio crash (#19): if your audio device won't open, the game falls back to DirectSound, then runs silent, instead of crashing.
• Steam Deck / Proton (#15): the launcher uses Vulkan under Proton, where DirectX 12 doesn't start yet.
• Steam Deck problem reports are saved in COGBox's reports folder, which opens for you. Proton hid the old desktop location.

Changed

• WASD and the arrow keys both move you. The mouse turns the camera.
• Render resolution lists 1080p in size order.
• The PLAY button in settings says why it's greyed out when you hover it.
• FSR, DLSS and XeSS are marked highly experimental. SMAA is the tested option.
• The frame-rate tooltip explains the V-Sync cap.

Thanks

Thanks to everyone who sent logs and reports, and to Flippage (gow3-recomp) and Santiago Quiroz Upegui (gears-of-war-2-pc-port) for the mouse input research.

As always: you need your own copy of the games. No game files are included.