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Server.War2.ru / Re: [Release] Warcraft II Widescreen / High resolution patch

« on: September 12, 2024, 10:38:16 AM »

Is this already part of the main downloaded installer or do I need to download and add this separately?

It's not included yet, you will have to download it separately

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Randomly Lag

« on: September 12, 2024, 10:36:40 AM »

Why do you use a VPN?

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Server.War2.ru / Re: [Release] Warcraft 2 Download for mac (macOS War2Combat)

« on: September 12, 2024, 10:26:46 AM »

Created a forum account just to say thank you @fois this macOS release is amazing! I wasn't able to play for many years because I switched to macOS. Now I can play again and it works better than Windows 10 install did 7 or 8 years ago. I love how it minimizes while in chat and fullscreens when in game but I can also do the keyboard shortcut to open Spotlight which unfocuses the mouse cursor then I can change my song on Spotify on the other screen etc.

Nice! Glad to hear it's working well for you! And yes, I tried a bit more modern setup here with borderless mode for easier task switching. On the windows install we couldn't do that, too many would complain about it because they don't like changes

BTW, I just updated the first post with some additional info about the macOS download (there are some useful hotkeys)

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Mods & Development / Re: Plugin package

« on: August 27, 2024, 05:14:24 AM »

All plugins have been rebuilt to lower the hardware requirements (they should all work now on a i486 CPU)

MMBlack
- Fixed a bug in the Black2Pink patch detection

HardwareCursor
- fixed hardware cursor auto resize on newer cnc-ddraw versions
- Can now hide the cursor the same way the original game did (e.g. on mission briefing or cutscenes)
- Removed animated cursors

lobby_map [NEW]
Made by lambchops, updated by me and zelya

- Fixed a bug/crash that could disable the map preview image
- Added new .ini setting to set custom coordinates for the map preview image
- Added new .ini setting to set custom colors/palette entries
- Does now detect the HardwareCursor plugin and disables the fake cursor that is drawn on top of the map preview image

Download: https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/Warcraft-II-Plugins/releases/latest/download/war2-plugins.zip

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Server.War2.ru / Re: [Release] Warcraft II Widescreen / High resolution patch

« on: August 13, 2024, 12:38:12 AM »

@Alex1891 You can use any plugin you want with the widescreen patch, but you have to get the lambchops plugin loader AKA "LC.DLL". You can find it in the first post inside of the "lobby_map.zip"

Or here the direct link to the file:

https://forum.war2.ru/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6461.0;attach=4520


I'll add support for the saveloadFixByMistral on next update though, that way it will work without lc.dll as well

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Server.War2.ru / Re: [Release] Warcraft 2 Download for mac (macOS War2Combat)

« on: July 31, 2024, 07:40:32 PM »

Ah, that'S strange. Normally such permissions errors only happen when you copy the .app around. That's why it was wrapped in a  .pkg file to avoid such problems

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Server.War2.ru / Re: [Release] Warcraft 2 Download for mac (macOS War2Combat)

« on: July 29, 2024, 10:37:34 PM »

Installed the latest macOS version of the game. The game doesn't start. Nothing is happening when I launch it.

What version of macOS do you have? You need at least Catalina (10.15) for it to work

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Mods & Development / Re: Updated lobby_map plugin

« on: July 05, 2024, 04:00:57 PM »

I'll have to test it, in-game on our server it does look different now. There are like 4-5 different layouts, not sure if it's possible to have it working with all of them

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Server.War2.ru / Re: am i banned?

« on: June 29, 2024, 05:37:10 PM »

first 2 entries are https://warcraft2.online/ (this is blocked by comcast)

last 2 entries are en.war2.ru (this is blocked in some countries like ukraine because of the war)


Both point to the same servers, they're just different domains

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Server.War2.ru / Re: am i banned?

« on: June 29, 2024, 04:09:27 PM »

Is your internet provider comcast? They've blocked the new domain, so the first two entries will not work anymore. But the "... Mirror" and "... B/Mirr" should still work

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Mods & Development / Re: Mouse /cursor sticking with certain resolutions

« on: April 11, 2024, 01:21:11 AM »

Just to make it clear, it does happen while scrolling towards the right and the bottom? But not when scrolling to the top or left?

Are you maybe running the game in a virtual machine? All virtual machines I've tested had the same issue.

Can you do a test? When it happens, press CTRL+TAB to unlock your cursor from the game and then just click once to lock it again. Does that fix the problem?

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Server.War2.ru / Re: [Release] Warcraft II Widescreen / High resolution patch

« on: April 11, 2024, 01:18:14 AM »

Very nice mockup! Not sure yet if like it, it's a bit over the top TBH... I guess it would look better on a higher resolution like 1920x1080 but for 1280x704 it's just too big?

Player names are cool, should be easy to patch in. I'll give it a try soon

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Server.War2.ru / Re: [Release] Warcraft II Widescreen / High resolution patch

« on: April 07, 2024, 12:34:37 AM »

Thanks @fois!

Great work

I edited my own chat background, thought the one included was a bit too pixelated and dark. I attach it if anyone playing with 1280x704.

Nice! Here's also the original artwork https://pixeldrain.com/u/UJcGWBzy
Maybe that helps in case you want to play around with it some more

Would be nice if you had a bigger mini map at higher resolutions. I can help with the graphics if it is something you want to develop, fois. It would be a great improvement, because the mini map is a bit too small on high resolutions.
I can also make the lobby graphics for wide screen if you need.

Anyways thanks

That's probably going to be a lot of work, I guess we would have to switch the minimap from 128x128 to 256x256 to make that happen... But that would mean the entire sidebar has to be redone (would probably take weeks to complete!)

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Server.War2.ru / Re: [Release] Warcraft II Widescreen / High resolution patch

« on: March 21, 2024, 04:44:12 PM »

New Widescreen / High resolution patch released!
https://www.moddb.com/downloads/warcraft-ii-widescreen



Changelog

- Added support for High Resolution background images - Currently included: Splash screen, Main menu and Chat lobbies

- Game folder is now portable - New default settings: Recent Maps=Garden Of War, Speed=Even Faster, Subtitles=On

- Does now ensure that the 3 main gateways are always in the list (In case you somehow broke your list)

- Added iron man ladder patches (Resources, Speed, Threshold) from War2Patcher

- Can now detect wine (Linux/macOS/Android..) and automatically adds the needed dll overrides

- Added credits patch by lesnik - Displays all the credits that are written in the TBL in multiple screens



Special thanks to Kipp and danny for the help with the high resolution backgrounds! And also thanks to Jinn for creating the main menu background image!


Note:
If your lobby_map plugin isn't working anymore then re-download it from the first post (Some old versions don't work anymore)

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Server.War2.ru / Re: [Release] Warcraft II Widescreen / High resolution patch

« on: March 03, 2024, 06:44:03 PM »

Update:

Can now run the game from the Program Files folder (no more admin rights required)
Fixed a bug in the crash logger
Creates a DC for drawing that can used by plugins (CALL 0x004010D3 to get the HDC)


Also updated the first post with a full feature list