Changelog - Githubissues

Changes in v3.8 - 10k:

Creating symlinks using the game name to the game id logs now, makes finding the log much easier
Improved Vortex installation by avoiding a possible install loop
Clearing logs of previous launches can now be configured
Cleaner logging initialization
Vortex version bump to 1.3.22
Cleaned up PATH no longer hardcoded, but trimming 'steam-runtime' parts instead
Added a requester for starting Vortex. On timeout (default 2 seconds) Vortex is cancelled. (especially useful for VR games with enabled Vortex, as you only want to start Vortex when you can see it). When the timeout is set to 0 the requester is skipped and Vortex is started as usual.
Creating symlinks using the game name to the game id game configs now, makes finding the game config file much easier
Added automatic rsync backup of steamuser files (so mostly savegames and configs) when proton games was closed
Added storing of game metadata, divided into (sharable) generic and custom configs
Added commandline function for backing the steamuser files for one or all installed proton games
10k lines of code :)

Changes in v3.9 - Hard Boiled:

Added parsing of global and per-game exclude files for the Backup (both also available in the Editor Dialog)
Search game config files under pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser and offer them for editing including separate message in the guis (fixes #179)
List of available Proton versions is also created on a dry standalone launch now
Added Proton and stl logs to the Editor Dialog
Added option to generate/update basic game metadata for all games via command line via 'meta' or 'menu' argument
Added a basic Settings Selection Menu - might expand later (#181)
Updated Depth3D to match name change
Game window name autodetection with storing into metadata for further use
Refactor determining the game window with major overhaul of the whole SBS-VR initialization (#183)
Reimplemented game window name picking via Tray Icon function
Selected Files in the Editor Dialog can now be hidden from the Editor Dialog
Removed helpers creating tweak headers
Game metadata is shown in the Settings menu now
Sponsoring was added to the project

Changes in v4.0 - Four Play:

Changed the default Editor-URL to PCGW
Fixed Steam Cloud compatibility with SteamTinkerLaunch used as Steam Compatibility Tool (#185)
Added automatic x64dbg debugger support (#186)
Added automatic change into the custom program directory and back
Added optional Download Requester with Progressbar/Wget Gui (currently) used for Downloading
- Custom Proton
- Cheat Engine
- Vortex Mod Manager
- Wine Support
- X64dbg
Replaced multiple basenames with the bash expansion counterpart
Two new options in the Editor Dialog:
- Open the directory with the first selected file in the system file manager (using xdg-open)
- Delete the selected files (with confirmation requester)
Removed WMP10 url and download and other Giana related changes (#187)
Added dxvk log path configuration
Removed 'found logfile' text from all requesters
Improved refactored Side-by-Side-VR initialization
Added Option to also use the 'Winedebug Settings' field for Proton Logs
Added Option to automatically clean the '/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Temp/' on game exit
Added Option to automatically create or remove a 'steam_appid.txt' file in the game directory (#184)
Added support for AstrayFX shaders
Added Option to Add Non-Steam Games to Steam via command line and gui (#190)
Multiple Vortex improvements:
- Replaced fix version in config with a function which automatically uses the latest version
- Above function can also be configured to use the latest pre-release instead of the latest stable release (#191)
- tested several games with the pre-release v1.4.2 succesfully
- Writing NexusID into the generic game meta-data now
- Improved symlinks of relevant directories from game WINEPREFIX into Vortex WINEPREFIX
- Added minimal basic support for Vortex beta extensions
- Added Vortex Gui, where Vortex can be en-/disabled for every installed and supported game with one click
- Added a Vortex Gui showing all Symlinks in the Vortex WINEPREFIX
- The ask Vortex Dialog now also has the option to only start Vortex without starting the game
- removed the "quickstart" Vortex mode
r/SteamTinkerLaunch and Discord are back
Gamemode and GameScope can now be enabled together (#188, #171)
Added SteamGridDB support with multiple configuration options
Added workaround for yad-9.0 bug (#196)

Changes in 6.8 - Blood:

Thanks to @podiki for initially migrating the Steam Tinker Launch ReadMe into a Wiki (fixes 176)
removed yad 9.0 hotfix, fix was shipped with 9.1 (fixes #196)
Added CheatEngine md5sum check and notifier for those who can't read logs or create useful bugreports - DL url still 404 - see #200
Added option to automatically create a GameTitle symlink from a Proton WINEPREFIX for easier finding (fixes #201)
Added inital support for the 32bit container Conty (fixes #202)
Added Auto-Update for Conty and improved its download function
Added Playtime counter in seconds - might be used for further functions later
Added optional Playtime Logging per game
Last Played info in Main and Settings window
Window sizes are now saved per game by default - using gui.conf as template (fixes #204)
Custom scripts with bat suffix are started with proton now
Added option to directly restart the game with different settings when the playtime was too short (CrashGuess)
removed DOS:2 tweak (fixed in Proton 6.3)
Systemwide Yad installation no longer mandatory - Added easy to use option to use AppImage or Conty instead
Added initial advanced Steam First Time Setup Integration (fixes #209)
The SteamGameID and the Game Title can be found by command line with the counterpart as argument
Fixed Launch of Origin Urls (#fixes #211)
Added Setup support for installers from the gamedir - f.e. Origin (see #210)
The compdata and the Game Dir can be found by command line providing either SteamGameID or Game Title
Added option to just open a wineconsole instead of the game - option also as Steam Category
Restructured configs for the Gui Resolutions - see Gui Window Size (fixes #213)
Removed the dotnet warn requester for the recently closed winehq bug 49897
fixed SteamGridDB Download before starting the game and start the download in the background
Removed self-maintaining function
Added some editable gamescope options as dropdown menu
The Crash Guess Requester now has the option to open a customizable Help-Url in the browser
the CrashGuess Requester is skipped now, when stl started a game outside Steam (caused fork based false triggers)
Re-Create Compdata and Wineprefix (including First Time Setup) for the game on the fly easily
The original 'First Time Setup' can be replaced by an own custom or complemented by an own additional one
Custom 'First Time Setup' scripts can be created with a few clicks (as replacement or as addition installfile) and installed immediately
Automatically change the Game Screen Resolution before game starts and switch back to the previous resolution when it ends
fix regression for SteamAppID being '0' from Steam (non-steam games)
return back to previous menu when creating a First Run Setup file from extra buttons menu
Execute startscript before custom command
Disabled CheatEngine 7.2 download (404) and added Cheat Engine upstream Info in the wiki (closes #200)
fixed saving the question and wget requester resolution
Added Helper-Url for Editor Dialog, CrashGuess (fixes #215)
The default path for the custom exe file requester is now the gamedir if custom exe is empty
Added complete Polish translation and English fixes thanks to @Faalagorn
Opened discussion board on the project page
Replaced submenus with buttons directly in the main menu (part of #217, #222)
Added ReShade Steam Category
Moved all bundled tweaks into the separate steamtinkerlaunch-tweaks repo (part of #217)
Removed Lutris and Protonfixes tweak import and added autoimported tweaks to steamtinkerlaunch-tweaks (part of #217)
Added option to Pause-Unpause steamwebhelper processes on game start and continue when game exists (fixes #219)
Help-Url selection can be also opened via button and commandline
Added CRT Royale ReShade Shader-Management support
Wine Debug Options can now be configured in a Gui (fixes #223)
Favorites selection menu is sorted alphabetically now (part of #217)
major rewrite of window resolution handling (per resolution: global template, local template, per game, per window) (part of #217)
Category sort order for all menus can now be changed via drag&drop menu (part of #217)
Winetricks packages for silent install can now easily be selected from a builtin menu (part of #217)
improved Vortex installation and its wine/proton handling
Steam First Run Setup packages can now be installed directly on the fly
One Time Run - Option to run a custom program (with selected proton) 'once' directly (fixes #221)
Added GameScope Settings Gui (fixes #220)
Added ProtonDB-Rating - Short form (Rating Trend) in Wait Requester and Main Menu, additional info (Confidence, Score, Total Votes, Rating Trend, Best Rating) is a tooltip on the Help-Url Extra Button (fixes #224)
Added option to select a specific proton version for direct on the fly package installation using Winetricks (fixes #226 and helps dotnet install problem f.e. in #216)
Added extra Vortex Settings Gui and extra Vortex Install Gui
removed line-based column calculation (-> 'bc' no longer required) in favor of customizable Gui-Columns
removed Global Menu split
Added support for downloading custom tar.xz Proton Archives and added a tarbomb check to support newer proton_tkg packages
Fixed Side by Side VR for Custom Programs (Trine 1-3 tweaks do work again as expected in Stereo3D)
Huge Rewrite of the current Wiki
Added support for Custom Wine packages by Kron4ek
Removed support for custom lutris wine packages (might be re-added later)
multiple fixes and improvements (part of #217)
outsourced the Kill Switch function to a /dev/shm/stl/KillSwitch script which can be called from anywhere (yay, a StreamDeck Proton-Kill-Switch)
fixed a Vortex stages bug
Standalone-Proton: easily start any exe using a custom proton in its own compdata and WINEPREFIX without steam
Download-Custom-Proton Command Line now has an option to download the latest custom Proton version: The command line stl dcp l will download and extract the lastest available custom Proton and integrate it into the list of available proton version in Steam Tinker Launch
Screen resolution is detected now for the 2nd monitor on a dual-head setup, when the mouse position is there

Changes since 6.8 - Break break:

Finding installed games is now based on found appmanifest files instead of "installed" steam category
Fixed several Game-Launcher problems, mostly caused by using the "installed" steam category
Fixed a recently introduced possible yad misconfiguration reported in #239
Removed option "recommend proton"
Added a One Time Proton function in the Main Menu
Minimalistic re-implemenation of Tweaks support
Every occurrence of 'compdata' was replaced with 'compatdata' - make sure to update your VORTEXCOMPDATA accordingly if you already installed Vortex
Added option to disable the Virtual Desktop mode again, when it was enabled before via stl
The default resolution for windows without a configured resolution is now 75% of the current screen resolution (untested, feel free to submit test results, improvements, suggestions)
Added Compatdata Redirect which allows to map the compdata dir to the used Proton version either per game or globally
Added Wiki F1-Hotkey function for almost every stl window
Added option to open the Wiki via Command Line and Extra Button
Added tempfile auto-cleanup on version change
Updated 32bit d3dcompiler_47.dll url
Change ReShade WINEDLLOVERRIDES to add to variable
Improved Shader Repositories and added a configuration gui
Added option to use a custom fallback picture, including option to download a github avatar - see Game Pictures
Added initial support for extracting data from Appinfo
Added support for finding/managing/converting Game Icons
Added support for (auto-)creating Game-Desktop-Files
Added initial option to Symlink SteamUser directory per game or globally
Added initially multiple options to restore the SteamUser directory from the Backup Support
Added options to symlink or restore the steamuser directory when redirecting the compatdata dir

Changes in 6.13 - Good day!:

Removed wmp10 support
Added IGCSInjector support (fixes #264)
Added UniversalUE4Unlocker dll support (fixes #265)
**Added option to 'inject' (starting delayed) any Custom Program after the game exe was started, including optional waitingtime'
fixed resolution detection for virtual displays (fixes #258)
improved resolution detection by no longer depending on the mode names (suggested in #258)
Added 1 for the start- and 0 for the stop script as argument 1 in the Start-Stop-Scripts (fixes #267)
Added per game option to [Block Internet](https://github.com/frostworx/steamtinkerlaunch/wiki/Block Internet) (fixes #257)
Updated polish translation by Faalagorn (merged #262)
Added initial very basic Steam Deck support ("some Steam Deck (1280x800) resolution templates added") :)
Added silent execution of 'reaper' commands recently introduced by steam (see #269)
Improved and stabilized Steam First Time Setup and its package creation
Vortex installation uses own Steam First Time Setup set now (fixes #273)
Rewrote all functions using the steam iscriptevaluator.exe as its syntax changed (fixes #270)
Added initial VR injection support for compatible UE4 games - might expand depending on feedback(#266)
vkBasalt support reduced to its own enable variable
Added more gamescope Frame Limiter options (closes #220)
Added initial ProtonGE/Wine FidelityFX SuperResolution (FSR) support (#275)
Added initial OpenVR-FSR FidelityFX SuperResolution (FSR) support (#275)
Added Configuration Difference - a menu which shows only the differences between the current game and default config (fixes #274)
several fixes

Changes in "6.15 - Double vacc'd!"

added automatic download for OpenVR-FSR
using newly introduced libraryfolders.vdf now to find additional SteamLibrary directories (fixes #287)
no longer wait for proton to finish when using Proton GE or TKG, but directly for the wineserver it started
major rewrite of checking, separating and configuring the start mode
added option to automatically Fix outdated Symlinks (fixes #289)
added option to automatically Unsymlink Proton files (fixes #290)
updated the function and the wiki of the Proton Kill-Switch
skip OneTime Proton for the current session, if Proton version updated
removed usage of an external program for Appinfo, by using an own implementation now (fixes #292)

Changes in master

added Depressurizer support (fixes #293)
added option to easily delete the compatdata on game launch, so Steam recreates an updated fresh one (fixes #295)
replaced writelog stdout with one closing note pointing to the logfile
improved parsing used steampaths by sourcing an initial autogenerated temp file
fixed a regression where the list of the available proton versions possibly has been created too often
enhanced Appinfo parsing - extracting, storing and reusing now full binary data file per game
getting the SteamAppID for all owned games (offline!) is now possible
better SteamUserID detection
simplified several init routines
added PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI checkbox
extract lots of data from Appinfo into own Metadata
added support for the debugger 'Dependencies' (fixes #283)
simplified and improved internal (re-)initialization of proton variables
hardcoded read-only Game-Command-Line-Arguments coming from steam/the game can now be modified
minor proton version bumps are auto-fixed in both the game- and the template config
added metacritic and game manual to the Help-Url menu if provided by Appinfo/Metadata
added metacritic score and oslist to the Help-Url tooltip
improved regedit Registry implementation
xdg-open Game Files easily via menu
added Download Custom Proton options for latest proton-tkg
added initial manual Steamworks-Shared installer (fixes #303 )
added Mod-Organizer 2 2 support
added MangoHud configuration options (fixes #307)
added automatic support for Luxtorpeda (Runtime)

moved the Changelog into the wiki: Changelog

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