Dateiliste

2010-11-04

• Version 2.25. No, that's not because we can't count. That's because version 2.24 just never became "official". It didn't contain enough noticeable changes to be released.

• Descent 3's MAIN.EXE file has been patched by Alexi to use the 32 bit graphics mode in OpenGL. This solves driver problems on newer graphics cards but could cause issues on very old computers that don't have a graphics adapter that supports the 32 bit mode. We decided to go for it anyway, because it seems to solve more problems than it causes. Most newer graphics cards have better support for the 32 bit mode than they have for the 16 bit one.

• The single-player and co-op mission "Army Of Haloon: The Prototype" is now part of the package.

• Latest version of the Descent 3 dedicated server tool included.

• Leon's new anarchy level Carlito's Way added.

• Atan's new anarchy level Dronsky added.

• Tebo's mods for 30 PPS (packets per second) included. The mods can be found at http://www.vex-clan.de/infos/mods/30ermods. There's also a Linux version, which is of course not included in our Descent 3 installer.

• The installer can now add some exception rules for the Windows firewall. Firewall exceptions are created for the launcher (Descent 3.exe), the main applicaion (MAIN.EXE), Black Pyro Justice (justice.exe), Pyromania, Vortex, D3Edit, the Multi-player Mission Hider, the version switcher, and the dedicated server tool D3Server3.

• When the installation package is started from a removable media, Windows sometimes invokes it twice, or the user clicks on the file additionally. This created two installation windows running at the same time. Now only one instance is started.

• Link title to PD.net changed from "Planet Descent (new)" to "Planet Descent". There's now only one Planetdescent. :)

• Link to the command-line options changed. Several options require further explanation.

• The link to "Getting Started" is now additionally in the web resources folder. We hope that players can find it easier that way

2010-08-20

• Version 2.23.

• Anarchy mission splinter.mn3 removed. The level is full of bugs and cannot even be hosted as an in-game server. The server tool refused it too. The mission file splinter.mn3 will be deleted by the installer if found on the target system.

• Outdated file ONLINERES.txt updated.

• New version of the dedicated server tool D3Server3. With a right-click on a running server, its d3://... link can be copied to the clipboard. By using the Direct IP Launcher a player on the same machine can directly join. (Copy the d3://... link to the clipboard and paste it in the Direct IP Launcher.)

• The package now contains the Descent 3 Version Switcher to switch conveniently between Descent 3 version 1.4 and the unofficial version 1.5.

• Download link in Ron Lester's level station.mn3 (saturn.zip) fixed. It now points to a download location at Dateiliste instead of one with advertisements. I still haven't got an idea what could make someone create a mission called station.mn3 but call the zip file saturn.zip.

• Improved support for Wine on Linux. Although the latest versions of Wine don't freeze Descent 3 anymore when the graphics devices are detected, our installer now checks for the existence of Wine (at least it tries) and provides the correct settings for the game automatically.

• Musictester used a wrong configuration file for finding .osf music files (actually: sound files, although they are music files). Now no configuration file comes with the package, meaning that a new one needs to be created when the software is used.

• The "Getting started" link in the startmenu now points to the appropriate category at Dateiliste. The original link at PD.com doesn't exist anymore and only produces lots of advertisements.

• The previous web resource "Wolf's Den" (PD.com too) hadn't been removed correctly in previous versions. The resource is now deleted correctly from the startmenu.

• Some previously missing readme files for several levels added.

• Level The Catacomb added. The level is more than 10 years old already but must have been overlooked earlier. It was subsequently added to the list of multi-player missions that contain the single-player flag (http://www.dateiliste.com/descent-3/6-descent-3-files-section/29-list-of-descent-3-multi-player-mission-files-without-co-op.html).

• Level Polaris 2000 added. Although the level is quite old too, it had never made it into the Descent 3 installation package. The single-player flag for this level has been removed and an entry in the multi-player level list added. The mission now also contains working download links.

• Shiva's version of Ron Lester's Iceworld added. Download link points to Dateiliste. The level and its accompaning files have been renamed.

• Several additional smaller anarchy type levels are now included in the package.

2010-05-24

• Version 2.22.

• New version of Atan's newbie mod for anarchy-type games.

• Atan's new anarchy level Streetfighter included.

• Broken level made of Retribution level 14 removed.

• Some files "sblogo-*.ogf" from 2002 removed. They were most likely contained in a level's zip archive but shouldn't have been there.

• Interplay's homepage to the web resources added.

• Old installers accidentally created an empty folder, which was not required. 2.22 doesn't contain this folder anymore.

• In previous versions, all game intro movies were missing apart from the ones for Mercenary. These movies are now in the installation package, which subsequently increased the installer's size by several hundred megabytes.

• The package integrity check was broken in the last version of the installer. It is now working again. The integrity check tests the size of each file if they are in the same folder than the installation executable itself.

• References to the dead site Planetdescent.com removed and text for Planetdescent.net changed.

• Some mods extracted mission files into the netgames folder. Mission files belong in the missions folder. The directory netgames only contains the mod files (.d3m). Since the installation package puts a copy of these mission files in the missions folder already, there's no requirement for these files. The installer now removes these files if found in the netgames directory. The files are: alcatraz.mn3, GlassHouseBreakOut.mn3, HalfPipeBreakOut.mn3, and Stigmata.mn3.

• The MFC dynamic link libraries for older versions of the dedicated server tool D3Server 3 have been removed from the package. If found on the target system, the files are not deleted.

• Updated dynamic link library logtext.dll for D3Server3.