Minor update 158022 has been released!
Update Type: Monthly Update. Changes: https://www.ee2.eu/patch/changes/#158022
- Fixed an issue where UP15_GameHelper.dll could determine a wrong window handle as the main game window, if a window with the same name (e.g. "Empire Earth II" Windows Explorer folder) was open at the game start time. It could prevent the taskbar icon flashing or audio playback (taunts) system to work correctly.
- Improved reliability of the "Exclusive Content Downloader" feature.
- Option "Enable Anti-Aliasing in DirectX 9" is no longer enabled by default (fresh UP1.5 installation only).
- The status of option "AntiAliasing in DirectX 9" will be automatically changed after this update, in order to prevent this option from being enabled on Intel HD GPUs where I detected a huge performance degradation. The auto-status-change will persist until the next manual configuration change in UP1.5 Settings.
- "TranslateTextsSourceFile" improvement: Added the full UP1.5 texts database translation for the Spanish language. Thanks to player "Genrox" (Yoshua).
- Fixed an issue where on some language versions (e.g. Spanish), the frame rate (FPS) information (hotkey CTRL+ALT+F) was not displaying the actual number of FPS, because of too long translation text.
- Fixed an issue where game cheats did not work on the Spanish version of the game, because they were unnecessarily translated by people who worked on it back then in ~2005.
- Experimentally improved the alert siren system. Warehouses will no longer have the Anti-Aircraft RPS and won't take reduced damage from some units (bug present since ver. 1.5.0). The non-military Building RPS have been modified to allow attacking aircraft units (it should not matter as hopefully all economic buildings have the attack ability disabled). There is a risk that this fix will cause some other problems in the game, that's why we will be observing how it works and in the worst case revert it in the next update.
* This change does not fix a bug where Warehouses are treated as "Immobile Defense" buildings and are affected by the Custom Game Pace settings.
* WARNING: This update will make previously recorded game playbacks incompatible. They will hang / stop due to incorrect synchronization. Game saves should not be affected.
If you have got UP1.5.5+, you can update by clicking:
empireearth2://FunctionMinorVersionInstall