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Hey all,
A new update for Wallpaper Engine has just been released, adding a bunch of new features, that improve the whole experience, and fixes for a few bugs. Read on to get a quick overview about what's new:
The browser allows you to filter your installed wallpapers more precisely now:
It also remembers all URLs and local files that you previously opened (of course you can also easily remove these again afterwards!):
A favorite button allows you to instantly fave wallpapers right from the browser and the file size of each file can be seen now as well:
Multi-monitor systems can now pause maximized or fullscreen wallpapers per monitor, which is the new default behavior. You can still go back to the old behavior in the options though:
Recent wallpapers can be instantly switched to from the tray menu instead of having to open the browser:
And web wallpapers can make use of a new property control for combo boxes:
Last but not least the crash handler has been improved to instantly scan for troublesome hooks in the application that are known to crash or corrupt Wallpaper Engine, which some users have suffered from. So if a potential culprit has been found, you might be able to fix the crash instantly instead of having to send me the .mdmp file and waiting for me to check it out, simply by excluding Wallpaper Engine from the hooking application. The web wallpaper process was also not handling crashes at all previously, which has been fixed now. So if your web wallpapers keep turning white, you should get a message and a crash dump now.
Complete changelog:
New Features
- Added various filter options for wallpapers into browser.
- Added per monitor pause option (maximized and fullscreen) to multi-monitor systems and made it the default.
- Made wallpapers unpause while Aero Peek is active.
- Added sort by update date and file size to browser.
- Added file size to wallpaper details in browser.
- Added list of recent wallpapers to tray context menu.
- Persisted all local files and URLs to config.
- Added favorite button to browser.
- Added combo box control to wallpaper properties.
- Added hook detection to crash handler to help the user fixing crashes more quickly.
Fixes
- Fixed audio processing not keeping up with higher framerates.
- Fixed wallpaper config not saving wallpapers of inactive monitors.
- Fixed requestAnimationFrame not keeping up with high framerates.
- Fixed web wallpaper not generating mini dumps when it crashes.
As usual, leave a comment, visit the bugs forum http://steamcommunity.com/app/431960/discussions/1/ or let me know via e-mail ( [email protected] ) if you're having problems or questions!
Cheers,
Kristjan