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Hey all,
This update adds a number of playlist features like a 'time of day' mode and fixes a few general issues.
Timeline
You can now assign wallpapers to a specific time, change the playlist mode to 'time of day' to get started.
By default, all wallpapers will be mapped equally across the day, but you can drag the start or end of an interval to lock them to a specific time, then an orange bar will appear and show you the time it's locked to.
You can also add the same wallpaper to a playlist multiple times now and specify a custom time interval for the timer as well:
General Playlist Updates
All saved playlists are available from the tray menu now for instant access. They will be applied to all monitors if you have multiple.
If you're using the 'stop' playback option and a playlist, it should now fall back to the previously selected wallpaper instead of always picking a new one every time.
Steam Freeze PSA
Since weeks now, a faulty Steam update causes Steam to freeze when Workshop downloads complete while Wallpaper Engine's browser is open. I am aware of this and so is Valve. Only Valve can fix this. This problem is inside Steam.
Full changelog
Additions
- Added notice about how Steam deletes files after unsub with a delay.
- Added support for custom playlist time.
- Made it possible to freeze playlist and only manually advance it.
- Added saved playlists item to tray menu.
- Added Windows networkthrottlekey to setup because MS won't fix Windows any time soon.
- Added NPOT support to particle shader.
- Added playlist time of day option.
- Made it possible to have the same wallpaper multiple times in a playlist.
Fixes
- Fixed focus pause all not saving.
- Disabled wallpaper drag/drop unless mouse button 1 is used.
- Fixed playlist crashing when it's only containing invalid wallpapers.
- Fixed playlist changing wallpaper after stop was applied.
- Disabled shift/ctrl select on workshop tabs since it's not supported there.
- Disabled playlist update while browser is open so that the time of day playlists don't constantly revert the selected wallpaper.
- Fixed Workshop advertise blink not resetting as soon as it should.
- Fixed saved playlist settings also being modified when changing them live on a monitor.
Misc
- Added Razer Switchblade FPS detection since it's yet another hook that crashes everything.
- Disabled webm Workshop import because people kept uploading expensive videos and we get spammed with complaints about their CPU performance. There is just no hardware acceleration for this available so now it's gone until Google adds that. You can still use them locally of course, just not upload them.
- Improved mdmp crash message information about the countless hooks crashing WE.