The most common version in use today will be what GOG and Steam provide. No CD version, no dateiliste version. Although those are held and used by old farts like myself, I imagine most (if not all) new D3 installations are with those two platforms..

The configuration parser is functional now, and the configuration tool is working. Some testing and cleanup is still needed, and I need to load in the offsets for some other versions, but I hope I can get this mess released this weekend.

These are all the patches that will be in the initial release, but I want to add more later down the line

This sounds excellent! I might even be able to stomach a playthrough of D3 again! Thanks for your work!

Alright, I got borderless window fullscreen in... well, kinda. It was my intention, but Windows is weird and automatically handles the case of creating a window the size of the desktop as a sign you actually want exclusive fullscreen mode, so it's actually exclusive fullscreen mode but the resolution is your desktop resolution... good enough for now, I need to figure out what borderless window games do differently to avoid this. The framebuffer system caused some bugs at first, but I think I squashed them. All of these hacks currently only work with the OpenGL renderer, since it's the only one I know how to service, but it works out nicely.

I've basically completed all the big hacks I want to get into an initial release, so the rest of it is probably going to be things like automatically setting certain command line switches and things like the 32-bit color hack (I keep on neglecting it because my executable came pre-patched with the ancient fan 32-bit hack)

I think bumpmapping is one of those things where it used some sort of GPU extension to do its thing, and I wouldn't be surprised if modern cards don't carry that feature anymore, since any game using bumpmapping from the past two decades would use shaders. One of my dream features ATM is to be able to outright replace the GL renderer with a shader based one, but that's going to take some time.

I am currently investigating making the game not mess with your resolution. My initial solution for this was my windowed mode, but this is a bit lacklustre if you wish to play in fullscreen. Interestingly, the game actually uses borderless windowed mode normally in GL mode, but it also changes your screen resolution... The idea I'm drafting up ATM is to use a render target. Descent 3, so far as I can tell, doesn't use render targets normally, even for things like the HUD camera views, so I can trick the game into thinking a render target is actually the main framebuffer, and then when the game goes to flip buffers, I quickly draw that render target to the main framebuffer and then flip. I'll give that a try today.

Also, regrettably, the sound code is on hold for the moment. While I got 3D sound playing just fine, no crackles and pops, I cannot get streams working for the life of me, I need to reverse engineer a lot more of the LLS system and other parts of the sound system before I can do it. If people aren't interested in music, I can toss in an optional prototype version of the new sound code that will just have the 3D sound but no music. edit: the music not working properly may have been a 1 line typo. Oops.

I want to get something released by next weekend. With my usual reliability and the frustrations of things like the sound system, it may drift some, but there's not too much work. I currently worry that there's too many "downsides" to this patch (ie, movies will still change your resolution if you don't disable them), but a lot of it is stuff that isn't too important so far so I think the benefits will outweigh the negatives for this first release (we've all seen those crappy late-90s FMVs a hundred times at this point...)