v17.8-dev7

• Draw particle effects and decals only when they are visible by camera frustum - by: @postm1
• Fix resetting FOV with FOV override option after any dialog ends - by: @postm1
• Optimize GPU bandwidth by disabling depth writes for water rendering after z-prepass
• Add new option "Draw World Section Intersections" that will draw every world chunk that intersect with our world draw distance
• Rewrite whole Bink Player to avoid incompatibility with SystemPack fixbink option that can crash the game

v17.8-dev6

• Avoid depending on DepthPitch for buffers
• Fix inventory memory leak
• Make shadow transition smoother
• Code Cleanup
• Increase maximum world draw distance
• Fix duplicate rendering alpha mesh vobs

v17.8-dev5

• Fix line drawing(fix flickering and z-position
• SpacerNET & Check visual can be shown - by: @postm1
• Update packages.config - by: @lucifer602288
• Load rain particle textures at launch. Reduces stutter when rain starts a lot. - by: @kirides
• Optimize rain texture array loading
• Generate dynamic shadows data in non-blocking manner to avoid huge lag after loading game
• Fix attached surfaces reference counting
• Show actual graphic card GD3D11 is running on instead of "DirectX11" in options
• Make stackwalker show actual Windows version
• Exclude particle effects lighting from dynamic shadows rendering to avoid some performance issues due to bugged lights
• Add new patch "Fix screen hung due to DX7 api invalidating our swapchain"
• Remove programmatically "incompatible with DX11" message in "Shadows of the past" modification
• Make it impossible to set resolution smaller than 800x600

v17.8-dev4

-Make it possible for mouse cursor to leave to another monitor when GD3D11 settings are visible - by: @kirides
-Disable tesselation from build as it keeps to crash graphic drivers and make impossible to save zenresources from advanced menu
-Fix getting thread id from main thread
-Remove spheremap normals encoding as it make some horrible visual glitches
-Make it possible to render scene without normalmaps to avoid artifacts from using standard normalmap
-Fix potential problems with some drawcalls
-Implement raining time calculations with atmospheric scattering enabled
-Make zFILE_VDFS zengine class to be able to operate on pointers that are allocated above 2GB memory virtual address on older system packs

v17.8-dev3

-Fix drawing helper vobs in SpacerNET - by: @postm1
-Fix mouse in SpacerNET - by: @postm1
-Fix dynamic shadows in indoor locations like sewers
-Fix corrupted savegame thumbnails
-Fix crash when loading corrupted setting files
-Improve display resolutions detection

v17.8-dev2-fix2

-Fix GD3DX7 Z-buffer destruction possible crash

v17.8-dev2-fix1

-Don't issue new occlusion query when old still haven't finished
-Fix DXVK crashing at device creation

v17.8-dev2

-Fix occlusion culling dangling pointer crash
-Fix possible crash at GothicAPI::OnVisualDeleted
-Optimize a little file reads

v17.7-dev34

-Remove harmful patch for G1
-Add rendering particle models
-Fix rendering particles in general
-Fix rendering quad marks
-Fix drawing loading screen in mods like The Chronicles of Myrtana

v17.7-dev33

-Update Assimp to 5.1.2 - by: @lucifer602288
-Disable culling for UI drawing(LeGo script packet doesn't follow CW winding order and any Sprite it tries to draw doesn't pass the test)
-Add option to reduce light intensity for scene where are many lights that can make scene to be overexposed(e.g. old camp in Othello Mod)
-Add some quantization to skeletal meshes to reduce bandwidth
-Revert temporarily back to bind pose normals for skeletal meshes since bone accurate normals can result in some weird glitches on some modifications
-Fix mouse cursor visibility with Union Mouse Wrapper in G1
-Force showing mouse cursor in settings