Fixes:

• Adjust hold parameters for spells and other abilities so that animations synchronize better
• Fix so that feedback about faltering network connection displays correctly (unack messages or failing to send)
• Increase priority of network message processing, so messages get into sub-systems quicker
• Adjust file progress information so it updates counter properly
• Further changes to deal with the reported crazy window aspect size
• If player is following something that is killed, make sure to stop following. Monster can respawn close by and player will go running.

• Catch problem with texture allocation and prevent crash
• Further changes to deal with the reported crazy window aspect size
• Remove option to disable loading screen - screen drops fast now and lack of loading screen leads to issues because of improper setup
• Crash fix if quest data is slow to be sent from server and quest window is opened
• Fix for machine sound emitters - should now hear sounds when walking up close in all situations
• Fix for saving world cache after manual delete of world cache folder (will save now)
• Rewrite sound manager - does cool things like cache sounds, recover from slow disk load, and predictive pre-loading. Lasers too.
• Rewrite file stream loader - was trying to flush when doing reads which caused crashes sometimes
• Crash fix for loading UI elements
• Fix footsteps fading away from player based on distance
• Fix chat window not accepting chat / say if the chat window started as a tell window, and then cycled chat channel status
• Obscure crash fixes for UI listview / windows
• Crash fix for color selector if rapid clicking at window close
• Fixes for loading window dropping at appropriate time / good time
• Increase timeout for warning message about network activity
• Fixes for makeMap
• Improve when the loading screen drops - don’t wait for all characters to finish loading.
• Improve loading screen message ordering so when possible, are more orderly list.
• If “Show Weapons/Tools Only When Using” is checked, then show tools / play sounds when gathering.

Features:

• New pref environmentSystemEffects so that sky / fog can be disabled. environmentSystem should almost always be enabled.
• Pre-cache UI sounds
• Biped Emote/Sound Pack