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GenTool Documentation
Changelog
Fixes/Improvements 8.9- Fixed randomly wrong timers and dates
Fixes/Improvements 8.8- Reverted FPS limiter changes to avoid the performance issue on Windows 11
New Features 8.7- Added compatibility with Generals and Zero Hour The Ultimate Collection (Steam, EA App)
- Added warning message popup for non-x87 compatible generals executables
- Fixed game version mismatches for various compatible executables
- Fixed missing hashing of scb files for game version hash generations
- Fixed C&C Online login kick by generating random ergc game keys when so required
- Added -showFrameCount command line argument to draw frame counts
Fixes/Improvements 8.7- Fixed severe performance degradation with Steam Overlay (GameOverlayRenderer.dll)
- Fixed crash on application boot with Windows XP 32
- Fixed dysfunctional GenTool Updater in Windows XP
- Fixed theoretically unsafe code with Windows XP
- Fixed minor inaccuracy of FPS counter and FPS limiter
- Fixed incorrect terrain draw distance after changing camera height
- Changed Upload Player ID generation by adding another salt
- Improved game version names for uploaded txt files
- Removed forceful disabling of Origin In Game (IGO32.dll)
- Updater: Improved patch file formats and capabilities
- Updater: Improved the maps patcher for future map releases
- Updater: Removed the replacement of the Zero Hour no-CD game.dat
- Updater: Removed the replacement of the Generals Origin generals.exe
New Features 8.6- Added PNG screenshot option in GenTool Menu
- Added limited feature compatibility for Thyme
Fixes/Improvements 8.6- Fixed crash on game start affecting some users
New Features 8.5- Added auto detection for modifications that require full viewport (Control Bar Pro)
- Added fixes for scroll speed to act consistently in different resolutions, viewports, pitch
Fixes/Improvements 8.5- Reworked GenTool functionality related to accessing BIG Files
New Features 8.4- Added new Upload Mode for Replays and Screenshots
Fixes/Improvements 8.4- Fixed potential MDS false positives with "OverlordGattlingCannon"
- Fixed broken version number in GenTool menu
Fixes/Improvements 8.3- Fixed crash when pressing Shift + Number while playing
- Fixed crash on application boot with Windows XP 32 bit
New Features 8.2- Added alternative brightness settings at +129 to +256
Fixes/Improvements 8.2- Fixed issue with Money Display
- Fixed issue with text in MDS Popup
- Changed SAVE REP, SAVE ALL Upload Mode options to also store censored Replay file on disk
New Features 8.1- Added new User ID generation for Upload Mode
- Added some user hardware information in uploaded *.txt file
- Added fix for game bug that would crash all clients in a multiplayer match
- Added fix for black supply piles in Replay playback
- Added full viewport support with command line argument "-forcefullviewport"
Fixes/Improvements 8.1- Fixed wrong names in Money Display on some maps ("Rain", "Civilian Res")
- Changed GenTool brightness option range to -128 +128
New Features 8.0- Added Replay Controls bar at bottom of the screen in Replay mode
- Added feature to set a Time Pause (JK) in Replay to Fast Forward (F) to
- Added Mod support for player colors in multiplayer.ini that will work with Money Display
- Added censorship of IP addresses for Replay and Text files uploaded with GenTool
Fixes/Improvements 8.0- Fixed a crash on game launch with Zero Hour The First Decade installations
- Fixed an issue where GenTool notification popup would never disappear after game launch
- Fixed an issue where game controls would freeze at match start
- Fixed an issue where Generals would freeze on shutdown
- Fixed an issue where WindowZH.big and Window.big could no longer be patched
- Fixed an issue that would log file names incorrectly in gentool.log file
- Fixed an issue that would generate images for upload after game session was completed
- Fixed an issue that would break Upload Mode when toggling its menu option
- Removed LastReplay.rep functionality in Upload Mode
- Removed the 'You are using a cracked binary' GenTool message
- Added Display (Menu) options 19, 20
- Changed Frame Step (O) replay functionality to no longer turn off Fast Forward (F)
- Changed font type and size of Ticker and Event message(s)
- Changed MDS+ Text to no longer show when GenTool Display (Menu) option is turned OFF
- Changed MDS Popup to display player names with player colors
- Changed MDS Popup to longer show button information
- Refactored replay parsing code
New Features 7.9- Added player rank (*) and experience points (XP) to Money Display
- Enabled Money Display for match observers
- Enabled full access to Camera Height and Camera Pitch feature for match observers
Fixes/Improvements 7.9- Fixed a crash on game shutdown caused by the use of a DirectX 8 to DirectX 9 wrapper
- Fixed an issue that would show Money Display for players sometimes
- Fixed an issue where Camera Height feature could be exploited in LAN matches
- Fixed non-functional ranked maps if game client was started without internet connection
- Removed observer player entries from Money Display
- Removed cnc-online.net popup message when launching the game with GameRanger
- Reworked GenTool key input manager
- Improved Match Timer to show the actual match progress instead of passed time
- Enabled full compatibility with Zero Hour Contra Mod
- Upload Mode: Fixed a directory issue when uploading files
- Upload Mode: Fixed errors 23, 35, 56 at begin of upload session
- Upload Mode: Increased quality of uploaded images
- Upload Mode: Decreased upload session retry wait time from 120 to 60 seconds
- Upload Mode: Removed minimum replay size limit (5 kb) from upload session
- Upload Mode: Improved contents and formatting of replay text information
- Upload Mode: Improved upload session success message to show full upload url
- Updater: Fixed broken patching of Window.big or WindowZH.big for some game installations
- Updater: Removed broken map.ini from [RANK] Australia ZH v1
- Updater: Disabled installations of ReadMe txt files
- Updater: Implemented new *.dat format for generic patch files
New Features 7.8- Added new ranked maps to GenTool updater
- Added custom map list size patching to GenTool updater to list up to 1200 maps
- Added player money display in replay and observer modes
- Added text size toggle on [Numpad +] and [Numpad -] keys
- Added player name and player id information in uploaded replay txt file
Fixes/Improvements 7.8- Fixed tick threading issue that would cause wrong timers
- Changed folder structure in uploaded data to separate online and network matches
- Changed text in GenTool menu
- Improved code in Upload Mode
Fixes/Improvements 7.7- Fixed a crash when GenTool failed to connect to the Internet
- Fixed a crash in Upload Mode when using certain Mods
- Fixed a bug in Upload Mode where replays would be uploaded with wrong dates
Fixes/Improvements 7.6- Fixed a bug where a new team selection would not be selectable for 2 seconds
- Fixed a bug in Upload Mode where replays would be uploaded with wrong dates
- Fixed MDS false positive when an infantry unit captures a stealthed abandoned vehicle
New Features 7.5- Enabled reveal of random colors and start positions with Random Balance
- Enabled extra camera height in singleplayer missions
- Enabled low camera pitch values in singleplayer missions
- CNC Online: Added 2v2 ladder scoreboard and points preview
- Added menu display option to disable ticker/event/ladder displays
- Added support for chain loading other d3d8 files (d3d8x.dll, -proxy custom.dll)
- Added MDS checks for detecting maphack with buildings during replay playback
- Added support for custom camera heights in mods and custom maps (singleplayer, online)
Fixes/Improvements 7.5- Disabled GenTool initialization in WorldBuilder
- Changed scroll speed value steps in GenTool menu
- Changed the ini file validation to accept the modification of a variety of UI related files
- Improved the screenshot feature to allow taking images without limitations (F11 button)
- Improved Anti Cheat
- Improved MDS performance
- Improved internal memory management and performance
- Fixed a bug that caused wrong ticker event times for American time zones (UTC-x)
- Fixed potential crashes
- Refactored major parts of code
New Features 7.4- Added rank support for more custom community maps
Fixes/Improvements 7.4- Slight performance improvement on custom ranked map validation routine
Fixes/Improvements 7.3- Fixed GenTool compatibility bug with Generals German2 version
- Fixed an exploit in LAN
- Added 'CNC Online' match mode to Upload Mode text information
- Updater: Fixed a faulty result message in GenTool Updater
- Refactored minor parts of code
Fixes/Improvements 7.2- Fixed GenTool bug that would crash game on Windows XP
- Fixed Game File Validation incompatibility with Zero Hour ME 2009
- Added 'GameRanger' match mode to Upload Mode text information
New Features 7.1- Added full GameRanger support for Upload Mode, Ticker and GenTool updater
- Added Fault Tolerant Heap to help against CNC Online match freeze
- CNC Online: Added Point Reward Preview for Shatabrick Ladder
- Anti Cheat: Added a Game File Validator that blocks cheat mods
Fixes/Improvements 7.1- Fixed critical crash and performance issue from 'Origin In Game'
- Fixed GenTool crash on game shutdown (when run without compat mode)
- Fixed GenTool crash in 'WorldBuilder'
- Added a warning message in the event that 'Origin In Game' is used
- Improved internal Anti Cheat mechanisms
- Removed the game version mismatch message for 'WorldBuilder'
- Removed obsolete terrain draw modes from Render Mode
- Fixed a bug where the ticker would draw an empty message
- CNC Online: Now disables stats if not all players are on proper gentool version (6.6)
- CNC Online: Fixed a bug where the ladder display could stall the lobby
- Updater: Fixed a code bug in the registry lookup of the Maps Patcher
- Updater: Fixed a bug where the updater would re-download GenTool everytime
- Changed 'upload.log' (Unicode) to 'gentool.log' (ANSI)
- Fixed general flaws in code
- Refactored major parts of code
New Features 7.0- Fixed a series of critical exploits: scud bug, tunnel bug, building bug
- Added a latency presentation as light blue frame count in GenTool HUD
- Updater: Added update package to fix cracked game.dat in Zero Hour
Fixes/Improvements 7.0- Improved the Unofficial Maps tab in statistics enabled game room to remember map selection within current session
- Changed MDS lag tolerance to a minimum of 10 and maximum of 64
- Removed error messages on failed ticker loading
- Added notification on game start to advertise cnc-online.net to GameRanger players
Fixes/Improvements 6.9- CNC Online: Fixed a crash on log in
New Features 6.8- CNC Online: Enabled Relax Maps to be playable with statistics from unofficial map list
- CNC Online: Added shatabrick.com top 10 scoreboard(s) to online experience
Fixes/Improvements 6.8- Fixed a bug where matches were uploaded without date to server
- Refactored GameSpy API to increase lobby performance
- Updater: Added option to cancel installation of third party packages (e.g. Relax Maps)
- Updater: Removed forced RUNASADMIN WINXPSP3 flags
- Updater: Removed Direct Connect Fix for GameRanger users
- Updater: Improved Updater functionality for UAC enabled systems
Fixes/Improvements 6.7- Fixed black screen issue in The First Decade - Generals Zero Hour
New Features 6.6- CNC Online: Added access to Generals Statistics server
- CNC Online: Added exclusive access to Shatabrick.com Generals Ladder
- Updater: Added Generals version mismatch fix for The Ultimate Collection (Origin)
- Updater: Added Relax Maps as downloadable package for Zero Hour users
- Updater: Added direct connect fix for non-English GameRanger users
- Updater & Installer: Added force set of RUNASADMIN WINXPSP3 on generals.exe for Windows Vista and higher
Fixes/Improvements 6.6- Fixed a bug where the resolution text was not printed correctly on uploaded images
- Improved GenTool Updater
New Features 6.5- Added game access to cnc-online.net servers (Revora)
- Added Auto Updater
Fixes/Improvements 6.5- Fixed a crash when launching a Generals Campaign mission
- Fixed cursor lock with dual monitor setup
- Adjusted UI content
Fixes/Improvements 6.4- Fixed potential crash on application shutdown
- Fixed MDS issue where repairing unit on stealthed building caused false positive
- Moved GenTool save folder from C:\GenTool to C:\Users\...\Documents\GenTool
- Removed Upload Mode text when inside match or replay
- Removed version specific Ticker messages
- Changed Upload Mode to work with latest game versions only
- Changed Screenshot folder name from "Shots" to "Images"
- Changed maximum JPG quality setting from 100 to 95
- Changed Lobby FPS to 20 when windowed game is not in foreground
- Reworked game version authentication
Fixes/Improvements 6.3- Fixed Windows 8 Crash (apphelp.dll)
- Fixed Origin crash from Origin Game Overlay (IGO32.dll)
- Fixed upload bug where screenshot was taken twice
- Fixed non-unique upload player ID in folder name
- Fixed some exploits in Upload Mode
- Added fixes to prevent local zoom hack in LAN matches
- Added check for GameRanger to hide GenTool intro screen (-nologo startup parameter)
- Changed GenTool's brightness behavior
- Refactored key management
- Improved memory usage
Fixes/Improvements 6.2- Improved Fix for ScudBug
- Improved time management for Upload Mode and other clock dependent features
- Removed force time update on Windows clock
- Added incompatible version warning to Generals - The Ultimate Collection
- Improved some code
New Features 6.1- Added full support for Generals and Zero Hour from The Ultimate Collection
- Added code fixes for Scud Bug
- Added code fixes for Multiplayer Crash when many units are in movement
Fixes/Improvements 6.1- Fixed potential crash when Player Table was opened
- Fixed broken online nickname warnings
- Fixed broken MDS in Generals
- Changed Player Table layout
- Minor code optimizations
Fixes/Improvements 6.0- Reverted some MDS changes from version 5.9
- Improved MDS techniques
New Features 5.9- Added MDS Profiler/Output
- Added Brightness option to GenTool menu
Fixes/Improvements 5.9- Fixed "GetLogicalProcessorInformation" crash for Windows XP SP2 and lower
- Fixed "unknown" upload directory in CCG upload mode
- Fixed blurry GenTool image on boot up
- Changed Config Save to keep settings accross new versions
- Increased overall MDS performance
- Improved MDS detection accuracy by scanning player actions
- Improved MDS AIState retrieval strategy
- Improved Scrolling behaviour when the Spetating mode or MDS Popup is active
- Improved Event readability by converting UTC to local times
- Improved Event logic
- Refactored/Optimized code for readability and efficiency
Fixes/Improvements 5.8- Fixed major performance issues by improving Single Core and Multi Core CPU techniques
- Fixed missing plane lock warning in CCG MDS
- Fixed missing deletion of left over files from Upload Mode on application quit during active upload
- Added deactivation of scroll while player spectating is enabled in Replay mode
New Features 5.7- Added event scheduler in main menu
Fixes/Improvements 5.7- Fixed possible crash when MDS was used with replays containing non-ASCII player names
- Fixed MDS false positive due lock under fog on buildings
- Fixed MDS false positive due workers clearing mines
- Fixed MDS false positive due angry mobs auto locking units in fog (added warning)
Fixes/Improvements 5.6- Fixed Error 45, Error 13 and similar on game launch/exit
- Fixed MDS false positives due attack-move with high range and similar moves
- Fixed user error with wrong windows clock DST settings by increasing clock adjustment tolerance to 1:05 hours
- Fixed upload.log not being saved to correct location when storage was changed
- Added modding support by allowing custom camera height settings from GameData.ini
- Added popup on game start if game version is not fully supported
- Changed texts
- Changed major parts of code
Fixes/Improvements 5.5- Fixed mismatch bug from previous GenTool version
- Fixed potential crash with replay observer
- Fixed non closing MDS popup when pressing P without player selected
- Minor code changes
New Features 5.4- Fixed multiple game crashes when selecting players in replay mode
- Fixed game crash when leaving replay mode while player places beacon
- Added Fog of War in replay mode to see match through player's eyes
- Added Auto Focus Spectating of observed player (ZH only)
- Added Auto Camera height adjustment in Replay when fog enabled
- Added Maphack Detection System in replay mode
- Added Frame Stepping for Pause in replay mode
- Added automatic Windows Clock adjustment if it is set wrong on game start
Fixes/Improvements 5.4- Fixed rare crash on game start caused by Upload Mode
- Fixed uploading issue when using # in LAN nickname
- Fixed text size issue when using Windows DPI higher than 100%
- Fixed replay match timer inaccuracies when using fast forward
- Fixed minor issue with ControlBar toggle in replay mode
- Fixed minor issue in font class
- Added cracked game.dat to be compatible (ZH only)
- Added version recognition in PlayerTable with older GenTool versions
- Added note about match location in Replay Information text file
- Changed match length time format in Replay Information text file
- Changed storage device options to decrease user mistakes
- Changed lobby ping appearance of non GenTool players
- Changed GenTool menu appearance and colors
- Changed appearance of lobby nickname warnings as popups
- Changed appearance of game timer
- Removed [Pause] key of replay pause but kept [P]
- Reworked major parts of code
Fixes/Improvements 4.7- Fixed crash when files failed uploading
- Fixed missing GenTool root folder creation leading to failing uploads/screenshots
- Fixed storage device not being saved to config
Fixes/Improvements 4.6- Fixed 3 potential crashes
- Fixed several config exploits
- Fixed minor intro screen text issue
- Fixed minor nickname warning message issue
- Fixed window position issue from using left/top windows taskbar
- Added new upload server at www.gentool.net
- Added Upload Mode status to Player Table
- Added frame counter to replay timer
- Added new messages in upload.log in case of upload failures
- Excluded Observers from turning off Random Balance
- Excluded Observers from uploading screenshots
- Changed render mode shader
- Changed minor aspects of menu
- Changed Player Table making it incompatible with older versions incl. Random Balance
- Decreased upload screenshot quality
- Improved upload security
- Improved upload pipeline
- Improved upload status output
- Improved replay save to store broken replays
- Improved ticker system
- Improved major parts of code
- Removed game freeze when quitting game during active upload
- Removed ticker message when using WorldBuilder
Fixes/Improvements 4.2- Fixed possible crash on game launch
- Fixed crash when toggling Camera Rotation in Generals
- Fixed Resolution Lock & Cursor Lock toggle issue on Windows 7
- Fixed Replay Speed & Camera Rotation settings not restored correctly from config file
- Fixed logic issue with Camera Pitch toggle keys
- Fixed minor issues in Screenshot procedure
- Improved performance of 16 Bit screenshot procedure
- Improved Window Position to consider windows taskbar and 2nd monitor
- Improved code
- Renamed default Fps Limit value to "Default"
- Removed Camera Pitch numpad key toggle in lobby
- Removed Camera Pitch toggle when replay is paused
- Added alternative Pause button on P-key
- Added upward limit for Scroll Speed option
New Features 4.1- Added Camera Rotation speed option
- Added Replay Fast Forward speed option
- Added Replay Pause button
- Modified Replay Game Timer to display the real runtime
- Modified Replay Camera Pitch to allow changes down to 16.5
- Added Replay Camera Extra option to increase camera height and draw entire terrain
- Added Replay Render Mode with wireframes and polycounts
- Added more FPS limit options
- Added file size HUD information when taking screenshot
- Removed Game Controls input when opening GenTool menu in game mode
- Added Escape for quit and Return for toggle as alternative GenTool menu buttons
- Added minor visual changes to GenTool menu
Fixes/Improvements 4.1- Fixed crash when launching game with GameRanger
- Fixed missing upload retry upon failed fileserver connection
- Fixed HUD/Ticker overlapping GenTool menu
- Fixed Camera Pitch issues in Replay
- Fixed Camera Pitch issues in Shellmap
- Fixed Map scroll bounding issue upon camera change
- Fixed taking Screenshot in WorldBuilder when window not active
- Reworked GenTool key technology to avoid issues with other programs using GetAsyncKeyState()
- Improved Ticker rendering to avoid warping text during loading times
- Improved GenTool menu code
- General code refactoring
Fixes/Improvements 3.3- Fixed WorldBuilder incompatibility issues
- Added 16-bit Color mode support for screenshots
- Fixed rare gentool menu rendering issue
- Fixed flaw in Player Table to avoid rare false detection
- Fixed "null" string in upload.log
- Improved screenshot messages
- Fixed minor replay file naming issue when observer was involved
- Improved some code
Fixes/Improvements 3.2- Fixed rare upload mode hang
- Increased internet time request from 5 to 10 seconds to help avoiding wrong dates on Fileserver
- Fixed mistake in ID generation code to avoid multiple and duplicate ID's
Fixes/Improvements 3.1- Fixed rare ALT+Tab crash
- Fixed crash from wrong FPS rate
- Fixed broken scroll speed
- Fully reworked widescreen, camera pitch and scroll speed
New Features 3.0- Improved Anti cheat for local maphack detection
- Added GenTool menu (press Insert)
- Added live GenTool detection in GameSpy lobby
- Added player table to see UID, GenTool, etc in GameSpy lobby
- Added random balancing feature
- Unlocked all supported resolutions in options menu
- Added option to forbid resolution changes
- Added warning if GameSpy nickname is bugged or bad
- Added new upload modes to keep/delete local files
- Changed intro layout and added skip button
- Added window mode repositioning after resolution change
- Added more text size options
- Added JPG quality option for F11 shots
- Added log file for upload transactions in GenTool root folder
- Removed unnecessary toggle keys
- Many other tweaks and improvements
Fixes/Improvements 3.0- Fixed memory leak
- Fixed rare crash from upload mode
- Avoid double and duplicate ID's for upload folder
- Removed useless underscore in replay name
- Removed upload retry if connection was not established to file server
- Improved CPU performance of text
- Added library to avoid possible XP incompatibility issue
- Fixed broken F9 menu toggle
- Fixed failing uploads when previous upload session failed
- Fixed camera bug
New Features 2.1- Added full Generals 1.8 support
- Added full The First Decade support
- Added observer chat
- Added configuration save
- Upload Mode: Added RepInfo detection
- Upload Mode: Now attempts to re-upload files to server
- Upload Mode: Exchanged UID from upload name with unique ID
- Upload Mode: Changed replay folders to Game\Month\Day\Player
- Anti Cheat: Shuts down the game when cheat was detected
- Changed camera pitch limit
Fixes/Improvements 2.1- Upload Mode: Added unicode support to solve path problems
- Upload Mode: Bad player name will now be replaced with "player"
- Upload Mode: {0} in player name will now be removed
- Upload Mode: Now uses system drive as storage location
- Upload Mode: Now uses internet time to avoid wrong date on file server
- Improved general performance
- Fixed crash on game shutdown
- Fixed many code issues
New Features 1.8- Added Upload mode (serves as anti cheat)
- Added JPG screenshot (F11)
- Added camera pitching (PgDown/PageUp keys)
- Added scroll speed adjustment (+/- keys)
Fixes/Improvements 1.8- Improved Ticker
- Fixed many minor issues
New Features 1.4- Added widescreen resolution support
- Added toggle for menu Bar in replay mode
Fixes/Improvements 1.4- Fixed issue preventing all text not showing up
- Fixed issue showing ticker with failing content
Initial Release (1.0) Features- Added clock display
- Added match and replay Timer
- Added news ticker
- Added FPS limiter
- Added window positions presets for windowed mode
- Added cursor lock for windowed mode and two monitor setups
