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# 🛠️ WoW Modernization Tool v2.0
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# 🛠️ WoW Modernization Tool v2.1
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This is a major update focused on **easier setup, safer updates, automatic component refreshes and new optional client improvements**.
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This update adds **Discord Rich Presence** and includes several compatibility, maintenance and documentation improvements.
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Existing users do **not** need to reinstall WoW. Select your current game folder, review your options and click **Apply Setup & Tweaks**.
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## 🎮 Discord Rich Presence
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## 🔄 Automatic Updates & Offline Protection
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- Added optional **WowPresence** integration with automatic installation and updates from its GitHub Releases.
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- Preconfigures the **OctoWoW Discord Application ID** while preserving custom IDs and settings.
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- Includes improved zone detection from WowPresence v1.2 and safer handling of standalone/manual WowPresence installations.
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Supported components can now be refreshed directly from their upstream releases when you apply the setup.
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## 🌿 Pink Herbs
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If an online update is unavailable, the tool will keep a valid installed version or use a bundled known-good fallback when available. Existing working files are preserved whenever possible instead of being replaced unnecessarily.
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- Moved **Pink Herbs** safely from `patch-H.mpq` to `patch-V.mpq`.
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- Existing custom `patch-H.mpq` files are protected from accidental replacement or removal.
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## 🎮 Rendering & DXVK
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## 🖥️ Compatibility Fixes
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Renderer selection is now simpler:
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- Fixed elevated **DEP configuration** when the WoW installation path contains spaces.
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- Improved cleanup and migration of older managed files.
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- **VanillaFixes — DirectX 9** *(default)* — uses WoW's native DirectX 9 renderer.
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- **VanillaFixes + DXVK — Vulkan** — translates DirectX 9 to Vulkan and may provide smoother frame pacing on modern systems.
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## 📜 Licensing & Provenance
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The bundled DXVK version is now **2.6.1 x86** with a configuration aligned with VanillaFixes.
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- Added expanded licensing, binary provenance and asset provenance documentation.
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- Improved third-party attribution and project identity information.
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- Updated Credits and source links.
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Switching back to DirectX 9 now safely moves unknown existing D3D9 wrapper files out of the WoW root instead of deleting them.
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## ✅ Updating from v2.0
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## 🧩 New & Updated Plugins
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- **ClassicAPI** — adds newer WoW API functions so compatible modern addons can work on the Vanilla client.
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- **AuctionQueryThrottle** — removes the fixed Auction House query delay for much faster searches.
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- **VanillaMultiMonitorFix** — improves resolution, refresh-rate and monitor detection on multi-monitor setups.
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- **Interact** — adds a modern interaction key for nearby NPCs, objects, gathering nodes and loot.
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- **WorldMarkers 0.7.1** — updated optional world-marker support.
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- **WeirdPerformance 0.7.3** — updated engine/runtime optimizations for client smoothness and reduced overhead.
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## ⚙️ New Client Tweaks
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- **Unlimited AddOn Script Memory** — removes WoW's AddOn memory limit.
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- **Cross-Faction Resurrection Fix** — improves resurrection handling for released cross-faction players.
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- **Custom Glues Patch** — enables custom login and character-selection interface modifications.
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- **Automatically Clear WDB** — clears stale WDB cache data and safely manages the WDB blocker.
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- **SuperWoW conflict prevention** — equivalent vanilla-tweaks patches are automatically skipped when SuperWoW already handles FoV, Sound Channels, Auto-Loot or Background Sound.
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## 🌙 New Visual Mods
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All visual mods are optional and disabled by default.
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- **Bluemoon Patch** — restores the rare blue moon visual effect.
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- **Darker Nights** — makes nighttime environments darker and more atmospheric.
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- **Pretty Night Sky** — replaces the Vanilla night sky with a more detailed starry sky.
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- **Epoch Water** — replaces the original Vanilla water textures.
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- **Fog Pushback** — pushes environmental fog farther away for clearer long-distance visibility.
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- **Pink Herbs** — makes herb nodes bright pink/purple so they are easier to spot.
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## 🔊 New Audio Mods
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All audio mods are optional and disabled by default.
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- **NoErrorSounds** — removes many repetitive spell fizzle/error and interface sounds.
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- **FishPing** — replaces the fishing bite sound with a much easier-to-hear ping.
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- **Warlock Muted Demons** — mutes many repetitive Warlock demon voice lines.
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## 🔐 AutoLogin Security Improvements
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When **AutoLogin + Nampower** are enabled together, Modernization Tool now automatically creates or reuses the Windows user encryption key required by Nampower.
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AutoLogin also enables password encryption by default when encryption is available. Existing user encryption keys are never replaced, and an explicit user choice to disable AutoLogin encryption is preserved.
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## 💾 Installer & Safety Improvements
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- Settings are remembered separately for each WoW installation.
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- Manually added entries and comments in `dlls.txt` are preserved.
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- Downloaded/bundled DLLs are validated before installation.
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- Important replacements are performed transactionally to reduce the risk of partial installs.
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- Existing valid files are kept when an upstream download fails.
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- Large visual mods are not re-downloaded when the installed revision is already current.
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- Legacy Modernization Tool files are cleaned up safely.
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- The selected game folder is validated before changes are made.
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## 🚀 Launcher Improvements
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After installation, **Play Modernized WoW** is created both:
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- in the WoW game folder;
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- on the Windows Desktop.
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Use either shortcut to launch the modernized client.
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## 📦 Notable Bundled / Known-Good Versions
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- VanillaFixes **1.5.3**
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- DXVK **2.6.1 x86**
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- Nampower **4.6.1**
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- ClassicAPI **1.12.7**
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- AuctionQueryThrottle **1.2.0**
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- UnitXP_SP3 **v90**
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- SuperWoW **2.2**
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- VanillaHelpers **1.1.2**
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- WeirdPerformance **0.7.3**
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- WorldMarkers **0.7.1**
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- VanillaMultiMonitorFix **0.2**
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- Interact **1.0.4**
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## ✅ Updating from v1.1
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Download **WoW_Modernization_Tool.exe**, select your existing WoW installation and click **Apply Setup & Tweaks**.
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Download the new executable, select your existing WoW folder and click **Apply Setup & Tweaks**.
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A complete WoW reinstall is not required.
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---
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The detailed change list since **v1.1** is generated automatically by GitHub below.
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The detailed commit history since **v2.0** is available on GitHub.
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