WoW 1.12.1 Clients

1. 3.0.02026-07-26
   • Rebuilt on the current Classic base from 2026-07-23. The previous build was from 2026-06-07 and had none of the fixes made since.
   • The starter now reads your monitor resolution before every launch, on Windows and on Linux. Without that the client can cut off the bottom row of the picture, including the Quit button and the version line, when your monitor is larger than the value stored in the config.
   • Removed ReShade. The color grade and the four grade presets are gone with it. Reasons: a wrapper between the game and the graphics card is the most common source of launch problems that are hard to trace, it collides with DXVK on Linux because both want to be called d3d9.dll, and it costs frame rate on weaker machines.
   • Fixed the Terms of Use screen. The previous build shipped with the terms marked as already read, so no player ever saw them.
   • Questie and the Stonetavern addon stay preloaded, same as before.
   • New: a small addon applies the shipped picture preset once per character. Vanilla 1.12 has no menu control for shadows, grass density or the extended view distance, and pressing Okay in Video Options wipes exactly those values. Type /stvideo max to put them back, or /stvideo status to see what is currently set.
2. 2.0.12026-06-07
   • Removed the pfQuest and Bagnon addons. Questie already covers quests, and the extra bag addon was redundant. Lighter, cleaner addon set out of the box.
3. 2.02026-06-06
   • Big update. HD world and water textures baked in: ground, rock, buildings and water at higher resolution. Creatures and characters stay 100% vanilla (no model swaps, at most sharper textures).
   • Grade reworked to a single clean color LUT. Dropped the bloom, sharpen and vibrance passes that muddied the image. Four grades you can flip between in-game with Page Down / Page Up: epic-warm (default), teal-orange, vivid and moody. Pos1 (Home) still toggles the grade off for plain vanilla colors.
   • Questie and Bagnon now preloaded alongside the Stonetavern addon, so there is nothing to install after unzip.
   • Confirmed widescreen FoV and maxed view distance. Clean build, no account data shipped.
4. 1.0.42026-05-30
   • Toned the grade down to just the cinematic color LUT. The bloom, sharpen and vibrance passes were too heavy and washed the scene out. Now it is a clean color pass that stays close to vanilla. Press Pos1 (Home) to toggle it off.
   • Also fixed the ReShade "errors loading some effects" message on launch (a couple of bundled textures were missing).
5. 1.0.22026-05-29
   • Quality-of-life tweaks now baked into the client: widescreen FoV, 64 sound channels (raids sound right), bigger nameplate range, further view + grass distance, more camera zoom, auto-loot (hold Shift for the loot window), Large-Address-Aware (fewer crashes) and a camera-shake fix.
6. 1.0.12026-05-29
   • Fix: the cinematic grade now actually applies on Windows. The client is pinned to Direct3D 9 so the bundled ReShade loads, and the preset path was corrected. The first build shipped with OpenGL forced, which silently disabled ReShade.
   • First-launch EULA and Terms-of-Use prompts stay pre-accepted, so there is no popup on first run.
   • Press Pos1 (Home) in-game to open ReShade and toggle the grade on/off.
7. 1.02026-05-28
   • First Cinematic build. Warm grade tuned against an Alienware QHD sRGB reference monitor.
   • ReShade 6.7.3 with SMAA (clean edges), Bloom (torches, stained glass, sun), LumaSharpen 0.3, Vibrance 0.15, Cinematic LUT at 0.85.
   • Press Pos1 (Home) in-game to disable the grade and see vanilla colors at any time.
   • ReShade splash banner suppressed, so players see only the game.

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1. 1.42026-09-05
   • Your video settings now survive a restart. The starter used to write the monitor resolution and refresh rate into Config.wtf on every launch, which threw away whatever you had picked in the game.
   • No more black screen after switching the window mode. On a scaled Windows desktop the old starter read a resolution no monitor has; in fullscreen that mode cannot be set. The starter now reads the real mode of every attached monitor and only steps in when a stored value cannot work.
   • The refresh rate is read from the display mode itself, not from a driver field that often says 60 or 1.
   • Config.wtf keeps its encoding and line endings. The old starter turned non-ASCII characters into question marks.
   • launch.bat stops with a message when the display step fails instead of starting on a half-written config, and it honours the REALMLIST variable the launcher passes.
   • Multisampling default set to 4x, the value the package notes always intended. 8x was a leftover from the build machine.
2. 1.32026-07-23
   • Built from the same rebuilt Classic base as the plain client, on the original Blizzard WoW.exe.
   • nampower: the client no longer holds a spell back before sending it, which is what made Vanilla casting feel a beat late.
   • UnitXP SP3: range and line of sight are computed the way the server does it, with the matching in-game addon for its settings.
   • Windows needs the Visual C++ 2015 to 2022 x86 runtime for nampower.

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1. 1.82026-09-23
   • The terms shown on first start now match the house rules: several accounts are fine, but only one character at a time out in the world.
   • They also state the minimum age of 16 and link the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy on the website.
2. 1.72026-09-23
   • Field of view back to the original 90 degrees. The widescreen value made the world look wider than it ever was in 2006.
   • The launcher now installs and patches this client. Later updates download only what changed instead of the whole game again.
   • Linux: START.sh fetches a pinned GE-Proton and runs the game with it. No Steam needed, and a system update cannot break it.
   • Windows: launch.bat uses the realm the launcher picked and stops with a message if the display step fails.
   • Windows: the display step reads the real resolution and refresh rate of your monitor and keeps what you chose in the game.
   • The game cache is cleared on every start, so old item and quest data from another server cannot show up.
3. 1.32026-07-23
   • Rebuilt from the original Blizzard WoW.exe. The previous repack turned out to be pre-patched, which is not what a clean Classic client should be.
   • VanillaFixes 1.5.3, vanilla-tweaks 1.6.0 and wow_turbo 1.2.0: engine and performance fixes only, no gameplay change.
   • Picture and cinematic preset applied as plain client settings, so nothing sits between the game and your graphics card.
   • Reads your monitor resolution before every launch, on Windows and on Linux, with no refresh-rate cap.
   • Windowed mode that survives alt-tab.
   • Stonetavern terms shown on first start.
4. 1.22026-05-29
   • Invisible client fixes added, still pure vanilla and no gameplay change: 64 sound channels (raids sound right), sound keeps playing when alt-tabbed, Large-Address-Aware (fewer crashes), camera-shake fix. First-launch Terms prompt pre-accepted.
5. 1.12026-05-22
   • Clean rebuild, with no leftover account data, saved variables, or addons. Fresh out of the box.
   • Login screen and in-game help links now point to stonetavern.app (no Blizzard or WoW-Europe URLs).
   • Terms of Use shown on first launch.
6. 1.02026-05-20
   • Initial Stonetavern build on top of Vanilla 1.12.1.
   • realmlist.wtf preset to play.stonetavern.app.
   • Plain zip. No installer, no patcher, no telemetry.

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