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. 1.32026-07-23
   • 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. 1.32026-07-23
   • 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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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