Access Point 3.17.X – Release Notes

Version 3.17.9 – 28th December, 2020:

• Improvements on the Free Roam support
• The interface would no longer freeze during a game update initialization
• The game’s timeout during Demo mode would now only use the “Standby” HMD state.
• Improvements related to launching Unreal Engine 4 games

Version 3.17.8 – 15th December, 2020:

• Important Access Points adjustments

Version 3.17.7 – 23th November, 2020:

• In the case of multiple dedicated game servers, the operator is now able to select the desired server in the game selection popup
• Support for Project CARS Pro 0.943

Version 3.17.6 – 13th November, 2020:

• Hotfix – Crashing Unity games

Version 3.17.5 – 11th November, 2020:

• If bHaptics player is installed, but not running, Synthesis won’t attempt to connect to it (it was adding 4 seconds unnecessary delay at session start)
  
• The restoration of previous save files is attempted only once per game per session.
  
• Extended Synthesis Engine support for Windows environment variables
  
• Proxy – upon Windows restart, wait for available network before entering the connection initialization loop
  
• Proxy – automatically detect system time change (including DST) and synchronize with the cloud
  
• Remote Windows restart option

Version 3.17.4 – 28th October, 2020:

• Fix – sporadic save game issue with Half-Life: Alyx
  
• New Download Cache experimental Access Point feature (under the System settings)
  
• Fix – picking a game in the menu could be problematic if the controller doesn’t stand still. This is now addressed.
  
• Optimized Access Point support for new game plugins and multiplayer sessions
  
• The FPS for the “VR Menu Mirror” desktop window is lowered to 25
  
• Optimized network negotiation process for LAN multiplayer games that don’t utilize the Standalone Game Server module

Version 3.17.3 – 12th October, 2020:

• New: Demo Mode (https://synthesisvr.com/knowledge-base/demo-kiosk-mode/)
  
• SynthesisVR Engine Optimization
  
• All game launches on Oculus HMDs will be with the SteamVR SDK.

Version 3.17.2 – 5th October, 2020:

• Bigfix: The top back button in the 2D launcher may not go back in the menu
  
• Bigfix: Custom game variants do launch with the game default startup arguments
  
• Bigfix: Upon Access Point restart, the “Semi-Offline Mode” button doesn’t properly display that the option has been previously enabled.
  

Version 3.17.1 – 1st October, 2020:

• The Access Points now logs in the cloud the version of the games installed via the Synthesis CDN (so far this was performed only locally on the station)
  
• With the Standard and Pro plans, running a game update on one station will also queue the update on all the other stations. This takes off the need to manually update each of them individually.
  
• A new “disableFTDI” option is added to the localmanifest cheat sheet
  
• The FTDI and USB monitoring support (used with the NFC integration) is now disabled for the CDN version
  
  

Version 3.17.0 – 28th September, 2020:

• Fixed random crash to the Standalone Game Server module
  
• Improvements to the multiplayer network negotiation process
  
• Other stability improvements
  
• OpenVR – Updated to version 1.14.15
  
• Added 30 seconds timeout to the remote key activation
  
• Improvements to the CDN installation process
  
• New under the hood Synthesis Engine provisioning functionalities
  
• Display engine data on the session countdown timer. Activate by configuring:
  • “Administration >> Advanced Settings >> Customizations >> Branding & Voice Prompts >> Behavior >> Display a second row on the session timer
    
    Example value:
    
  • svr:playername|Player [pcname] Ready#