MythosLoader 1.2.0 to 1.2.7: window layouts, crash recovery, lighter alts, Runewords, games load at once

MythosLoader is our free Windows launcher for running several Diablo II: Resurrected clients on one PC. This post covers everything released since 1.1.4 (1.1.x notes). The current version is 1.2.7.

Download: https://github.com/d2r-mythos/MythosLoader/releases/latest
On 1.1.0 or newer, just press Update in MythosLoader.

• New icon. MythosLoader now uses the Annihilus charm, the same mark as d2r.org: in the title bar, on the taskbar, in the system tray and on the program file. Nothing else changes.

• Games keep their window size. A game started in windowed mode no longer stays maximized after it signs in: it goes back to the size it opened at (or to its saved position, if you saved one). Full screen and borderless games are left as they are.
• No more "Logged in" notification. A game signing in is only noted in the activity log. Notifications for a launch problem, all launches finished and a crash are unchanged.

• Window layouts. A new ▦ Windows button tiles your games on the monitor MythosLoader is on, or across all your monitors, at the game's 16:9 shape. Each game opens where it was next time (saved when you tile, with Save window positions, or when you close it from MythosLoader). A spot on a monitor that is gone is ignored. Can be turned off in Settings.
• Close games from MythosLoader. ■ Close closes all games or the ones you ticked, after a Yes/No check; right-click a loader for Close game. Games close normally, like pressing their X.
• Crash recovery. A game that closes with an error shows Crashed (exit code …) and a notification. ↻ Relaunch closed starts every game that closed again with one click.
• Lighter game settings for alts. In a loader's Launch options: a frame rate limit (30 / 60 / 90 / 120) and Lowest graphics for that loader's game only. Your other games keep your own settings.
• New Runewords tab: every runeword with its runes in order, bases, sockets, level, stats and where it came from, searchable by name, rune, base or stat.
• Favourites: star recipes and runewords to keep them at the top.
• A running loader is never started twice. Launch all skips loaders that are already running, also after MythosLoader is reopened.
• Tab icons on every tab and alternating row colours in the loader list.

• The Loaders tab: three loaders running, each with its region, login, slot number and window title.
• The Recipes tab: every cube recipe, here the Hit Power crafts with their ingredients and the mods they always add.
• The Settings tab: everything on one page.
• Identify: a gold label with the slot, loader name, region and hotkey over every game window.
• The Runewords tab: Enigma with its runes in order, sockets, level, bases and stats.
• Lighter settings for an alt: a 30 fps limit and lowest graphics for one loader only.

More pictures and the full guide: MythosLoader on our site.

• Much faster multi-launch. All your games now load at the same time and sign in one by one, each as soon as the one before it has picked up its login. Two accounts are usually in the game in around ten seconds; each extra account adds a second or two. Every game still signs in with its own account.
• No more "Press any key to begin". MythosLoader presses it for you, on each game's turn only, and never once a game has signed in, so nothing lands on the character screen.
• New Recipes tab with the game's Horadric Cube icon: every cube recipe in the game, searchable by rune, gem, item or mod (try ber, hit power or socket), with pictures, the mods a crafted item always gets, item level rules and Ladder / difficulty notes. It works offline.
• Settings: "Gap between launches" is now Pause between sign-ins (default 0).

• Fixed "Data version mismatch detected" on start-up with intro skip on. The intro-skip mod now carries the game's build number, and updates it by itself after a game patch.

• Intro skip rebuilt. The old way pressed Space for 15 seconds, and those presses could land later on the character screen or in game. Intro skip now uses a tiny mod with empty start-up videos, the way lowHD does it. Loaders using lowHD need nothing extra.

• Settings is a tab next to Loaders and fits on one page without scrolling.
• The Discord button shows the real Discord logo.

• System tray with a menu to launch loaders and groups, bring a game to the front, label all games, open Settings and exit. Minimise to tray, close to tray, start minimised, start with Windows and notifications are in Settings.
• Identify: a label with the slot number and loader name appears over each game window for a few seconds.
• Focus hotkeys (off by default): Ctrl+Alt+1…9 bring a game to the front, Ctrl+Alt+0 labels all games, Ctrl+Alt+L shows MythosLoader.
• Groups: put loaders in named groups and launch a whole group from the Groups button, the tray or the command line.
• Title keeper and live rename: if the game changes its window title back, MythosLoader restores it.
• Import from D2RML (Settings) brings over your loaders and settings.
• The updater no longer fails with "the file is being used by another process".

MythosLoader is not code-signed yet. If Windows says "Windows protected your PC", click More info → Run anyway, or right-click the zip → Properties → tick Unblock before extracting. Smart App Control blocks unsigned programs with no "Run anyway"; the only way past it is turning it off, which Windows usually does not let you undo without resetting the PC. Ask here or on Discord if you are unsure.

MythosLoader never asks for or stores your Battle.net password, never touches the game's memory and never sends one input to several clients. It is not affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment.

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