Version History
25
October 2001 - 20 December 2007
v3.02 - 20 December 2007
- Major
- added: Half-Life 1 (Steam) (dem) demo support.
- added: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (dm_1)
demo support. Demo controls are not available until Keypad 4 has been
pressed (this loads another map and then reloads the demo).
- added: Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars (ndm (v1.00,
v1.10 and v1.20)) demo support. AVA Update available separately.
- added: Call of Duty 2 play list support.
- fixed: 'Error 58' occurs when trying to play
Call of Duty 2 demos with IWD check enabled.
- fixed: Play list generation problems when
running Seismovision 3 in free mode.
- Minor
- fixed: Typo where 'demo v1.41' should be 'demo
v1.42' on main screen
v3.01 - 20 August 2007
- Major
- added: Warsow (wd7, wd8 and wd9) demo support. Also
added play list support.
- added: Tremulous (dm_69) demo support.
- added: Day of Defeat: Source (Steam) (dem),
Half-Life Deathmatch: Source (Steam) (dem) and Opposing Force (Steam) (dem) demo support.
- added: Quake 4 v1.42 AVA for .netdemo (v1.04, v1.10,
v1.20, v1.30, v1.41 and v1.42) and .demo (v1.04, v1.10, v1.20, v1.30, v1.41)
and ndmo85 (v1.42)
- added: Quake 4 key input to make demo play back
of demos prior v1.42 possible.
- added: Quake 4 demo scanner for identifying files
required for demo play (right-click on demo to access)
- added: Smart mod detection for multiple versioned
installations for .netdemo's (Check Seismovision's Quake 4 documentation)
- added: Simplified-Chinese language (Thanks to Si 'FiO'
Wei)
- added: Spanish translation. Thank you to
Alexhk23.
- added: Call of Duty 2 iwd scanner to easily
manage non-standard .iwd that may cause demo playback malfunctions.
Automatically saves selections.
- fixed: Enemy Territory demos not playing in a
play list.
- fixed: America's Army demos not playing at all.
- fixed: Playback options not saving correctly.
- fixed: Miss detection on Medal of Honor: Allied
Assault demos.
- fixed: Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy
Territory play lists not working and also fixed screen saver
- Minor
- fixed: Small fixes related to displaying updates
- fixed: The last version state not being shown
on the main menu when Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast was enabled.
- tweak: Reduced nag time from free version window
- tweak: Seismovision can now detect when a Steam
game is shutting down and cleans up automatically.
v3.00 - 08 March 2006
- Major
- added: America's Army '.dem' support. Play lists are
supported. No demo controls. Demos play in an infinite loop.
- added: Steam games: Counter-Strike, Deathmatch Classic, Day of Defeat,
Ricochet and Condition Zero. All Steam games now support play lists and config
protection.
- added: Quake 4 '.demo' and '.netdemo' support with
automatic mod detection for '.netdemo's
- added: Call of Duty 2 (.dm_1) support
- added: Call of Duty: United Offensive v1.51 '.dm_2'
(v1.41) and '.dm_3' (v1.51) demo support.
- added: Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast '.dm_15'
(v1.02a) demo support.
- added: Quake 3 Arena SDC '.sd3' support and ability
to use dm_48 through dm_68 with Q3SDC.
- added: Doom 3 '.demo' support.
- added: Star Trek Elite Force 2
'.dm3' support.
- added: Soldier of Fortune 1 '.dm2' support.
- added: Complete new interface with which every demo
type can be configured independently
- added: Multi-user support (Windows login). Every user
has its own configuration file based on the user name. Stored in '\User
Settings' of Seismovision 3.
- added: Lots of guides and tutorials to the
Seismovision 3 documentation.
- Minor
- added: Demo compression option for Quake 4 '.netdemo's
(right-click on demo).
- added: HTTP Proxy support for the Update System.
- added: Smart search for every game.
- added: New play list playback options 1) Loop play
list forever 2) Loop play list once and quit 3) Loop play list once and drop
to menu for most games.
- added: New single demo playback options 1) Play demo
and quit 2) Loop single demo 3) Play demo and drop to menu 4) Benchmark mode
for most games
- change: Play list creation now use Dynamic Data
Exchange (DDE) for communication with other Seismovision instances and Windows
Explorer thus making play list creation faster (also supports Drag 'n Drop)
- change: Seismovision installer upgraded from NSIS
v1.98 to NSIS v2.15 (Nullsoft Scriptable Installer System) with
multi-lingual support (http://www.nullsoft.com)
- change: The language system totally reworked. Making
translations easier.
- added: Windows XP Visual Style for Windows XP users
using visual styles.
- removed: Advanced options screen, now integrated
under the main options menu.
- change: User interface requires now a minimum
resolution of 800x600
- added: Seismovision no longer has to be closed during
updates. For AVA and other 'non-self' updates it will just refresh. With
self-updates it will restart.
- change: Manual version change buttons moved into a
pop-up menu which can be accessed by right-clicking on a game in the main
menu.
- added: Tip of the day at every start up giving you
useful hints in using Seismovision, except when playing demos. This features
is on by default but can be disabled via the the General Options menu or by
using the check box when a tip is displayed.
- added: Demo playing stats. Amount of demos played and
time wasted.
- change: Half-Life and Counter-Strike Retail now also support
the playing of play lists.
- change: Logging is now more intensive and the last 25
sessions are saved into the logs directory. No personal information is
collected in the logs and they do not take up much space on the hard drive.
- change: Seismovision 3 - Update System to v2.00. Now
automatically selects recommended critical updates. Cleaned up download
screen.
- added: Unreal Tournament 2003 now has some graphic
configurations files to choose from.
- change: Unreal Tournament now uses the same start up
mechanism as Unreal Tournament 2003.
- added: Auto-Away for mIRC when watching a demo using
DDE (inspired by Ph4ntom|demo :D) Options under General Options. Read the
documentation for more information of usage.
- change: From freeware to shareware. Visit
http://www.seismovision.net for more information. (This tool can
also be used without registration but some features may be inaccessible to
you.)
To view the version history prior to Seismovision 3, visit
the archive.