We get repeated reports of people saying the game is incorrectly reported as a virus. It is becoming more inconvenient for players and even myself, because when we attempt to download a build, it is immediately deleted by scanners (including the default for Windows: Windows Defender).
One scanner is not too much of an issue, but the game is flagged by almost half of available scanners as reported by VirusTotal.
So why is it being flagged?
Windows has a very annoying concept, the subsystem for a binary. The console subsystem allows stdin / stdout as you would expect, just like posix. Unfortunately if a user runs a console subsystem binary from the desktop or explorer, the game will be opened under conhost and thus you get a console showing alongside the game window. This is not a good user experience for most players. To resolve this, you can use the windows subsystem, but this will detach stdin and stdout immediately on launch. There are hacks that can be done in code to allocate a new console but I found this to not work very well with stdin or other terminal emulators.
My solution to the problem was to have two binaries: openrct2.exe and openrct2.com. Both are executable but openrct2.exe is windows subsystem, openrct2.com is console subsystem. The desktop shortcut opens openrct2.exe with no console window showing. Typing openrct2 on the command line will execute openrct2.com (as .com has higher PATH precedence than .exe by default) with working stdin and stdout. In order to reduce the size, I have the entire game inside openrct2.dll and then supply two tiny wrapper EXEs that simply route main(...) into the DLL.
These wrapper EXEs are the problem, they are very small and do nothing but call into a DLL, this must match virus signatures too closely and their size probably reduces the data available for the scanner to analyse.
So as I can not find any other way of achieving my goal of a cli and gui version of OpenRCT2, this changes the build to publish openrct2 as a single executable (rather than a DLL + wrapper EXE), and then duplicate the entire ~10MB exe again and flip the subsystem flag. The installer and zip size won't be affected as this extra size will be completely compressed out, but when unpacked will lead to an extra ~10MB on disc. But I think it is a fair compromise.
VirusTotal now reports all artefacts as safe, for now anyway.
The search for height to build track ended at a half-height, leading to (undefined string) error. Changed to always end at whole height and search as high as possible.
Mistake made while improving mouse control when zoomed out caused the upper limit for multi tile scenery to be limited by the sum of all clearance z values instead of the greatest clearance z value.
- Feature: [#9285] Remember current group in scenario list window.
- Feature: [#9918] Increase image list capacity by about 100k units.
- Change: [#1349] Increase the number of ride music played simultaneously from 2 to 32.
- Fix: [#4927] Giant screenshot cut off at bottom and top.
- Fix: [#7572] Queue paths connect to regular paths through fences.
- Fix: [#7690] Problem with guests freezing on certain tiles of path.
- Fix: [#7883] Headless server log is stored incorrectly if server name contains CJK in Ubuntu
- Fix: [#8136] Excessive lateral G penalty is too excessive.
- Fix: [#8584] Duck spawning function does not check tiles with x or y coordinate of 0..64 (Original bug)
- Fix: [#9179] Crash when modifying a ride occasionally.
- Fix: [#9533] Door sounds not playing.
- Fix: [#9574] Text overflow in scenario objective window when using CJK languages.
- Fix: [#9603] Don't render audio when master volume is turned off.
- Fix: [#9625] Show correct cost in scenery selection.
- Fix: [#9669] The tile inspector shortcut key does not work with debugging tools disabled.
- Fix: [#9675] Guest entry point limit can be bypassed in scenario editor.
- Fix: [#9683] Cannot raise water level if part of the tool's area of effect is off of the map.
- Fix: [#9684] Entering custom size for water/land tool allows confirmation with main enter key, but not numpad enter key.
- Fix: [#9690] The keyboard shortcut for rotating the game view can be set to Enter or KP Enter, but not both.
- Fix: [#9717] Scroll bars do not render correctly when using OpenGL renderer.
- Fix: [#9729] Peeps do not take into account height difference when deciding to pathfind to a ride entrance (original bug).
- Fix: [#9902] Doors/Portcullis do not check to make sure doors are open causing double opens.
- Fix: [#9926] Africa - Oasis park has wrong peep spawn (original bug).
- Fix: [#9953] Crash when hacked rides attempt to find the closest mechanic.
- Fix: [#9955] Resizing map in while pause mode does not work and may result in freezes.
- Fix: [#9957] When using 'no money' cheat, guests complain of running out of cash.
- Fix: [#9970] Wait for quarter load fails.
- Fix: [#9994] Game action tick collision during server connect and map load.
- Fix: [#10017] Ghost elements influencing ride excitement.
- Fix: [#10036] Do not allocate large chunks of memory for save file classification.
- Fix: [#10106] Ride circuits should not be used for modes that do not support it.
- Fix: [#10149] Desync in headless mode with rides that create smoke particles.
- Improved: [#9466] Add the rain weather effect to the OpenGL renderer.
- Improved: [#9987] Minimum load rounding.
- Improved: [#10125] Better support for high DPI screens.
* Remapped keypad Enter to return scancode
Fix#9684: Entering custom size for water/land tool allows confirmation
with main enter key, but not numpad enter key
Fix#9690: The keyboard shortcut for rotating the game view can be set
to Enter or KP Enter, but not both
* Add changelog entry
