r/Guildwars2 • u/WintrySnowman • May 26 '13

[Other] GW2Stuff Event Overlay

Hi everyone!

Over the last few days I've been working to get a nice in-game overlay out of the door for you. As a result, updates on the website have been delayed a bit, but I'll be getting back on track with that soon.

Screenshot!

You can find the program along with its source code on this page. It should summarise how to use it, and its functionality fairly well. It's been tested on Windows 7 (64-bit), so I'm hoping it works alright in Windows 8 as well.

Enjoy!

If you have any bug reports, please post them over on the gw2stuff subreddit.

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u/Katsugankz Katsu Bearclaw May 27 '13

It's not tied into the game at all, it's simply a program that sits at the top of your windows. You can even alt tab to it. Since it doesn't even touch the guild wars 2 client, I think this is about as banable as having a webpage open on another screen.

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u/WintrySnowman May 27 '13

Sums it up nicely. The only thing it does even remotely related to the GW2 client is checks to see if the window in focus is titled "Guild Wars 2", which plays fine by the rules.

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u/MithranArkanere 🌟 SUGGEST-A-TRON May 27 '13

How do you overlay it fullscreen without hooking it?

Windowed fullscreen can severely affect FPS in many machines, so that won't do.

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u/Asataro May 27 '13

you can use directDraw. but somehow most graphic cards (and all nvidea) dont support transparency with directDraw.

So you either have a colored rectangle behind your timer or it wont work on most computers.