Changelog · w0a

v2.1 — current release

A gauge on the sidebar's profile card shows, as a percentage, how much of the recommended performance setup is applied.
Benchmark puts CS2's own frame report beside w0a's capture; when the report cannot be found it says "unknown".
Benchmark can weigh a change with a series of runs: it first measures how much runs vary, then judges the difference by that.
A new card on the DNS page tells you whether this PC's DNS queries travel encrypted or in plain text.
New interface language: Japanese.

While a game, launcher or browser is in front, w0a no longer pushes its windows forward; they wait until you open w0a.
Stutters in scrolling and page changes were measured and fixed; on a 600 Hz screen 98.8% of wheel frames arrive on time.
The main window fits the screen after a scale change and when opened from the tray; at 175% it no longer runs under the taskbar.
With every engine off, w0a opens no frame or process monitoring session during a game.
Processes started during a game reach the engines in 0.2 s instead of 1.9 s.
No text runs off the edge of the window in any language; every page is measured in all 13 languages.
A saved GPU profile is applied only to the card it was saved on, and returns to the card when the licence comes back.
w0a uses less CPU in its first minutes after starting and in the first game; 14–27% less in our measurement.

Faults are now measured across machines: we see how many are hitting the same problem and fix that one first.
Diagnostics can be turned off in one click under Settings > Privacy; what is sent is written in the agreement.

Balance mode is part of Game Mode; efficiency mode now decides itself from your processor.
Link speed was read wrongly on machines with extra network adapters.
Tick boxes sit level with their labels; the alignment is measured on every page.
The agreement text no longer scrolls with a lag.

The repair page now has 60 cards; it can return a machine changed by another tool to Windows' defaults.
The measurement page was reworked: stutter count, confidence interval and CPU/GPU limit are reported separately.
A measurement records which engines were running; if a setting changed mid-run, the result says so.
When a new version is out, a dot appears beside the version badge; the notes and the update are there.
Core reservation understands the processor's real layout, including efficiency cores and cache islands.
When core reservation cannot run it says why; it no longer silently does nothing.
The automatic RAM cleaner runs on preset intervals; there is no minute box to fill in.
When the agreement is updated you are asked once; declining no longer closes the app.

Periodic in-game stutters are gone; there were three separate causes and all three are closed.
Overlays, frame counters, capture tools and mouse/keyboard software are left alone by every engine.
When a restore point cannot be created the outcome is now verified rather than assumed.
The app's own footprint is smaller: engines share one reading and needless scans are skipped in game.
The stutter scan makes one pass instead of thirteen.
Licence validation: the extra five-minute check is off while the live connection is up.
Server probing no longer waits ten seconds per region on networks that block ICMP.
Frame loss in the measurement tool is fixed; the capture buffer was a quarter of the default.

The graphics card page was rewritten: a live monitoring strip and editable offset fields.
Offset entries clamp to safe limits; where the driver's own limit is tighter, that one wins.
The custom fan curve runs in the background while the app is open, not only on that page.
The auto tuner gained thermal protection, a one-step rollback and a cancel button.
Process priority and core balancing engines you switched on come back by themselves at start-up.
The PawnIO driver is optional; without it CPU temperature and RAM timings stay empty.
The left menu is grouped under six headings: General, Optimization, Hardware, Network, Tools, Account.
Settings apply immediately; the Save button is gone.

The DNS test measures a real lookup: every query asks a unique name, so caches are not measured.
Tweaks that wrote the same setting from two pages were merged; each tweak now lives in one place.
The GPU clock on the home page looked frozen; it now reads from the same source as the card page.
On the Logs page, Select All no longer ticks the windows.old folder, which cannot be removed.
Start minimised cannot be clicked while Start with Windows is off.
The Open and Quit rows in the tray menu no longer change colour on hover.
Column alignment in the process manager is fixed; the search placeholder hides on focus.
The green confirmation animation is a soft fade; clipped letter tails in the menu are fixed.

Public release notes start with v1.8; earlier versions were pre-release development builds. Every release from here on will be listed on this page.