Utility EQBZ Multiboxer 5.8.2

Fixed​

• Corrected UI Naming structure and installation error.

Highlights​

• No more Not Responding while sessions load or zone.
• EQBZ UI: every character in your EverQuest folder is listed, any of them can be given their own theme on the spot, lists sort and jump by typing, and Copy Layout carries the chat setup.

Changed​

• Settings page rebuilt: sections down the left, every setting saves the moment you change it, details moved into tooltips.

Fixed​

• Multi-monitor: layouts remember which physical monitor they were made on and find it again after reboots, docking changes, or on a different machine.
• Tiles re-fit cleanly on smaller screens instead of overlapping.
• Swapping while sessions load behaves: alt-tabbing away sticks, and zones longer than 15 seconds grab focus when they finish instead of never.
• Raid teams sent to AutoLogin now actually auto-login.
• Launcher toggles and selections apply instantly and survive a crash.
• Loading a raid refreshes the lists on screen right away.
• Closing the main window fully exits the app (no ghost tray icon).

Added​

• Team tab: track your accounts and toons in one place. Active status, last checked dates, notes, encrypted passwords, classes and levels pulled straight from MQ, filters by server, class, and level.
• Raid Planner: tag toons to raids, see composition by class, catch same-account conflicts, and load a raid straight into AutoLogin as a team (healers first, then tanks, melee, casters).
• Freeze diagnostics: if the app ever locks up, the log records exactly what it was stuck on.

Fixed​

• The big one: the app and every session with it no longer freeze while a session is loading or zoning. Swapping to a loader, away from one, or just zoning on your active character all stay smooth.
• Faster, cleaner Team lists with large rosters, server scoping everywhere, class sorting.

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Added
• Character names in window titles and the session list ("Charname - EverQuest"), so you can tell 18 sessions apart at a glance and alt-tab by name.
• Filter Available Characters by server in the AutoLogin tab.
• Texture Memory Budget that actually sticks. EQ can't silently revert it anymore, and it reapplies itself after game patches.
• The "Render at native resolution" toggle works both ways now.
• Dead sessions clean themselves out of Active Slots without shifting your slot numbers.
• Layouts hold their size when sessions close. Closing a session leaves a hole, Apply Layout or Ctrl+Alt+B compacts when you want it to, and batch launching sizes the grid for your whole team up front.

Fixed
• The big one: swapping to loading or zoning sessions could freeze the app anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds and eat your hotkeys. That whole class of freeze is gone, including at 50+ sessions.
• Swapped-to sessions actually get keyboard focus now instead of sitting on top ignoring your typing.
• Sessions finishing a zone no longer steal focus from the one you're playing.
• Hotkey swaps work from any app, not just when a session already has focus.
• One frozen session can't stall a batch launch anymore.
• Launching is race-proofed: every launch path goes through one coordinator, sessions can't ghost or grab each other's slots, and the old folder migration can't lose files.

Added
- Layouts are now files you can edit and share.** Every saved layout is its own json in %AppData%\Multiboxer\layouts, named after the layout. Edit it by hand with the app closed, or drop a layout file from another PC into the folder and it just shows up in the Layout Manager. Your existing layouts convert automatically, nothing gets deleted, and resetting settings leaves them alone.
- Crashed sessions keep their spot.** When a session dies or logs out, its slot stays open as a hole and nothing else moves. Your slot to character mapping stays intact for AutoLogin.(No more shifting down to fill the spot.)
- Launch button on every AutoLogin row** (first column, hard to miss). One click sends just that character back into its own slot to fill the hole.
- New setting: "Render EverQuest at native resolution"** (on by default, which is the old behavior). Turn it off if you'd rather have Windows display scaling size the game up for readability. Either way, the app now leaves any compatibility flags you set on eqgame.exe yourself alone.
- New option under the frame limiter: "Re-apply the caps if the game changes them."** EQ writes its own FPS values back to eqclient.ini whenever a session exits, which quietly undoes your caps. Classic symptom: background sessions stuck at 8 or 9 fps no matter what you set. Turn this on and your values go back in whenever the file disagrees. Off by default.

Fixed
- Swap keys now work while a session is zoning or loading.** Before, the app gave up on taking focus if the client was busy, so swapping during a zone did nothing. Now the swap keeps trying in the background until it lands, and your newest keypress always wins.
- MQ Lua windows dragged outside the game no longer get claimed as sessions.** A popped out ImGui panel could grab a slot and shift every account after it by one. Session detection now only accepts the game's actual main window, and one game process can never hold two slots.
- Old layouts with a custom main window position are honored again.** Layouts saved before 4.5.10 went back to the left edge; they now apply where you built them, even if one slot's numbers drifted by a pixel.
- "Optimize Windows for running alot of sessions" now raises the desktop heap to 128 MB.** The old 64 MB could still run out around 50 sessions, at which point new programs fail to start (error 0xc0000142) and clients can crash. If you enabled this before, tick the checkbox again on the Settings tab and restart Windows to get the new size.(This does require rebooting/restarting your pc.)

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Added​

• Custom play window for split monitor mode. Tick "Custom play window size" and enter a size, or click Edit Large and drag the play window right on the play monitor. Every session runs at that size while the thumbnails stay on the second screen, and swapping keeps everything locked to it.
• Watch grid controls for split monitor mode: exact Rows (up to 12), Columns (up to 12), and a Fill direction. Set Fill to Down with Rows at your group size and each group stays together in one vertical column, for example 54 characters as 9 columns of 6.
• One shared main window for single monitor layouts. Drag or resize it once in Edit Large (shown as a single box labeled "Main (all)") and every session follows, at launch and on every swap. No more editing the main window per slot.
• With a custom main window size set, the thumbnail aspect ratio is derived from that size automatically so previews always match the real game windows instead of stretching or cropping.
• Hand arranged layouts now apply exactly as authored, margins included, and remember the monitor they were built on. A hand built layout can no longer be re gridded into generic rows by accident.

Fixed​

• Large layouts (54 plus boxes) edit smoothly in the Layout Manager, with no freezes while dragging.
• The Layout Manager no longer clips controls off the edge of the window (split Rows and Fill dropdowns, Undo and Redo buttons); everything is visible on all setups.
• Play window editing works correctly when the play monitor is not the primary display.

Added

- AutoLogin teams. Save more than one set of slot-to-character assignments and switch between them from the Launcher or AutoLogin tab, so
you can run different groups without redoing your slots every time. Your current setup carries over automatically as the "Default" team.
Teams only store which character goes in which slot passwords stay in MQ2AutoLogin's database like always.

Fixed

- Re-applying a split-monitor layout no longer grows the foreground window by 25% on scaled displays. The first apply was always fine; it
was the re-apply from the Window Layout Manager that inflated it.
- Preview tiles no longer sit on top of other programs. They stay above the game while you play, but any other window you switch to now
covers them like normal and they restack correctly on every swap.
- Clicking the desktop no longer makes the active session disappear.
- After swapping to a session that was minimized, clicking the desktop or another window no longer makes that session pop back up and steal
focus.
- Sessions that come back from minimize (or launch at the wrong size) are now resized back to the layout size when arranging or swapping,
instead of staying small or stretched.
- Preview tiles no longer flicker on Alt-Tab.
- The preview tile row no longer runs off the screen with 3 to 5 sessions.
- Fixed a crash when closing all sessions.
- A session launched through a launcher could occasionally be flagged as exited right after it started. Fixed.
- Cleaner shutdown of session processes when closing the app.

Fixed​

• Reconfigured Foreground session for split monitor configurations to not overtake the start menu and account for the correct sizing.
• Reconfigured Foreground sessions for non split monitor to not overtake tiled sessions in the background preventing GUI windows from showing correctly.

Changed​

• Increased performance on swapping sessions.

Fixed​

• Highlights for 4.4.0:
  
  • Split-monitor mode — active session fullscreen on your main monitor, every other session tiled live on a second monitor (Grid / Horizontal / Vertical, aspect-correct). Now rock-solid at any session count, engages automatically on launch, and "Leave a hole" marks the active session.
  • Single shared EverQuest install: no more per-session cloned folders; your UI follows the character and the per-folder crashes are gone.
  • Drag-to-edit layouts: click/drag/resize boxes with snapping, an "Edit Large" pop-out, and a Custom hand-edited style.
  • "Arrange All" button + Ctrl+Alt+B one press re-tiles every session into your layout (works in split and on still-loading sessions).
  • Frame-limiter toggle (off by default).
  • Fixes: autologin on servers with spaces in the name, Alt+Tab no longer shuffles sessions, sessions land on the correct monitor, layouts honor your row/column counts, international-keyboard hotkeys capture correctly, and several stability fixes.

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