After a reboot E33 kept crashing. The ClairObscurFix.log showed why the earlier
'reduced profile' never helped: config flags gate behaviour INSIDE the fix's
hooks, but the .asi installs all its hooks (Level Load, Widgets, cutscene,
PostProcess) regardless. So the crash surface was never reduced - only removing
the fix stops it.
The game added official ultrawide support in patch 1.2.3 and renders correctly
at 5120x1440 natively, so the archived fix was pure liability. Removed it
entirely and marked the entry native.
- New METHOD=native: install.sh no-ops with a message, build/publish skip it.
- Deleted vendor/ClairObscurFix and the tuned ini (unused, crash-causing).
- README/THIRD_PARTY/CHANGELOG updated; ClairObscurFix recorded as historical.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Running ClairObscurFix v0.0.10 with upstream defaults crashed on save load.
Removing it entirely let the game load normally, isolating the fix as the cause
rather than Proton or the year-old save. The fix is archived and predates the
current build; two pattern scans already failed outright, and the crash
coincides with its Level Load hook.
Ship a reduced profile with only Center HUD enabled - the one option actually
needed at 32:9 - and mark the game PARTIAL rather than implying full support.
Adds a revalidation checklist since vendored archived fixes decay as the game
patches, plus a note that the game has no DRM, so a dedicated HUD-centering
patch is a viable replacement if Center HUD eventually breaks too.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Expedition 33 is UE5 with no DRM, but a mature MIT-licensed fix already exists:
ClairObscurFix by Lyall. Rather than reimplement it, install.sh gains a third
method that vendors a third-party fix unmodified and layers our own tuned
config on top, with the upstream license shipped in the release zip as MIT
requires. Upstream is archived, so vendoring also keeps it available.
Our only change vs upstream defaults is [Center HUD] Enabled = true, since at
5120px wide the edge-anchored HUD elements end up absurdly far apart.
Install/uninstall round-trip verified against a scratch game dir, including
that our tuned ini overrides the vendored default.
Credit to Lyall is recorded in THIRD_PARTY.md, the game README, and the repo
README's method table.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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