Does PEAss violate the PE EULA?

System requirements

Performance impact

Very low framerate

Crashes

When PE cannot load (connection lost, etc) I cannot quite PE!

The mouse doesn't click right in-game

The PEAss windows don't respond to input

I've been thrown out of PE and cannot get back in. Alt-Tab or clicking the PE taskbar button does nothing!

How do I change the windows' transparency?

I cannot enter my GoldCard number

This is debatable. You might interpret the EULA in a way that it does, or doesn't. I have contacted MindArk|PE support (some time ago already) and they have neither spoken out against it or gave it their blessing. Rest assured, that should MA decide PEAss is not 'allowed' it will be clearly stated here. Furthermore, if it will be banned, MA would most likely not ban you for it. They will give you a warning before banning you, so as long as MA doesn't contact you, I'd not worry about it.

The code itself requires Windows 2000 or newer with DirectX 9.0c. It might not work well on slower CPU's and video cards.

Memory impact should be around 20mb RAM max currently. Don't believe what Task Manager says, it is notorious for reporting it wrong. Frame rate will likely drop a little - this depends on your system. The older your videocard, the more the drop will be. It should never be more than a 5 - 10 fps drop though unless you are running PE on a stone-age PC. For ATI cards, the latest drivers seem to improve it. Either way, on the development machine it isn't even noticable. If your card fully supports DirectX 9 in hardware (like the latest Nvidia cards), you shouldn't see any frame rate drop at all (theoretically, untested). For the techsavvy: the backbuffer is forced to refresh more often, which causes a tiny FPS drop. This is necessary to let the windows be shown. Furthermore, older cards have trouble accelerating the GDI windows when in a fullscreen D3D environment, which can cause a further FPS drop.

Make sure you have the latest drivers (for ATI: at least Catalyst 8.16). If you have the latest drivers and you still have a fairly low framerate after a few minutes ingame, try Alt-Tabbing out of the game and then back in. Also make sure to have disabled the Alphablending option in PEAss if you're seeing low FPS.

One thing that causes crashes is PEAss trying to contact sites like MyTwoPecs.COM and your firewall preventing this. As soon as you've set your firewall to allow this, this specific type of crash should disappear. Note that installing a new version will most likely do the same thing again.

Try clicking on the loading screen with your left mouse button before pressing escape to quit.

First left click on PE itself (not on a PEAss window) and it should work correctly again. This issue should be mostly resolved but it could still happen.

If they have a gray caption area, they will not receive keyboard input, only mouse input. Left click on the window first.

Close all windows that might have been opened by PEAss or PE when you got thrown out, then rightclick on the PEAss tray icon and select 'Unfreeze PE'. Then click on the PE taskbar button. This will usually get you back in.

When your mouse is in the caption area of a window, middle click (or wheel-click) to switch between half-transparent and non-transparent. You can use the wheel to vary between those two. Alphablending needs to be enabled for this.

Click on the box where you need to input it first, then type.

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