One of the things I hate in DAoC is the client. It has been always the biggest weakness of the game with all its limitations and odd behaviours.

The most annoying problem is that there is no way to properly resize the client when playing in windowed mode and if you set it at your screen resolution the game window goes out of the screen and even prevents you to use the taskbar. The only choice is then to set the client resolution to be smaller than your screen, but this is also so annoying because you cannot use all the space available and you have to stare at the desktop or another window behind the client window.

No, Mythic didn’t suddenly wake up to work on the client as they should from a long time, but I discovered a program that at least overrides the client window and allows to play with it covering the whole screen without covering the taskbar at bottom.

Unfortunately the program still cannot remove the borders of the client window, nor it can dynamically resize actual resolution but it can at least automatically move it so that the borders aren’t shown, allowing you to play with the game at the same resolution of the screen. The program is quite simple, you just select the DAoC window from a menu listing all the running programs and then select the fullscreen option and “trigger it”.

It isn’t perfect but a huge improvement for me. Mythic should really start to learn how much are important these basic functionalities that they have ignored for far too long. You know, something like a better mouse sensibility or the possibility to change server without having to quit and restart. But I guess they are too busy on Warhammer to care about an acient game that when it comes to basic systems didn’t improve at all (controls, options, interface, pathing code, casting interrupts, ghosting issues, lagcasting, lagjumping, surface/dive in the water, steep terrain, the possibility to relong on a lag disconnect without having to restart and so on for a very long list that just keeps growing).