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Installation Guide

• Download the latest Dungeon Helper 4 release below, and install it. There are no prerequisites that must be installed first. If you have a previous version (DH 3 or earlier) installed, make sure to completely uninstall it and remove existing plugin folders before continuing.
• Dungeon Helper now comes with 5 plugins pre-installed and ready to use:
  • Scooper
  • Mapster
  • Awesome AF
  • Trove
  • Crowd Source Collector
• As of version 4, Dungeon Helper must be launched as an Administrator.
• As a reminder, you must run DDO in a Windowed mode, and Dungeon Helper only supports the 64-bit client.
• Dungeon Helper MUST be running before you start DDO for the first time after installation.

Troubleshooting Tips

• Symptom: DDO just crashes hard after the loading screen. This can happen both with Dungeon Helper and without.
• Solution: We have multiple positive reports that this is due to an out-of-date Visual C++ Redistributable. This file is supposed to be updated by both Windows Update and the DDO launcher. However, sometimes it gets out of date. Patch it here:
  • MS Site: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170
  • Direct Download link: https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe

• Symptom: Dungeon Helper is running super slow.
• Solution: Open Task Manager (right click taskbar) and find Dungeon Helper. If it says “Efficiency Mode” or “Suspended”, you should do the following:
  • How to turn off efficiency mode Windows 11 – Method 3: Using Registry Editor
  • For those who are familiar with editing the registry, you can also disable Efficiency Mode in Windows 11 through the Registry Editor. Follow these steps:
    1. Press the Windows key + R to open the Run dialog box.
    2. Type “regedit” and hit Enter.
    3. Navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00\be337238-0d82-4146-a960-4f3749d470c7” in the left-hand pane.
    4. In the right-hand pane, change the value of “Attributes” to 2.

Major Changes in Dungeon Helper 4

First off, Dungeon Helper 4 was nearly a full rewrite of Dungeon Helper 3, and a lot has changed internally. Externally, the old plugins you knew and loved are still here and even more awesome than before. While in beta, we’re using the beta release of the SDK.

Dungeon Helper 4 also uses the most recent dotnet platform, dotnet 8. Our apologies for the large download, but we package dotnet 8 in with Dungeon Helper so you don’t have to fight with the dotnet installers any more.

Starting in Dungeon Helper 4.1, there is an option to submit usage statistics. By default, this is turned on. We do not collect any identifying information. It collects the following:

• Version of Dungeon Helper and the companion dll
• Version of the DDO client
• What Plugins you have enabled
• What Server your are launching

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