Hello everyone!

New type of mission!
Customers will now be able to ask for a complete computer with certain budget and exigencies.
Customers will choose a combination of prerequisites among the 22 new to create unique mission scenario.


Offline mode is now supported ! From now you should be able to play Hardware Engineers in offline mode at any time!
If Hardware Engineers is already installed on your computer, makes sure to start it at least one time in online mode to enable the offline mode.
For a fresh installation the offline mode will be enabled automatically.


New requirements about consumption has been added to modded components.
To improve the gaming experience with mod created by the community certain rules have been added to the editor and the loading process.
It will no longer be possible to upload a mod that does not respect these standards.
Mods already available that do not meet these standards will be ignored when loading.
The new rules

• PSU must be at least 100W.
  
• NAS must be at least 20W.
  
• Every components with no power consumption will be ignored (except for case, disk, vrd, blueprint)

If you are not sure that your mod meets all the standards, I recommend you to update them by following this guide:[HowTo] Update your mods

Some windows related to the new mission type has been slightly improved

New trailer for the shop!
https://youtu.be/O6QCCfQqjHE

And of course many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!

As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.



Thanks for reading! If you want to support Hardware Engineers share it with your friends!

I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!

• Adding mission build !
  
• Adding offline mode !
  
• Adding 22 missions requirement type
  
• Adding more mod requirements (consumption)
  
• Improved mission window
  
• Improved Security
  
• Updated Steamworks (2/2)
  
• Fixed bug with modded item's drivers
  
• Fixed Translation
  
• Fixed OS not detected when apply serial
  
• Fixed bug while loading old saves
  
• Fixed bug while drawing item

Hello everyone!

New type of mission!
Customers will now be able to ask for a complete computer with certain budget and exigencies.
Customers will choose a combination of prerequisites among the 22 new to create unique mission scenario.


Offline mode is now supported ! From now you should be able to play Hardware Engineers in offline mode at any time!
If Hardware Engineers is already installed on your computer, makes sure to start it at least one time in online mode to enable the offline mode.
For a fresh installation the offline mode will be enabled automatically.


New requirements about consumption has been added to modded components.
To improve the gaming experience with mod created by the community certain rules have been added to the editor and the loading process.
It will no longer be possible to upload a mod that does not respect these standards.
Mods already available that do not meet these standards will be ignored when loading.
The new rules

• PSU must be at least 100W.
  
• NAS must be at least 20W.
  
• Every components with no power consumption will be ignored (except for case, disk, vrd, blueprint)

If you are not sure that your mod meets all the standards, I recommend you to update them by following this guide:[HowTo] Update your mods

Some windows related to the new mission type has been slightly improved

New trailer for the shop!
https://youtu.be/O6QCCfQqjHE

And of course many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!

As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.



Thanks for reading! If you want to support Hardware Engineers share it with your friends!

I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!

• Adding mission build !
  
• Adding offline mode !
  
• Adding 22 missions requirement type
  
• Adding more mod requirements (consumption)
  
• Improved mission window
  
• Improved Security
  
• Updated Steamworks (2/2)
  
• Fixed bug with modded item's drivers
  
• Fixed Translation
  
• Fixed OS not detected when apply serial
  
• Fixed bug while loading old saves
  
• Fixed bug while drawing item

Hello everyone!

New models and materials for SSD has been added, the old model has been updated.


The window that's used for complete a mission has been reworked.
From now only the bad checks will be showed.
When canceling a repair mission, the customers will give you back the components that it does not belong to them.


Steamworks libraries and codes has been updated to match the new Steam'SDK.
Modded components have now requirements.
The rules:

• Processor need at least one cooling slot
  
• Motherboard need at least one processor, graphics card and Memory slot
  
• Case need at least one motherboard, power supply and Hard drive slot
  
• NAS need at least one Hard Drive slot

It will no longer possible to upload components that does not respect these rules.
Every mod already online that break these rules will be ignored during loading.
I recommended to every modder to update their mods frequently!
A quick guide : [HowTo] Update your mods

And of course many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!

As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.



Thanks for reading! If you want to support Hardware Engineers share it with your friends!

I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!

• Adding SSD models
  
• Adding Materials
  
• Adding mod requirements
  
• Updated Steamworks
  
• Improved mission window
  
• Improved mission canceling
  
• Improved old SSD models
  
• Improved Caching mouse function
  
• Improved credit screen
  
• Fixed translation miniature
  
• Fixed crash with modded components without required slot
  
• Fixed bug when reseting bios
  
• Fixed bug when updating movable windows
  
• Fixed bug with decoration miniature

Hello everyone!

New models and materials for SSD has been added, the old model has been updated.


The window that's used for complete a mission has been reworked.
From now only the bad checks will be showed.
When canceling a repair mission, the customers will give you back the components that it does not belong to them.


Steamworks libraries and codes has been updated to match the new Steam'SDK.
Modded components have now requirements.
The rules:

• Processor need at least one cooling slot
  
• Motherboard need at least one processor, graphics card and Memory slot
  
• Case need at least one motherboard, power supply and Hard drive slot
  
• NAS need at least one Hard Drive slot

It will no longer possible to upload components that does not respect these rules.
Every mod already online that break these rules will be ignored during loading.
I recommended to every modder to update their mods frequently!
A quick guide : [HowTo] Update your mods

And of course many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!

As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.



Thanks for reading! If you want to support Hardware Engineers share it with your friends!

I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!

• Adding SSD models
  
• Adding Materials
  
• Adding mod requirements
  
• Updated Steamworks
  
• Improved mission window
  
• Improved mission canceling
  
• Improved old SSD models
  
• Improved Caching mouse function
  
• Improved credit screen
  
• Fixed translation miniature
  
• Fixed crash with modded components without required slot
  
• Fixed bug when reseting bios
  
• Fixed bug when updating movable windows
  
• Fixed bug with decoration miniature

Hello everyone! Many bugs and mistake has been reported recently and for first patch of the year I wanted to focus on that.

The customer's satisfaction system has been slightly improve.
The mechanics remains the same but now instead of a percentage you will have a better view of what you need to do.

• Green: Happy
• Orange: Ok
• Red: not satisfied

Certain tooltips has been improved too.

About 25 bugfix and readjustment has been made, you can found non-exhaustive list of the most important change in the Summary section.

If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!

As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.



Thanks for reading! If you want to support Hardware Engineers share it with your friends!

I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!

• Improved Satisfaction system
  
• Balancing 3DBench download/install duration (-27%)
  
• Fixed Volume problem when exiting menu
  
• Fixed sometime too many decimal was showed in price
  
• Fixed sometime too many decimal was showed in reward
  
• Fixed "Missions help" difficulty score
  
• Fixed inspection counter in expert mode
  
• Fixed NAS scanner sometime freeze with burned HDD
  
• Fixed NAS scanner don't inspect HDD
  
• Fixed wrong price format in certain tooltips
  
• Fixed power gauge overflow
  
• Fixed Component editor's button crash when removing slot
  
• Fixed Material editor crash sometime when reseting
  
• Fixed potential crash when drawing certain text
  
• Fixed bug when spamming "sell" or "get back" in Bin
  
• Fixed bug with loan refund
  
• Fixed driver detector infinite loading
  
• Fixed customer ask for less core
  
• Fixed translation error in editor

Hello everyone! Many bugs and mistake has been reported recently and for first patch of the year I wanted to focus on that.

The customer's satisfaction system has been slightly improve.
The mechanics remains the same but now instead of a percentage you will have a better view of what you need to do.

• Green: Happy
• Orange: Ok
• Red: not satisfied

Certain tooltips has been improved too.

About 25 bugfix and readjustment has been made, you can found non-exhaustive list of the most important change in the Summary section.

If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!

As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.



Thanks for reading! If you want to support Hardware Engineers share it with your friends!

I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!

• Improved Satisfaction system
  
• Balancing 3DBench download/install duration (-27%)
  
• Fixed Volume problem when exiting menu
  
• Fixed sometime too many decimal was showed in price
  
• Fixed sometime too many decimal was showed in reward
  
• Fixed "Missions help" difficulty score
  
• Fixed inspection counter in expert mode
  
• Fixed NAS scanner sometime freeze with burned HDD
  
• Fixed NAS scanner don't inspect HDD
  
• Fixed wrong price format in certain tooltips
  
• Fixed power gauge overflow
  
• Fixed Component editor's button crash when removing slot
  
• Fixed Material editor crash sometime when reseting
  
• Fixed potential crash when drawing certain text
  
• Fixed bug when spamming "sell" or "get back" in Bin
  
• Fixed bug with loan refund
  
• Fixed driver detector infinite loading
  
• Fixed customer ask for less core
  
• Fixed translation error in editor

Hello everyone!

Blue screens in Hardware Engineers has been improve.
The error code will now sometime give you an indication about what is causing the error.
Note: A specific error code will always appears for the same reason.
That's means if you get a code for stability issue you can be sure if you get this error again it will be for a stability issue too.
Not less that 18 different error code has been added several of them contain jokes!


The windows's close button is now larger
When overing a computer the tooltip will now show you which version of WinDOOR is installed.
The components's info in the supplier shop will now be displayed in the same way than tooltips.


Benchmark score calculation has been updated to improve accuracy and resolve a bug with GPU frequency.
CPU's stability and temperature algorithm has been improved too.
Max CPU ratio has been increase from 50 to 60

The editor has been updated to be able to change more values of CPU and HDD.


And of course many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!

As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.

I wish you a fine end of the year!

For the engineers who are out there, here how to make a garland, I hope it could help!


Thanks for reading! If you want to support Hardware Engineers share it with your friends!

I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!

• Improved Blue Screen
  
• Improved Interface
  
• Improved Benchmark score
  
• Improved CPU stability calculation
  
• Increase Max CPU Ratio (50->60)
  
• Adding Editor : CPU OC values
  
• Adding Editor : HDD cache
  
• Fixed HDD mission
  
• Fixed FAN's hitbox
  
• Fixed Automatism skill
  
• Fixed benchmark score issue
  
• Fixed install on burned disk
  
• Fixed download on burned disk

Hello everyone!

Blue screens in Hardware Engineers has been improve.
The error code will now sometime give you an indication about what is causing the error.
Note: A specific error code will always appears for the same reason.
That's means if you get a code for stability issue you can be sure if you get this error again it will be for a stability issue too.
Not less that 18 different error code has been added several of them contain jokes!


The windows's close button is now larger
When overing a computer the tooltip will now show you which version of WinDOOR is installed.
The components's info in the supplier shop will now be displayed in the same way than tooltips.


Benchmark score calculation has been updated to improve accuracy and resolve a bug with GPU frequency.
CPU's stability and temperature algorithm has been improved too.
Max CPU ratio has been increase from 50 to 60

The editor has been updated to be able to change more values of CPU and HDD.


And of course many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!

As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.

I wish you a fine end of the year!

For the engineers who are out there, here how to make a garland, I hope it could help!


Thanks for reading! If you want to support Hardware Engineers share it with your friends!

I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!

• Improved Blue Screen
  
• Improved Interface
  
• Improved Benchmark score
  
• Improved CPU stability calculation
  
• Increase Max CPU Ratio (50->60)
  
• Adding Editor : CPU OC values
  
• Adding Editor : HDD cache
  
• Fixed HDD mission
  
• Fixed FAN's hitbox
  
• Fixed Automatism skill
  
• Fixed benchmark score issue
  
• Fixed install on burned disk
  
• Fixed download on burned disk

Hello everyone, this week Bios, Overclocking, Stability test and a lots of fix!

You can now access the BIOS from the boot selection menu.

In the BIOS you will be able to change several settings of your motherboard.

Overclocking is now possible in Hardware Engineers!


Each motherboard have a base clock (sometime named "BCLK").
Each processor have a Clock Ratio.
For example if you motherboard have a BCLK of 100Mhz and your CPU a ratio of 30 that means your CPU will run at 30*100=3000Mhz
Some CPU is overclockable, if so, their ratios will be unlocked.
You can change this ratio to increase their frequency.
BUT, the more you increase the frequency the less your computer will be stable.
To enhance stability you need to increase the VCORE.
The VCORE is the voltage applied to your processor.
More VCORE means more stability but a lot more heat too, That is where TJunctionMax is important!

TJunction Max is the maximum safe temperature recommended not to reach by the CPU manufacturer.
For operational convenience this value is showed in the BIOS.
If the motherboard measure the CPU temperatures exceed this value, it will shutdown your computer in emergency to prevent any damage.
So do not forget to use a proper cooling system.

After changing values in your BIOS you need to test the stability of your system.

If the computer doesn't boot at all that means the CPU cannot initialize itself with the settings you have made.
You need to reset the BIOS, to do this: go in assembly mode and use the new button "Reset BIOS"

If your computer can boot but crash with a blue screen when loading WinDOOR or during the execution of a task, that means the computer aren't stable.
You need to increase VCORE or decrease CPU ratio.

To be sure your computer is rock stable You will need the new software "OverClocking Stability Tools" (sometime named "OCST")

Note: Temperature influencing the stability

OverClocking Stability Tools is a software that will run lots of calculation on the computer to be sure it stay stable even with huge CPU load.
If he detects errors it will stop itself.

Red square+"error detected: core#" means your overclock is not stable.
Green square+"Passed!" means your overclock is stable!

Boot sequence has been change. When powering up a computer it will always boot on the first bootable devices.
To access the boot selection, use the second button under the screen.

Search bar has been added to USB exploration and DownloadCenter>Tools.
Certain memory kits's values has been rebalancing.

And of course many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!

As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.

Be careful with overclock!


Thanks for reading! If you want to support Hardware Engineers share it with your friends!

I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!

• Adding Motherboard's BIOS
  
• Adding CPU overclocking
  
• Adding new software OCST
  
• Adding search bar (USB,DownloadCenter>Tools)
  
• Improved Boot
  
• Balancing "Value" Ram
  
• Fixed Returning defragmented PC
  
• Fixed Inventory wrong icon
  
• Fixed delivery tooltip
  
• Fixed Text in Explorer>properties and submenu
  
• Fixed missing description
  
• Fixed slot editor
  
• Fixed assembly camera
  
• Fixed SSD's hitbox
  
• Fixed GPU models
  
• Fixed Reward's decimal number

Hello everyone, this week Bios, Overclocking, Stability test and a lots of fix!

You can now access the BIOS from the boot selection menu.

In the BIOS you will be able to change several settings of your motherboard.

Overclocking is now possible in Hardware Engineers!


Each motherboard have a base clock (sometime named "BCLK").
Each processor have a Clock Ratio.
For example if you motherboard have a BCLK of 100Mhz and your CPU a ratio of 30 that means your CPU will run at 30*100=3000Mhz
Some CPU is overclockable, if so, their ratios will be unlocked.
You can change this ratio to increase their frequency.
BUT, the more you increase the frequency the less your computer will be stable.
To enhance stability you need to increase the VCORE.
The VCORE is the voltage applied to your processor.
More VCORE means more stability but a lot more heat too, That is where TJunctionMax is important!

TJunction Max is the maximum safe temperature recommended not to reach by the CPU manufacturer.
For operational convenience this value is showed in the BIOS.
If the motherboard measure the CPU temperatures exceed this value, it will shutdown your computer in emergency to prevent any damage.
So do not forget to use a proper cooling system.

After changing values in your BIOS you need to test the stability of your system.

If the computer doesn't boot at all that means the CPU cannot initialize itself with the settings you have made.
You need to reset the BIOS, to do this: go in assembly mode and use the new button "Reset BIOS"

If your computer can boot but crash with a blue screen when loading WinDOOR or during the execution of a task, that means the computer aren't stable.
You need to increase VCORE or decrease CPU ratio.

To be sure your computer is rock stable You will need the new software "OverClocking Stability Tools" (sometime named "OCST")

Note: Temperature influencing the stability

OverClocking Stability Tools is a software that will run lots of calculation on the computer to be sure it stay stable even with huge CPU load.
If he detects errors it will stop itself.

Red square+"error detected: core#" means your overclock is not stable.
Green square+"Passed!" means your overclock is stable!

Boot sequence has been change. When powering up a computer it will always boot on the first bootable devices.
To access the boot selection, use the second button under the screen.

Search bar has been added to USB exploration and DownloadCenter>Tools.
Certain memory kits's values has been rebalancing.

And of course many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!

As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.

Be careful with overclock!


Thanks for reading! If you want to support Hardware Engineers share it with your friends!

I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!

• Adding Motherboard's BIOS
  
• Adding CPU overclocking
  
• Adding new software OCST
  
• Adding search bar (USB,DownloadCenter>Tools)
  
• Improved Boot
  
• Balancing "Value" Ram
  
• Fixed Returning defragmented PC
  
• Fixed Inventory wrong icon
  
• Fixed delivery tooltip
  
• Fixed Text in Explorer>properties and submenu
  
• Fixed missing description
  
• Fixed slot editor
  
• Fixed assembly camera
  
• Fixed SSD's hitbox
  
• Fixed GPU models
  
• Fixed Reward's decimal number