v3.5.5 — Fork with Font Selector

v3.5.5 — Fork with Font Selector

Based on upstream v3.5.5 + re-adds the font selector removed for licensing.

Features

• Font selector — 6 overlay fonts including Fontin SmallCaps (PoE's official font). Changes apply live.
• i18n support — Russian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese clients.
• Auto-updater — Velopack installer with silent background updates.
• Island Rumour helper — experimental Atlas rumour detection.
• Theme switcher — 5 dark themes (Toxic default).
• Stack-quantity fix — no more price flicker on stacked items.
• Auto-start — scanning starts automatically on launch.
• Resilient price fetching — keeps last good prices if poe.ninja is down.

Requirements

• Windows 10 version 2004+ / Windows 11

Fonts (personal use)

Bundled fonts are for personal use only — do not redistribute the zip publicly.

v2.2.0 — Fork with Font Selector

v2.2.0 — Fork with Font Selector

Download the zip, extract anywhere, and double-click Start.cmd. No install required — self-contained .NET 10 build.

Features

• Font selector — 6 overlay fonts including Fontin SmallCaps (PoE's official font). Changes apply live.
• Theme switcher — 5 dark themes (Toxic default).
• Stack-quantity fix — no more price flicker on stacked items.
• "no info" for items with no trading data instead of false "0 divines".
• WPF UI (Fluent), credits dialog, minimize to tray.

Requirements

• Windows 10 version 2004+ / Windows 11
• No .NET runtime needed (self-contained)

Fonts (personal use)

Bundled fonts are for personal use only — do not redistribute the zip publicly.

⚡ v2.0.0 — Full Performance & Stability Overhaul

This is a fork of pedro-quiterio/PoeAncientsPriceHelper
with a ground-up performance, stability, and OCR overhaul. A PR
has been opened upstream — this release exists so you can try the improvements right now.

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🔍 What changed and why

The original app worked but had two big problems:

1. CPU overload — it recreated bitmaps, ran OCR, and repainted the overlay on every cycle
   (~10×/second), even when nothing changed.
2. OCR reliability — Tesseract (a document scanner) struggled with rendered game text.
   Some items took seconds to appear or were never detected (e.g. only 3 of 5 alloys in a panel).

v2.0.0 fixes both.

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✨ Highlights

🔍 OCR: Tesseract → Windows.Media.Ocr

The single biggest improvement. Tesseract was replaced with the native Windows OCR engine
(Windows.Media.Ocr) — the same engine used by Win+Shift+S text extraction, ShareX, and PowerToys.

	Before (Tesseract)	After (Windows OCR)
Items detected	3 of 5 (some never)	All 5 instantly
Dependencies	NuGet + traineddata files	None (built into Windows)
Designed for	Scanned documents	On-screen text

🖼️ GPU-accelerated screen capture (WGC)

Screen capture now runs on the GPU via Windows Graphics Capture (D3D11 + WinRT interop),
cutting CPU usage dramatically. Falls back to legacy GDI automatically if WGC is unavailable.

⚡ Performance tuning

Parameter	Before	After	Effect
OCR interval	100ms (10/s)	150ms (6.7/s)	−47% OCR work
Idle polling	150ms (6.7/s)	300ms (3.3/s)	−50% idle capture
Overlay bitmap	New alloc per render	Cached + reused	−8MB alloc/render
Price fetch	Sequential	Parallel (HTTP/2)	5× faster fetch

🛡️ Stability fixes

• GDI handle leak fixed in overlay rendering
• Atomic price snapshot — prevents torn reads during background refresh
• Race condition fixes — overlay concurrency, league-switch lifecycle, static flag reset
• WGC resource management — COM reference leaks fixed, frame pool recreated on resolution change
• Stale-clearing — overlay automatically hides prices during loading screens

🧹 Code quality

• Removed dead code (ScreenCapture.IsAllBlack, MemeKind easter eggs, ReferencePixelColor)
• Unified duplicate NormalizeName into a single NameNormalizer
• Pre-compiled all hot-path regexes
• Resolution cache + length-bucketed fuzzy index
• Removed empty IDisposable, dead methods, one-line wrappers

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📥 Download

Download PoeAncientsPriceHelper.zip below, unzip it anywhere, and double-click Start.cmd.

No .NET installation required — it's a self-contained Windows x64 build.

Windows SmartScreen may warn that the app is unsigned — click More info → Run anyway.

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⚙️ Requirements

• Windows 10 version 2004+ or Windows 11
• No .NET runtime needed (self-contained)

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⌨️ Hotkeys

Key	Action
F5	Start / stop scanning
F4	Recalibrate region
F3	Toggle debug overlay
Esc	Hide overlay
Ctrl+Click	Hide overlay until panel closes

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🔗 Links

• Upstream PR: pedro-quiterio/PoeAncientsPriceHelper#18
• Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md