OpenGothic - Night of the Raven

[bugmenot]

GitHub - Try/OpenGothic: Reimplementation of Gothic 2 Notr

Reimplementation of Gothic 2 Notr. Contribute to Try/OpenGothic development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Now this would be very cool.

The developer is very active and engages with contributors and issue reporters.
Initial arm work has been done already.
https://github.com/Try/OpenGothic/issues/v121

And the game is an old classic that should have pretty modest requirements on the hardware.

 

[ptitSeb]

Note that the renderer is Vulkan only (with a Metal renderer on the make also). That will be an issue for many ARM based machine for now...

 

[bugmenot]

Right, that was mentioned. And there are no plans to add opengl support (even though a pull request for it would probably get merged) , the developer recommends to just run the proprietary original on older hardware. Maybe that would run with wine and box86...

 

[ptitSeb]

Yes, original Gothic 2 seems to works with wine+box86

Gothic 2 · Issue #109 · ptitSeb/box86-compatibility-list

Description Game runs! Brightness, Contrast Gamma not working When wine is set to fake-fullscreen (desktop in window), X pointer is not displayed when switching to other application Framerate is pl...

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(but I haven't tried wine+box86+gl4es)

 

[bugmenot]

When should one add gl4es to the mix when trying stuff out? On the surface level I understand the concept of what it does, but not really how to tell when it would be needed/useful.

 

[ptitSeb]

When should one add gl4es to the mix when trying stuff out? On the surface level I understand the concept of what it does, but not really how to tell when it would be needed/useful.

It's only usefull when you don't have an OpenGL driver for your hardware. Like on Pandora & Pyra, or on Android (or when using Emscripten/WebGL).