Add support for xash3D

quicksilver

@retropieuser555 fps still drops with flashlight on.

retropieuser555

@quicksilver ah fair, I'll probably stick with what's on there for now anyways then

quicksilver

@retropieuser555 does the hazard course work for you on the old version?

retropieuser555

@quicksilver I played it right through just now, I can't remember what the original game on PC was like as I only ever played it a little bit. The flashlight drops the framerate to around 10-15FPS, and grenades freeze the game up briefly when they go to explode but honestly it's not bad at all and it works way better than I'd imagine the pi3 would handle it.

Time to give the main game a bash and see how far I can get without the flashlight ha!

quicksilver

@retropieuser555 I'm about halfway through the game right now. Fps drops on my pi 4 aren't as bad as what you describe, which is to be expected. For being a 20 year old game it's still really good. :)

retropieuser555

@quicksilver It's easily the best looking 3d game I've played on the pi tbh. It looks slightly above a PSX game, but then I guess xash3d has been built purely to play this game and had a lot of the gunk written out of it. I'll probably be getting a pi4 soon anyway so it'll be nice to see what the jump is for these games that "nearly" run on the pi3.

retropieuser555

@quicksilver Okay I'm barely through the first 10 mins in the facility at the start and anytime there's some lights, explosions or any kinda graphics to process the game freezes up. I wouldn't say it's playable on pi3 based on that. I think it's a file under pi4 game :)

quicksilver

@retropieuser555 Try changing to these settings in your config.cfg

r_vbo 0
r_vbo_dlightmode 1
cl_lw 0

Is the original soundtrack playing for you? I have not heard any music yet...

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver the soundtrack is working for me, just its very very quite.

retropieuser555

@quicksilver Wow whatever those settings are it has helped a lot. I also dropped the resolution down to 800 x 600 (I think the game by default went to something much higher). Still getting some dips in frame rates but it's a lot better, more like 30-40FPS when stuff happens on screen, which is liveable. I'll play a bit further into the game and see what happens later on.

quicksilver

@ExarKunIv Found my game files were incomplete. Got that fixed and have music now.

quicksilver

Tried running blue shift and opposing force mods but they both crash xash3d. Have you guys tried running any of the mods?

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver nope
but funny you did that, i was just thinking about if it could run that or not this morning my self

quicksilver

@ExarKunIv Got them working! Obviously you will need the Steam game files for Blue Shift and Opposing Force and then:

Edit:
See here for launching Bshift and Op Force
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/26486/setting-up-half-life-through-retropie-a-guide?_=1594608040809

Each mod has its own config.cfg so you will to copy the one in the valve folder to the bshift and gearbox directories as well if you made any changes that you want to use.

I also noticed in the config.cfg there is an option for MP3 volume, that might help if your music is playing to softly.

RussellB

I've got almost everything working except I notice the segmentation fault when I try to cancel the keyboard config. Is this just how it is and I should ignore it to configure by hand?

quicksilver

@RussellB if you compile the latest xash3d you won't have that issue. See my thread here https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/26486/setting-up-half-life-through-retropie-a-guide?_=1594608040809

RussellB

Ahh, that's why I was having a different configuration than people were describing. I used "hl" instead of "xash3d". Trying that now.

RussellB

I got it installed following the instructions, however 'New Game', 'Training Room' and 'Load Game' are disabled on the main screen. The crash issue is gone. I had permission issues getting it to run where the owner of the valve folder was root. I changed it and everything under it to 'pi' and it runs with the issue I identified. What could I be missing?

Followup:

[13:28:54] Sys_Warn: Could not load client library:
valve/cl_dlls/client.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to find library client.so
client.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

But client.so is there and is owned by pi user and is executable.

quicksilver

@RussellB did you accidentally replace the client.so that was compiled by the script module with the one that was included with the original game files?

RussellB

Never mind... I wiped out everything, removed anything left and reinstalled and it worked. I'm using an sdcard/usb drive so that may have been causing me problems with files not getting recognized.