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    • quicksilverQ
      quicksilver
      last edited by quicksilver

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      I have literally spent all day on this, I bring you Morrowind via OpenMW! Currently launching directly through RetroPie with controller support. Performance is good :)

      This is the last one on my list for now. So next I plan to do some additional testing and then I will write up build instructions for the ports I have working well.

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      • ?
        A Former User
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        I found a couple bugs in my script. I'll post an update shortly.

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        • quicksilverQ
          quicksilver
          last edited by

          So for at least three of the ports that I have running through an x session, if I set the in-game video option to fullscreen, the mouse and/or keyboard stop responding in-game. Anyone have any ideas what could be the cause of this? This seems to happen on OpenMW, dhewm3, and openjk.

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          • mituM
            mitu Global Moderator @quicksilver
            last edited by

            @quicksilver Focus issues ? Try running a minimal window manager and see if it fixes it.

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            • quicksilverQ
              quicksilver @mitu
              last edited by

              @mitu apologies for my ignorance 😬 but would that be something like matchbox? If so how would I get that running in conjunction with XINIT? I played around with matchbox before but was never able to tell if I was doing correctly.

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator @quicksilver
                last edited by

                @quicksilver Yes, something like matchbox should do. Look at the steamlink port to see how it's used.

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                • ?
                  A Former User @quicksilver
                  last edited by A Former User

                  @quicksilver I found a fix for that. Open the .cfg file (openjk_sp.cfg), set the resolution to whatever your monitor resolution is. Your looking for:

                  seta r_customheight "1440" <-- your resolution height
                  seta r_customwidth "2560" <---- your resolution width
                  seta r_mode "-1" <-necessary for custom resolution (preventa the game from overriding your settings
                  seta cg_fov "96.4" <- adjusts the field of view (optional)

                  Hmm, re-reading your post, this may or may not help. It helped me with fullscreen with the mouse moving the screen focus away from the game.

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                  • quicksilverQ
                    quicksilver @A Former User
                    last edited by

                    @gderber I can get the screen fullscreen by matching the in game resolution to the resolution picked in runcommand even if windowed mode is selected. The issue is that if a user were to select fullscreen the mouse/keyboard would lose focus and they would be forced to edit a config somewhere to fix it. Which isn't a very good solution in my opinion. I would like to make running these games as foolproof as possible.

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                    • ?
                      A Former User @quicksilver
                      last edited by

                      @quicksilver I've been thinking about that. I don't like it either.

                      Have you run ioquake3? Do you have the same problem their. It's got a couple run switches that set the game resolution at run time. Those switches should work for the other quake3 engine games. OpenMW will need another solution.

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                      • quicksilverQ
                        quicksilver @mitu
                        last edited by

                        @mitu so I tried it and while it does keep control of the keyboard and mouse properly, it unfortunately will only launch the game in 1080p mode. All the runcommand video options are ignored and the list of resolutions in game only show 1080p as an option regardless of whether I choose windowed or fullscreen mode.

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                          VictimRLSH
                          last edited by VictimRLSH

                          StarCraft is playing fine, but I'm getting some hanging and glitching from the FMV cutscenes. It also looks like in order to play the BroodWar scenarios, I will need to do an update from the BattleNet. The un-updated vanilla StarCraft runs, but a fresh install from the original BroodWar disc gives a message that a re-install is needed.

                          System Config: Retropie 4.4 with full desktop, RPi 3B, 256gb SD, 5v 2.1A 5,200 mAH USB battery. EasyMSX controller mounted with Pimoroni Hyperpixel 4 (non touch). Also running 4.6 on a 4gb Pi 4 serving as my primary desktop computer now.

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                          • mituM
                            mitu Global Moderator @quicksilver
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                            @quicksilver How are you launching the game ? Post the exact command from emulators.cfg.

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                            • quicksilverQ
                              quicksilver @mitu
                              last edited by

                              @mitu

                              openmw = "xset -dpms s off s noblank matchbox-window-manager & OPENMW_DECOMPRESS_TEXTURES=1 /home/pi/morrowind/openmw"
                              
                              
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                              • quicksilverQ
                                quicksilver @A Former User
                                last edited by quicksilver

                                @gderber Although now, that I think of it, I dont think an x session is needed to run openjk. It seems to run fine without it. But would still be good to know for the ports that do require an x session.

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                                • mituM
                                  mitu Global Moderator @quicksilver
                                  last edited by mitu

                                   openmw = "xset -dpms s off s noblank matchbox-window-manager & OPENMW_DECOMPRESS_TEXTURES=1 /home/pi/morrowind/openmw"
                                  

                                  I don't see this launching an X session - are you sure it's not starting openmw directly (without X) ?

                                  Create a simple .sh file with:

                                  #!/usr/bin/env bash
                                  matchbox-window-manager & 
                                  OPENMW_DECOMPRESS_TEXTURES=1 /home/pi/morrowind/openmw"
                                  

                                  and modify the launching command to be

                                  openmw = "XINIT:</path/to/script>
                                  

                                  Runcommand will take care of adding the xset commands for you on start-up.

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                                  • quicksilverQ
                                    quicksilver
                                    last edited by

                                    Thank you again, this worked. I was starting to suspect something was amiss, some of the graphics were not correct on some of the games I was testing. Everything seems to be good now and with matchbox the game retains focus of the mouse and keyboard.

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                                    • ?
                                      A Former User
                                      last edited by

                                      I've updated my scripts. I've posted them as separate topics to try and keep the feedback better organized.

                                      I'm working on a few others
                                      Decaf: Wii-U emulator

                                      Lr-dhewm3

                                      Etlegacy: Wolfenstein Enemy Territory

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                                        VictimRLSH
                                        last edited by

                                        So how would a noob go about using these scripts? Open a terminal window and "sudo ./scriptname.sh"?

                                        System Config: Retropie 4.4 with full desktop, RPi 3B, 256gb SD, 5v 2.1A 5,200 mAH USB battery. EasyMSX controller mounted with Pimoroni Hyperpixel 4 (non touch). Also running 4.6 on a 4gb Pi 4 serving as my primary desktop computer now.

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                                        • mituM
                                          mitu Global Moderator @VictimRLSH
                                          last edited by

                                          @VictimRLSH You copy the scripts to their corresponding location - under $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ports - then you can run the setup normally and choose to install the new port.

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                                          • quicksilverQ
                                            quicksilver @A Former User
                                            last edited by

                                            @gderber said in Suggestions for ports:

                                            Etlegacy: Wolfenstein Enemy Territory

                                            ^ This seems like a good candidate. @tpo1990 got rtcw running really well, you should checkout his script module here https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/22554/return-to-castle-wolfenstein-iortcw-source-port

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