New port installer: OpenMW (Morrowind)

quicksilver

@exarkuniv this script never worked for me. See my first post on this thread.

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver i did get it to work at one point, but i think i found my problem at least

the dependencies in the script where not installing. so that's what i was missing

once my compiling is done ill give it a shot again.

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver yes that was it. the list of dependencies in the script was not being checked and or installed if missing.

once i did that i was able to run the setup script fine.
now i did install cmake 3.15.4 so i dont know if that also was causing a error or not.

i might try a clean load on a different card and test to make sure for other people looking in to this

boolean

@exarkuniv I've successfully compiled/installed OpenMW (and the graphics driver) using the updated script on your repo. However, after running it I'll get an "Unhandled fault: alignment exception (0xa21) at 0xa50d3008" error and the game stops loading.

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If you have any ideas how to resolve this, I would love to hear from you. Merry Christmas! 🎄

EDIT: I've managed to fix it. A bit of debugging learned that it doesn't like *.bik video files. After changing "Video" to "#Video" it successfully loaded the game! The only remaining issue is that it doesn't properly exits to EmulationStation but quits to a blank screen.

ExarKunIv

@boolean yes. I think might of had that not to have to video files in the help me doc. But I can't remember.

And yes it has the same problem as doom3 port

quicksilver

@exarkuniv said in New port installer: OpenMW (Morrowind):

And yes it has the same problem as doom3 port

Interesting, I don't remember this being an issue when I compiled OpenMW. Have you tried launching directly to the game menu and skipping the launcher? iirc, that's how I had mine set up.

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver I don't remember at the moment. I believe I have mine set up that way also.
I'll check again once Im back at my system.

sabrecheeky

Thank you so much for putting this together. Everything worked great following the instructions on the github page. I'm really looking forward to adventuring round this corner of Tamriel on my retropie machine! I've had a play around with it, and a came across a couple of issues for me and my setup;

At first, the sound was very choppy and distorted - both on the menu and in game. I managed to get it working by installing the pixel desktop in an attempt to get xinit to behave itself. I think it only needed the (much maligned) pulseaudio, as when I uninstalled that the choppy sound came back, and a reinstallation fixed it again. I'm using a set of usb 'soundcard' speakers on my setup, so audio is often a hassle!

Unfortunately I couldn't get my joypad to work with it - in fact, the joypad still seems to be bound to emulationstation, as I get the menu clicks and video sounds from it coming through as if I am navigating the menus behind openmw. (I know some will say playing Morrowind with a joypad is sacrilege - but it does work rather well on my x86 ubuntu version of openmw!) I usually use a pegasus frontend, I'll set that up when I get a chance and see if that is any different.

Lastly, quitting the game hangs the system on a busy command prompt - maybe this is to do with emulationstation not going to sleep properly when the game is run?

Having said all this, I am astonished to be able to even get that far with it and that this little machine can run this engine. Thank you again for all of your hard work on this!

ExarKunIv

@sabrecheeky I will take a look with it freezing when exited.

As far as the controller you need to use xboxdrv to map the keyboard and mouse to the controller.

quicksilver

@exarkuniv said in New port installer: OpenMW (Morrowind):

@sabrecheeky I will take a look with it freezing when exited.

As far as the controller you need to use xboxdrv to map the keyboard and mouse to the controller.

Its really strange that these issues didn't affect me when I compiled MW. I'll take a look into this as well. Im able to exit MW cleanly and I was able to map my controller in game without xboxdrv.

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver i have not looked into the mapping of the controller yet.
i mainly have been focused on getting things running. lol i have not even linked my 8bitdo yet since i have to blow my build away all the time with all the compiling i do

quicksilver

@exarkuniv @sabrecheeky
There is an in game menu option to enable joystick. I believe you need to activate that option to use a controller.

As far as the game hanging when quiting. It looks like I setup OpenMW to use matchbox window manager in conjunction with xinit. It may be worth seeing if that solves the issue.

Edit: haven't played MW in a while and now for some reason I have no audio even though it was working the last time I played...🤔

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver i have not messed much with matchbox window manager much. i cant really find good info on how to really use it

i will have to take a look at it again.

im compiling mine right now and i will let you all know my findings

ExarKunIv

ok i have it installed with my script.

for me with a clean and updated build i do have audio

i have joystick enabled but it does not work.
i have tried to use the .sh from micropolis since that uses matchbox window manager and i still get the black screen when you exit

@quicksilver if it is easy for you, could you post how you used matchbox window manager. so i can see how it works. trying to find info on how to use it is not the easiest.

sabrecheeky

Thank you for the replies - As far as the controller is concerned, I am using an 8bitdo SN30pro connected via bluetooth. Openmw sees the controller, but labels it 'unusable' in the log (edited for brevity!):

Adding data directory /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/Morrowind/Data Files
Loading keybindings file: /home/pi/.config/openmw/input_v3.xml
Detected unusable controller: 8Bitdo SN30 Pro
Initializing OpenAL...

I've used the controller menu in game in other installations of openmw - I am a bit wary of xboxdrv as I have managed to break my retropie system in the past by messing with it! As I said, it seems emulationstation still 'has' the controller, as I can hear the system sounds while using it as if navigating the menus. Not being a dev - I'm not sure if or how the controller is 'passed' to the emulator from emulationstation. I'll try it with pegasus and see what happens there!

quicksilver

@exarkuniv So after you install Matchbox youll want your openmw emulators.cfg to look something like this:

openmw = "XINIT:/opt/retropie/configs/ports/openmw/openmw.sh"
default = "openmw"

the openmw.sh file contents should look like this:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
matchbox-window-manager & 
OPENMW_DECOMPRESS_TEXTURES=1 /path/to/openmw

I checked your script module and it looks like you have it starting the openmw-launcher. Not sure if that is causing the hang on exit. I have my script starting the game directly without the launcher and I get no hang on exit.

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver how do you have it pointing to where the files are?

sorry im kinda all over. im working on cleaning and fixing the scripts in zerojay's extras

the script from gderber launches with the openmw-launcher. i will try with your openmw.sh and go from there.

im sure one of the cfg files has the dir where to look for the games. i will take a look there also

quicksilver

@exarkuniv said in New port installer: OpenMW (Morrowind):

@quicksilver how do you have it pointing to where the files are?

I'm not sure I understand you. You just need to have it point to wherever your install script puts openmw

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver not where the binary is, but how to have the binary know there the data files are.

im currently installing it on my test build and i will mess with it

quicksilver

@exarkuniv do you mean how to get it to load openMW directly without the launcher? (Sorry I'm still not quite sure what you're asking)

Also would it be better to build OSG as part of the OpenMW script module instead of a separate one?