B2recomp v0.2.6 fixes missing icons and colours on AMD Radeon cards and makes crash reports more useful. As before, this download contains no game files: the game is built on your PC from your own dump.
DISCLAIMER
- If you decide to open a issue, give me a couple details about your situation in the best wording you can put it in then supply the report zip. If both of these things are not done when opening the issue it will be closed accordingly ( Can't do anything blind ) Also make sure your AMD drivers are up to date and that you have the latest release of the recomp.
Fixed
- Missing icons and colours on AMD Radeon cards (seen on an RX 6950 XT). Some of the game’s textures came out blank: the tutorial’s combo icons, the letters on the button icons, and the colour of the health bars. When B2recomp creates a texture, it first clears it and then copies the game’s pixels in. Nothing told the graphics driver to keep that order: NVIDIA’s driver kept it anyway, while AMD’s sometimes ran the clear last, wiping the picture. The two steps are now explicitly ordered. On NVIDIA cards nothing changes on screen, and the speed is the same.
Better reports
- How the game ended. If the game closes unexpectedly, the launcher now writes the exit code and what it means as the last line of the game’s log (build\play\stdout.txt).
- Windows’ own crash records. The Report... zip now includes windows-errors.txt: the crash (Application Error) and hang (Application Hang) records Windows kept of B2recomp’s programs over the last 30 days. They show crashes that the game’s own error handling never sees, for example a crash inside the graphics driver.
- The exact build. The builder package now has a VERSION file, so a report names the build it came from.
How to use
- Unzip B2recomp-builder-60f5552.zip into a new folder.
- Start B2recomp.exe, choose your dump folder and press Build (about 5 minutes on a 16-thread PC).
- When the build is done, choose your settings and press Play.
Updating from v0.2.x: after the build, copy these folders from your old B2recomp folder into the new one:
- build\play\userdata (your saves);
- config (your settings and controls);
- optionally cache, so the game does not prepare its shaders again on the first start.
Windows SmartScreen may warn about B2recomp.exe because it is not signed: choose “More info”, then “Run anyway”.
Status
The texture fix was tested on an NVIDIA card: the blank textures were reproduced there on purpose, the fixed build plays the standard test route with no errors, and its speed is unchanged. It has not been confirmed on an AMD card yet. If you have one, a report after the tutorial helps: press Report... in the launcher and attach b2recomp-report.zip to an issue (never attach game files).
SHA-256 of the zip: c5255bf7ac3bd9c9eb970dc88e97f03b9cf856d2447cebf96150d75ce856b281