Novum/vkQuake 1.37.0

vkQuake 1.37.0 binaries

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Improvements:

• Added ambient occlusion from monsters, items and other entities onto nearby level geometry, giving them more natural contact shading. Low, Medium and High quality settings are available; Low is enabled by default. Note that this may reduce performance on older hardware and can be turned off.
• Added independent render resolution: run the game at a lower resolution while keeping menus, text and the HUD sharp at the display resolution.
• Expanded controller support with gyro aiming, flick stick, rumble, alternate button bindings and a dedicated controller settings menu (from Ironwail)
• Added automatic single-player saves, favoring quieter moments between combat. Saves are written in the background, and the Load menu now includes autosave and quicksave entries (autosaves and background saving from Ironwail)
• Added live previews when changing graphics and selected game options, including underwater effects and message backgrounds (from Ironwail)
• Added language selection and automatic language detection for rerelease content, and support for loading the rerelease's newer save format (from Ironwail)
• Added mod-defined actions to the key bindings menu (from Ironwail)
• Added an optional player-speed display, adjustable weapon-model position and backgrounds behind on-screen messages (from Ironwail)
• Mod folders, maps, demos and saves can now be passed directly to the executable, including by dragging them onto it (from Ironwail)
• Improved Alkaline compatibility, including underwater screen and sound effects for its moving liquid volumes (from Ironwail)
• FTE particles now blend softly into nearby surfaces, and particles and decals respond to fog
• Performance: faster texture loading, more efficient draw grouping and skybox caching to avoid reloading skies when a map switches between them (skybox caching from Ironwail)
• Updated graphics defaults for fresh configurations: borderless fullscreen, VSync, 4x MSAA and anisotropic filtering
• Refined menu spacing and sliders, clarified fullscreen options, sorted mods by display name and added an option to disable mouse input in menus (layout refinements by @vsonnier)
• Added sky-name completion and a skies command, a writeconfig command and reverse cycling through console-variable values. Querying a variable now also shows its default value (new commands from Ironwail)
• Added a persistent option to dismiss the Steam-not-running prompt
• Updated libxmp to 4.7.3 (by @sezero)

Fixes:

• #1014 : Fixed the window growing on each launch on high-DPI displays, and corrected menu mouse positioning (by @AllMelody)
• #1017 : Fixed mouse selection of TCP/IP and other menu items, clicks without mouse movement, and clicks outside selectable rows. Holding a key no longer repeatedly activates menu actions
• Fixed additional moving-platform and collision compatibility issues, including mod-defined ground state, disabled platforms retaining riders and incorrect downward velocity after landing
• Fixed give all to use the active mod's weapon and item rules
• Fixed custom HUD scaling at different resolutions and incorrect sizing of high-resolution UI replacements
• Improved decal depth handling, dynamic-light placement and modern crosshair blending, and fixed particle-texture initialization and palettized screen-effect edge cases
• Fixed Vulkan synchronization and ray-tracing resource handling, improved recovery when the display surface is lost, and worked around ambient-occlusion flickering with MoltenVK on MacOS
• Fixed ProQuake view-angle decoding and FTE network acknowledgements, and split large map-startup messages to avoid signon-buffer overflows
• Configuration scripts now consistently use vkQuake.cfg instead of falling back to another engine's config.cfg
• Existing saves are preserved until a background save has finished writing. Fixed the HUD pain face persisting after fastload or demo rewind
• Fixed skybox-cache leaks and cleanup errors (cache-leak fix by @vsonnier)
• Hardened map, network and menu string handling, including client-provided player names (#1018, player-name fix by Dirk Mueller)

Please note: Windows arm64 builds are provided as-is and remain untested and unsupported.

For MacOS binaries for Apple Silicon and Intel, see Mac Source Ports.

Windows x64 builds need the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable.

The Linux AppImage requires glibc 2.35 or later and FUSE. Download the AppImage directly, make it executable with chmod +x vkQuake-*.AppImage, then run it. Older distributions can build from source.

Full Changelog: 1.36.0...1.37.0