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1. Download the win32 or win64 installer setup, depending on your system, run it and follow the on-screen instructions. The setup will automatically set required folder permissions and update registry keys.
2. It is possible to manually extract files from the executable without running (you might have to install 7-zip first). This is intended for advanced users only.
3. That's it, you can now run rvgl.exe from the Re-Volt folder (or create a shortcut to it on your Desktop).

1. Download the linux 7-zip archive and extract it to your Re-Volt folder.
2. Run the setup script found inside the Re-Volt folder (you might have to set execute permission for the setup script in order to do this). The setup script will automatically rename all the data files to lower-case, set the necessary file and executable permissions, and create an RVGL launcher on your desktop.
3. Install dependencies required by RVGL, if necessary. See the next part for detailed steps.
4. You'll now be able to run RVGL using either the desktop launcher or the 'rvgl' script in your Re-Volt folder. Depending on your system, this will start either the 32-bit or 64-bit rvgl.
5. Note that when you install additional custom content like tracks or cars, you'll have to rename those files to lower-case. You can use the fix_cases script to do this for you (instead of having to run the entire setup again).

# Debian / Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install libsdl2-2.0-0 libsdl2-image-2.0-0              # required
sudo apt-get install libglew1.13 libopenal1 libenet7 libunistring0  # recommended
sudo apt-get install libvorbisfile3 libflac8 libmpg123-0 libsndfile1 # optional

# Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S --needed sdl2 sdl2_image               # required
sudo pacman -S --needed glew openal enet libunistring # recommended
sudo pacman -S --needed libvorbis flac mpg123 libsndfile # optional

# Fedora
sudo yum install SDL2 SDL2_image                # required
sudo yum install glew openal enet libunistring  # recommended
sudo yum install libvorbis flac mpg123 libsndfile # optional

• Multiplayer & lobby support [done]
• Texture formats (png / jpg) [done]
• 64-bit native compile [done]
• Unicode (utf-8) support
• Shader based OpenGL implementation
• Providing easy to use Linux package / Windows installer
• Documentation / Tutorials / etc. to encourage more custom content
• Integrating DC and demo content [done]

<EE> UpdateDeviceParams&#58; Failed to set 44100hz, got 48000hz instead

- Auto Generate Mipmaps: All mipmap levels can now be automatically generated at loading time (no need for .bmq, ... files). We only recommend using this option if Anisotropic filtering is also enabled. Otherwise there can be excessive blurring.

Textures wrote:*The first and most obvious thing I noticed is that textures with indexed colors are not supported by this build, so my texture optimization pack doesn't work anymore and I am greeted at every loading screen with an error, "cannot load whatever.bmp". Fortunately this doesn't crash the game, and I can go back into RV with the pause screen waiting for me.

48k audio wrote:*AL likes to complain about wanting a 44100 Hz audio rate but getting 48000 Hz instead. As someone with a strong interest in making some RV videos for YouTube in the near future, I would personally prefer having 48 kHz added to the options menu.

FLAC support wrote:*I see you mentioned FLAC support for Linux, it'd be really awesome to get that for Windows too

Missing logo wrote:and that (in my case at least) the intro logos cannot be shown (white rectangles).

MP3 support wrote:Oh, and that the MP3 tracks aren't working.

Found interesting bug: with an almost complete profile 100% cars, TT not done. there's a duplicate of Championship.

FPS counter wrote:Looking forward to the options menu. Can't tell if vsync is working or not, since I can't get the fps counter up.

Launcher wrote:Edit: more fun times. The .desktop refuses to run, though the executable itself works fine:

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raster@meridian:~/Desktop$ /home/raster/Desktop/RVGL.desktop
/home/raster/Desktop/RVGL.desktop: line 1: [Desktop: command not found
/home/raster/Desktop/RVGL.desktop: line 2: port: command not found
/home/raster/Desktop/RVGL.desktop: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/home/raster/Desktop/RVGL.desktop: line 7: `Path=/home/raster/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Acclaim/ReVolt'
raster@meridian:~/Desktop$

Even when I make a new .desktop from scratch it errors out.

Generate mipmaps wrote:4) Regarding mipmaps, the changelog says

- Auto Generate Mipmaps: All mipmap levels can now be automatically generated at loading time (no need for .bmq, ... files). We only recommend using this option if Anisotropic filtering is also enabled. Otherwise there can be excessive blurring.

So is this done by default or is the "GenerateMipmaps" option responsible for this? (because the latter appears to be turned off by default)

Also how does this work in regards to higher resolutions, should/can they be renamed to .bmp files or will the game still look for .bmo, .bmn, etc files to use the higher resolutions instead of the default ones?

And last but not least, if the lower resolution files are not needed anymore and are automatically generated, why does the game still try to open them? (see game log)

I'll have to check whether SDL supports reading indexed bitmaps. Can you give me a link to your texture pack so I can test it myself?

48k audio wrote:It means AL is already using 48k audio rate (though we hard-coded it to request 44.1k). Once the options menu is done you can expect more control over this.

FLAC support wrote:Alright, we'll try to include support for it in future releases. All it needs is the dll. You can try to find the libFLAC.dll yourself and place it in the re-volt folder (I'm not sure if they provide it in their website).

Huki @ 2 May 2015, 12:25 PM wrote: @Cat:

Missing logo wrote:and that (in my case at least) the intro logos cannot be shown (white rectangles).

Strange, have you extracted all the files to your re-volt folder? Can you check inside the gfx folder for "devlogo1a.bmp" and so on?

Huki @ 2 May 2015, 08:47 AM wrote: Can you post the contents of your launcher file by opening it in a text editor?

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Comment=Re-Volt port for Linux
Terminal=false
Name=RVGL
Type=Application
Categories=Games;
Path=/home/raster/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Acclaim/ReVolt
Exec=/home/raster/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Acclaim/ReVolt/rvgl
Icon=/home/raster/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Acclaim/ReVolt/icons/256x256/apps/rvgl.png

ElectricBee @ 4 May 2015, 05:43 PM wrote: Also, may as well mention in the future, packaging it would make things way less complicated for the Linux users. To prevent library conflicts, you could be able to shove any packages that directly conflict with other packages inside of /opt/RVGL (for example) and have RVGL load libraries from there.

It doesn't make sense for the 32-bit users, but for people who would prefer a 64-bit OS, it would be good for them because of the difficulties I've encountered with installation on a 64-bit system.

Gotolei @ 3 May 2015, 07:29 AM wrote:

Huki @ 2 May 2015, 08:47 AM wrote: Can you post the contents of your launcher file by opening it in a text editor?

[...]
This is the one I made from the ground up I think, but it's the same exec, path etc.

Escaping the path (etcetc/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/etcetc) stops some of the errors, but I'm not sure if it's supposed to be needed or not seeing how it refuses to behave in general :S

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Comment=Re-Volt port for Linux
Terminal=false
Name=RVGL
Type=Application
Categories=Games;
Path=/home/raster/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Acclaim/ReVolt
Exec="/home/raster/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Acclaim/ReVolt/rvgl"
Icon=/home/raster/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Acclaim/ReVolt/icons/256x256/apps/rvgl.png

ElectricBee @ 5 May 2015, 02:13 AM wrote:Also, may as well mention in the future, packaging it would make things way less complicated for the Linux users. To prevent library conflicts, you could be able to shove any packages that directly conflict with other packages inside of /opt/RVGL (for example) and have RVGL load libraries from there.

It doesn't make sense for the 32-bit users, but for people who would prefer a 64-bit OS, it would be good for them because of the difficulties I've encountered with installation on a 64-bit system.

Adding double-quotes fixed the part where it wouldn't start, anyways. But now occasionally, somewhat randomly, it doesn't exit properly. The menu slide-out animation plays, but the window doesn't close and the music continues.
It ignored wm-sent closing signals so I tried killing it with htop - resulting in a blank rectangle :/

Key Bindings wrote:Also on a mostly-irrelevant note, how are the keycodes determined, and are there any sanity checks which overwrite the set values if they don't compute?
I can't seem to get the keybinds I want from ReVolt over to RVGL, and poking around the .ini it seems the default codes are different.

Huki @ 6 May 2015, 11:13 AM wrote:Does it happen even when directly running the executable, without the launcher? So far this has never happened to me (on Linux Mint) either using launcher or the executable.

RV1.2 uses DirectInput scancodes while RVGL uses SDL scancodes. So there is no way to port the key bindings from v1.2 to rvgl.

Matsilagi @ 7 May 2015, 04:23 AM wrote: No word at depth buffer? Isnt it possible for you to test it?

Huki @ 7 May 2015, 02:43 PM wrote:

Matsilagi @ 7 May 2015, 04:23 AM wrote: No word at depth buffer? Isnt it possible for you to test it?

Sure, I'm eager to out ReShade, but before that I can't guess what could be wrong. Is ReShade available only for Windows?
Any further info about reproducing your issue (any specific places / actions to trigger the glitch, specific shaders you had used)? Also, you can open a new topic to discuss this further..

Abc @ 8 May 2015, 06:23 AM wrote: A guide for ini options please? so at least we can configure RVGL like we had re-volt.
and maybe a directinput -> SDL input converter for profile.ini

Huki @ 2 May 2015, 08:25 PM wrote:

48k audio wrote:*AL likes to complain about wanting a 44100 Hz audio rate but getting 48000 Hz instead. As someone with a strong interest in making some RV videos for YouTube in the near future, I would personally prefer having 48 kHz added to the options menu.

It means AL is already using 48k audio rate (though we hard-coded it to request 44.1k). Once the options menu is done you can expect more control over this.

Alphacraft @ 2 May 2015, 09:02 PM wrote:Ok, excellent! Just out of curiosity, will there be any support (or should I say, reason to have support) for 96000 Hz?

Huki @ 6 May 2015, 11:13 PM wrote:

Key Bindings wrote:Also on a mostly-irrelevant note, how are the keycodes determined, and are there any sanity checks which overwrite the set values if they don't compute?
I can't seem to get the keybinds I want from ReVolt over to RVGL, and poking around the .ini it seems the default codes are different.

RV1.2 uses DirectInput scancodes while RVGL uses SDL scancodes. So there is no way to port the key bindings from v1.2 to rvgl.

ElectricBee @ 11 May 2015, 09:58 PM wrote:What might be more ideal would be an external configuration program. One step down from in-game integration, but one step up from having to translate all the menu options, or rely on a conversion script if applicable.

Touriga @ 27 May 2015, 02:07 PM wrote:        

Is this immense silence a sign of hard work in RVGL or just busy life ? 

Huki @ 15 Jun 2015, 06:11 PM wrote:But I'm back now to continue from where I left off.

nero @ 15 Jun 2015, 08:14 PM wrote: If I may ask, what can we expect in the near future? Will the Options menu be enabled in the next update at least?

MightyCucumber @ 16 Jun 2015, 02:29 PM wrote:What was the reason being its disabling by the way? Time constraits that left that part of the code out?

MightyCucumber @ 16 Jun 2015, 02:59 PM wrote:

nero @ 15 Jun 2015, 08:14 PM wrote: If I may ask, what can we expect in the near future? Will the Options menu be enabled in the next update at least?

This. What was the reason being its disabling by the way? Time constraits that left that part of the code out?