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My understanding is its at the point where its complete enough there is work underway extending the engine to also support Oblivion/Fallout as they use similar
by livionion 5y ago
My understanding is its at the point where its complete enough there is work underway extending the engine to also support Oblivion/Fallout as they use similar asset formats. Very exciting stuff in my opinion.
- qwerty456127 5y agoI feel curious if this is going to let me play Fallout 3 on my TV-attached Raspberry Pi 4 using a BlueTooth gamepad.
- Johnnynator 5y agoI don't think a Pi 4 would be fast enough to provide a enjoyable experience. I just tested OpenMW on a Pinebook Pro (RK3399 SOC, should be slightly faster than a PI 4) and I do get like ~30-40 fps with lowest draw distance in Morrowind. Fallout 3 should be even slower due to far more and more detailed objects. edit: Rendered at a meager 800x600 px
- qwerty456127 5y agoI played Fallout 3 on a Core 2 Duo with Intel graphics. I used the lowest graphics settings possible (the display's native resolution though - 1440x900, not the minimum) but enjoyed. Is Raspberry Pi 4 supposed to be even slower?
- ThatPlayer 5y agohttps://youtu.be/Fb1UUesbNlY https://youtu.be/Fb1UUesbNlY shows a Pi 4 running OpenMW not badly at 720p with medium draw distance. Still looks pretty bad, I think I'd rather run the Android port of OpenMW with an HDMI adapter I think.
- Johnnynator 5y agoMaybe I'm used too much to playing with 60+ fps, but I would call a highly unstable framerate with dips below 20fps bad.
- qwerty456127 5y agoHow comes the Android port is supposed to be faster? Isn't Raspberry PI 4 similar to a good Android smartphone in hardware?
- wongarsu 5y agoI would have characterized it more as a midrange phone from half a decade ago.
- qwerty456127 5y agoHalf a decade is not much. My phone is a flagship from more than a half a decade ago and everything (except the GPS module - it usually takes minutes of standing still to hit enough satellites and knocks out the whole new battery in under half an hour) works perfectly fast.
- selectodude 5y agoHalf a decade in mobile CPU time is massive. The A15 is, at minimum, literally 5x faster than the A10.
- Causality1 5y agoWhich is great because both those games are hobbled on modern platforms. For example, if you want to play Oblivion with analog sticks you'd have an easier time emulating the 360 version than adding them to the PC version.
- revolvingocelot 5y agoThis! I'm all the more frustrated by the claim (seemingly validated by the grandparent about Oblivion/Fallout compatibility) that Bethesda just kinda gives the old engine a new coat of paint then merrily releases a new generation of videogame. You'd think that there'd be fan-spearheaded attempts to tear out and replace some of the wonkier components. And, after reading about all of this, I guess there are.
- refracture 5y agoWow, that would be amazing. I haven't tried OpenMW in a year or more but I was really impressed with what they had managed, it was the first time I had ever played MW with a decent frame rate.. that original engine seemed to run poorly on any configuration of hardware I had over the years.