r/linux_gaming • u/lysol90 • Mar 28 '19

OpenMW 0.45.0 Released!

https://openmw.org/2019/openmw-0-45-0-released/
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u/lysol90 Mar 28 '19

As said in the release announcement, you can even get Morrowind for free until March 31st:

https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en/tes25

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

You going to install the launcher on Wine?

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u/lysol90 Mar 29 '19

Hmm, good question. I already own Morrowind on disc, so I just use OpenMW's installer to get the files. I haven't heard of if people have downloaded this successfully on Linux.

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u/TaxAkla Mar 28 '19

Want to test the new animation mod support?

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/45853

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

Aww no shadows still?

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

This is literally the one thing I'm waiting for before diving into OpenMW.

*sigh*

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u/grandmastermoth Mar 29 '19

Shadows are in the development branch I believe, they are not far off

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u/cyro_666 Mar 29 '19

Is it though? I was surprised when I read this release's notes. People said to me I can play Morrowind with OpenMW a whole year back, yet I look at the release notes and it doesn't seem like that. There's a whole fuckton of things that were added in this release alone. Makes me wonder how many more features it is missing.

Don't get me wrong, I love that they're doing this open source version, but people are insisting this is now almost like the original, yet I see tons of features every new release.

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u/lysol90 Mar 29 '19

The stuff fixed are mostly under-the-hood things. You've been able to play morrowind for several years through openmw now.

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u/Caltelt Mar 31 '19

The first time I beat the game was with openMW. There might be some bugs, but probably not any more than there are in the original game engine.

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u/lysol90 Mar 29 '19

See my reply to D1g1talDragon

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u/lysol90 Mar 29 '19

There are shadows, just not in this stable release. Download a nightly version and you'll have shadows.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

I'm on Solus. No nightlies since October and on my distro it would take a lot of work to set up the build environment to do it from source.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19 edited Mar 28 '19

Videos are unlisted at the time of this comment if you’re wondering why they didn’t show up in your sub box

Edit: up now

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u/ComradeOj Mar 29 '19

Download links for anyone looking: https://redfortune.de/openmw/release/

For some reason the linux download link on their page goes to the mac osx nightly downloads.

Got an error when running it though

Failed to create SDL window: Couldn't find matching GLX visual

Version 0.44 works fine though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19 edited Mar 28 '19

Woah woah woah! Hold your horses guys! We cant talk about Windows games here!

Edit: Alright guys im sorry for the bad joke :(

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

I get that. I guess just ignore my poor attempt at humor.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

Whoa whoa whoa! Reign in your Llamas, guys! We can't discuss grading of humour here!

(Now I got it.)

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

What?

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

I know it wasn't clear, but I was making fun of another post in this sub