Changelog

This article tracks high-level changes compared to the original Arx Fatalis source code release. See Refactoring Arx Fatalis for some things still left to do.

Arx Libertatis 1.0 "Bloody Gobblers!"

New Features

• Cross-platform support: Windows, Linux and possibly other UNIX-likes
• Configurable windowing + renderer, input and audio backends
• Save game list is sorted so that latest save is at the top
• Configurable number of quicksave slots
• Shortcut to toggle windowed and fullscreen mode (default is Alt+Enter)
• Video config menu displays the aspect ratio along with resolutions
• Separated window size and fullscreen resolution
• Added an "automatic" fullscreen resolution setting that always chooses the highest available one
• Support for system-wide installation and per-user configuration / savegames (follows the XDG Base Directory Specification under linux)
• Ported to amd64 architecture
• A single binary can automatically run the demo or full game data
• Automatic language detection for the data files
• Added a crash reporter tool
• Added tools to extract .pak and savegame files

Fixed Bugs

• Fixed aspect ratio for interface elements when using non 5:4-resolutions (some are still stretched)
• Fixed various crashes
• Improved level loading speed by limiting the progress bar update rate

Technical Changes

• Ported text rendering from Windows GDI to Freetype
• Removed dependency on the proprietary PKWARE implode library
  • This required changing the savegame format - saves produced by Arx Libertatis cannot be read by the original Arx Fatalis, but Arx Libertatis can still read the original save files.
• Abstracted windowing framework, with SDL and Win32 implementations
• Abstracted audio backend, with OpenAL and DirectSound 9 implementations
• Abstracted input backend, with SDL and DirectInput 8 implementations
• Abstracted renderer backend, with OpenGL and Direct3D 9 implementations
• Replaced custom image loading/saving code with DevIL
• Various code cleanup and performance improvements

Removed Features

• Editor mode (will be re-added)
• Texture size option (will be re-added)
• "Bump mapping" (proper bump/normal mapping will be re-added)
• PNUX texture effect
• Support for reducing textures to 16-bit
• Non-newcontrol mode
• Gamma/brightness/contrast correction

Patch 1.0.1

• Fixed garbled text rendering in the Russian version (bug #226)
• Fixed a crash in the critical error dialog on some File:Tux.png Linux systems (crash report #229)
• Loading files from the graph and misc directories is now case-insensitive
• Switched to D3D and DInput backends by default on File:Windows icon.png Windows