GemRB thread. Remastered IE games without the gay.

[rusty_shackleford]

v0.9.2 released today
https://gemrb.org/2023/07/08/gemrb-0-9-2-released.html

GemRB 0.9.2 released! (Dragon’s horde edition)
The GemRB team is proud to announce a new major release.

It brings in many improvements for Planescape: Torment, configurable AI speed, improved performance and others. Notably GemRB now also supports PVR(Z) based formats, making content creation easier, most new opcodes/actions/triggers and together with some infrastructural changes, BG2EE games can now be loaded (still not playable though!).

Sources and packages are available. You can get them from here.

Full changelog digest:

GemRB v0.9.2 (2023-07-08):
New features:
- PVR(Z), BAM2, MOS2 and TIS2 support
- support for higher AI speeds ("FPS") and VSync
- support for EE-style saves, TLK locations and many more tables
- PST's floating text and personalized pc comments
- optional smooth fog of war on SDL >= 2.0.18
- 3e-style sneak attack and crippling strike from HoW/iwdee
- Anbernic device support

Improved features:
- PST effect durations
- performance, pathfinding, formations
- combat, opcodes, EE compat, hp handling, demo
- bugfixes
Thanks to everyone that contributed their time, including: Brad Allred, Bubb, burner1024, desecaw13, dikau, fizzet, FrElvire, Jaka Kranjc, kloptops, Konrad Klimaszewski, majcosta, MarcelHB, Mingun, Rod Batten, Rodrigo Santellan, Tomsod, Zoltan Gyokeres.

Notes to packagers:

optional CapFPS, GameLanguagePath and GameMoviesPath keys have been added to the sample configs
an upgrade to C++14 standard will occur after this release
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[Pipeweed]

based gibberlings, this is godsent as I was about to try running those games on linux for first time

[rusty_shackleford]

v0.9.4 released, IWD2 is now completable start to finish. EE support is being worked on.
https://gemrb.org/2025/01/11/gemrb-0-9-4-released.html


Which means GemRB is now a full replacement for all of the original IE games.

[fkirenicus]

You know if this works with "the original saga" or something like that on GOG, Rusty? I think they push EE first and foremost, but we who purchased these when GOG actually was GOG still have access to the pre-EE games. I am unsure if the file structure is known to gem though. I think it was not supported previously (probably 7-8 years ago I looked at gem last... I lnow it works or used to work for the disc version/s ).

[rusty_shackleford]

You know if this works with "the original saga" or something like that on GOG, Rusty? I think they pushh EE first and foremost, but we who purchased these when gog actually was gog still have access to the pre-EE games. I am unsure if the file structure is know to gem though. I think it was not supported previously (probably 10 years ago I looked at gem last...).

Yes, it's for the original non-EE games.