vkQuake 1.31.0 Binaries

Bring a collection of improvements and fixes from Quakespasm, Ironwail , QuakeSpasm-Spiked and others, to be able to play the most recent releases the best possible way.

Improvements:

• Support r_skyalpha
• Added Support for JPEG and PNG texture formats
• Support demos larger than 2 GiB
• Many performance optimizations by @andrei-drexler from Ironwail
• Increased internal limits on the number of models, triangles, sounds...etc. for the most demanding mods.
  We can now play Slayers Testaments.
• Increase chase cam target trace distance for large open maps
• Add set and seta commands
• Add 2+3 arg forms of the toggle command
• Backport angled sprites code from FTEQW
• Tweak scr_viewsize 130 (hide pause, momentarily show notices)
• Multithreading performance improvements by @Novum and @temx
• Library updates
• Code cleanups

Fixes:

• Clear button status on map load to prevent stray fires/jumps
• Fix Dutch angle VP_PARALLEL_UPRIGHT sprites
• Fix potential buffer overflow in COM_Parse
• Fix potential buffer overflow in Mod_LoadAliasFrame
• Fix potential infinite loop in S_PaintChannels
• Mod_PolyForUnlitSurface : remove hardcoded local verts
• Work around some collision issues by @Macil
• Give the cvars generated from float+vector autocvars prettier default/initial values
• Fix viewmodel interpolation with >10Hz animations
• Remove annoying '... is unbound, hit F4 to set' message
• Fix 'S_FindName: out of sfx_t' errors when switching Mods / maps

Windows binaries require the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable:
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe (32 bit)
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe (64 bit)

Linux AppImage requires at least glibc 2.27. Check with ldd --version if in doubt (any recent Linux distribution should easily satisfy this). FUSE must be enabled and available (see https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/troubleshooting/fuse.html)

Full Changelog: 1.30.1...1.31.0

vkQuake 1.30.1 Binaries

Same as https://github.com/Novum/vkQuake/releases/edit/1.30.0 but with workaround for AMD driver bug causing corrupted sky and a minor Vulkan correctness fix.

• Support for remastered models (Needs data from remastered Quake)
• Support for dynamic lightmap shadows (requires a ray tracing capable GPU)
• Reworked all option menus
• Support for modern HUD style
• Transparency sorting (thanks @temx)
• Dynamic lights are now computed in world instead of texel space for more consistent light sizes
• New GPU memory allocator
• Improved level load times

Windows binaries require the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable:
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe (32 bit)
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe (64 bit)

Linux AppImage requires at least glibc 2.27. Check with ldd --version if in doubt (any recent Linux distribution should easily satisfy this). FUSE must be enabled and available (see https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/troubleshooting/fuse.html)

vkQuake 1.30.0 Binaries

• Support for remastered models (Needs data from remastered Quake)
• Support for dynamic lightmap shadows (requires a ray tracing capable GPU)
• Reworked all option menus
• Support for modern HUD style
• Transparency sorting (thanks @temx)
• Dynamic lights are now computed in world instead of texel space for more consistent light sizes
• New GPU memory allocator
• Improved level load times

Windows binaries require the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable:
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe (32 bit)
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe (64 bit)

Linux AppImage requires at least glibc 2.27. Check with ldd --version if in doubt (any recent Linux distribution should easily satisfy this). FUSE must be enabled and available (see https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/troubleshooting/fuse.html)

vkQuake 1.22.3 Binaries

• Mouse support in menus
• Support for binding weapons in controls menu

Windows binaries require the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable:
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe (32 bit)
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe (64 bit)

Linux AppImage requires at least glibc 2.27. Check with ldd --version if in doubt (any recent Linux distribution should easily satisfy this). FUSE must be enabled and available (see https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/troubleshooting/fuse.html)

vkQuake 1.22.1 Binaries

• GPU driven rendering (r_indirect) - much better performance in certain scenes (thanks @temx)
• Windows installer, detects existing Quake installations
• vkquake.pak is embedded into the executable, external file no longer used
• Configuration is now saved to vkQuake.cfg instead of config.cfg
• Demo seek support (arrow keys seek 10s, shift+arrows seek 30s, seek command bindable to function keys: bind F1 "seek -3")
• Demo recording is no longer interrupted when loading savegames
• fastload command loads savegame without reloading level (bind F6 "save quick"; bind F9 "fastload quick")
• Model .scale support for mods/maps (thanks @Shpoike)
• Lightstyles no longer saturate at 2x brightness
• CPU/GPU optimizations for maps with very large geometry/lightmap footprints
• r_speeds works again, r_showbboxes shows edict numbers
• Various other bug fixes
• Fixed pitch-black entities in some Arcane Dimension levels (thanks @andrei-drexler)

Ported from Ironwail (thanks @andrei-drexler):

• Underwater sound filter (snd_waterfx 0 to disable)
• viewsize 130 for clean screenshots (+/- keys to quickly select)
• Built-in zooming support (togglezoom, +zoom/-zoom, zoom_fov, zoom_speed)

Windows binaries require the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable:
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe (32 bit)
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe (64 bit)

Linux AppImage requires at least glibc 2.27. Check with ldd --version if in doubt (any recent Linux distribution should easily satisfy this). FUSE must be enabled and available (see https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/troubleshooting/fuse.html)

vkQuake 1.22 Binaries

• GPU driven rendering (r_indirect) - much better performance in certain scenes (thanks @temx)
• Windows installer, detects existing Quake installations
• vkquake.pak is embedded into the executable, external file no longer used
• Configuration is now saved to vkQuake.cfg instead of config.cfg
• Demo seek support (arrow keys seek 10s, shift+arrows seek 30s, seek command bindable to function keys: bind F1 "seek -3")
• Demo recording is no longer interrupted when loading savegames
• fastload command loads savegame without reloading level (bind F6 "save quick"; bind F9 "fastload quick")
• Underwater sound filter (snd_waterfx 0 to disable)
• viewsize 130 for clean screenshots (+/- keys to quickly select)
• Built-in zooming support (togglezoom, +zoom/-zoom, zoom_fov, zoom_speed)
• Model .scale support for mods/maps
• Lightstyles no longer saturate at 2x brightness
• CPU/GPU optimizations for maps with very large geometry/lightmap footprints
• Fixed pitch-black entities in some Arcane Dimension levels
• r_speeds works again, r_showbboxes shows edict numbers
• Various other bug fixes

Known issues:

• Might crash when alt+tabbing, working on a fix (#581)

Windows binaries require the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable:
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe (32 bit)
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe (64 bit)

Linux AppImage requires at least glibc 2.27. Check with ldd --version if in doubt (any recent Linux distribution should easily satisfy this). FUSE must be enabled and available (see https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/troubleshooting/fuse.html)

vkQuake 1.20.3 Binaries

• Fixed multiple parallelism bugs
• 8-bit mode now has dithering

Windows binaries require the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable:
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe (32 bit)
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe (64 bit)

Linux AppImage requires at least glibc 2.17. Check with ldd --version if in doubt (any recent Linux distribution should easily satisfy this). FUSE must be enabled and available (see https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/troubleshooting/fuse.html)

vkQuake 1.20.2 Binaries

• Fixed a crash on startup with re-release Quake data
• Fixed crash with small stack sized on Unix (e.g. musl libc)

Windows binaries require the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable:
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe (32 bit)
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe (64 bit)

Linux AppImage requires at least glibc 2.17. Check with ldd --version if in doubt (any recent Linux distribution should easily satisfy this). FUSE must be enabled and available (see https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/troubleshooting/fuse.html)

vkQuake 1.20.1 Binaries

• Fix a bug that could cause random lockups with 1.20.0
• Fix screenshot crash
• Fix corruption if new vkquake.pak is missing or old one is still in place

Windows binaries require the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable:
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe (32 bit)
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe (64 bit)

Linux AppImage requires at least glibc 2.17. Check with ldd --version if in doubt (any recent Linux distribution should easily satisfy this). FUSE must be enabled and available (see https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/troubleshooting/fuse.html)

vkQuake 1.20.0

• Parallelized renderer for significantly higher performance
• Parallelized texture mip generation for faster load times
• SIMD code optimizations
• "8-bit" color mode emulation
• Scaling is now less blurry
• Mods menu
• Completely replaced memory management (no more -heapsize)

Windows binaries require the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable:
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe (32 bit)
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe (64 bit)

Linux AppImage requires at least glibc 2.17. Check with ldd --version if in doubt (any recent Linux distribution should easily satisfy this). FUSE must be enabled and available (see https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/troubleshooting/fuse.html)