Inspired by the "Thief" series by Looking Glass Studios, The Dark Mod is a full standalone open source first-person stealth game. Technically, it's a toolkit allowing anyone to create their own stealth missions and campaigns in a Thief-like setting, and there's plenty of content available for it.
The Dark Mod 2.12 sounds like a fantastic release, which includes a new culling system to increase performance. This is where your system won't waste resources rendering things that aren't currently seen. The developer said that while some people using TDM were able to achieve similar performance gains, this new system is built-in so all maps can work better. They said that "Players will immediately notice many missions that have made their system struggle with FPS now may be running much more smoothly!".
Not only that but controls should be "more seamless and accessible", mantling should be smoother, faster and work more correctly, leaning works better, there's now more subtitles for "nearly all AI barks", improved text quality, and a nasty bug from the previous release that allowed arrows to pass through AI characters at certain angles was solved.
Overall it seems like a good cleaning up release to make the game work better.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
crossing my fingers and will give it another try.
Excited to see what could be done with this open source project.
Bound to be some crazy stuff.
i've been wanting to play this for a long time, but never had good performance (sub-30 FPS).
crossing my fingers and will give it another try.
Make sure to set FPS to "Uncapped" in the Advanced Menu. The capped mode is identical to Vanilla Doom 3 and is known to be buggy on Linux. Uncapped mode uses a new timing architecture that runs much smoother even in situations where you might have sub-60 FPS.
thanks for the hint, it's butter smooth now!i've been wanting to play this for a long time, but never had good performance (sub-30 FPS).
crossing my fingers and will give it another try.
Make sure to set FPS to "Uncapped" in the Advanced Menu. The capped mode is identical to Vanilla Doom 3 and is known to be buggy on Linux. Uncapped mode uses a new timing architecture that runs much smoother even in situations where you might have sub-60 FPS.
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