OpenMW for Switch

Instandhaltung · Jan 20, 2020

Hey Elder Scrolls fans, since a lot of people seem to enjoy this one, slight off topic. Has anyone heard of Daggerfall Unity? I'd love to see a port of it as well, but haven't heard of anyone planning to do so. I wonder why, but I'm no tech guy tbh

Daggerfall is fully playable with Daggerfall unity, and although the game is older than Morrowind, lots of mechanics are the same, and I personally enjoy it quite a lot.

robrasa · Jan 27, 2020

fgsfds (or anyone), please, is it possible to increase gamma?

Ryuubu · Feb 1, 2020

Is there any way to rebind controls? an ini file somewhere?

Also can i manually enable a plugin in an ini file somewhere? How? Don't really wanna screw around with PC OMW

dujdujduj · Feb 1, 2020

Instandhaltung said:
Hey Elder Scrolls fans, since a lot of people seem to enjoy this one, slight off topic. Has anyone heard of Daggerfall Unity? I'd love to see a port of it as well, but haven't heard of anyone planning to do so. I wonder why, but I'm no tech guy tbh
Daggerfall is fully playable with Daggerfall unity, and although the game is older than Morrowind, lots of mechanics are the same, and I personally enjoy it quite a lot.

I think the problem is that it's in Unity. You can only port Unity games to Switch with the official SDK and using it for homebrew would be illegal.

If you want it on Switch it may be playable in Ubuntu. I don't have it though.

Ryuubu · Feb 2, 2020

Also wondering can I manually enable plugins in some ini file? I tried transferring my PC OpenMW configs and it just gave me boot loops. Thanks!

Instandhaltung · Feb 3, 2020

dujdujduj said:
I think the problem is that it's in Unity. You can only port Unity games to Switch with the official SDK and using it for homebrew would be illegal.

If you want it on Switch it may be playable in Ubuntu. I don't have it though.

Interesting, I didn't know that it wasn't possible! Thanks for the reply.

Breuake · Feb 22, 2020

Hello, first time here, i'm kinda stuck during the "launch" process, when i try to launch the game via hbmenu ( so holding R then a on any application ) i'm getting a profile selection popup then a quick blackscreen and... Back to hbmenu, everything worked fine before 9.1, what should i do ?

gabisenk · Feb 22, 2020

any chance for an oblivion port?

atypicalchaos · Mar 3, 2020

This is from a year ago:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/artic...kyrim-and-fallout-plus-shadows-are-back.13606

gabisenk said:
any chance for an oblivion port?

Sookie69 · Mar 23, 2020

Did anybody test it on 9.2.0 ?

I'm going to update OFW, just to make sure.

darkrakso · Mar 23, 2020

Sookie69 said:
Did anybody test it on 9.2.0 ?

I'm going to update OFW, just to make sure.

Doesn't work on 9.2.0 for me, it wasn't working on 9.1.0 as well

notimp · Mar 24, 2020

Does work on 9.2.0 for me.

But I 'lost' savegames (not sure why, havent troubleshooted yet).

Deleted User · Mar 24, 2020

darkrakso said:
Doesn't work on 9.2.0 for me, it wasn't working on 9.1.0 as well

works fine on 9.1.0 you should look into that. I imagine you are having other issues. Try clean install of atmosphere. Good to know it works on 9.2.0 as well.

Sookie69 · Mar 25, 2020

seanp2500 said:
works fine on 9.1.0 you should look into that

Exactly. I'm on 9.1.0 right now, and it works fine, the problem lies somwhere else.

Savegames are crucial at least when you are 60 lvl, I hope that's a coincidence.

fgsfds · Mar 25, 2020

The savegame problem might be due to you changing your username, or something with the username handling being different in 9.1.0. Check the /switch/openmw/data/ folder and move the saves if necessary.

Rusb · Mar 25, 2020

I ran it on a Jetson Nano a while ago and the performance was quite Meh, how it does on the Switch?

phonemonkey · May 8, 2020

Set this to 'true' in settings-default.cfg for a great increase when loading areas.

preload enabled = true

TheCasualties · May 11, 2020

Long time lurker, but I had to join to say... Thanks so much for this port! Probably my most played game on switch now.

i was bothered by the fog (view distance, forgot it was so bad in vanilla) and discovered OpenMW has a "distant terrain" setting. If you want to see much farther, just add this to your settings.cfg:

Code:

[Camera]
viewing distance = 66666
[Terrain]
# The on-switch to distant terrain. Set this to True.
distant terrain = True

The default distance is 6656 (or 6666). You can play around with this value to find what you like best.

Haven't noticed any framerate changes but it seems to cause slightly more 'area loading'. I'm very happy with the trade off. It's amazing to actually see where you are heading. The line posted by owdeuk above might help with the loading, just tested a bit, seems like the 'area loading' pauses are cut down to 1/4th of a second!

I've also played around with some over/under clocking. Seems to still work fine with slight underclock for extending battery life while in handheld.

For anyone trying this game for the first time: the archive.bsa tip also helps immensely for the initial loading time. Described on page 13, link in OP.

PS: I'm very pleased with the performance, to answer Rusb. Can't seem to get an FPS counter to work with the game but it feels quite smooth, other than the first few seconds after going through a door/transition.

Kotomine Kirei · May 20, 2020

If this is still being worked on, is it possible for someone to make the menus more controller-friendly or to place cursor movement on the right analog stick as well as the left?
My left Joy-Con's analog stick has problems, and the cursor also moves too fast.

Besides that, for some reason, the game is really dark (even with max brightness settings through the Switch's menu), and candles and such do not help.
Also, when I change the controller's controls in-game, they go back to default after I restart the game (though, that might just be because I am exiting the game wrong).

By the way, thank you for making a port of OpenMW, fgsfds.

Rusb said:
I ran it on a Jetson Nano a while ago and the performance was quite Meh, how it does on the Switch?

The performance is quite good, from what I have played of it so far, but I have not gone very far in the game yet (only a few quests at Balmora's Guild of Mages).
I am using the settings that owdeuk and TheCasualties suggested (though, I reduced the view distance by half), and I put a few folders into a BSA file, as mentioned by rsn8887, here:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/openmw-for-switch.540250/page-13#post-8694765

TheCasualties · May 20, 2020

If you set your keybinds (in game or main menu) then exit the game from the "exit" on the main menu, your keybinds should be saved. I haven't pinned down what causes them to reset.

I've looked through the default-settings.ini, which should contain all options, and I don't see anything to change mouse sensitivity when in the GUI. There's an option for sensitivity when NOT in GUI tho. Not sure how the mouse was even mapped to a joystick, so I can't help there.

I did find a gamma setting which might help with the darkness though! Hopefully it works, haven't tested yet.

Add this to your settings.cfg

Code:

[Video]
# Video gamma setting.  (>0.0).  No effect in Linux.
gamma = 1.0

Change 1.0 to see if it helps. EDIT: after testing, this doesn't seem to work? Tired both 1.5 and 0.5, they look the same.

BONUS: Add extra quicksave slots with this (I got an orange screen crash one time while loading, but 2nd try loaded it fine, might have been a fluke)

Code:

[Saves]
# The maximum number of quick (or auto) save slots to have.
# If all slots are used, the  oldest save is reused
max quicksaves = 1

Change 1 to whatever number you want.

Found these options in the settings-default.cfg. You could change these variables there, but keeping all your edits in the settings.cfg makes things easier if you mess up somewhere.

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