OpenMW for Switch

MORSHU8KRTXON · Sep 17, 2021

Can't wait to play this

Jeromy22 · Sep 18, 2021

OneOnline said:
Hi, you have to use AUR helpers like "yay", then install this aur.archlinux.org/packages/openmw-git, during installation select something like opengl (second option, first one will fail). Its pretty simple, just takes time (around 4 hours for me).

Ah thanks! I might give that a go later. I ended up going the ubuntu route for now to test. It runs incredibly well. With the view distance pumped up all the way, its 50fps around seyda neen, performance OC 1785. I still havent copied any switchroot config files.
Tbh outdoors anything above 30 is fine for me

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Did you figure out a solution to the joycons? I can’t get them to register at all. Thats honestly the only thing putting me off. The controller Ive been using that works great with it is an 8-bit do sn30 pro+. Im guessing it has something to do with x-input.
Edit**
Im not sure if this helps either, but On The Sn30 bluetooth controller, the left stick will controll movement + camera IF you dont move the cursor at all when opening the start menu. If you then go back into the start menu(return,new,save,load,options,exit) move the cursor, then return to the game, it will fix it.

prz · Sep 18, 2021

Can somebody put up 0.48 nightly for Switch please and maybe fix that keyboard pop-up issue ? Also, seems like alchemy is partly unuseable since you cant open the keyboard to enter a potions name. @fgsfds are you still into this port?

Jeromy22 · Sep 19, 2021

OneOnline said:
I am currently working with Arch Linux on Switch. Yesterday I compiled the latest openmw and ran it on ultra settings with mods for textures and so on, I got about 30-60 fps, depending on where to look. However, the game crashes after a while, most likely due to an unstable build. I think with a stable build and the stock GOTY edition, the game would work very well. Now I am interested in tes3mp for Switch, I will deal with this further

UPD
On GOTY in the first city, FPS drops up to 50 frames if you look at some houses, but in general it is stable 60, and does not crash. I think I'll try the config from this topic.

UPD
After setting the config, the fps is stable 60. Only one problem with controls... the left joystick controls not only the movement but also the camera, I run forward and the camera goes down. Everything else is fine. Apparently I need to apply some kind of fix for this. I am using xf86-input-joystick to control the mouse with the left joystick. At low sensitivity I can manage my inventory pretty well (no need to touch the screen at all).

Any chance you could link your joystick.conf file if your using joycons? I can’t get them to move my character at all. Even without mouse issues

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OneOnline · Sep 19, 2021

Jeromy22 said:
Any chance you could link your joystick.conf file if your using joycons? I can’t get them to move my character at all. Even without mouse issues .

I installed aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-input-joystick, then downloaded latest config with this command:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cobalt2727/L4T-Megascript/master/assets/50-joystick.conf && sudo mv 50-joystick.conf /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
But it didnt work the first time (couldnt move mouse cursor with left stick), no idea how i fixed that, probably rebooted system couple of times and repeated whole process. After that no issues except "left stick will controll movement + camera" and as I can see you fixed that

deathblade200 · Sep 19, 2021

for anybody curious it still works on 13.0.0

Jeromy22 · Sep 20, 2021

OneOnline said:
I installed aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-input-joystick, then downloaded latest config with this command:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cobalt2727/L4T-Megascript/master/assets/50-joystick.conf && sudo mv 50-joystick.conf /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
But it didnt work the first time (couldnt move mouse cursor with left stick), no idea how i fixed that, probably rebooted system couple of times and repeated whole process. After that no issues except "left stick will controll movement + camera" and as I can see you fixed that

I had older config file for the joycons a user provided on the temp

. After updating to the megascript I had the same issue you did with the camera. The solution is even easier though!
The reason the camera moves is because the keyboard desktop layout is still enabled on top of morrowinds controls . Once in game(unless youve edited the config text files)by default the screenshot capture button disables it . After that everything works perfectly.

doctorgoat · Sep 24, 2021

deathblade200 said:
for anybody curious it still works on 13.0.0

How? I try to launch it and it just errors out, no logs or anything.

edit: the build a few pages back did it, now to see if i can get mods going correctly

edit 2: mods are running, except Jiub and Sellis Gravius don't have voices. I probably packed something into a BSP I shouldn't have, but other people in the world have voices just fine. The keyboard is *miserable* and often appears to do nothing at all; the save menu is nigh unusable and I've had to bind a button to quicksave. I've beaten this whole dang game before without saving due to a glitch in the original version where you can clip through a wall and be immune to guards for the entire game at the cost of never having a save menu, but I'd rather not relive that.

I understand there's a lot going on with updating it, though, and I'm impressed at the sheer number of projects the author of this has going on. I'd try to get things going but the only switch port I've done was done by hooking a game's android touchscreen functions and just hoping it compiled. :s

aarstar · Sep 27, 2021

Jeromy22 said:
I had older config file for the joycons a user provided on the temp. After updating to the megascript I had the same issue you did with the camera. The solution is even easier though!
The reason the camera moves is because the keyboard desktop layout is still enabled on top of morrowinds controls . Once in game(unless youve edited the config text files)by default the screenshot capture button disables it . After that everything works perfectly.

I got this working on switchroot Ubuntu, but the mouse locks to the window, and I can’t enter my name in the beginning. So, I’m stuck and need to force reboot the switch. Did you have any issues like this?

Jeromy22 · Sep 27, 2021

aarstar said:
I got this working on switchroot Ubuntu, but the mouse locks to the window, and I can’t enter my name in the beginning. So, I’m stuck and need to force reboot the switch. Did you have any issues like this?

Just use the show onboard in ubuntu to type your name. Or connect a keyboard to your dock. You only need to get past the initial area to the point you can save, then you can remove it.
Ubuntu seems to work a fair bit better than HOS. For the same fps you get much better visuals & way better load times.
The default HOS fullscreen resolution is 800x600, it does get 60fps at that, but it drops if you up the res to 1280x720 by a chunk. Changing the resolution in game doesnt work either on HOS, need to edit the default.cfg manually.

aarstar · Sep 27, 2021

Thanks, I was thinking about using a real keyboard. I actually can’t use the onscreen keyboard when this happens because even the touch screen somehow seems locked to the openmw window.

Jeromy22 · Sep 27, 2021

aarstar said:
Thanks, I was thinking about using a real keyboard. I actually can’t use the onscreen keyboard when this happens because even the touch screen somehow seems locked to the openmw window.

It is possible to use the onboard one if your on the go, I tried it earlier & managed after a bit.
You need to get the text line blinking inside the name box first though. It might be an idea to use the hotkey buttons from the megascript & edit them to have an Alt+Tab combo. That way you can enable & disable it at will. Otherwise just use it a few times at the beggining, then rewrite your old named saves & use quicksave.

doctorgoat · Sep 30, 2021

It does work heavily modded, it is just very easy to accidentally demand too much from the Switch. I need to dig through these mods and try to get just gameplay changes going

After that, the biggest problem on the Switch is fine aiming and the keyboard regularly deciding it's time for it to show up and not do the right thing unless you push minus

Jeromy22 · Oct 1, 2021

doctorgoat said:
It does work heavily modded, it is just very easy to accidentally demand too much from the Switch. I need to dig through these mods and try to get just gameplay changes going

After that, the biggest problem on the Switch is fine aiming and the keyboard regularly deciding it's time for it to show up and not do the right thing unless you push minus

For me the issue isn’t so much the fps, or even the slightly less visuals than ubuntu.
Its mainly the load times(and I dont mean initial ones).
Even with preloading enabled, entering building & outdoors in general their are constant blue bars. The entering buildings doesnt bother me too much, its those outdoors that I find particularly unnimersive.
As for heavily modded, it highly depends what your adding. Adding shadows alone, brings the port to its knees. Then theirs the vendor bug that brings up the virtual keyboard every time. The downside ubuntu has, is you need the destop virtual keyboard displayed on top of morrowind to type. Considering you hardly ever need use it though, I find it easier just alt tabbing for when you do.
Unless the switch in game loading dissappears, Ill probs stick with ubuntu.

aarstar · Oct 2, 2021

Can you explain how to make an alt-tab shortcut with the megascript file?

Jeromy22 · Oct 2, 2021

aarstar said:
Can you explain how to make an alt-tab shortcut with the megascript file?

If you have installed the joycon joystick as mouse controller configuration using the megascript.
Type sudo Nautilus in the terminal, then when the window opens, then go into filesystem/usr/shared/X11/Xorg.conf.d and edit the 50-joystick.conf file.
You need to edit the button mappings to = key 128+key 156 as an example. I don’t know which keys correspond to alt tab exactly i havent tried yet, so you might be able to find that online searching xorg input key bindings, or otherwise just with trial and error. If you cant edit the file directly, copy & paste to overwrite it.

aarstar · Oct 2, 2021

Okay, thank you. I am using the 50-joystick.conf from the megascript. Weirdly, it installed an older version that I had to overwrite with the download linked earlier in the thread.

aarstar · Oct 3, 2021

By the way, I playing around with an older 11.0.0 emuMMC in SXOS alongside my typical latest HOS, latest Atmosphere emuMMC. The openmx-v2-recompile nro posted by chaoskagami has the keyboard popup issue even on 11.0.0 with SXOS, so it doesn't seem to be an Atmosphere or HOS version issue per se. Switching back to the original openmw-v2 nro from fgsfds of course doesn't have the keyboard popup issue. Maybe this was all already known, but I was trying to find an alternative to the Linux version until I have time to figure out some of its quirks.

rantex92 · Oct 3, 2021

can someone help me? i get an error and its gone back to the homemenu everytime i load the openmw nro from the homebrew menu did i do anything wrong? i put open mw in the switch folder on the sd card then i put the "data files" folder and the "morrowind.ini" in the data folder located in openmw folder after that i hook some installed title to start hbmenu and then i load openmw

Edit: Fixed got it running with the recompiled version a few sites back

doctorgoat · Oct 4, 2021

the load times and all aren't a big deal to me because I started playing Morrowind on the original xbox and openmw switch without a sys-clk boost is still a drastic improvement over most of my memories of Morrowind

I just need to figure out how to maybe have some sort of view snapping to objects (it's hard to aim at a fork or something with a joycon) and figure out which mods I was using have the scripting that is causing so much lag.

I know Firemoth is super funky even on PC which led me to dump it

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