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Xash3D FWGS engine
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Add HLSDK to builds. #1850

Closed Buggem closed 1 month ago

Buggem commented 1 month ago

It's pretty annoying to manually compile HLSDK for builds so maybe you could add it to the releases if you would be so kind? valve and bshift are the most played GoldSrc games, so could you just update the Github Actions dockerfile to build FWGS/hlsdk-portable master and bshift branches? It would be much appreciated and save me a LOT of time. (I noticed that the MacOS versions have it compiled, at least for valve)

a1batross commented 1 month ago

Xash3D FWGS is an engine. Build HLSDK or not is a choice of a port maintainer, some ports include it, some ports don't.

Usually ports that don't include prebuilt HLSDK already has precompiled binaries you can get from Steam like Windows or Linux.

a1batross commented 1 month ago

Though we probably should do that on 64-bit builds.

a1batross commented 1 month ago

On other hand, I would rather discourage users from using 64-bit builds on platforms supported by GoldSource and games and mods for it.

Therefore, Windows and Linux on x86 won't get prebuilt game binaries because these platforms can run 32-bit engine and have all mods.

But Mac on x86 don't support 32-bit applications anymore, therefore it has prebuilt binaries. Same for Android, PSVita and NSwitch.

Buggem commented 1 month ago

@a1batross but at the same time, 64-bit builds provide more RAM access allowing to fully utilise the power of the clients computer. Mine has 64gbs of RAM, and I didn't buy that for nothing :P

Buggem commented 1 month ago

And also bshift Steam binary had a crash, so I had to manually compile it.

nekonomicon commented 1 month ago

And also bshift Steam binary had a crash, so I had to manually compile it.

https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs/blob/master/Documentation/not-supported-mod-list-and-reasons-why.md

but at the same time, 64-bit builds provide more RAM access allowing to fully utilise the power of the clients computer.

But it's completely useless for such old games. 64-bit common registers and SIMD can give you boost, but not RAM.