Darwinia

Mission difficulty is respected again. Your chosen difficulty setting now correctly applies to all normal missions (cutscenes and tutorials excepted). Spirit collection fixes. Spirit Receivers reliably attract and pick up drifting spirits again, fixing timing issues where spirits could be missed. Improved mod support. Fixed corrupted text when loading mods, and mods that fail to load now recover g

Bug Fixes Fixed language table corruption after loading a mod. Improved user experience when attempting to load a corrupted mod. Updated ANGLE to pull in some upstream bug fixes.

Bug Fixes Fixed a crash on startup for some users caused by the renderer attempting to use an unsupported color format. Fixed mouse scroll wheel not working on macOS and Linux. Fixed shader compilation failures on some ANGLE configurations that prevented the game from launching. Fixed EGL initialization bugs that could prevent the game from starting.

Gameplay Grenades and Triffid Eggs now bounce off buildings (with sound effects) Anthills: smarter about objectives. Ants are sent to clusters of spirits rather than individual distant spirits, and ants on attack orders focus on the enemy first instead of getting distracted by spirits along the way Army Ants: resume previous orders if interrupted, increased search radius Virii: no longer target Da

This update contains a major bugfix for the 2.3.3 release. Major changes: Fixed broken music playback. Known issues: macOS: On MacBook Pro 14"/16" with 120Hz displays (or in fact any Mac with > 60Hz displays) there is stuttering in full screen mode. This is caused by the "Direct-to-Display" feature in Metal, which cannot be opted out of. We have implemented a partial workaround to this problem, bu

This update contains significant fixes and enhancements since the 2.3.3 release. Major changes: Fixed crashes on macOS versions older than 14.0. Fixed a crash when closing certain level editor and options windows. Fixed some prediction bugs causing incorrect rendering of lasers and other weapons. Fixed calculation of spirits-per-minute on the Receiver map, and reduced spirits-per-minute goal to 50

This update contains significant fixes and enhancements since the 2.3.2 release. Major changes: The Vulkan renderer now requires a minimum of Vulkan 1.1. If your driver does not support Vulkan 1.1, it will try to use other renderers available on your platform. Fixed a crash on NVIDIA GPUs when running on recent graphics driver versions. NVIDIA's driver is one of the few to actually implement VK_SW

This update contains fixes and enhancements since the 2.3.1 release. Major changes: Added a native OpenGL ES rendering backend. Fixed a crash triggered by entering/leaving levels several times. Fixed a bug where radar dishes would forget how to rotate if the renderer was restarted (e.g. if the Screen settings were changed while in a level). Fixed a bug where cutscenes did not correctly preserve th

This update contains fixes and enhancements since the 2.3.0-25 release. Major changes: Armour will now try to avoid collisions with buildings, and will not allow deploying gun turrets too close to other buildings. Gun turrets were incorrectly accounting for Darwinians, which caused only two of the four ports to be required to operate them. Some mods do not specify any lights in their level files,

This update contains some urgent fixes for bugs introduced in the 2.3.0 release. Major changes: FIxed a heap corruption bug that was causing numerous other difficult-to-analyze failures. Fixed a crash caused by changing input bindings. Windows: Fixed a possible crash in the sound system when changing the output device in Windows sound settings. Minor changes: Fixed some gesture input rendering bug

There have been several changes since the previous release, v2.2.0-296. Major changes: Vulkan/Metal: Multi-sampling Antialiasing (MSAA) performance is dramatically improved on some systems. When supported, we now use Multisampled Render To Texture (MSRTT) instead of a render followed by an explicit blit to resolve. This benefits tile-based rendering GPUs especially (e.g. Apple M1/M2, etc), since V

Changes since 2.2.0-292: macOS: Fix landscape render on Vulkan (MoltenVK) backend. Removed some unused and buggy features in the shader preprocessing code. Updated ANGLE and MoltenVK.

Changes since 2.2.0-169: Vulkan: when vsync is disabled, Darwinia will use the "mailbox" present mode if available. This presentation mode does not block on vsync but also does not have tearing. You will very likely want to enable the FPS limit option to keep CPU/GPU utilization reasonable. Vulkan: improved frame latency macOS: improved color profile on Metal/Vulkan renderers, to match the macOS-d

Changes since 2.2.0-138: Armour units will now prioritize movement orders over collision avoidance Armour units will no longer sometimes fly into orbit when reaching their destination Spider animation fixes Fixed a possible level editor crash when editing the landscape Fixed an incompatibility with systems using a Colemak keyboard layout Implemented a new Field of View option in Graphics settings

Game fixes: Armour collision is now more reasonable, and armour units should now follow orders immediately even when doing collision avoidance. Failure to resume audio after alt-tabbing back into the game is no longer fatal. When this occurs, the sound system will attempt to restart instead. The gesture input render now looks as intended (more blocky) User profile names are checked at creation tim

A bunch of level editor fixes in this one. Fixed bugs: Leaving the level editor with the "flatten area" window open could crash the game Moving a landscape flatten area in the level editor would not automatically regenerate the landscape mesh If no lights were defined for a level (e.g. unfinished maps in mods or similar) the game could crash on entering the level The circle around SafeArea buildin

Changes: Static vertex buffer uploads now work without fallbacks, even on Vulkan devices with weird heap layouts. Huge thanks to the ANGLE developers for finding a solution. A user on the forums tested it and it solved the problem on their machine.

Fix for buffer upload failures in ANGLE with GL_STATIC_DRAW on Vulkan devices with unusual heap layouts Fix for OpenGL shader compilation on older GPU drivers which don't understand precision qualifiers for anything other than float/int types Update SDL game controller database Minor localization fixes

Changes: Fix crash caused by unusual Vulkan memory heap layouts on some devices. ANGLE was requiring memory types that have both the DEVICE_LOCAL and HOST_VISIBLE flags, but some uncommon devices only have very small heaps with those properties. This caused the Vulkan renderer to exhaust the small heap and fail to upload any buffers after that point. Fix possible crash when entering a location

Changes: Fix possible hangs in the Vulkan renderer on the Windows NVIDIA driver Update ANGLE version