GZDoom 4.13.1 Released

[Rachael]

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Download (OpenGLES 2.0 and higher)

• Windows 64-bit
• Linux 64-bit Intel
• Linux 64-bit ARM
• macOS 64-bit Intel/ARM
• Source

(note: Linux AppImage is not being published, for now, due to issues, same with Linux Portable)

Highlights:

• fixes a couple critical bugs introduced in 4.13.0
• a couple of QOL improvements

Details
Full Changelog: https://github.com/ZDoom/gzdoom/compare ... ...g4.13.1

• Fix OpenGL shader to work with Apple's buggy GLSL compiler
• Resolve compiler warning about deconstructor syntax
• Added (SPF_)STRETCHPIXELS - for actors, makes rollsprites levelstretched, for particles, puts them back to the original stretch math as before, optional opt-in flag
• enable console subsystem for Windows with runtime detection - compiling GZDoom as a console app now shows printf's in the terminal that launched it like in Linux and Mac OS.
• allow getting checksum for current map
• add null check for canvas
• fov scales ortho
• sector damage code reverted due to some critical bugs, feature will be in next release

[Tekish]

The Windows binary is missing the LAME MP3 DLL. I had to manually add it to get GZDoom to run.

[Enjay]

Yep. Just posted a bug report about it: viewtopic.php?t=79690

[Rachael]

Thank you, fixed.

[forealdo]

I just arrived here. Is the LAME MP3 DLL fix already available in the link above, or do I have to wait a bit for a new version of GZDoom to release.

[Enjay]

It is fixed. The download file is gzdoom-4-13-1a-windows.zip. The "a" was not part of the original upload filename.

[forealdo]

Got it. Thanks.

[Boondorl]

Was waiting for this to release before making a post, but I wanted to comment on the networking changes included in 4.13. Some critical bugs were fixed with how client movement prediction works (custom Tick()s were not being called at all) so if you find that mods that previously played fine online are suddenly desyncing, this is likely why. You'll need to make sure to prediction proof your player Tick() functions going into the future if multiplayer is a concern. A few other potential desyncs were also fixed between 4.12 and 4.13 so in general it should now be much more reliable.

Potentially more controversially, the ability to disable client prediction has been removed entirely. This was always a poor option to give clients access to as their experience will almost always be better with it on, especially now that an overwhelming majority of the bugs have been stomped out. An sv_noprediction cvar can be added in the future if there are too many problems with older mods causing desyncs. This should realistically be controlled by the server anyway as the only reason to disable it is in cases where desyncs occur, and in that case everyone will need to have it off anyway (which should make debugging random desyncs less chaotic).

There are some other nice QoL changes included like wait messages now displaying the actual username of stalled clients, and there are plans to expand predictive behaviors in the future to make playing in high latency situations feel less dreadful.

[SPZ1]

Downloaded and verified to run the just released SPZ1 - Unspecified Evil

[Enjay]

It is possibly worth pointing out that the download has been updated again (Thanks Rachael).

It now points to a file called gzdoom-4-13-1b-windows.zip. This file contains fewer DLL files than the 4-13-1a version (same as 4.13.0).

So, if you were one of the 173 people who downloaded the "a" version, it might be an idea to delete all the files that it came with and install the "b" version.

[kalensar]

Thanks for this update fix. 4.13.0 nuked my OpenGL API for some reason but this update fixed it. Good job!

[forealdo]

Enjay wrote:
> It is possibly worth pointing out that the download has been updated again
> (Thanks Rachael).
>
> It now points to a file called gzdoom-4-13-1b-windows.zip. This file
> contains fewer DLL files than the 4-13-1a version (same as 4.13.0).
>
> So, if you were one of the 173 people who downloaded the "a"
> version, it might be an idea to delete all the files that it came with and
> install the "b" version.

Thanks for the heads up.

[Korell]

I just downloaded the 4-13-1b and noticed that libsndfile-1.dll is now named sndfile.dll. Does this matter at all?

[Graf Zahl]

sndfile.dll is the official name now so it was changed to look for both and use the original one.