GH5Recomp v0.2.1-beta.2

Beta 2 of 0.2.1: your DLC folder, read where it is, and no more "A content package appears damaged"

Warning

This is a test version, before 0.2.1. The launcher's Updates page does not offer it: download it from here. When 0.2.1 comes out, Updates will offer it to you.

Important

You need your own copy of the game: the Xbox 360 disc, as an ISO. This release contains none of the game's files.

New

• Your DLC folder. In the launcher's DLC tab, choose the folder where you keep your Xbox 360 packages (LIVE, PIRS or CON files, in it or its subfolders), with as many games' DLC as you like. The game now reads the packages from there: nothing is copied anymore. Before, the launcher extracted a copy of every package for each game, so the same DLC took two or three times the space with several Guitar Heroes installed. You can point the other ElGus Recomps launchers at the same folder, and your files are never modified or deleted, so they still work on a real Xbox 360. The folder is checked every time you open the launcher, so new DLC you add shows up on its own.
• The DLC list is grouped by game (Guitar Hero 5, World Tour, Warriors of Rock...), each group folding open or shut, with how many are on and a switch for the whole group. Every package has its own switch too.

Fixed

• "A content package appears damaged or unreadable. You will not be able to use or access any downloadable content." It showed up when a package made for another Guitar Hero was installed: Guitar Hero 5 cannot read those, and then it turns off all of your DLC. Now the launcher checks every package the way the game does, and the ones made for another game come turned off (with a note saying what would happen with one on). You can still turn one on yourself.

Already have DLC installed?

It keeps working, you don't need to do anything: it shows up as Installed copies in the DLC tab. If your DLC folder has the same packages, the launcher tells you how much space those installed copies take, and Remove copies deletes them (it asks first, and never touches your DLC folder); the game then reads the packages from your folder.

Also in this beta: the fix from beta 1 for "Disc Read Error" with many DLC packages.

Known issues

• Only Guitar Hero 5's own downloadable content adds songs.
• Drums and singing have not been tested in this game yet.
• AMD graphics cards have only been checked in a simulation.
• Above 60 FPS and the keyboard are experimental.
• The full list is in the README.

How to install

• Over your install: extract the zip (GH5Recomp-v0.2.1-beta.2-win64.zip) into your install folder, replacing the files. Your profile, saves, settings and installed DLC stay.
• New install: download the installer (GH5Recomp-v0.2.1-beta.2-setup.exe), or the zip and extract it into a folder you can write to (not Program Files). The first start asks for your ISO.

Something wrong? Tell us on Discord or in issues, with the latest files in the game's logs folder.

v0.2.1-beta.1: Version 0.2.1-beta.1

Beta 1 of 0.2.1: big DLC collections can no longer stop the game with "Disc Read Error"

Warning

This is a test version, before 0.2.1. The launcher's Updates page does not offer it: download it from here. When 0.2.1 comes out, Updates will offer it to you.

Important

You need your own copy of the game: the Xbox 360 disc, as an ISO. This release contains none of the game's files.

Fixed

• "Disc Read Error" with many DLC packages installed. While the game checked your packages one by one, the recompilation's system layer could close one of the game's own files that it was still reading, and the game then showed "Disc Read Error". It was found in GH Warriors of Rock, where a collection of 190 packages showed it at every start. GH5 checks its packages the same way, but faster, so it was much less likely here: it did not show up in our tests with the same 190 packages. This version fixes it in both games. Thanks to Jazzverso for the logs.

Known issues

• Only Guitar Hero 5's own downloadable content adds songs.
• Drums and singing have not been tested in this game yet.
• AMD graphics cards have only been checked in a simulation.
• Above 60 FPS and the keyboard are experimental.
• The full list is in the README.

How to install

• Over your install: extract the zip (GH5Recomp-v0.2.1-beta.1-win64.zip) into your install folder, replacing the files. Your profile, saves, settings and installed DLC stay.
• New install: download the installer (GH5Recomp-v0.2.1-beta.1-setup.exe), or the zip and extract it into a folder you can write to (not Program Files). The first start asks for your ISO.

Something wrong? Tell us on Discord or in issues, with the latest files in the game's logs folder.

GH5Recomp v0.1.0 (Beta)

The first beta of Guitar Hero 5, running natively on Windows: no emulator to set up, sharp graphics, wide screens, high frame rates, and your Xbox 360 guitar.

Important

You need your own copy of the game: the Xbox 360 disc, as an ISO (tested with the disc sold in the USA and Europe). This release contains none of the game's files.

Guitar Hero 5 shares its engine with Guitar Hero: Van Halen, so from day one it comes with what GHVanHRecomp and GHMetalRecomp fix and add, and it can install your Guitar Hero 5 downloadable content.

What you get

• Your guitar: an Xbox 360 guitar plays as on the console, whammy bar and Star Power included. Any other controller is a guitar too, and the keyboard can be one (experimental). Each controller's buttons can be reassigned in the launcher.
• Auto-strum, GH2 / GH3 style: on a controller or the keyboard, each fret strums as you press it. Turn it on in the launcher's Controls tab; it only acts during a song.
• Sharp, native graphics with NativeXRenderer (Vulkan), at your screen's resolution, with antialiasing.
• Sharper shadows: the Shadow quality row (Settings > Video) draws the shadows at up to four times the original resolution.
• Upscaling: AMD FSR 1 or NVIDIA NIS, on any graphics card, for 4K screens and slower graphics cards (Settings > Video), with their Quality and Sharpness.
• High frame rates: 60 FPS, or 120, 144, 160, 165 or 240 FPS (experimental). The songs keep their speed and stay in sync.
• V-Sync, on by default: no tearing, without V-Sync's usual delay. Leave it on with a G-Sync or FreeSync monitor too.
• Low latency audio (optional, Settings > Game): the game takes your audio device in exclusive mode and the sound comes sooner. Calibrate the audio again after changing it.
• Wide and ultrawide screens: the stage fills the screen, the note highway, the HUD and the menus stay 16:9 in the center.
• Downloadable content: install your own Guitar Hero 5 packages from the launcher's DLC tab.
• Better than the original: songs no longer drift out of sync, and each screen effect can be turned off.
• Play together: in Party Play, the first controller to press a button plays with your profile, and the others join as its guests.
• Sing (experimental) with any microphone on your PC. Not tested in this game yet.
• Profiles and achievements shared by all the ElGus Recomps launchers: all 49 achievements in the launcher or with F7 in the game.
• Languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, in the game and in the launcher.
• Automatic updates from the launcher.

Known issues

• Drums and singing have not been tested in this game yet.
• AMD graphics cards, and Wii or PS3 instruments, have not been tested yet.
• Above 60 FPS and the keyboard are experimental.
• Only Guitar Hero 5's own downloadable content adds songs.
• The full list is in the README.

How to install

Download the installer (GH5Recomp-v0.1.0-setup.exe), or the zip (GH5Recomp-v0.1.0-win64.zip) and extract it into a folder you can write to (not Program Files). Open GH5 Launcher, choose the ISO of your game (it installs about 5.3 GB), create your profile and press PLAY. In the game's options, run the audio and video calibration once.

Windows may warn about an unknown publisher the first time: click More info, then Run anyway.

Something wrong? Tell us on Discord or in issues, with the latest files in the game's logs folder.