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GH5Recomp v0.1.0 (Beta)

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@ElGuslml ElGuslml released this 07 Nov 08:20
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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.

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