0.2.0

0.2.0: your DLC folder, no more "Disc Read Error" with lots of DLC, and clean audio on slower PCs

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.

Everything from the two 0.1.1 betas, now in a release: the launcher's Updates page offers it.

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 reads the packages from there: nothing is copied. 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 (Warriors of Rock, Guitar Hero 5, World Tour...), 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.
• Packages the game cannot read come turned off, with a note saying what would happen with one on (the game would report it as damaged). You can still turn one on yourself.
• Fewer first-time stutters: "Compiling shaders" now prepares more of the game's graphics (639 combinations, up from 549). It runs once more after you update, for a few seconds.

Fixed

• "Disc Read Error" a few seconds after starting the game with many DLC packages.
• Crackling in songs on slower PCs. The game's audio could fall behind during songs and skip a few milliseconds every fraction of a second. If you changed audio_callback_min_interval_us in ghwor.toml to work around it, you can leave it or delete that line.

Community custom songs

The community's custom songs need its GH:WoR Customs Database package in your DLC folder too: without it the number of songs can change from one start to the next.

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.

Known issues

• 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

• Update: the launcher's Updates page offers 0.2.0. Or extract the zip (GHWoRRecomp-v0.2.0-win64.zip) into your install folder, replacing the files. Your profile, saves, settings and DLC stay.
• New install: download the installer (GHWoRRecomp-v0.2.0-setup.exe), or the zip and extract it into a folder you can write to (not Program Files). Open GH Warriors of Rock Launcher, choose the ISO of your game, create your profile (or keep the one you already have from another ElGus Recomps game) and press PLAY.

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.

GHWoRRecomp v0.1.1-beta.2

Beta 2 of 0.1.1: your DLC folder, read where it is

Warning

This is a test version, before 0.1.1. The launcher's Updates page does not offer it: download it from here. When 0.1.1 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 (Warriors of Rock, Guitar Hero 5, World Tour...), 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.
• Packages the game cannot read come turned off, with a note saying what would happen with one on (the game would report it as damaged). 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

• With hundreds of packages, the song list itself has not been tried here yet: if something goes wrong there, send the newest ghwor_NNN.log from the logs folder.
• 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 (GHWoRRecomp-v0.1.1-beta.2-win64.zip) into your install folder, replacing the files. Your profile, saves, settings and installed DLC stay.
• New install: download the installer (GHWoRRecomp-v0.1.1-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.

GHWoRRecomp v0.1.1-beta.1

Beta 1 of 0.1.1: big DLC collections no longer stop the game with "Disc Read Error" at start

Warning

This is a test version, before 0.1.1. The launcher's Updates page does not offer it: download it from here. When 0.1.1 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" a few seconds after starting, with many DLC packages installed (during "Checking for downloadable content..."). While the game checked your packages one by one, the recompilation's system layer sometimes closed one of the game's own files that it was still reading. The more packages, the likelier it was, so it seemed random and could look like it depended on the order you installed them in. Reproduced with 190 packages: it happened at every start before, and never since. Thanks to Jazzverso for the logs.

Known issues

• With hundreds of packages, the song list itself has not been tried here yet: if something goes wrong there, send the newest ghwor_NNN.log from the logs folder.
• 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 (GHWoRRecomp-v0.1.1-beta.1-win64.zip) into your install folder, replacing the files. Your profile, saves, settings and installed DLC stay.
• New install: download the installer (GHWoRRecomp-v0.1.1-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.

GHWoRRecomp v0.1.0 (Beta)

The first beta of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, 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). This release contains none of the game's files.

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock shares its engine with Guitar Hero 5, so from day one it comes with what GH5Recomp, GHVanHRecomp and GHMetalRecomp fix and add, and it can install your 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.
• No first-time stutters: the first time you press PLAY, "Compiling shaders" prepares every graphics combination the game uses for your graphics card, in a few seconds. Skip starts the game at once.
• 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 packages from the launcher's DLC tab; Guitar Hero 5's add their songs to the game's list too.
• Better than the original: songs no longer drift out of sync, and each screen effect (bloom, depth of field, film grain, color correction, vignette) can be turned off.
• Play together: 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 50 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 have only been checked in a simulation, and drum kits not at all: if you have either, tell us how it goes (or what goes wrong), with the newest ghwor_NNN.log.
• Above 60 FPS and the keyboard are experimental.
• Downloadable content: only a Guitar Hero 5 package has been tried so far; Warriors of Rock's own packages have not been tried yet.
• The full list is in the README.

How to install

Download the installer (GHWoRRecomp-v0.1.0-setup.exe), or the zip (GHWoRRecomp-v0.1.0-win64.zip) and extract it into a folder you can write to (not Program Files). Open GH Warriors of Rock Launcher, choose the ISO of your game (it installs about 5.9 GB), create your profile (or keep the one you already have from another ElGus Recomps game) 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.