0.9.0

Download

System	File
Windows 10 or 11 x64	DisruptorRecomp-win-Setup.exe installs the launcher that updates itself
Windows, without installing	DisruptorRecomp-win-Portable.zip the launcher that updates itself, no install
Linux x64, glibc 2.35 or newer	DisruptorRecomp.AppImage the launcher that updates itself

In this release

Change
Gamepad	Dual analog sticks, with Classic and Southpaw
Second keys	Every action takes a second key, a mouse button too
Launcher	CHD disc images, a quicker start
Display	CPU and GPU usage optimizations, Resolution, Dynamic resolution, Render thread
Sprites face the camera	Enemies, pickups and shots turn to face you
Main menu	EXIT closes the game
Loading	No pause at the prison's H Block
Fixes	Ceilings, sky, near walls and floors, bodies behind walls, a crash
Memory cards and save states	A crash while saving no longer damages a card

Note

Before you update

• A gamepad uses Dual analog by default now, 0.8.0 worked as Classic
• Stick layout on the Gamepad tab brings Classic back
• Settings, keys and memory cards stay as they are

Gamepad

Setting	Where	Default
Stick layout	Controls, Gamepad tab, and the game's Controls tab	Dual analog
Turning speed	Gamepad tab	100%
Turning dead zone	Gamepad tab	20%
Invert vertical stick	Gamepad tab	Off

Stick layout

• Dual analog: the left stick moves and strafes, the right stick turns
• Classic: the left stick moves and turns, as in 0.8.0
• Southpaw: Dual analog with the sticks swapped

Turning speed and Turning dead zone

• Turning speed sets how fast a full push turns, from 25% to 300%
• Turning dead zone is how far the stick moves before it counts, raise it if the view drifts on its own

Looking up and down

• With Vertical mouse look on, the right stick looks up and down too
• Invert vertical stick turns that around

The Gamepad tab of the Controls page:

Second keys

• Every action on the Keys tab takes a second key
• A second key may be a mouse button: left, right, Mouse 4 or Mouse 5
• Key profiles keep the second keys too

The Keys tab with its second column:

Launcher

• The launcher takes the game disc and a language disc as a CHD made with chdman, about 425 MiB in place of 607 MiB
• The game starts about 2 seconds sooner when no mod is on
• A launcher opened while the game runs holds settings, Play and updates back until the game closes

Display

Setting	Where	Default	For
Resolution	Display	Desktop	A set window size or fullscreen mode
Dynamic resolution	Display	Off	Weaker graphics cards
Render thread	Display	Off	Slower processors and integrated graphics

Resolution

• Sets the display mode in exclusive fullscreen and the window's size in a window
• Borderless fullscreen keeps the desktop's size
• Exclusive fullscreen with Desktop takes the desktop's display mode now, 0.8.0 took the window's size

Dynamic resolution

• Lowers the internal resolution while the graphics card cannot keep up, and raises it back when it can
• Meant for weaker graphics cards, integrated ones above all

Render thread

• Can make the game smoother on slower processors and integrated graphics
• Has no effect with in-between frames on

Other changes

• 16x MSAA and 16x SSAA are gone, a saved 16x reads as 8x
• In a window or borderless fullscreen on Windows each frame is shown at once, as with Immediate
• The game asks less of the graphics card at the same settings, the picture stays the same

The Display page with Resolution, Dynamic resolution and Render thread:

Sprites face the camera

Setting	Where	Default
Sprites face the camera	Enhancements, the game's menu	Off

• Enemies, pickups and shots stand in the world like cut-outs and face you
• Without it they turn with the view when you turn on the spot
• Toward the screen's sides they get wider, as walls there do

facing-sprites.mp4

Main menu

• EXIT under CREDITS closes the game
• It is translated for the game's German and French discs: BEENDEN and QUITTER

The main menu with EXIT chosen:

Loading

• The level data the game streams during play arrives at once instead of at the console drive's speed
• The pause of about a second and a half near the prison's H Block is gone

Fixes

Near H Block

• With a longer Draw distance or the smooth fade, the game no longer stops for several seconds near the prison's H Block

hblock-stall.mp4

A crash after long play

• The game no longer closes with an access violation (0xC0000005) after an hour or more of play

The teleport at a level's end

• The green wave and the fade after it stay in widescreen now, 0.8.0 showed them at 4:3 with black bars

teleport-wave.mp4

The pause menu under 60 FPS gameplay

• With many enemies, bodies or pickups in view, the pause menu no longer shows broken pictures and streaks of text

pause-menu.mp4

The menu's demo

• With a longer draw distance or a wide screen the menu's demo no longer runs slow

Ceilings at the screen's edge

• Ceilings at the screen's edge no longer show grey patches

ceilings.mp4

Sky

• Looking out of a doorway, the sky no longer turns into a flat purple rectangle

A doorway onto the sky:

sky-doorway.mp4

• Where the skies of two rooms meet, the clearer one shows now, 0.8.0 left a pale band of sky beside a pillar

The sky beside a pillar:

sky-meet.mp4

• With geometry correction on, walking beside a wall with smooth mouse aim no longer flashes a strip of sky at the screen's edge

A pillar's edge with the depth-sorted world

• With the depth-sorted world on, the line between two faces of a pillar no longer jumps back and forth

At half speed:

pillar-line-slow.mp4

Walls and floors right in front of you

• A texture right in front of you, such as the striped frame round a wall button, no longer changes its shape while you turn

A wall button's frame up close:

near-texture.mp4

near-texture-turn.mp4

• The floor or wall right beside you no longer opens onto the sky at the screen's corner

The floor under a wall button:

floor-corner.mp4

Staircases

• Climbing a staircase onto its landing no longer opens a strip of empty background under the landing's edge

staircase.mp4

Bodies and enemies behind walls

• A body behind a column no longer shows through the column's base
• An enemy just behind a wall no longer shows over the wall

Fog

• With Smooth distance fade on, far shapes in the fog no longer show a faint blue line along an edge, as the terraformer's claws on Triton did

Memory cards and save states

• A game that closes or crashes while saving no longer leaves the memory card empty or cut short
• A save the disk refuses shows as failed in the game, it was reported as saved
• A memory card that cannot be read is left as it is, it was replaced by a blank card
• A save state that cannot be loaded is refused and the game goes on as it was
• Save states of 0.8.0 are carried over by the launcher on the first start

Thanks

• Discord user M-state, for the reports that many of these fixes came from

Install

Your own Disruptor (USA, SLUS-00224) disc image is needed

Windows 10 or 11 x64

• Download DisruptorRecomp-win-Setup.exe and run it
• It installs the game into %LocalAppData%\DisruptorRecomp, with shortcuts on the desktop and in the Start menu
• Your files are kept in %LocalAppData%\DisruptorRecompData
• Or, without installing, unpack DisruptorRecomp-win-Portable.zip into a folder of its own and run Disruptor Recompiled.exe
• The portable copy needs the Microsoft Visual C++ x64 Redistributable
• The portable copy keeps your files in its data folder

Linux x64, glibc 2.35 or newer

• Download DisruptorRecomp.AppImage
• Make it executable: chmod +x DisruptorRecomp.AppImage
• Run it
• Your files are kept in ~/.local/share/DisruptorRecompData