Giants Recompiled 0.3.0-beta.5

Giants Recompiled, 0.3.0-beta.5 (test version).

• Smoother sound on audio devices with big buffers: the game kept about 43 ms of sound queued. An audio device that asks for more at a time (Wine and PulseAudio on Linux can) played the rest of every request as silence, so the sound came out choppy and slow. The queue now grows to cover what the device asks for. The log names the device's chunk size, and once a minute it says if the sound ran dry, so a report shows where the problem is. In all six games.

The easy way: install Core of Light, the launcher. It sets this game up from your disc and keeps it up to date by itself.

On its own: run GiantsRecompSetup-0.3.0-beta.5.exe and point it at your own Xbox 360 disc (an ISO file or an extracted folder). It's not signed, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": "More info" > "Run anyway". The README says which disc version it needs.

The game's data (graphics, sound, levels, movies) doesn't come with it: the setup takes it from your own disc.

Problems: F4 > Game > "Report a problem" in the game, then a new issue.

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