📢 Version v0.2.4 - FPS improvements, texture compression modes and 2 languages added

[udarmolota]

RimDroid 0.2.4 (beta)

A quick note on expectations. Launching isn't the same as running smoothly. A big, mature colony with a dozen pawns, dozens of mods, and every DLC wants a flagship, ideally Snapdragon. A small one-pawn survival run can be fine even on a budget phone. It all comes down to your CPU (RimWorld + emulation) and your RAM.

⚠️ RimDroid is a beta and under active development. Things will break, devices differ wildly, and not everything works everywhere yet. We're improving it release by release.

💛 Thank you to all testers!

🆕 What's new

✅ Texture compression (Settings → Video) — three levels: No / Low / Ultra low. Shrinks textures to save memory and gain FPS — this is what lets several DLC load on phones where they simply wouldn't before. Colonists and animals always stay sharp; compression mostly touches plants and items. Rule of thumb: the weaker the phone, the more each level gives.
✅ Español y Português — the launcher now speaks Spanish and Portuguese, picked automatically from your phone's language.
✅ Esc button added to the default on-screen controls (left of Space).
✅ A cleaner launcher — settings reorganized into tidy cards (Video, Frame rate, Controls, Sound, Advanced), resolution and frame-rate are simple pick-one lists now, and instance actions live in a compact ⋮ menu.

Technical

Experimental: threaded rendering for RimWorld 1.5 — early tests show good FPS improvment, but stability isn't proven yet, so it's off by default. To try it, add RIMDROID_NO_GFX_DIRECT=1 to the extra launch variables (Advanced). If you get a black screen, just remove it. Feedback welcome.
Launch self-diagnostics: if graphics initialization ever hangs, the log now records exactly where — this lets us fix devices we don't own (the Android 11 investigation runs on this).
Texture compression ships with hidden diagnostic switches for hunting rare visual artifacts in the field.

Also in the app:

CJK fonts (Chinese / Japanese / Korean) - special RimDroidCJK mod.

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Sᴜʙsᴄʀɪʙᴇ If you want to stay up to date with changes, tips, and useful tweaks, feel free to join our RimDroid X - or Reddit.

⚠️ Reminder
Rimdroid is only a launcher.
To run the game, you still need the actual game files (Linux version), which you must obtain yourself - for example, by purchasing the game on Steam/GOG.

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