π’ Version v0.1.8 - Sound, better FPS, compatibility mode
RimDroid 0.1.8 (beta)
β οΈ 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.
π Thank you
This release exists because of you. To everyone who installed build after build, hit a black screen or a frozen menu, and still took the time to send us logs - thank you. Those logs are not noise; they are exactly what let us find and fix things we could never reproduce on our own devices.
In particular: the new Compatibility mode below was born directly from tester logs. For many people whose game previously showed only a black screen or hung forever on the loading menu, the game now starts. That's your work as much as ours. π
π What's new
Main features
β‘ Performance (FPS)
box64 now builds with -O1 optimizations. On a high-end device (Snapdragon 8 Elite / Adreno 830) we measured 10-20 FPS up from before. Gains vary by device.
π Game sound
RimDroid can now generate game audio on your device, from your own copy of RimWorld - sound effects, ambience, and clean menu music. Go to Settings β Sound β Install game sound, then use the Game sound toggle to turn it on or off.
Note: with sound on, the game takes a little longer to load.
π§ Compatibility mode
A new toggle under Settings β Advanced. If your game won't start (black screen, or stuck on the loading dots / menu), turn this on - it changes how the translator handles memory and floating-point so the game can boot on devices that otherwise couldn't.
It's a temporary workaround, not a full fix - it may not work on every device, or may work only partially. See Troubleshooting below.
Also in this release
- π CJK fonts (Chinese / Japanese / Korean) β see the dedicated note below.
- π₯ Steam in-app downloader β fixed connection drops during sign-in. Authorization used to fail when the connection was interrupted mid-login; that's now handled.
- π¨ Settings redesign β cleaner card layout (Video / Controls / Sound / Advanced).
π For Chinese / Japanese / Korean players
RimWorld has the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean translations built in - but the in-game text rendered blank, because the game doesn't ship the fonts for those languages.
Why? The PC version doesn't ship them either - on Windows it simply borrows the system fonts. Under RimDroid there is no such system-font path available to the game, so we provide the glyphs through a mod instead.
We built a companion font mod, RimDroidCJK, that adds the missing characters at runtime (it does not modify your game files). Install it separately and Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text will display correctly.
π Download: RimDroidCJK mod
Note: shared Han characters use the Simplified-Chinese glyph form, so a few Japanese characters look slightly "Chinese" β fully readable, just not typographically perfect per language.
π οΈ Troubleshooting
π Sound mod shows "incompatible" (red), or you hear screeching
Re-run Install game sound once more, then restart the game. This is a one-time RimWorld mod-list caching quirk; on the second pass it's picked up correctly.
πΎ Colonists disappearing from saves
As a temporary measure, install the RimDroidSaveFix mod β it works around a save-corruption bug we're still chasing at the emulator level. This is especially worth having if you play with Compatibility mode on. Depends on Harmony mod.
π Download: RimDroid SaveFix mod
π Download: Harmony RimDroid adapted mod
Sα΄Κsα΄ΚΙͺΚα΄ If you want to stay up to date with changes, tips, and useful tweaks, feel free to join our RimDroid subreddit.
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.
Thanks again for testing, reporting, and sticking with us. More fixes - including the deeper bug behind the save corruption β are in progress. π