📢 Version v0.2.4 - FPS improvements, texture compression modes and 2 languages added
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! Special thanks to @Spagles for contributing several fixes!
🆕 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.
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.
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.
