Return to Castle Wolfenstein (iortcw)

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iortcw: a Return to Castle Wolfenstein port that brings ioquake3’s features and fixes to the source code id Software released, with separate executables for the campaign and multiplayer. It uses SDL and adds full 64-bit support, OpenAL sound with multi-speaker support, Ogg Vorbis, in-game and Mumble VoIP, AVI video capture of demos, PNG textures, desktop resolution, an aspect-corrected HUD and interface for widescreen, and many bug fixes. It also includes rend2, an alternate renderer with HDR, tone mapping, cascaded shadow maps, MSAA, and screen-space ambient occlusion, compatible with most mods. In multiplayer it stays compatible with the original 1.4 servers and clients. There are builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS; the latest, 1.51c, is from March 16, 2019, and the code got changes until May 2024. Each release separately offers patch-data-141.zip, which collects the data files from the official patches up to 1.41 (without executables) and, according to its authors, isn’t needed if your copy is already up to date, plus language packs for the campaign in German, Spanish, French, and Italian.

You needThe .pk3 files from the Main folder of your own copy of Return to Castle Wolfenstein: pak0.pk3 and sp_pak1 through sp_pak3 for the campaign; mp_bin.pk3, mp_pak0 through mp_pak5, and mp_pakmaps0 through mp_pakmaps6 for multiplayer. It must be patched to 1.41. Plus 32- or 64-bit Windows, x86 or x86-64 Linux, or macOS.

How it gets to PC

Port of the released source code

Console

Microsoft Windows

Original studio

Gray Matter Interactive / Nerve Software

Year

2001

Author

Donny Springer / Zack Middleton / James Canete

Stars

771

Last activity

2024-06-27 · 2 years ago

Latest version

1.51c · 2019-03-16

License

GPL-3.0

Language

C

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