Near Chuckle

Far Cry's leaked source code ported to run on SDL3 and Linux. Thanks to ugozapad and q4a for their earlier work. Also thanks to SoapyMan for their work in integrating FFMpeg for Bink video support on their branch.

Binaries are available here.

You need SDL3, OpenAL-Soft, and OpenGL to compile the port. For macOS (a development host, not a release target) see BUILDING-macOS.md. You will also need the Nvidia Cg toolkit, which is not included, to compile the OpenGL renderer. You can get it here: https://developer.nvidia.com/cg-toolkit-download

Note: When running NearChuckle with OpenGL in Wayland, you must either use a precompiled shader cache, or force the game to run in X11 mode. See "Known issues" below.

Modify the CMakeLists.txt file in RenderDll/XRenderOGL and set CG_LIB_PATH to the path containing libCgGL.so and libCg.so.

NearChuckle also supports the Direct3D9 renderer via DXVK for better performance. To compile with DXVK, specify DXVK_INC_PATH and DXVK_LIB_PATH. Example:

cmake -DDXVK_LIB_PATH=/path/to/libdxvk_d3d9.so/ -DDXVK_INC_PATH=/path/to/dxvk_source/include/native/windows/

Note: When running NearChuckle with DXVK, you will need to supply precompiled shaders since it does not include a shader compiler. You can download a mostly complete shader cache in the binary release. The cache files are stored as pak files, which you can place in FCData. You can also create your own shader cache by compiling and running the Windows port, then copying the files created in Shaders/Cache. If NearChuckle tries to render a shader it does not have, it will log the error in a file named MissingShaders.txt in the same directory as FCData. Please send any entries to me so that I can generate them.

After building, place all of the .so files and the FarCry binary in a folder in Far Cry's installation folder (containing FCData, Levels, Profiles, Shaders). If you built with the supplied CMake Preset, they should be in bin/x64-Debug. You can simply move x64-Debug to the installation folder. Launch FarCry from inside the folder it is in.

Known issues

Setting FOV

The view FOV has a default value of 90. To change this, open the console (tilde), and set the CVar game_fov. Example:

\game_fov 105

Broken decals on OpenGL

When using the OpenGL renderer, decal texture coordinates will frequently change every frame and look almost like Z-fighting. To address this, I added a new CVar - r_DisableLevelDecalsHack. Setting this to 1 in the console will disable rendering anything that uses a specific render state, which includes static level decals as well as the player's multiplayer shirt color. Not ideal, but it's less distracting. The Direct3D9 renderer via DXVK does not have this issue. The CVar is saved into system.cfg, so don't forget to disable it if you decide to switch renderers.

"The profile is not supported" error messages in console

The CG compiler does not work under Wayland. You can either run the game in X11, or download a cache of precompiled shaders and place it in FCData. Precompiled shaders are available here.