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Learn about vigilant mode.

Overview

⚠️ Have a look at platform-specific info for info on which build to download, installation instructions, troubleshooting etc.

This is another release primarily focused on bug fixes. In addition, some smaller improvements are made, mainly in the area of sound and music playback quality.

Release notes

New features

  • Added the Nuked OPL3 AdLib emulator as an alternative to DBOPL (selectable in the Sound options). Nuked OPL3 is more accurate but also uses more CPU. The difference in CPU load has little impact on most systems, but it does matter on low-end devices like Raspberry Pi Zero.
  • Added a "sound test" button to the Sound options (play a chosen sound effect)

Improvements

  • Improved sound effect quality for certain digital sounds (SB_nn.MNI files in VOC format) by using a more accurate ADPCM decoding algorithm (same as DosBox's SoundBlaster emulation).
  • Slightly improved sound effect quality for AdLib sounds by running the emulator at the native OPL2 frequency (49716 Hz).
  • In widescreen mode, the camera now tries to avoid showing out-of-bounds parts of the map if possible, by restricting downward scrolling unless it's necessary to keep the player on screen.
  • Added 75 to the list of pre-defined FPS limits for the FPS limiter.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a soft-lock that could occur when killing a ceiling sucker at exactly the same time as it sucked up Duke.
  • When dying due to shooting an airlock and then respawning at a checkpoint, Duke would remain in the spinning animation. This is now fixed.
  • Fixed a small visual glitch appearing during the fade-out of the intro movie.
  • The credits screen shown during the attract mode loop didn't react to any key press aside from ESC, this is now fixed.
  • Under certain circumstances, the main menu would respond to a keypress that happened during the intro or another menu. This is now fixed.
  • Fixed visual glitches (bright lines between tiles) that could occur at certain resolutions/window sizes when using high-res replacement graphics.
  • Fixed an issue that made high-resolution backdrop replacements appear as low resolution under certain circumstances.
  • Fixed right side of the HUD being partially cut off at certain window sizes/resolutions.
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