Near Chuckle

Far Cry's leaked source code ported to run on SDL2 and Linux. Thanks to ugozapad and q4a for their earlier work.

Warning: The Linux port is still very, very early in development and will probably crash. You can, however, load a level, walk around, and shoot people. It is also highly recommended that you apply the workaround patches in the Known Issues section to have a decent playing experience.

You need SDL2, OpenAL-Soft, and OpenGL to compile the port. 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

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

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 movie x64-Debug to the installation folder. Launch FarCry from inside the folder it is in.

Known issues

Broken decals

On my Linux machine, decal texture coordinates will frequently change every frame and look almost like Z-fighting. They look fine on Windows when forcing the OpenGL renderer, so I am not sure how to fix this. If decals look fine under your Linux machine, let me know! Otherwise, a temporary workaround in the code is to disable rendering anything that uses a specific render state in GLRendPipeline.cpp.

diff --git a/SourceCode/RenderDll/XRenderOGL/GLRendPipeline.cpp b/SourceCode/RenderDll/XRenderOGL/GLRendPipeline.cpp
index 5771c16..b019635 100644
--- a/SourceCode/RenderDll/XRenderOGL/GLRendPipeline.cpp
+++ b/SourceCode/RenderDll/XRenderOGL/GLRendPipeline.cpp
@@ -5614,6 +5614,12 @@ void CGLRenderer::EF_DrawGeneralPasses(SShaderTechnique *hs, SShader *ef, bool b
   int bFogOverrided = 0;
   SArrayPointer::m_LastEnabledPass = 0;
   slw = &hs->m_Passes[nStart];
+#if 1
+if ((slw->m_RenderState & GS_BLSRC_MASK) == GS_BLSRC_DSTCOL && (slw->m_RenderState & GS_BLDST_MASK) == GS_BLDST_ZERO)
+      {
+        return;
+      }
+#endif
   for (i=nStart; i<=nEnd; i++, slw++)
   {
     SArrayPointer::m_CurEnabledPass = 0;

Crash when firing a weapon

For some reason, stack smashing occurs in the CScriptObjectGame::SoundEvent function. A current workaround is to disable the function call in ScriptObjectGame.cpp.

diff --git a/SourceCode/CryGame/ScriptObjectGame.cpp b/SourceCode/CryGame/ScriptObjectGame.cpp
index 64fb351..d79388e 100644
--- a/SourceCode/CryGame/ScriptObjectGame.cpp
+++ b/SourceCode/CryGame/ScriptObjectGame.cpp
@@ -3571,7 +3571,7 @@ int CScriptObjectGame::SoundEvent(IFunctionHandler *pH)
 	CXClient *pCli=m_pGame->GetClient();
 	if(pCli)
 	{
-		pCli->SoundEvent((EntityId)nID,pos,fRadius,fThreat);
+		//pCli->SoundEvent((EntityId)nID,pos,fRadius,fThreat);
 	}
 	
 	return pH->EndFunction();