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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time tritt GOG Preservation Program bei

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time aus dem Jahr 2003 wurde in GOGs Preservation Program aufgenommen.

Nachdem Ubisoft das Remake des Klassikers Anfang des Jahres eingestellt hatte, kündigte GOG an, sich stattdessen um das Original zu kümmern. Das Team hat dafür einen leichtgewichtigen Wrapper rund um die alte Scimitar-Engine gebaut, der das Spiel ohne Eingriffe in das eigentliche Spielerlebnis für moderne Systeme fit macht - darunter auch für Linux via Proton.

Our team has gone deep into the sands of the original Scimitar engine, rebuilding our early experimental work into a lightweight wrapper designed to address the challenges of running this 2003 classic on modern hardware. The result brings a host of improvements without changing the experience at the heart of the game.

Wichtigste Änderungen:

  • Implemented a lightweight wrapper to resolve modern hardware incompatibilities.
  • Added native widescreen and ultrawide support for all modern resolutions and aspect ratios.
  • Implemented camera scaling that automatically adjusts the field of view (FOV) based on monitor aspect ratio.
  • Added a multi-monitor mouse lock option to confine the cursor to the game window.
  • Added an FPS limiter to lock the frame rate to a chosen value.
  • Introduced a lightweight, real-time in-game overlay (press F11 to open, ESC to close) for instant adjustments to FPS limits and FOV multipliers.
  • Locked the main menu to its original 4:3 bounds to preserve hard-coded UI assets.
  • Capped the manual FOV slider at roughly 110% on ultrawide displays to prevent engine stretching and graphical glitches.
  • Verified stability.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Für 2,99 € ist das Spiel bei GOG erhältlich, DRM-frei und ohne native Linux-Version - läuft aber dank des neuen Wrappers und Proton problemlos.

Quelle: GOG

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