Fracture Recomp

Fracture for the Xbox 360, recompiled to run natively on Windows: up to 4K, 60 FPS and a settings screen right in the game.

_{Recorded on Windows 11 with Internal Resolution 3x (2160p) and 60 FPS. No game files included: you need your own Xbox 360 disc image.}

At a glance

In motion

_{Raise and lower the ground with the entrencher  ·  Grenades that tear the terrain apart}

_{Firefights in the bunker yard  ·  Cutscenes rendered in 4K like the rest of the game}

720p vs 4K

Internal Resolution draws the game at a multiple of the Xbox 360's 1280 × 720 picture and scales it to your screen. The same spot at the start of the first mission, at 1x and at 3x:

_{Both recorded at 1920 × 1080 with anti-aliasing off and 4x texture filtering. The close-up shows the same part of each frame zoomed 2x: at 3x the rock, the rust and the pipes keep their detail instead of turning to blur.}

On the test PC (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) 3x runs at a steady 60 FPS.

Getting started

You need: Windows 10 (version 1903 or later) or 11, 64-bit, or a Steam Deck · a graphics card with Direct3D 12 or Vulkan · about 4 GB of free space · a disc image (.iso) of your own Xbox 360 copy of Fracture.

1. Download FractureRecomp-v…-windows-x64.zip from Releases and unpack it to a folder you can write to, for example Documents\Games\FractureRecomp. Not into Program Files: settings and logs are saved next to the game.
2. Start fracture.exe. The program is not code-signed, so Windows may say "Windows protected your PC": click More info, then Run anyway.
3. On the install screen choose your disc image with Browse... (or drop the .iso onto the window) and press Install. The image is only read, never changed. Copying takes a minute or two.
4. Press Play. From now on the game starts straight away and the .iso is no longer needed.

• Already have the game files extracted (a folder with default.xex and resources)? Press Use extracted files... or drop that folder onto the window.
• If the copy is interrupted (window closed, PC turned off), the next start continues where it stopped.
• The install screen works with the mouse, the keyboard (Tab, arrows, Enter) and a controller (D-pad, A).

Which disc works

You don't need to know which one you have: the install screen checks the disc and says if it is not supported. Other versions are refused, because the recompiled game is made from these two exact releases.

Updating

Unpack the new version over the old folder. Your game files, settings and saves stay.

Steam Deck

Tested: the game runs well on the Steam Deck under Proton. Set it up in Desktop Mode:

1. Unpack the archive somewhere in your home folder, together with your .iso (or copy a folder that already has game\ from your PC).
2. In Steam choose Games > Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library and add fracture.exe.
3. Open its Properties > Compatibility, turn on Proton and start the game. The first start opens the install screen, as on Windows.

Afterwards it starts from Game Mode like any other game in your library. With Graphics API on Automatic, the game uses Vulkan under Proton. Other Linux PCs with Proton should work the same way, but have not been tried yet.

The settings screen

Press Esc or F1 in the game, or RB + Start on a controller (R1 + Options on a DualSense). The screen works with the keyboard, the mouse and a controller; the game gets no input while it is open.

_{Switching to 4K and 60 FPS. Settings that need a restart turn yellow, and two presses of X restart the game on the spot.}

	Display Fullscreen, on or off Monitor the game opens on Window Size: 1280 × 720, 1600 × 900, 1920 × 1080 or 2560 × 1440 Keep Aspect Ratio: black bars instead of a stretched picture Allow Tearing: lower latency, needed for G-Sync and FreeSync
Graphics Frame Rate: 30 (original) or 60 Graphics API: Automatic, Direct3D 12 or Vulkan Graphics Card, for PCs with more than one Internal Resolution: 1x (720p) to 4x (2880p) Anti-Aliasing: off, FXAA or FXAA Extreme Texture Filtering: game default or 2x to 16x Render Path: Fast, or Accurate for rare blending errors (much slower)
	Controls Controller API: SDL (Xbox, PlayStation and other pads) or XInput Settings Shortcut: RB + Start, LB + RB + Start, Back + Start, L3 + R3 or off Keyboard and Mouse: play with the keyboard as a controller Mouse Look and Mouse Sensitivity
Audio Mute Audio Latency: from Low to Most Stable; raise it if the sound crackles
	System Restart Now to apply waiting changes Revert Pending Changes Close Settings and Quit Game

With the mouse, point at a setting and click the arrows next to its value.

How changes apply. Some settings, such as Frame Rate and Fullscreen, take effect at once. The others turn yellow and wait for a restart: press R (X on a controller) twice or use System > Restart Now. The game closes and starts again with the new settings, so save your progress first. Your choices are kept in settings.toml next to fracture.exe; delete that file to go back to the defaults.

More screenshots

_{Cutscenes  ·  Achievements pop up in the corner, as on the console}

Good to know

Where things are

Known issues

• 60 FPS is experimental. Fracture was made for 30. In testing the game kept its normal speed at 60, but some of its timers count frames. If anything moves too fast, set Frame Rate back to 30.
• The game keeps running behind the settings screen. Pause it first (Start) if you are in the middle of a fight.
• Vulkan does not start? Delete the fracture_graphics_api line from settings.toml to go back to Direct3D 12.
• Antivirus warnings. New, unsigned programs are sometimes flagged. If yours blocks fracture.exe or its DLLs, whether to allow them (Windows Security > Protection history) is your decision; the full source is here to check or build yourself.

Reporting a problem

Open an issue and include what you were doing, your Windows version and graphics card, which disc release you have, and the newest file from the logs\ folder.

About the port

Fracture's PowerPC code was translated to C++ ahead of time with the ReXGlue SDK and compiled into a regular Windows program. The Xbox 360 graphics chip is emulated on Direct3D 12 or Vulkan.

This repository contains no game files and no code generated from them. The release downloads contain the recompiled program (fracture.exe) but no game data: the program copies the game from your own disc image on its first start.

winget install --id Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.BuildTools --override "--passive --wait --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools --includeRecommended"
winget install --id LLVM.LLVM
winget install --id Git.Git

.\setup.bat path\to\Fracture.iso

& .\out\build\win-amd64-relwithdebinfo\fracture.exe

Credits

• ReXGlue SDK, the recompilation SDK this project is built on
• Xenia, for Xbox 360 research
• skate3recomp, whose layout this project follows