-Dsun.java2d.opengl=true
enables Hardware-acceleration via OpenGL-Dsun.java2d.opengl=true
offers a performance benefit.dmg
to install OSRS results in the worst possible performance due to a mix of forced GPU acceleration and Retina with Java 8; it is recommended to manually install OSRS and to use the latest OpenJDK package available instead to workaround this-Dsun.java2d.uiScale
at 2 and higher improves performance, along with lowering overall texture qualityjagexappletviewer.jar
comes from OldSchool.msi
5)jagexappletviewer.jar
from OldSchool.dmg
if -Djava.system.class.loader=app.systemclassloader
is set on both macOS and Linux hosts 6)wmctrl
is used to toggle between windowed and fullscreen statesjava-latest-openjdk
at version 14.0.0.36-2.rolling.fc32
did not work, so going back to 11 LTSsudo dnf install java-11-openjdk wmctrl && sync
sudo update-alternatives --config 'java'
rm -Rf ~/'runescape/oldschool' '/tmp/oldschool' && mkdir -p ~/'runescape/oldschool' '/tmp/oldschool' && wget -O '/tmp/oldschool/OldSchool.dmg' 'https://www.runescape.com/downloads/OldSchool.dmg' && 7z e -o'/tmp/oldschool/OldSchool-dmg' -y '/tmp/oldschool/OldSchool.dmg' && cp '/tmp/oldschool/OldSchool-dmg/jagexappletviewer.jar' ~/'runescape/oldschool/jagexappletviewer.jar' && cp '/tmp/oldschool/OldSchool-dmg/OSRS.icns' ~/'runescape/oldschool/OSRS.icns' && rm -Rf '/tmp/oldschool' && sync
opengl
and uiScale
flags as-neededmkdir -p ~/'.local/share/applications' && nano ~/'.local/share/applications/Old School RuneScape.desktop'
[Desktop Entry] Name=Old School RuneScape Comment=Relive the challenging levelling system and risk-it-all PvP of the biggest retro styled MMO. Play with millions of other players in this piece of online gaming heritage where the community controls the development so the game is truly what you want it to be! Categories=Game;Java;AdventureGame;RolePlaying Exec='/usr/bin/java' -Duser.home='/home/CHANGEME/runescape/oldschool' -Djava.class.path='/home/CHANGEME/runescape/oldschool/jagexappletviewer.jar' -Dcom.jagex.config='http://oldschool.runescape.com/jav_config.ws' -Djdk.tls.client.protocols='TLSv1.2' -Dhttps.protocols='TLSv1.2' -Xms'768M' -Xmx'768M' -Djava.system.class.loader='app.systemclassloader' -Dswing.crossplatformlaf='com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel' -Dsun.java2d.opengl='false' -Dsun.java2d.uiScale='1' 'jagexappletviewer' 'oldschool' Type=Application StartupNotify=true Path=/home/CHANGEME/runescape/oldschool Icon=/home/CHANGEME/runescape/oldschool/OSRS.icns StartupWMClass=jagexappletviewer Actions=Screen;Cache;Notes; [Desktop Action Screen] StartupNotify=false Exec='/usr/bin/wmctrl' -r 'Old School RuneScape' -b toggle,fullscreen -F Name=Toggle Fullscreen/Windowed [Desktop Action Cache] StartupNotify=false Exec='/bin/bash' -c "rm -Rf '/home/CHANGEME/runescape/oldschool/jagexcache' '/home/CHANGEME/runescape/oldschool/jagexappletviewer.preferences' '/home/CHANGEME/runescape/oldschool/jagex_cl_oldschool_LIVE.dat' '/home/CHANGEME/runescape/oldschool/random.dat' '/home/CHANGEME/runescape/oldschool/'*'.log' '/home/CHANGEME/runescape/oldschool/.java' '/tmp/oldschool' && sync && notify-send 'The Old School RuneScape cache has been cleaned.'" Name=Cache Cleanup [Desktop Action Notes] StartupNotify=false Exec=gio open 'https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/games:old_school_runescape' Name=Installation Notes
sed -i 's/'CHANGEME'/'$USER'/g' ~/'.local/share/applications/Old School RuneScape.desktop'
rm -Rf ~/'runescape/oldschool/jagexcache' ~/'runescape/oldschool/jagexappletviewer.preferences' ~/'runescape/oldschool/jagex_cl_oldschool_LIVE.dat' ~/'runescape/oldschool/random.dat' '/tmp/oldschool' && sync
cd ~/'runescape/oldschool' && java -Duser.home='.' -Djava.class.path='jagexappletviewer.jar' -Dcom.jagex.config='http://oldschool.runescape.com/jav_config.ws' -Dhttps.protocols='TLSv1.2' -Dsun.java2d.opengl='false' -Dsun.java2d.uiScale='1' 'jagexappletviewer' 'oldschool'
-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseShenandoahGC -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -Xms'512M' -Xmx'512M' -XX:-UseBiasedLocking -XX:+DisableExplicitGC
-XX:+UseNUMA
gio open ~/'runescape/oldschool'
jagexappletviewer.jar
has varying filesizes depending on where it's sourced from, along with different functionality depending on the host operating system 9)jagexappletviewer.jar
from OldSchool.msi
and requires 7z
~/Downloads/windows-jagexappletviewer.jar
rm -Rf '/tmp/oldschool' && mkdir -p '/tmp/oldschool' && wget -O '/tmp/oldschool/OldSchool.msi' 'http://www.runescape.com/downloads/oldschool.msi' && 7z e -o'/tmp/oldschool/OldSchool-msi' -y '/tmp/oldschool/OldSchool.msi' && 7z e -o'/tmp/oldschool/rslauncher-cab' -y '/tmp/oldschool/OldSchool-msi/rslauncher.cab' && cp '/tmp/oldschool/rslauncher-cab/JagexAppletViewerJarFile'* ~/'Downloads/windows-jagexappletviewer.jar' && rm -Rf '/tmp/oldschool' && sync
jagexappletviewer.jar
from OldSchool.dmg
and requires 7z
~/Downloads/macos-jagexappletviewer.jar
rm -Rf '/tmp/oldschool' && mkdir -p '/tmp/oldschool' && wget -O '/tmp/oldschool/OldSchool.dmg' 'http://www.runescape.com/downloads/OldSchool.dmg' && 7z e -o'/tmp/oldschool/OldSchool-dmg' -y '/tmp/oldschool/OldSchool.dmg' && cp '/tmp/oldschool/OldSchool-dmg/jagexappletviewer.jar' ~/'Downloads/macos-jagexappletviewer.jar' && rm -Rf '/tmp/oldschool' && sync
~/Downloads/generic-jagexappletviewer.jar
wget -O ~/'Downloads/generic-jagexappletviewer.jar' 'http://oldschool.runescape.com/downloads/jagexappletviewer.jar' && sync
am start -n 'com.jagex.oldscape.android/.AndroidLauncher'
am force-stop 'com.jagex.oldscape.android'
runescape
folder in the User
folder and runescape\oldschool
if not exist %UserProfile%"\runescape\oldschool" mkdir %UserProfile%"\runescape\oldschool"
start %UserProfile%"\runescape"
.zip
of the latest Java package from https://jdk.java.net/runescape
folder%UserProfile%\runescape\jdk-14
javaw.exe
should exist at %UserProfile%\runescape\jdk-14\bin\javaw.exe
Oldschool.dmg
installer%UserProfile%\runescape\oldschool\jagexappletviewer.jar
%UserProfile%\runescape\osrs.cmd
cd "jdk-"*"\bin" start javaw.exe -Djava.system.class.loader="app.systemclassloader" -Duser.home="..\..\oldschool" -Djava.class.path="..\..\oldschool\jagexappletviewer.jar" -Dcom.jagex.config="http://oldschool.runescape.com/jav_config.ws" -Dhttps.protocols="TLSv1.2" -Xms"768M" -Xmx"768M" -Dsun.java2d.uiScale="1" "jagexappletviewer" "oldschool"
~/runescape
folder-Djava.system.class.loader=app.systemclassloader
rm -Rf ~/'runescape/oldschool' && mkdir -p ~/'runescape/oldschool' && curl 'http://oldschool.runescape.com/downloads/jagexappletviewer.jar' -o ~/'runescape/oldschool/jagexappletviewer.jar' && curl 'https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/WLvp10q8TwtyVgMsYL7gW0c7NVG5vnFcRNS7oQtTnSyWbM9kgo_MS8QZa3bsylNgZDba' -o ~/'runescape/oldschool/jagexappletviewer.png' && sync
#!/usr/bin/env zsh cd ~/'runescape/oldschool' ~/'runescape/jdk-13.0.1.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java' -Djava.system.class.loader='app.systemclassloader' -Duser.home='.' -Djava.class.path='jagexappletviewer.jar' -Dcom.jagex.config='http://oldschool.runescape.com/jav_config.ws' -Dhttps.protocols='TLSv1.2' -Xms'768M' -Xmx'768M' -Dsun.java2d.opengl='false' -Dsun.java2d.uiScale='2' 'jagexappletviewer' 'oldschool'
jagexappletviewer.jar
from OldSchool.msi
7z
can do this properly and not 7za
, cabextract
, nor unar