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TLJ Graphics Overhaul/Performance Fix

By mYsTere

A quick guide on how to modernize this beautiful game with ai-enhanced upscaled background textures and videos aswell as a redrawn user interface and and a lot of other small improvements thanks to the ScummVM implementation of the game engine. You can play it on Windows, Linux and macOS.

All credits go the original mod author. Here is his website: https://tljhd.github.io/

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Guide Index

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Step 1.

Step 2.

Step 3.

Changing the subtitles font / Missing Fonts folder

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Screenshots

Step 1.

Download the upscaled texture pack and the fmv pack (for videos) either from ModDB.com
or the creator's mega.nz mirror (links on his github page)

Main mod:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-longest-journey-hd/downloads/tljhd

FMV pack for 1080p:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-longest-journey-hd/downloads/the-longest-journey-hd-fmv-pack

FMV pack for 720p (get this one on older mobile cpu's):
https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-longest-journey-hd/downloads/the-longest-journey-hd-fmv-pack-720p

Alternatively you can use my google drive mirror:
Modpack 1080p & ResidualVM (Build 0.4.0 March 2020)[drive.google.com]

Extract the contents of 'TLJHD.zip' and 'TLJHD_FMV.zip' to the game installation directory. If asked, overwrite all existing files. Make sure that the path to the mod looks like this: 'Steam\steamapps\common\The Longest Journey\mods\TLJHD\'.

Step 2.

Some users experience issues with the more recent ScummVM builds, in this case you can try
an older ResidualVM build provided via the google drive[drive.google.com] link in Step 1. I used it to run the whole game without any issues or bugs.
For both VMs, all the steps are the same.

Download the ScummVM zip version for your OS:
https://www.scummvm.org/de/downloads/

Extract the contents of the ScummVM folder to your The Longest Journey installation folder.
The "ScummVM.exe" should be in the same directory as the "game.exe".
Rename the "game.exe" to anything else like "gamebackup.exe" and the "ScummVM.exe" to "game.exe".
Now you can launch the game directly through the Steam library and it will track play time as normal.

For your first launch, in ScummVM, click 'Add game' on the right and choose the game (not the mod!) directory.
(...steamapps\common\The Longest Journey)
Once the game shows in the list, click on Game Options, on the first tab check 'Load modified Assets' ,then go to the Graphics tab, select 'Override global graphic settings', enable 'Fullscreen mode', 'Correct Aspect Ratio' and 'Bilinear Filtering'.
Additionally you can enable anti-aliasing for the 3D models, I use 8x Anti-aliasing.

After confirming you can launch the game via the ScummVM gui.

Step 3.

If you have a moddb.com account, please rate the mod author's work. These neural network upscales take quite a while to do and this one is exceptionally well done!

Enjoy the game!

Changing the subtitles font / Missing Fonts folder

Go to : "..steamapps\common\The Longest Journey\Fonts".

If you prefer the original font or have legibility issues, inside the fonts folder rename "flornt.ttf" to "flornt.ttf.bak" or anything else, then name the font of your choice "flornt.ttf". The game's original font file is called "slurry.ttf"
You could also download any .ttf file of your choice and place it in the fonts folder.

Remember to make a backup copy of the original font file first.

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gordonfreeman01 17 Oct @ 10:03am

@Sel: The ability to change the language firstly requires to use the version of the game that comes with that language and then setting it in the game/ScummVM iirc. Not sure that the Steam version includes Spanish so you may have to locate a working Spanish copy of the game first. Someone earlier in the comments indicated issues running Spanish but without details like was it a fresh install or a manual edit, unsure whether it was a problem with the way it was setup.

If after a fresh install of the Spanish version of the game and attempting to run it you get issues, you'll need to report it to ScummVM, they have an active Discord.

Sel 17 Oct @ 9:09am

Can anyone tell me how to change language on the game? I am from LATAM but first time I played this as kid, I played it in Spanish Spain. The properties is not showing it. Btw, thanks for the mods!

SzDredd 1 Aug @ 8:54pm

Maybe ask in the translation guide page - https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=338452663 ? Translation looks like self extracting rar, you can try to extract and replace files manually.

RegineK 1 Aug @ 4:03pm

The mod doesn't work with Spanish translation(which I took from here, steam community). Scummvm just doesn't load the game when I translate it to Spanish. Any ideas what may be wrong? I tried adding the game again, which does make another line appear(saying spanish instead of english), but still.

mYsTere [author] 28 May @ 10:40pm

You just need to put your old savegame file into the path that is configured in the ScummVM options. When you open Scummvm (or the game if you followed the guide), open game options and select your save file path. Where your old Steam save file resides, depends on your admin rights and OS. For windows it is either directly in the installation folder or under 'appdata\local\Funcom\TLJ' @Yuriika

Yuriika 18 May @ 9:45am

Any way to convert old savegames from steam to scummvm?

SzDredd 18 Nov, 2024 @ 10:21am

Game supports only English (Steam) and GOG version supports English and Polish(according to game page). Since it is graphics mod it should work with any fan translation (you may need correct font for that but they are probably providing it).

Average bnuuy enjoyer 17 Nov, 2024 @ 12:39pm

is this only compatible with english release or it work for others languages ?

DTK25 2 Aug, 2024 @ 11:33am

Respekt und Danke an alle die es ermöglicht haben das das Game endlich auf 32:9 Format in Fullscreen dargestellt wird

Besten Dank an :
P.J,legaiaflame,SzDredd sowie an das Team von ScummVM .

Ps: da die Steam version "LEIDER" keine Deutsche Sprachausgabe besitzt , einfach nach dem Deutsch Patch suchen ;)

SzDredd 22 Jun, 2024 @ 10:36pm

There is also HD mod for characters - https://www.moddb.com/mods/hd-characters .

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