diff --git a/pkgs/games/freeorion/92455f9.patch b/pkgs/games/freeorion/92455f9.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e40ee78de6df..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/games/freeorion/92455f9.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur GG/src/Font.cpp
---- /GG/src/Font.cpp
-+++ /GG/src/Font.cpp
-@@ -1586,8 +1586,13 @@
-     using boost::lexical_cast;
-     FT_UInt index = FT_Get_Char_Index(face, ch);
-     if (index) {
--        if (FT_Load_Glyph(face, index, FT_LOAD_DEFAULT))
--            ThrowBadGlyph("GG::Font::GetGlyphBitmap : Freetype could not load the glyph for character '%1%'", ch);
-+        if (FT_Load_Glyph(face, index, FT_LOAD_DEFAULT)) {
-+            // loading of a glpyh failed so we replace it with
-+            // the 'Replacement Character' at codepoint 0xFFFD
-+            FT_UInt tmp_index = FT_Get_Char_Index(face, 0xFFFD);
-+            if (FT_Load_Glyph(face, tmp_index, FT_LOAD_DEFAULT))
-+                ThrowBadGlyph("GG::Font::GetGlyphBitmap : Freetype could not load the glyph for character '%1%'", ch);
-+        }
- 
-         FT_GlyphSlot glyph = face->glyph;
- 
diff --git a/pkgs/games/freeorion/default.nix b/pkgs/games/freeorion/default.nix
index e143b6ebcf31..91d4db32b683 100644
--- a/pkgs/games/freeorion/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/games/freeorion/default.nix
@@ -2,18 +2,19 @@
 , libxslt, makeWrapper }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "0.4.5";
+  version = "0.4.6";
   name = "freeorion-${version}";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/freeorion/freeorion/releases/download/v0.4.5/FreeOrion_v0.4.5_2015-09-01.f203162_Source.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "3b99b92eeac72bd059566dbabfab54368989ba83f72e769bc94eb8dd4fe414c0";
+    url = "https://github.com/freeorion/freeorion/releases/download/v0.4.6/FreeOrion_v0.4.6_2016-09-16.49f9123_Source.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "04g3x1cymf7mnmc2f5mm3c2r5izjmy7z3pvk2ykzz8f8b2kz6gry";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ cmake boost SDL2 python2 freetype openal libogg libvorbis zlib libpng libtiff libjpeg mesa glew doxygen makeWrapper ];
 
-  # cherry pick for acceptable performance https://github.com/freeorion/freeorion/commit/92455f97c28055e296718230d2e3744eccd738ec
-  patches = [ ./92455f9.patch ];
+  patches = [
+    ./fix_rpaths.patch
+  ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/games/freeorion/fix_rpaths.patch b/pkgs/games/freeorion/fix_rpaths.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f53e9821e5dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/games/freeorion/fix_rpaths.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
+     set(FreeOrion_INSTALL_LIBDIR "${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/freeorion")
+ endif()
+ 
+-set(CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${FreeOrion_INSTALL_LIBDIR}")
++set(CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH "${CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_LIBDIR}/freeorion")
+ set(CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH_USE_LINK_PATH TRUE)
+ 
+ if (WIN32)