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Steam News11 June 20233y ago

Update #42: Improving Performance

Hello everyone; we hope you’re all doing well! Summer is fast approaching, and with it, we want to address our focus to improve the game’s performance.

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Hello everyone; we hope you’re all doing well! Summer is fast approaching, and with it, we want to address our focus to improve the game’s performance.

What changed

1 fix0 additions8 changes0 removals
  • Performance
  • UI and audio
  • Gameplay
changedHello everyone; we hope you’re all doing well! Summer is fast approaching, and with it, we want to address our focus to improve the game’s performance.
changedIf you played 9 Years of Shadows recently, you’ve noticed we uploaded a localization patch, which includes French, German, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese as available languages.
changedWe also uploaded several bug fixes across the different patches, most of which solved technical issues due to game optimization. We have been fixing another batch of various bugs and performance issues and are now in a testing phase to check that everything is in order.
changedHowever, we know that some of you have encountered crashes in certain areas, so we wanted to reassure you of our commitment to solving them and working on solutions to prevent future crashes from happening again.
changedThe following are the main improvements of the past few weeks that will be present in an upcoming patch:
fixedFixed bug RAM issue that was causing some players to encounter problems due to memory leak

9 Years of Shadows changes

changedHello everyone; we hope you’re all doing well! Summer is fast approaching, and with it, we want to address our focus to improve the game’s performance.
changedIf you played 9 Years of Shadows recently, you’ve noticed we uploaded a localization patch, which includes French, German, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese as available languages.
changedWe also uploaded several bug fixes across the different patches, most of which solved technical issues due to game optimization. We have been fixing another batch of various bugs and performance issues and are now in a testing phase to check that everything is in order.
changedHowever, we know that some of you have encountered crashes in certain areas, so we wanted to reassure you of our commitment to solving them and working on solutions to prevent future crashes from happening again.
changedThe following are the main improvements of the past few weeks that will be present in an upcoming patch:

If you played 9 Years of Shadows recently, you’ve noticed we uploaded a localization patch, which includes French, German, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese as available languages.

We also uploaded several bug fixes across the different patches, most of which solved technical issues due to game optimization. We have been fixing another batch of various bugs and performance issues and are now in a testing phase to check that everything is in order.

However, we know that some of you have encountered crashes in certain areas, so we wanted to reassure you of our commitment to solving them and working on solutions to prevent future crashes from happening again.

We thank everyone who has taken the time to report their problems and continue supporting us as we work towards making the game smoother with each patch.

The following are the main improvements of the past few weeks that will be present in an upcoming patch:

  • Fixed bug RAM issue that was causing some players to encounter problems due to memory leak

  • Improved the loading system to be more efficient with big textures and assets

  • Compressed the executable size of the game to reduce space

  • Improved performance in intensive areas and battles in the game

  • Improved texture sizes to reduce spike lags

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Steam News / 11 June 2023

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