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Steam News6 August 20267d ago

Demo Patch: 5.1 Audio Fix + Microphone Settings Improvements

Hey all, We've released a patch for the demo that addresses a failstate with the movie renderer where if you had a 5.1 audio output in Windows, the video rendering would get stuck on "Preparing to Render" forever.

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  • UI and audio
  • Gameplay
fixedWe've released a patch for the demo that addresses a failstate with the movie renderer where if you had a 5.1 audio output in Windows, the video rendering would get stuck on "Preparing to Render" forever. A big thank you to Phantimon from the Discord for investigating the issue and helping us get it fixed!
addedAdditionally, we've added a visual for the microphone output volume so you can more easily tell if you're set to a good volume, and improved how microphone boosting works. You may need to adjust your microphone volume in-game if you played an old version of the demo.

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fixedWe've released a patch for the demo that addresses a failstate with the movie renderer where if you had a 5.1 audio output in Windows, the video rendering would get stuck on "Preparing to Render" forever. A big thank you to Phantimon from the Discord for investigating the issue and helping us get it fixed!
addedAdditionally, we've added a visual for the microphone output volume so you can more easily tell if you're set to a good volume, and improved how microphone boosting works. You may need to adjust your microphone volume in-game if you played an old version of the demo.

We've released a patch for the demo that addresses a failstate with the movie renderer where if you had a 5.1 audio output in Windows, the video rendering would get stuck on "Preparing to Render" forever. A big thank you to Phantimon from the Discord for investigating the issue and helping us get it fixed!

Additionally, we've added a visual for the microphone output volume so you can more easily tell if you're set to a good volume, and improved how microphone boosting works. You may need to adjust your microphone volume in-game if you played an old version of the demo.

Please let us know if you run into any issues either in the Steam forums or via our Discord: https://discord.gg/R3EjcHzYPN

Thanks again for playing the demo and supporting our game!

With Love,

Winston and Jeff

[EDIT]We are aware of an issue where the microphone volume visual indicator doesn't work in the main menu and are working on a fix.

For now, modify your microphone volume when you are either in lobby or in-game and you will see the visual indicator functioning properly.

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Steam News / 6 August 2026

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