Chasm
Steam News 12 May 20251y ago

Patch 1.094 Released

It's a never ending battle keeping PC games running comfortably on the latest hardware, but thankfully, SDL exists and makes it very easy to target a large amount of input, sound, and graphics hardware on all major plat…

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Full Chasm update

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Extracted changes

2 fixes2 additions4 changes1 removal
  • UI and audio
  • Compatibility
  • Gameplay
  • Fixes
addedIt's a never ending battle keeping PC games running comfortably on the latest hardware, but thankfully, SDL exists and makes it very easy to target a large amount of input, sound, and graphics hardware on all major platforms. In this vein, SDL 3.0 has recently been released, and now Chasm is taking the step up to it! The biggest change by far in SDL 3.0 is the new graphics backend called SDL GPU . With it, Windows and Linux have moved up to Vulkan from D3D11 & OpenGL, while OSX remains on its native Metal . If you are on older hardware or would like to force a particular graphics backend, you can do that as well in the Steam launch options with one of the following:
changedIf you encounter any graphical glitches or other issues with the upgrade, please let me know and we'll get it looked at ASAP. Also note that for now if you have showstopper issues you can switch to the default_previous public beta branch to continue playing the previous release using SDL 2.0. Thanks for your continued support! 1.094
addedadded quantity sort option to Inventory
fixedfixed the game crashing on some Macs when exiting
fixedfixed dialogue text spacing issue introduced in 1.092
removedremoved some duplicate routines that already existed in libraries

It's a never ending battle keeping PC games running comfortably on the latest hardware, but thankfully, SDL exists and makes it very easy to target a large amount of input, sound, and graphics hardware on all major platforms. In this vein, SDL 3.0 has recently been released, and now Chasm is taking the step up to it! The biggest change by far in SDL 3.0 is the new graphics backend called SDL GPU. With it, Windows and Linux have moved up to Vulkan from D3D11 & OpenGL, while OSX remains on its native Metal. If you are on older hardware or would like to force a particular graphics backend, you can do that as well in the Steam launch options with one of the following:

/gldevice:D3D11 /gldevice:OpenGL

If you encounter any graphical glitches or other issues with the upgrade, please let me know and we'll get it looked at ASAP. Also note that for now if you have showstopper issues you can switch to the default_previous public beta branch to continue playing the previous release using SDL 2.0. Thanks for your continued support! 1.094

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  • added quantity sort option to Inventory

  • fixed the game crashing on some Macs when exiting

  • fixed dialogue text spacing issue introduced in 1.092

  • removed some duplicate routines that already existed in libraries

  • updated game controller database

  • updated to SDL 3.0 (Windows & Linux use Vulkan by default now)

  • updated to FNA 25.05

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Steam News / 12 May 2025

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