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Steam News30 July 20205y ago

Performance Update V0.96 Now Live! (Please report any issues)

We are pleased to announce the big performance update is now live! Our tests confirm upwards of 20%-50% performance improvements.

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changedWe are pleased to announce the big performance update is now live! Our tests confirm upwards of 20%-50% performance improvements. However, some of the changes we made are experimental, and we wish this to be a trail run to ensure stability. Please report any issues you experience, particularly in crashes. If you are experiencing crashes, and you weren't before, please report this to us.
fixedPerformance increases 20-40% across the game using threaded rendering.(Very noticeable in large cities) - Performance increase of 10-20% in crowd rendering as well as distant landscape rendering, increase is due to improved DX11 instancing. - Remaining Issues in Kirkwall quests with saving and events fixed. - Sound/muzzle flash bug on crossbow in multiplayer now fixed. - Main menu improvements. - Bug fixed when modifying graphics for the first time often put screen at low resolution. - Issue fixed where sound volume settings often did not apply when first loading game. - Issue fixed where items meant to appear/trigger during quests sometimes wouldn't. - Demo version fully updated to latest version.
changedWe hope you all enjoy the FPS increase! Have a fantastic week!

The Black Masses changes

changedWe are pleased to announce the big performance update is now live! Our tests confirm upwards of 20%-50% performance improvements. However, some of the changes we made are experimental, and we wish this to be a trail run to ensure stability. Please report any issues you experience, particularly in crashes. If you are experiencing crashes, and you weren't before, please report this to us.
fixedPerformance increases 20-40% across the game using threaded rendering.(Very noticeable in large cities) - Performance increase of 10-20% in crowd rendering as well as distant landscape rendering, increase is due to improved DX11 instancing. - Remaining Issues in Kirkwall quests with saving and events fixed. - Sound/muzzle flash bug on crossbow in multiplayer now fixed. - Main menu improvements. - Bug fixed when modifying graphics for the first time often put screen at low resolution. - Issue fixed where sound volume settings often did not apply when first loading game. - Issue fixed where items meant to appear/trigger during quests sometimes wouldn't. - Demo version fully updated to latest version.
changedWe hope you all enjoy the FPS increase! Have a fantastic week!

We are pleased to announce the big performance update is now live! Our tests confirm upwards of 20%-50% performance improvements. However, some of the changes we made are experimental, and we wish this to be a trail run to ensure stability. Please report any issues you experience, particularly in crashes. If you are experiencing crashes, and you weren't before, please report this to us.

Patch notes:

  • Performance increases 20-40% across the game using threaded rendering.(Very noticeable in large cities) - Performance increase of 10-20% in crowd rendering as well as distant landscape rendering, increase is due to improved DX11 instancing. - Remaining Issues in Kirkwall quests with saving and events fixed. - Sound/muzzle flash bug on crossbow in multiplayer now fixed. - Main menu improvements. - Bug fixed when modifying graphics for the first time often put screen at low resolution. - Issue fixed where sound volume settings often did not apply when first loading game. - Issue fixed where items meant to appear/trigger during quests sometimes wouldn't. - Demo version fully updated to latest version.

We hope you all enjoy the FPS increase! Have a fantastic week!

Regards,

Robert.

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