v0.62 - Smoother play and a tidier ultrawide HUD

Folklore PC v0.62 — Smoother play and a tidier ultrawide HUD

Fewer hitches, a clean fade-in when you load a save, and a pile of ultrawide HUD fixes.

⚡ Smoother play

• No more quarter-second freezes in fights — in heavy combat the game and the renderer could end up waiting on each other for about 150 ms at a time, every few seconds. That hold-up is gone.
• Clean fade-in after Load Game — while the new area's shaders were still being built, half-drawn frames could flash on screen (a black screen with only the HUD, pieces of the scene). The loading screen now stays up until the area is ready.

🖥️ Ultrawide HUD fixes

• Speech bubbles keep the game's proportions and sit beside the character who is speaking, as they do at 16:9.
• Place-name popups — the name stays centred on its bubble.
• Item pick-up box (bottom right) — the icon, box and item name stay together.
• Boss capture bar — keeps one width through its intro animation, and the flash on a successful move no longer spills past the bar's ends.
• Capture bonus — the experience-bonus sparkles stay on the gauges, and the gauges no longer jump to the middle while they play.
• Search prompt no longer flickers off to the right as the camera turns.
• Player select — the arrows stay between Ellen and Keats.

🎮 Auto-capture

• With motion controls off, auto-capture now also finishes the boss captures where you swing the controller left and right (the bar used to fill up and then sit there).

🔧 Also fixed

• Saves page: each slot card is sized to its contents, so the play time line is never cut off.
• Texture dumping with a texture pack on: dumps of textures the pack already replaces are moved into textures\dump\replaced, so textures\dump only holds what's left to do.
• F2 render capture: it now always finishes, even if you haven't opened the engine menu first (it used to keep going and slow the game to a crawl).

Updating from v0.6

Unzip the new version over the old one (or into a new folder and copy your gamedata folder and folklore_settings.ini across). Your saves and settings carry over.

Getting it

Download the zip for your version, unzip it and run run_launcher.bat. Point the Game page at your own disc dump (and the 1.10 update for 1.10 builds), then press Play. As always, you need your own copy of the game; this release contains no game code.

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