V0.8_Experimental

0.8.0-experimental

New

• New launcher in the style of the game's own option menus: Video, Sound and Launcher pages, a description and default for every setting, a green mark on anything you've changed, and full controller support (D-pad/stick, LB/RB for pages, A or Start to play).
• 5.1 surround (experimental): Speakers = 5.1 now uses the game's own Dolby Digital mode, so it places sounds across all six speakers itself, just like an Xbox set to Dolby Digital. Tested on a home-theatre system.
• Ultrawide (experimental): add RECOMP_ASPECT = 21:9 (or 32:9) under [Advanced] in settings.ini, with Widescreen on. The 3D view widens instead of stretching; the HUD and menus are still stretched in this first version.
• "Save graphics capture" in the F1 menu (same as F11), for controller and Steam Deck players.

Fixes

• Steam Deck / Proton: the game now ships Microsoft's shader compiler instead of relying on Wine's, which crashed or took many minutes on the game's graphics shaders. This is the likely cause of black cutscenes, glitches and low frame rates on the Deck. Deck reports welcome.
• Low-end PCs: graphics shaders build about twice as fast in the background, and Setup now builds 129 of them in advance. More to come as I play some more.

Notes

• Setup rebuilds the shader cache once (a few minutes at the end of install), so the first start stays quick.
• Includes Microsoft's redistributable shader compiler and two open-licence fonts for the launcher.