1.0.63

Highlights since 1.0.60

• Far shadow cache (BETA): no more missing house and tree shadows when you turn the camera.
• Shadow cache for static lights now needs about half the video memory, up to 1 GB less in places with many torches and fires.
• Hide occluded objects (BETA): no more objects briefly disappearing when you switch camera view, teleport or sit down.
• Textures reduced by Texture Downscaler or similar mods stay at their size after loading screens.
• No more short stutters while dragging sliders in the SPS menu.
• Many stability fixes and a bit less CPU load.

All changes since 1.0.60 (SE/AE)

Shadows

• Far shadow cache (BETA): fixed shadows of houses and trees missing depending on the view direction (bug since 1.0.59).
• Far shadow cache (BETA): walking towards the sun no longer cuts off shadows of tall objects.
• Far shadow cache (BETA): objects that come into view while turning keep their shadows, only objects that are really in the cache are skipped.
• Far shadow cache (BETA): more robust in interiors, on cell changes, loading screens, pause and free camera. Its video memory is released when you switch it off.
• Shadow cache for static lights: all lights share one copy of the previous frame. Halves the video memory of the cache (up to about 1 GB less with many lights and 4096 shadow maps).
• Shadow cache for static lights: no endless rebuild loop after a failed build, inactive lights are released sooner.

Hide occluded objects (BETA)

• No more single frame flashes of missing objects when switching between first and third person, teleporting or using furniture.
• Main view detected by the world camera, reflections and previews can no longer be taken for the main view. Less work per object.

Texture streaming

• The size limit of another mod (for example Texture Downscaler) is kept after loading screens.
• Reloads waiting in the queue for more than 8 seconds are dropped, textures out of sight are no longer enlarged for nothing.
• More stable texture tracking: a reused memory address could make a foreign texture count as streamed. Results from before a loading screen are discarded safely.
• Errors can no longer reach the game's texture loader or stop the streaming thread.

Settings

• Never saved while an A/B measurement runs, so its temporary values cannot end up in SPS_User.ini.
• Settings changed in the main menu are saved right away.
• Saved once nothing has changed for one second and without forcing a disk flush. No more short stutters while dragging a slider.
• Leftovers of removed features are cleaned up in SPS_User.ini and SPS.ini.

Performance

• Less work per object and per draw call on the main thread (draw filter, light cache, torch shadows, rain and skylighting, texture scan).
• All measurements and diagnostics run only with the analysis log.

All changes since 1.0.60 (VR)

• Texture streaming: the size limit of another mod (for example Texture Downscaler) is kept after loading screens.
• Texture streaming: reloads waiting in the queue for more than 8 seconds are dropped.
• Texture streaming: more stable texture tracking, results from before a loading screen are discarded safely, errors can no longer reach the game's texture loader or stop the streaming thread. Less work per texture during the scan.
• Torch shadow culling uses the real light position and radius. Large wall shadows close to a light are no longer culled by mistake.
• Settings: never saved while an A/B measurement runs, main menu changes are saved right away, no stutters while dragging a slider, leftovers of removed features cleaned up.