SimGolf Remastered for Windows 0.1.24

Faster play on large, busy courses with HD art.

• Fixed the slowdown on large, busy courses with HD art (issue #73). A memory safety check ran for every HD sprite in every frame and took about a third of the game's time on the reported course. It now reuses its result within a frame, and game speed on that course returns to normal.
• Mod profile names with quotes or other special characters now save and load correctly. A load order file that cannot be read is kept as a backup instead of being replaced.
• The game now starts from install folders named in other alphabets, such as Japanese or Cyrillic, on the main Windows drive.
• Very large courses handle low memory more safely: ground, water and HD art keep the last complete picture instead of failing.
• Ground textures retry a failed graphics upload and keep the working picture meanwhile.
• Preserves all 0.1.23 features, saves, settings, custom mods and the remastered menu default.

Existing players can use the in-game updater or replace the app files from the Windows ZIP. Keep game data, saves, options and custom mods. Installation instructions and optional HD art remain on the main page.

Verification: required source check PASS (8a82500), full Windows ALL build. The reporter's own save (issue #73) was loaded and scrolled with HD art on, before and after the fix: the game thread's busy share went from 80 to 89% to about 52% when idle and 61 to 66% while scrolling, with game speed back to about 11 frames per second. New focused tests cover the pointer-check cache (with a negative control against 0.1.23), the art key table, unusual mod profile names, an unreadable load order and a non-ANSI install folder. The official 0.1.23 updater installed this package and preserved settings, saves and all existing mod and profile files. ZIP CRC, privacy and every unchanged entry were checked against 0.1.23.

Known limits: a shorter picture stutter while scrolling the reported course remains; the graphics driver is slow to create newly visible HD sprites there, and work on it continues. The crash in issue #73 is not yet explained. Browser build, full UI gallery, optional HD art download and the clean installer were not repeated.

SHA-256:

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