v0.7.3

What's new

Shorter hitches arriving in Hyrule Castle: a few seconds after you arrive, the game loads the area, and the GPU is busy with its textures for a moment. The game's own thread used to wait on the GPU for up to a quarter of a second at that point. That wait now gives up after 20 ms. Measured here at 75 % render resolution, two runs each, arriving in Hyrule Castle: the time lost in long frames goes from 1039 and 1177 ms to 835 and 867 ms, and the longest frame from 250 and 319 ms to 138 and 158 ms. The game's exposure stays as steady as before (we check for brightness flicker frame by frame). The loading itself is still there, so the arrival isn't perfectly smooth yet.

Linux build fix (#18): the renderer builds with clang on Linux again (thanks @biosed).

No shader preparation: your prepared shaders are kept.

Known issues (v0.7.3)

• Water freeze on RTX 50-series: the GPU stops in the game's half-resolution pass on RTX 5060, 5070 Ti and 5080. The testers in #6 and #7 ruled out three causes; 0.7.2's report should name the exact draw.
• Camera turning in the Market: frames over 25 ms while the camera turns toward the busy side. Measured here: mostly the game's own work in that view (its scene and loading threads), which this release does not change.
• Mouse camera while aiming and indoors (0.7.1): checked on open ground only so far (#13, #2).
• Fairy fountain floor (0.7.2, #14): the repair runs on every install and update; not yet confirmed in the grotto by the reporter.
• FSR tested on NVIDIA only: not yet on AMD or Intel cards.
• Short trails with FSR and DLSS: what moves by itself without a skeleton (particles, water, plants in the wind) can leave short trails.
• 4K native on 8 GB cards: the card is full in Hyrule Castle at 3840x2160 and 100 %; use 67 % or 75 % render resolution (FSR or DLSS make that look closer to native).
• Frozen Zora's Domain: green and purple patches on the snow and plants (#9). Not confirmed fixed.
• Gyro on some Pro-style controllers: left/right can come out reversed and weak (#8); official Nintendo Pro Controllers work as expected.

Updating

The launcher offers the update. The game is built again; saves, settings and prepared shaders are kept.

If something does not work, please open an issue and attach relink_log.txt from the game folder.