Swap Force Recompiled 0.3.0-beta.7

Swap Force Recompiled, 0.3.0-beta.7 (test version).

• Nothing of its own this time: this release brings the parts all six games share up to date.

• Smoother where the game is busy: less work for every thing the game draws, on the thread that hands the game's graphics to your GPU. Where that thread was the limit, the game gets more frames: in Spyro's Adventure's busiest level about 6 % more without a frame limit (50 to 53 FPS). Where your graphics card is the limit, nothing changes.

• Your name stays out of the log: the log you attach to a problem report no longer has your Windows user name, your user folder or your PC's name in it (they show as %USERPROFILE%, <user> and <computer>).

• The log says which version it is: its first line names the game, its version and build, Windows, the processor and the memory, so a report tells us right away what it ran on.

• What got tested, and how it went: every story level of all six games and many of the others, every figure, the end credits, on the test status page.

The easy way: install Core of Light, the launcher. It sets this game up from your disc and keeps it up to date by itself.

On its own: run SwapForceRecompSetup-0.3.0-beta.7.exe and point it at your own Xbox 360 disc (an ISO file or an extracted folder). It's not signed, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": "More info" > "Run anyway". The README says which disc version it needs.

The game's data (graphics, sound, levels, movies) doesn't come with it: the setup takes it from your own disc.

Problems: F4 > Game > "Report a problem" in the game, then a new issue.

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