I’ll quickly summarize the main ways in which this affects Kuro: If you want to read a more general deep-dive into game asset compression, storage and loading then we have a more technical post up on our company blog here. The p3a Archive FormatIn Kuro, we are using our p3a archive format, which contains compressed assets. We do not recommend changing the default behaviour.Īs always for our releases, in case you experience any regressions you can revert to prior versions of the game using the Steam 'Beta' feature. 'Always' uses the extra buffering even on NV and Intel GPUs. 'Never' forces the prior behaviour even on AMD. The default is 'Auto' and selects the behaviour based on the GPU vendor.

This setting will show up in the file after launching the new version once and accessing its settings. If, for any reason, you want to override this automatic selection, you can do so by changing the 'extra_host_write_buffering' setting in the game's 'settings.yaml' file found in '%LOCALAPPDATA%/Falcom/Kuro'. Regarding the GPU data transfer change, in our testing this improved performance by a significant degree on some AMD systems, but was neutral or slightly negative in its performance impact on other systems.Īs such, by default we enable this behavior only on systems with an AMD GPU and disable it on others. Adjust chapter start screens for non-16:9 aspect ratios.Fix fade effect not spanning the whole screen in non-16:9 aspect ratios when skipping events.We have observed this to significantly improve performance on some systems with AMD GPUs. Add a special feature to (optionally) handle GPU data transfers differently.Today we are releasing an update for Kuro no Kiseki with the following changes:

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