Your top screen gets its frame time back
Kanto Gear was treating “no choice is open” as a changed choice roughly every 50–60 ms. That made otherwise static companion pages redraw and cross the second-screen bridge around 17 times per second. Detailed pages such as GUIDE could therefore produce visible frame-time spikes, especially on lower-power handhelds.
What changed
- Static companion pages now redraw only when their actual content changes.
- Repeated canvas readbacks and second-screen frame submissions stop while a page is idle.
- A Gear frame rendered directly on the handheld display remains ready until its contents change.
- LOCAL continues updating live while the player moves.
- Opening, changing and closing real dialogue choices still invalidates the companion UI normally.
Before the fix, GUIDE redraws measured as high as 15–18 ms each on an AYN Thor. The final Crystal test made GUIDE and LOCAL feel equally smooth while moving.
No host update, save migration or settings reset is required. The optional German and Spanish language packs are included unchanged at 0.2.8.