Patch Notes: Smoother frames

The game does less work in each frame. The picture does not change.

Every frame

• The game has fewer short stops (hitches).
• The game reads your settings, mod switches and key bindings one time. It reads them again only when they change.
• The game sends its fixed shadow data to the GPU one time, not in each frame.
• The grass and the flat sprites need less work to draw.
• The game uses the same lists and records again in each frame. Because of this, the game stops less often to clear unused memory.

Harbours

• A port checks the depth of its water again only when the ground that it reads moves. It does not do this check every 10 seconds.

The overworld

• Travel on the Overworld is smoother. The game plans the trips of each town one time, not again at each tick.
• The weather and the forecast do less work.
• The sea lanes and the travel readout do less work.

Water

• The water copies only the part of the screen that it reads.

Town shadows

• The game does less shadow work for the parts of a town that have no shadow cells.
• A lantern that does not move does not draw its shadows again.

Cyrodiil (offline)

• The game makes the zone outline of Cyrodiil in small steps, not in one long stop.

Online

• The game decodes the art of other players off the main thread.
• The game keeps the look and the name tag of a player who stands still.
• The save check that occurs at intervals does less work for large saves.

The limit

• If the GPU is the limit of your computer, these changes do not make your FPS much higher.

What's Changed

• Grant every account 500 Aurum and a maintenance apology; MarioTheShiba 1500 by @Lattymoy in #1

New Contributors

• @Lattymoy made their first contribution in #1

Full Changelog: app-v0.1.14487...app-v0.1.14574