Download HookshotBuilder.exe and run it, or press Update in the launcher (hookshot.exe in your game folder). Linux: the AppImage below.
This update compiles the whole game once more (the game's code is split into pieces differently now, which makes later builds faster), and the shaders are prepared again.
Fixed
- Controllers did nothing and "Failed loading SDL3 library" popped up 3 times (since v2.0.0): SDL3.dll is in
bin\again. - The 4GB (Minimum) and 6GB (Low) presets ran at ~5 fps on cards with more memory: a preset's memory limits now apply only to a card that small.
- Stuck at "Preparing shaders: 99%": when the last shaders stop finishing, the game starts and they finish behind it.
- Foliage and plants that vanish when Link gets close, objects missing: the shader translator finds the game's real buffer pointers (Fritchii's and Lichii's fixes: near foliage, Hyrule Field grass); five programs that read zeros now read their data. Floating trees may be fixed by this too; please report.
- Foliage culling reads its work counts as the GPU wrote them (#252); shader local memory starts at zero.
- Ground streaks after long play (#593), AMD per-tap gathers and occlusion reports (#487), swapchain fixes (#492, #445), Linux: Wayland, udmabuf and SDL3 (#438, #448, #328), many builder fixes.
Faster
- About 15% faster replay on the CPU (#585 draw setup caching and barriers, #423), about 10 ms instead of 14 ms a frame in Kokiri on an RTX 4060 Ti.
- Faster builds: pieces split by compile cost, as many compilers as the memory allows, the lift skipped when nothing changed (#728, #561, #428).
New
- In-game menu with tabs (Q/E or LB/RB), GPU selector, controller layout presets, camera inversion, mouse look and mouse settings (#588, #440, #372, #465, #466).
- The builder shows how much space it keeps and can free it (#623).
Known
- Older builders (from before v2.0.0's installer) say the release has no HookshotBuilder.zip: download
HookshotBuilder.exebelow once. - RX 9070 XT: some PCs abort right at start; please send
hookshot_log.txt.
Thanks to everyone who sent pull requests.