Smooth fights with a texture pack. Everything from 0.1.38.5 is included.
Updating on Windows: replace every file of the old copy, not only the .exe.
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Texture packs no longer cause stutter. Each HD replacement comes with up to 11 smaller copies of itself, and the game handed every one of them to the graphics card through a buffer of its own, created and thrown away in the same frame. With a large pack, a fight brings in hundreds of those, and the frames that took them in came out late. All of a frame's textures now go through one buffer that is kept, and a frame takes in at most 4 MB of a pack's pictures (the rest follow a frame or two later, as when a file is still being read).
With the GrandpaNiki x vini2227 HD pack (18,597 textures), read from disk, in a recorded session of two fights with ultimates at 8x: pictures that came late went from 3.1% to 0.2%, and the 1% low from 24.0 to 27.9 fps, the same as without any pack. With the Light edition: 0.6% to 0.1%, 26.8 to 27.9 fps. Every picture looks exactly as before, and the time from your input to the picture is unchanged.
Online matches work with every 0.1.38 version.
Full Changelog: v0.1.38.5...v0.1.38.6