In our ongoing effort to make Trails of Cold Steel II on PC as bug-free and appealing an experience for everyone as possible, we are publishing version 1.2 today. It includes several correctness fixes that should resolve crash bugs on some software/hardware configurations, a new caching scheme to reduce loading times, and several other improvements.
This video highlights the loading time improvements.
Complete Patch Notes for Version 1.2
- Various optimizations to loading speed and caching.
- Fix memory allocation ordering issues, eliminating some types of crashes occuring on some sytems.
- Permanently cache battle UI images to improve battle loading speed and prevent some rendering issues.
- Correctly apply English localized textures for ARCUS covers when playing the English version.
- Reduce Z-fighting on support character cut-ins during Divine Knight battles.
- Fix flickering and shadow issues in Sachsen Iron Mine map.
- Eliminate visible texture seams at some resolutions on title screen and some shop screen tabs.
- Fix aspect ratio of cockpit cutins when playing in ultra widescreen.
- Pillar box shop menus when playing in ultra widescreen.
- Added 120 FPS and 240 FPS frame limiter options.
- Added experimental HD font option.
Version 1.2 is available now.
Experimental Options
This update introduces two experimental options that can be enabled by command line options. Note that these are experimental for a reason - we want to provide them to you if you are interested, but they are not fully tested throughout the entire game.
- -hdfont : This option enables a high definition font. It is natively designed for 4x the resolution of the default font. This will be especially useful in combination with the QHD UI mod. See here for a comparison.
- -largecache : Increases the size of the cache, which should make the loading time optimizations even more effective in longer sessions and reduce the number of instances of longer cache-clearing load times.
Note on Reverting to Previous Versions
While we of course aim for each new version to only solve issues and provide improvements over all previous ones, it is always possible for something to break on some particular configuration.
Therefore, we keep all versions available as Beta branches in Steam. Should an update lead to issues on your system, you can revert to a previous branch by selecting "Properties" -> "Betas" in the Steam library and choosing a version from the drop down menu. If you can confirm that the new version caused a problem, please report it as a regression.
