Hello, folks! In this update we're deploying a whole rainbow of changes, primarily focusing on startup crashes due to other apps interfering with Tiny Glade's rendering. See here for some background. There's also a few fixes of our own bugs, and a handful of improvements too

A gentle cleanse of "implicit Vulkan layers"

* Automatically prevent graphical overlays, FPS counters, ReShade-likes, etc. from injecting themselves into Tiny Glade. This should fix a bunch of startup crashes. * Added a "Vulkan extension settings" launch option in Steam, so you can re-enable anything you need. OBS and Valve stuff are allowlisted by default. * Added a "Graphics card selector" launch option in Steam, which causes the graphics card/driver screen to pop up. Please let us know if you encounter any new graphical issues, or whether this fixed the startup crashes for you Just in case, the previous version is available under the "1_3_1" beta in Steam.

Misc

* We'd heard reports that ivy was still levitating inside arches, so we've done some additional gardening * Added a time of day speed setting You can now have very long or short day cycles! (You can find it in Settings -> Game) * Doubled firefly count at night because who doesn't want more fireflies! * Making a new glade will now load the starting glade instantly (instead of showing a super quick creation process which can look noisy) * (Windows) Enanced our crash reporter to also catch heap corruption errors

Fixes

* (Windows) Fixed the game window not showing on old graphics cards/drivers. Tiny Glade still won't work on those, but at least now you'll get an information screen. * (Windows) Fixed a crash when a monitor's ICC profile path contained invalid Unicode characters. * Fixed a crash when loading odd font files from the system. We now bundle our own fonts, and only use those. * (Linux) Fixed a bug where the graphics card selection screen would be black until you moved your mouse. Thank you for sending us crash reports! They've been very helpful in identifying these issues. PS: aaaand we're also preparing a small feature update for the upcoming Steam Next Fest Stay tuned! Love, Ana & Tom

[ 2024-06-08 21:24:21 CET ] [ Original post ]