Hey everyone!
Our patch for the 'No Clean' issue on older hardware has now been added to the live version! We'd like to thank everyone for getting so many reports to us here on steam and with the in-game tool. It has really helped us to resolve the issue as fast as possible.
On top of that we have fixed another problem that effected some users saves. Plus, have some tweaks to help those players with older hardware get better performance.
To those that are currently on the test branch, you will want to go into your settings and remove that. (Right click on PowerWash Simulator in your Library > Properties > Betas > Select none - you may need to restart steam if the game doesn't update).
Full notes below.
Patch Notes:
- Added “Legacy” wash system to allow players with older hardware/drivers to clean. This setting should be automatically changed based upon your PC, but if you are still unable to clean anything, please open Options > Graphics and change Wash System from Standard to Legacy.
- Fix for save data being corrupted due to a crash or some other unexpected shutdown of the application (e.g. power loss) during a save operation. Players with corrupted save files will need to clear their save data in the Options menu and start again.
In some cases, power loss or unexpected system shutdown shortly after the game saved could cause save files to become corrupt. The game writes save files to a temporary location and then copies them over the old files. This file copy operation sometimes left the save file in the Windows file cache without writing the changes to disk, so that if Windows shut down unexpectedly before the cache was flushed, the file contents would be lost.
Why did we originally use the windows file cache?
it's just a part of how Windows works - everything goes through it for performance reasons. same reason you have to "safely eject" stuff in theory!
how did we fix it?
We now flush the cache for our save file after every save, which trades a little bit of performance for reliability
- Added more steps on the Render Scale and the ability to switch off the “Wetness Effect” to help players boost their performance when running on older/lower spec hardware.
Thanks again for helping us track these issues down as quickly as possible and we hope everyone has a great time in game!
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