Hey everyone!
If you've been affected by any crashes when starting chapter 4, please read on, or skip to the bottom and read "Chapter 4 Crashes Troubleshooting" for some things we can try if this patch doesn't address the issue for you.
Changelog
- Fix: Fixed an issue with (Chapter 10 spoilers)Hilda not showing up in chapter 11 after being talked to with Sven or Slyker in some scenarios.
- Fix: Level ups can no longer be skipped by clicking quickly at a specific point.
- Fix: Made a certain character that shows up in chapter 7 an unblockable reinforcement, so you won't lose him if you're standing on his tile.
- Fix: Group prayer description now correctly reflects that it doesn't heal the caster.
- Fix (first attempt): First fix attempt at solving the issue where chapter 4 is crashing on load for people with specific models of integrated graphics cards (found mostly in laptops). I've manually gone through the textures that appear only in chapter 4, and have disabled "mip-mapping", a form of optimization the UnityEngine does by default that doesn't really apply to the way I'm using the textures anyway. If this does not resolve the issue for particular graphics cards drivers, I will look to do a larger disabling of mip-mapping throughout the texture assets.
Chapter 4 Crashes Troubleshooting
If you are seeing crashes as soon as you try to load chapter 4, the issue has to do with either the way UnityEngine maps textures not working with a certain brand of integrated graphics cards (again, usually found in laptops), or the loading of textures without enough graphic memory (which is more unlikely as there aren't many textures used in chapter 4). If you look at the player logs, you will see a lot of the following error (with the numbers changing):d3d11: failed to create 2D texture id=2271 width=1024 height=1024 mips=11 dxgifmt=77 [D3D error was 8007000e]
In the meantime, if you're not able to progress past chapter 4, here are a couple steps you can take to see if it resolves the issue as recommended by Unity support (though it's a little generic):
- Update GPU drivers.
- Uninstall GeForce Experience.
- Disable any app used to monitor framerate.
- Full restart of you computer.
In the worst case scenario here's what we can do:
- You can send me your save file and I can update it to chapter 5, along with all your character's levels up 2 levels.
- I recorded the dialogue scenes for chapter 4 and posted an unlisted YouTube video here so you can still see what is happening in the story/base: https://youtu.be/yPQzBnIgBS0
This is a temporary workaround, and obviously not ideal since you'd be missing playing through the chapter, but it can get you unblocked for now while I try and get a hold of a laptop that can reproduce this issue. I would try loading chapter 4 one more time after you download patch v1.0.8 to see if the new texture changes fixed the issue for you.
Sorry to those of you that have run into this. Things specific to the hardware the game is played on is very difficult to anticipate, but I'll do my best to make it playable on all systems that I can. My hope is this patch can resolve the issue for some of you, so please let me know if you continue to hit a crash on Chapter 4!!
Best,
Eldin T.