Hey all,
In my quest to make Beef Cat Ultra run better in the Endless stages on lower powered laptops I have conjured up another performance patch. This one is another great step towards even the largest and most chaotic stages remaining smooth on even the lowest end of devices.
The new Shadows toggle in the settings menu will turn off the game-wide drop shadow effect. This is a demanding visual effect and turning it off results in a large spike in fps. Testing on my own PC which does not have performance issues ever saw Endless stages double in frame rate from approximately 1000fps to 2000fps. On a lower end non-gaming laptop with a 2.2ghz processor, this meant a laggy experience in the massive endless stages is now flawlessly buttery.
On a lower end device that struggles to run Endless stages, this toggle alone should ideally translate into almost double the frame rate at the expense of losing drop shadows.
Other general code clean up and map clean up was done to further help those stages run the best they can.
v2.2
Added Shadows toggle to Settings menu
Added "On" and "Off" Text to both the Fullscreen and Shadows boxes in the Settings menu
General map and performance enhancements