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Update 0.2.05

Hello everyone, this week: more keyboard, more models, new brand and of course bugfixs!

Content

New models, and improvements for the previous ones.

DVDs & Serials are now branded.

Improved

In previous versions there was a delay when opening the title screen.
The menu was waiting for the Steam servers to respond to get the current most popular mods of the week. This time varies greatly depending on the quality of the internet connection available. For some it could become really annoying.
The request to Steam will now be on a different thread, which will avoids to wait.

During the creation of a new game or during the loading a save,
The game goes through the list of all the components and checks if all the needed components is unlocked, and removes the reference of removed objects (deleted or uninstalled mod)
It worked very well for a long time but since the item list begins to approach the 1500 components this task can be very long on the modest configuration.
That's why I decided to cut this task in several parts that will run simultaneously on all cores available on the processors.
From my test the duration of this task has been divided by 5 on average!

Minor UI improvements and correction has been made.
Frequency of Sad walk has been reduce.

And of course many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!

As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change and what you will like to see in Hardware Engineers in the comment section below.

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I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!

Summary:

  • Adding More Keyboards
  • Adding New 3D models for Keyboards
  • Adding New Brands (DVD & Serial)
  • Improved Keyboard box's 3D models.
  • Improved Performance
  • Improved Interface
  • Reducing frequency of Sad animations
  • Fixed 5 source of error "RenderTarget2D.Dispose"
  • Fixed "," and "." will now works as decimal separator
  • Fixed Purchased object counter
  • Fixed crash after loading game from <0.1.92
  • Fixed Statistics not updating
  • Fixed Language Reseting
  • Fixed Items unlocked counter
  • Fixed Missing tooltips in Management window
  • Fixed Title screen delay