Battle Chess: Game of Kings™ Steam news

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• Review score52% positive
• Total reviews372
• Release dateDec 11, 2015
• DeveloperOlde Sküül, Sculptured Software
• PublisherInterplay Entertainment Corp.

Genres: Casual, Strategy

Company pages: Developer: Olde Sküül, Sculptured SoftwarePublisher: Interplay Entertainment Corp.

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Battle Chess: Game of Kings™ Steam news

Battle Chess: Game of Kings™ news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

Latest Steam announcements

• Threads manager updated - 18 July 2023

  The code in the game was optimized for Windows XP, it's been updated to check for Windows 10 or higher and uses the new threads/semaphores, etc. Will make the game run a tad bit faster.

• Release Notes for Recent Updates - 9 March 2023

  Here are the release notes for the recent updates: A major resource management fix that reduces the number of crashes after playing for a while. Many audio related issues have been fixed: Corrupted audio files and related memory leak fixed. Fixed erroneous volume level bug. Fixed music cross-fading bug. Background and combat music will no longer play over top of each other. Music volume slider now works correctly. Thank you for playing!

• Music volume slider fixex - 14 February 2023

  The last audio bug is squished. When in the "Options" menu, you can slide both SFX and Music volume controls and they actually work. The settings are saved so when you quit and play again, the settings will remain.

• Music crossfading has been fixed - 13 February 2023

  The music streaming system wasn't properly setting the volume from the background thread. Issue has been fixed. All music have been converted to a new format, the "*.stream" file. Generated from using the original high quality wave files.

• Silence is not golden - 11 February 2023

  It was found that when a game begins, sometimes there is a silence before the game starts and sometimes a combat sound effect won't play. This is found to be that when setting the volume, the code errantly used the PREVIOUS volume, and saved the value of the new volume, but not set it. The code flow was fixed.

• Corrupted audio files repaired - 7 February 2023

  In tracking down an issue with audio, it was found that out of 683 .wav files, 2 had invalid headers. After fixing those headers, a possible buffer overrun has been fixed. This is a data update, so it will be a bit of a download. We are hard at work squishing bugs. :)

• Resource manager fixed - 6 February 2023

  On occassion, the resource manager used in Battlechess would leak some memory. Leaking memory is bad. This issue is fixed.

• Patch 1.1.1 - 28 June 2022

  The BattleChess Game of Kings 1.1.1 patch is out now. Updated the Steam API to 1.54 (The latest) Fixed an issue where the memory format iterator was performing a buffer overrun under certain circumstances Fixed an out of memory issue that triggers when textures were not properly released as the game is played from 10 to 60 minutes. Texture tracking refactored and the issue was fixed.

• Crash bug fixed - 11 February 2022

  A stack overflow was found in the chess logic that causes peices to change color and then the game will crash. The version was updated to 1.1.

• Build 11204 is up - 1 October 2018

  Work log Updated Steam API to latest SDK Updated Burgerlib to latest version (Massive sub system re-write) Updated to latest Visual Studio Added support for import / export of standard chess "FEN" save games. Added network framework for future support of cross-chess play. Chess algorithm crash fixes. Replaced use of strtok() to a version that supports multi-threaded operation (Fixed a race condition that caused random crashes) Cleaned up dead code. Updated texture read code. Internally uses UTF-8 exclusively. Report bugs to [email protected]

• Build 9511 is up - 25 January 2016

  Bugs fixed: Saved over 20 Meg in wasted memory Updated math functions to latest libraries Minor fix for visual error using nVidia 545GT Cleaned up startup/shutdown code Updated to latest Steam libraries Seperated config files for local and roaming data (Hardware values are tied to machine, get settings are in Roaming). Re-did steam manager to allow future update for steam cloud save games. Debuging code added to monitor for issues with loss of texture. (Data stored on local machine only) Plugged up memory leak in streaming audio A big shout out to those who have sent in bug reports!

• Build 9511 is up - 25 January 2016

  Bugs fixed: Saved over 20 Meg in wasted memory Updated math functions to latest libraries Minor fix for visual error using nVidia 545GT Cleaned up startup/shutdown code Updated to latest Steam libraries Seperated config files for local and roaming data (Hardware values are tied to machine, get settings are in Roaming). Re-did steam manager to allow future update for steam cloud save games. Debuging code added to monitor for issues with loss of texture. (Data stored on local machine only) Plugged up memory leak in streaming audio A big shout out to those who have sent in bug reports!

• Bugs? Found any? - 15 December 2015

  Please send an email with what you found and how to reproduce it to [email protected] Thanks!

• Bugs? Found any? - 15 December 2015

  Please send an email with what you found and how to reproduce it to [email protected] Thanks!

• Build 8227 is up - 11 December 2015

  Pretty much everything is fixed. The only thing that hasn't been fully tested is the Combat Vault, however, the next build is currently being tested which will have the Vault enabled so you can view your previous kills at your leisure! Thank you so much for being patient with us! :)

• Build 8227 is up - 11 December 2015

  Pretty much everything is fixed. The only thing that hasn't been fully tested is the Combat Vault, however, the next build is currently being tested which will have the Vault enabled so you can view your previous kills at your leisure! Thank you so much for being patient with us! :)

• Build 6614 is up - 5 February 2015

  Fixed a buffer overrun in the chess logic. (Took forever to find this one) Fixed an invalid value being sent to the light shader (Caused memory trashing). Played 4 games from start to finish, no crashes. Either I'm really lucky, or I found the crash bug. Please, prove me right!!!

• Build 6614 is up - 5 February 2015

  Fixed a buffer overrun in the chess logic. (Took forever to find this one) Fixed an invalid value being sent to the light shader (Caused memory trashing). Played 4 games from start to finish, no crashes. Either I'm really lucky, or I found the crash bug. Please, prove me right!!!

• Build 6549 is up - 30 January 2015

  It's been a while, and thankfully the issues that have kept us from working on this game have been resolved. Please, do your worst. There's a github based bug tracker set up so the community can report the bugs and watch the progress as issues are fixed. If there's any feature requests, please note them as such and they will be considered. Thank you for your patience in helping get Battle Chess perfected. I mean it, do your worst, follow the link below and report issues, but be civil. We're here to play video games and have fun! https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/battlechessgameofkings/issues

• Build 6549 is up - 30 January 2015

  It's been a while, and thankfully the issues that have kept us from working on this game have been resolved. Please, do your worst. There's a github based bug tracker set up so the community can report the bugs and watch the progress as issues are fixed. If there's any feature requests, please note them as such and they will be considered. Thank you for your patience in helping get Battle Chess perfected. I mean it, do your worst, follow the link below and report issues, but be civil. We're here to play video games and have fun! https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/battlechessgameofkings/issues

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