April 3 fixes - Memory Leaks + Changes to Lag Handling — Vernal Edge Steam update #1251775

Hello everyone. We've got another patch with various bugfixes and tweaks for you today. The headline change is about how we handle lag and dropped frames. In short, if the game was running slowly it would attempt to "skip" up to 3 frames to compensate and to avoid slowdown. However, for many users this was causing instability and we decided that for now it wasn't working the way we had intended. Therefore, we've limited the amount of skip to 1.2 frames, which should keep gameplay smooth for small framedrops down to about 50fps but any lower than that and the game will experience slowdown instead. Users on steam deck who set their refresh rate lower than 60hz will notice this slowdown as well, and we recommend playing the game at 60hz if possible. In addition to this however, we've also fixed a number of memory leaks that could cause slowdown during long play sessions of the game, so it s...