- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 26 January 2026 - 12:55:05 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
A smaller update brings a range of fixes and performance improvements to Preface: Undiscovered World.v0.4.1 ChangelogKnown IssuesPerformance drop when ray tracing is enabled while standing near a waypointFeaturesImproved shadow performance at dusk and dawn (up to 60% faster) Improved DX12 resource cleanup performance Fixes Fixed ocean animation consistency at varying framerates Fixed visual noise in ray tracing during darker hours Fixed visual artifacts at coastlines Fixed notifications not loading properly in the escape menu Fixed stale user config issues - configs based on older engine versions are now automatically discarded Invisible and Upcoming Work Boost removal Completed removal of all Boost dependencies (filesystem, asio, beast, exception, stacktrace, algorithm)Added replacement utilities (hash helper, toLower, etc.) Render Abstraction Layer (RAL)Large-scale cleanup across RAL c...