- Steam App
- The Artisan of Glimmith (4160210)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 28 March 2026 - 20:28:17 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
So we've pushed a patch this afternoon. The changes are pretty simple:Fixed a dumb bug that caused the game to use 200MB more video memory than it shouldMade further optimizations to save another ~100MB of video memoryBut the dumb bug has a really funny story.The InvestigationIt started yesterday when, after the patch, we got a few reports of crashes. Usually this means the patch has a programming error that needs to be fixed, but the reports were quite sparse (we only ended up getting around 7 of them in 24 hours). And when we looked further, the crashes were... weird.Normally if the crash is caused by a bug in our code, it's triggered whenever players do a very specific thing. But in this case, the crashes were happening at seemingly random times. And moreover, they didn't just crash The Artisan of Glimmith... they sometimes crashed players' entire computers!When we looked at the hardw...