Performance update — Lockdown: Stand Alone Steam update #837307

Hey! After receiving some complaints about the game not running well on AMD processors (most notably FX8320/FX8350) combined with great GPUs...

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Lockdown: Stand Alone (513270)
Event type
patch note
Published
30 December 2016 - 21:46:43 UTC
Source
steam_community_announcements
Hey! After receiving some complaints about the game not running well on AMD processors (most notably FX8320/FX8350) combined with great GPUs (980Ti/1070/1080), i started to work on optimizations. GPU skinning This effectively directs the mesh skinning workload from the CPU to the GPU. Enemy pathfinding improved The pathfinding has been slightly optimized. The CPU workload should be about 10% less with this update. Blend weights I've managed to cut the performance impact a little by halving the blend weight count from four to two. Improved lighting and shadow performance More baked lights instead of realtime lighting. I've also adjusted the shadow resolution inside the levels to reflect these changes. These changes should bring the overall performance boost up to 15-20 %. The game is still heavy on the CPU so i cannot (yet) lower the minimum requirements. As always - if you have any feedb...

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