Performance and GC Crash issue fixed — ZED ZONE Steam update #856584

We conducted a thorough investigation into the performance stuttering and GC crashes that occurred after the game had been running for some time. During...

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ZED ZONE (1211600)
Event type
patch note
Published
10 March 2026 - 15:09:56 UTC
Source
steam_community_announcements
We conducted a thorough investigation into the performance stuttering and GC crashes that occurred after the game had been running for some time. During this process, we also implemented multiple optimizations to address potential performance bottlenecks. The root cause turned out to be a very basic logic error.The issue was caused by the item UI object pool not being reused after objects were returned to it during gameplay. As a result, inactive GameObjects kept accumulating. After about half an hour of play, the game could end up creating more than 100,000 GameObjects. This led to increasing stutters over time (which in practice correlated with how often the inventory was opened). Eventually, the GC marking workload exceeded what the system could handle, causing the game to crash with a GC error.This issue has now been fixed, and we have also implemented several optimizations to reduce...

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