- Steam App
- Element (422300)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 27 January 2017 - 23:41:02 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
After a short break to realign orbits Element v1.4.1 'Nebula' is available now. This is a systems update for Steam, input and sound libraries, and Unity. We have also made some rendering optimisations using gpu instancing and updated shaders, optimised some of our model data, and reduced loading times with assorted memory trickery. There are also some changes under the hood to address problems with deferred rendering on Linux using Unity's new graphics APIs. Windows and OSX platforms will continue to use the primary deferred renderer that enables lighting and post-processing effects as normal. We are experiencing a few problems compositing multiple deferred rendering passes on Linux, so on Linux platforms we instead use the alternate forward renderer with reduced effects. The graphics detection can also be overridden for all platforms using a commandline option. Edit the Element launch o...