Malevolence - Optimization Update

Visual Outbreak has a small update on the Steam forums with some news on the progress of the the Optimization Update for Malevolence: The Sword of Ahkranox.

Optimizations

Hi all! So I've been pulling some late night coding sessions to really try and optimize the game as much as possible. The last performance upgrade I put out seems to be making a big difference for many of you, but I'm not done by a long shot.

I've been focusing mainly on loading times for the past couple of days, and have been seeing some really promising results. Earlier in the week, on my computer, entering Shoba Nohr took approximately 20.2 seconds. Yesterday before I went to bed I was entering Shoba Nohr in approximately 16.5 seconds. Tonight, however, I'm getting in there in around 12 seconds! I'm not done yet, either, I think I can get below 10 seconds. Once I do that, though, I'm going to leave it be and move onto the countryside load times, which I haven't started on just yet.

But anyway, just thought I'd pop by with a quick progress report to let you know how it's all going!

Oh, and I've implemented a new error management and retry system which should greatly reduce those pesky "could not load image/object/sound/music" crashes, if not remove them entirely. The test team will be getting a build once I get the dungeon loads under 10 seconds and we'll go from there.