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Project Atral: The Riddle of Durendare
6 months ago

About the weather system.


I have fixed the weather systems and their collisions. There's now rain and light snow with Niagara. They will not fall through roofs anymore. But they are very demanding on the CPU, so i'll try to make it possible to deactivate both of them for weaker computers. I can not guarantee it though.

For the next playable alpha build i recommend CPUs comparable to:

  1. Ryzen 5 5500 (six cores)

  2. Ryzen 7 1700 (eight cores)

Any CPU weaker or older than that might not be able to handle Project Atral, while the weather systems can not be turned off.



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