A performance patch for GemCraft Chasing Shadows which makes the game run something like 10x faster
Besides making the game run much faster, intended mechanical changes are minimal:
- Towers fire at the weakest beacon first because the bug which made that not the case caused lag
- Towers can't fire at guardians if there's monsters in range and they're not set to target specials
- Traps which will fire at all monsters in range the maximum number of times and aren't set to target random will iterate over the targets in range (instead of choosing random targets) and will only call the function to make a monster take damage once per monster per frame and pass the number of hits to deal to it instead of calling the function multiple times per monster per frame
In order to make the game run better, some rendering changes were needed:
- Swarmlings which aren't rendered won't have their shield rendered either
- Render limit per tile is set to 1 on min settings rather than 2, like what the sliders allow
- Draw shields option ignores force min/max settings so you can disable it when on force min settings
- An option to enable/disable drawing monster upper body parts is added
- Disabling rendering monster parts will make them not update so they'll be wrong for a few frames when turning them on after they've been disabled
- An option to disable showing monster death ability effects is added because they cause lag spikes when killing lots of heal on death or resocket on death monsters at once
To install this, download the zip from here and put the contents of it in the same folder as your game's swf (gc-cs-steam.swf) and run applypatch
In order for it to work, you will need at least one of the following:
- gc-cs-steam.swf to be the same as the game's original swf
- gc-cs-steam-unmodified.swf to exist and be the same as the game's original swf
- gc-cs-steam-uncompressed.swf to exist and be the game's original swf after being decompressed
After applying the patch successfully:
- gc-cs-steam.swf will be patched
- gc-cs-steam-unmodified.swf will be a copy of the game's original swf
- gc-cs-steam-uncompressed.swf will be a decompressed version of the game's original swf
gc-cs-steam-unmodified.swf won't be created if gc-cs-steam-uncompressed.swf already existed because only gc-cs-steam-uncompressed.swf is actually needed for the patch
gc-cs-steam-unmodified.swf can be deleted if you don't care about having a copy of the original swf since gc-cs-steam-uncompressed.swf is just that but decompressed so it will function the same
Uses Courgette: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/courgette/
and RABCDAsm: https://github.com/CyberShadow/RABCDAsm
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