A performance-enhancing update for the combat action racing title Gas Guzzlers Extreme (PC) has been released by development studio Gamepires.
Update V1.8.0 includes an upgrade from DirectX 9 to the swifter DirectX 11 rendering engine. The new engine loads maps 5-10 times faster and offers a better overall response time.
The full changelog for the V1.8.0 update is:
- ● New DirectX 11 rendering engine (DirectX 9 available as separate branch)
- ● 5-10 times faster map loading times
- ● Lots of optimizations across the engine
- ● (new animation system, new math library, new binary mesh format, new texture loader)
- ● Data optimizations. Game is 1 GB smaller for the same content
- ● Rendering optimizations
- ● Improved probe reflection quality and ambient light
- ● Fixed frame drops regarding particles at start of the race
- ● More stable FPS
- ● Faster and higher quality SSAO
- ● Fixed Bloom bug on AMD graphics cards
- ● Fixed bug with human player applying too much damage and taking 0 damage
- ● Engine switched to Visual Studio 2015
Gas Guzzlers Extreme, Full Metal Frenzy DLC, Full Metal Zombie DLC as well as the Gas Guzzlers Extreme Gold Edition (base game with both DLCs) are all 80% off in this week’s Steam week-long deal.
Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/66683/
Launch Trailer:
Full Metal Zombie Screenshots:
