Trails By Dawn provides DLSS, XeSS, TAA, new UI choices, QoL enhancements, and extra

NIS America and PH3 have launched a significant PC replace, with 1.4.0, for The Legend of Heroes: Trails By Dawn bringing in assist for DLSS, XeSS, TAA, and far more.

This replace follows the final one PH3 pushed out for The Legend of Heroes: Trails By Dawn II. Examine that right here. Immediately’s replace for the primary Trails By Dawn additionally brings in new map icon and textual content measurement settings, Steam timeline markers for BGM modifications, controller improvments, and extra. 

The Legend of Heroes: Trails by way of Dawn is accessible now on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Swap, and PC (Steam).

You will discover the total Trails By Dawn replace particulars by way of Durante/PH3 under:

Hello everybody,

This replace introduces varied temporal anti-aliasing and upscaling applied sciences in Trails By Dawn. For extra in-depth details about these options, learn the corresponding patch notes for Trails By Dawn II.

There are additionally quite a lot of different updates and fixes on this construct, together with many graphical, enter and QoL enhancements.

Graphics & UI

• Add DLSS, XeSS and TAA settings

• Add new “Coloration Precision” setting to enhance rendering efficiency for a slight discount in shade precision

• Add a brand new “HQ postprocessing” setting

• Add new setting for map icon and textual content measurement

• Render expanded map at 100% scale even when the render scale is under 100%

• Render 3D UI at 100% scale even when the render scale is under 100%

• Use barely improved shadow sampling for “Every part SGSSAA”

• Enhance cloud rendering and repair MSAA/SGSSAA integration with cloud rendering

• Enhance automated detection of optimization settings on AMD iGPUs and Intel dGPUs

Enter

• Use SDL2 relatively than plain XInput for controller enter

  • This allows automated controller button prompts, which is now the default

  • Add assist for touchpad as a totally usable button for DualShock/Sense controllers

  • Add assist for L4, R4, L5, R5 as totally usable buttons

  • For those who encounter new controller enter points on this replace, you possibly can revert to the previous behaviour by setting use_xinput_instead_of_sdl2 to true in settings.yaml

• Add a function to alternate displaying main and secondary button prompts for actions with multiple binding

• Ignore gamepad enter when not in focus (this may be disabled by way of the allow_input_while_inactive setting)

• Enormously enhance efficiency when numerous uncooked enter messages are generated (e.g. when utilizing a mouse with a excessive polling charge)

• Implement mouse wheel zoom for expanded minimap

QoL

• Add Steam timeline markers for BGM modifications

• Add assist for supply show in BGM information

• Supply the selection to have Steam confirm the sport’s integrity once we crash whereas working with Steam enabled

• Disable display screen savers / turning off the display screen whereas the sport is working (this may be disabled by way of the prevent_screen_off setting)

• Load save/load dialog thumbnails asynchronously (improves efficiency with many saves)

• Load the default graphics preset on sport begin if no settings file is current

Bug Fixes

• Repair rendering of some particular crafts at non-100% renderscale (e.g. Elaine’s Sword Ortas)

• Repair disappearing minimap icons in particular instances

• Repair some enemy focusing on points in Free Look battle digicam mode

• Minor enhancements in EN dialog message when quitting the sport from the system menu

• Make lively voice delays depend upon textual content language relatively than voice language

• Numerous fixes to in-game textual content

• Do not unlock the identical achievement a number of instances (this didn’t functionally change the behaviour, however might introduce efficiency points)

• Repair digicam management with camp/equip/costume menu open

• Do not enable NewGame+ after loading an auto-save with out truly having clear saves

• Repair minor PCSS sampling artifacts

• Repair depth points with Transparency AA

• Repair mesh half draw order (Elaine’s bracer costume)

• Ignore save folders with the mistaken naming scheme

• Repair title display screen idle film playback

• Repair potential useful resource leak when reloading fashions after altering the water rendering setting

• Now not show the BGM data for “pinch” battle music each flip when within the pinch state

• Repair lack of background blur in settings menu upon altering some graphics settings

• Repair SSR initialization with Excessive/Extremely setting

As all the time for our releases, within the unlikely case that you just expertise any regressions you possibly can revert to prior variations of the sport utilizing the Steam “Beta” function.

– Peter “Durante” Thoman