Updates / patch

Update 5 — changes and affected systems

Work order / direct answer

An engine upgrade targeted apartment and home crashes, frame-rate stability and shader-compilation startup failures. This was not a promise of a particular FPS gain.

Release record

Published 2026-09-07. An engine upgrade targeted apartment and home crashes, frame-rate stability and shader-compilation startup failures. This was not a promise of a particular FPS gain.

Player-visible changes

The issue guides below connect each official change to a specific symptom and safe checks. A patch announcement records what the developer addressed; it is not a guarantee that every old save is recoverable.

  1. Performance: An apartment or player-house transition crashes the game.
  2. Startup: Shader compilation prevents the game from launching.

Before retesting

Let Steam finish updating and preserve the save that reproduces the issue. Compare one action at a time and report a new regression with the installed build and exact objective.

Sources & build scope

Full release · official patch notes; not a local gameplay retest. Source review is separate from a gameplay test.