Unofficial patch 1.03.25 performance

[Elyenora Westknight]

Is there not a fix to this other than using .24's exe and items file (thus bugging out healing magic and lifesteal)?

[Joe the Bartender]

There's no way to get 1.03.25 without the performance issues. I think this issue is fixed in all mods though (or rather the issue never existed in some of them), including Ahatch's 1035 mod, Jodwin's Delta mod, Faestus' The Fifth Horseman and The Protectors.

If you like 1.03.25's features and are looking for a new patch, it might be worth trying out The Protectors. It was designed to be WBC3.5 - and is still being developed (it also does not have summon timers, unlike the unofficial patch line).

[Elyenora Westknight]

I kind of wanted to play mostly vanilla. Especially the vanilla campaign. Is that possible with The Protectors?

[Elyenora Westknight]

Ok, so I found the way to play the original campaign in The Protectors but the installer straight up just BSOD's my machine when running it. So yeah, that's not gonna work.

Current state of affairs with this game:

Vanilla - buggy, unpolished and imbalanced but runs okay. Sort of playable.

Widescreen mod - can be visually buggy, but is a general improvement over vanilla, but a very unfinished mod.

Unofficial patch - buggier than vanilla and widescreen mod and while technically playable, not worth a crap. Known crippling bug present for years from what I can tell.

Total conversion stand alone mod - the buggiest of them all and doesn't even install/run.

This series deserves better support. III was always inferior to II, but it's sad to see that none of the community efforts have really fixed that, only possibly made it worse.

[Joe the Bartender]

Whoa I've never heard of the installer crashing a PC before. I'd recommend heading over onto the Discord channel, there's a lot more support there and if anyone can find a way, I think they can.

[Blurb]

Originally posted by Joe the Bartender:

There's no way to get 1.03.25 without the performance issues. I think this issue is fixed in all mods though (or rather the issue never existed in some of them), including Ahatch's 1035 mod, Jodwin's Delta mod, Faestus' The Fifth Horseman and The Protectors.

How unfortunate that the etheria wiki only glances over this rather serious issue.
I'm currently regretting having "upgraded" from 1.03 to 1.03.25.
At least the former worked, so I'm proper pissed at this level of dishonesty.