Shenmue PC patch v1.01 now live on beta branch

[SEGA Dev]

Hi Shenmue fans,

First, thank you to everyone in the community for supporting Shenmue. We’re blown away by the response to these legendary games and we remain committed to giving you the best experience.

Thank you also for highlighting issues that you’re experiencing. We’ve addressed a number of these issues and have uploaded a patch in a beta branch. To access the branch:

1. Right-click Shenmue I & II in your game library and select Properties.
2. Select the BETAS tab.
3. Enter the password luhIQLdMeQoDatbibCxK and press the CHECK CODE button (N.B. don’t press enter, you’ll close the whole window by mistake).
4. Choose beta in the drop-down menu.
5. The build will start downloading.

We’ll bring this over to the main branch in due course, as well as continuing to monitor the forums for feedback.


*EDIT* 23 Aug 2018
The early adopters among you will have spotted that the patch notes listed previously on this page don't align with the patch on the beta branch. Good spot! The original patch notes on this post actually align to everything we're working on for the next patch, v1.02, which we're hoping to release next week.

The patch notes have been updated to match the correct fixes for v1.01. Apologies for the confusion.

Patch notes are as follows:


Patch v1.01

Audio

• Fixed various instances of crackling background music.
  
• Fixed issues with rain.
  
• Fixed issues with some sound effects crackling.

UI

• Fixed incorrect button prompts shown in some QTE events when using mouse and keyboard.
  
• Fixed various instances of incorrect help screen text displayed around the game.
  
• Fixed duplicated button prompts in QTE Title 2.
  
• Fixed an issue with 2560 x 1080 UI resolutions.

Controls

• Fixed inconsistencies when sparring in the dojo.

Graphical Issues

• Fixed various issues with cameras being incorrect in cut scenes.
  
• Fixed issues with hair sometimes rendering slightly transparent.

Miscellaneous

• The gong in Bunkada Antiques can now be interacted with.

Best
SEGA Dev

[charleswolfheart]

Great!

I never doubted you and that was speedy!

Care to elaborate on various performance/stability improvements?
I really need those, namely for Shenmue I...

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

Wow, awesome. Will test immediately.

[JigenDaisuke]

Thank You for the quick patch.

[Miraglyth]

An impressive first fix pass! This covers pretty much all the big ones, no?

Controls in arcade games sounds great. I'm hoping that includes reducing the analogue sensitivity in Hang-On.

Bloom not returning should be great. Even with it off, Ryo has seemed slightly fluorescent at times.

Sleeping raised move experience? I hope that bug fix also sorts out practise.

[charleswolfheart]

Originally posted by Vamphaery:

Wow, awesome. Will test immediately.

Please report back

[Erhonith]

Despite the patch exploits too much CPU.. we hope you can resolve as soon as possible. Thanks for patch, anyway.

[Wolfie]

Testing it now kind Sir.

[charleswolfheart]

Originally posted by Erhonith:

Despite the patch exploits too much CPU.. we hope you can resolve as soon as possible. Thanks for patch, anyway.

Was the cpu usage reduced at least a bit?

[El Dallas 1999]

This patch doesn't work!
Still no sound and 20-18 FPS locked.

SPECS:
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64 bits
CPU: Intel Core i7-2600
RAM: 8GB
GPU: AMD Radeon R7 300 Series

[Erhonith]

Originally posted by charleswolfheart:

Originally posted by Erhonith:

Despite the patch exploits too much CPU.. we hope you can resolve as soon as possible. Thanks for patch, anyway.

Was the cpu usage reduced at least a bit?

It does not seem. I always go between 80% and 90%.

[braders1986]

Bloom issue is not fixed. It still activates itself.

[Darkfalz]

Please add mip-mapping to Shenmue I. And Steam cloud should not sync PC specific setting (ie. resolution).

Good to hear the audio is improving, I hope you can fix the surround too.

[Sheephead]

Great work D3T! Downloading now. Thanks for the speedy fixes!

[Mine]

The bug that noise is generated by Dobuita was fixed but the footstep sounds interrupted intermittently.

[SEGA Dev]

The early adopters among you will have spotted that the patch notes listed previously on this page don't align with the patch on the beta branch. Good spot! The original patch notes on this post actually align to everything we're working on for the next patch, v1.02, which we're hoping to release next week.

The patch notes in the original post have been updated above to match the correct fixes for v1.01. Apologies for the confusion.

The remaining issues that will be patched in v1.02 are as follows:

Audio
• Fixed various issues with footsteps.
• Fixed crackling while listening to cassettes.
• Fixed various issues with arcade game audio.
• Fixed issues with some sound effects not looping correctly.
• Fixed an issue that would stop audio from playing after being paused for a long time.

UI
• Fixed various instances of incorrect button prompts being shown in the HUD.
• Fixed issues with QTE Title 2 showing incorrect directional arrow prompts.
• Fixed an occasional issue when transitioning into the menu when in Shenmue 1.
• Fixed an issue with QTE prompts not flashing.

Controls
• Fixed various issues with controls in arcade games.

Graphical Issues
• Fixed some instances of missing facial animation.
• Fixed occasional issues with cloth rendering.
• Fixed white flashes during some cut scenes.
• Fixed various character skinning issues.
• Fixed an issue that caused bloom to re-enable itself when opening the notebook.

Miscellaneous
• Fixing various instances of localisation issues.
• Fixed an issue in Shenmue 1 where sleeping would sometimes not update move experience.
• Various performance improvements.
• Various stability improvements.
• Fixed a soft-lock when playing Shenmue 1 arcade games past bed time.


Thank you for your understanding!