Hey guys, so for those of you where the game's been running like crap - yeah we figured out what's going on. It's basically Ren'Py being dumb with memory when we throw a ton of animations at it. Day 3's fantasy scene has like 20 animations that are 1.2GB total, and Ren'Py just keeps eating RAM like crazy.
The Halloween special is our test fix - it's got 63 animations in ONE scene (yeah, more than most AVNs have in their entire release, but who's counting right? lol). We used this animation selector thingy that should stop the memory from going nuts despite the insane amount of content.
Can you guys who had the slow/laggy issues give the Halloween special a try and let me know if it runs better? If that works smooth then we know the fix works and we'll do the same thing for all the heavy scenes.
Also PSA: don't play the compressed version if you want the game to look good. WebP is absolute garbage for 4K images, especially AI-polished ones. They look best in PNG or at least JPG at 70% quality. WebP just murders the image quality, so you're basically playing a potato version of the game.
I know some of you with 16GB or less have been having a rough time with it. Would really help to know if the Halloween stuff actually fixed it or if we need to try something else.