Cronos: The New Dawn gets performance improvements and a Linux HDR fix

Cronos: The New Dawn is the latest horror game from Bloober Team, and with the latest update it should work a lot better for everyone. It has a Native Linux version and Valve rated it Steam Deck Verified, although the Steam Deck verification uses Proton by default for it.

Nice to see the developer continuing to make it better after release. With the update landing Friday 26th, they noted in the announcement they "Fixed an issue where linux version had problems with enabling HDR". That's on top of many optimisations:

• Improved performance spikes when stomping on biomass.
• Improved performance spikes when stomping on enemies.
• Improved RT Performance.
• Improved performance spikes on streaming.
• Improved memory usage.
• Multiple overall GPU and CPU performance improvements.

Plus a reasonably long list of bug fixes landed for it too.

More about it:

Cronos: The New Dawn is a brutal third-person survival horror where you fight for the future by salvaging the past. Burn monsters before they merge. Extract souls from the living. Adapt or die.

Set in a grim world where Eastern European brutalism meets retro-futurist technology, Cronos: The New Dawn lets you experience a gripping story that straddles the line between past and future.

In the past, you will witness a world in the throes of The Change, a cataclysmic event that forever altered humanity. Meanwhile, in the ravaged wastelands of the future, every moment is a fight for survival against dangerous abominations that will test both your reflexes and your tactical thinking.

You are a Traveler working for the enigmatic Collective, tasked with scouring the wastelands of the future in search of time rifts that will transport you to 1980s-era Poland.

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