REKA Hotfix 3 Cuts Memory Use, Adds Display Mode Setting, Fixes Old NVIDIA Black Screens

REKA 1.0.32.5f056e lowers RAM and video memory needs, adds a Display Mode setting and carryable Spirit Jar, and fixes black flashes on older NVIDIA cards plus several gameplay bugs.

What changed

• Version 1.0.32.5f056e is the build covered by Hotfix 3.
• The Display Mode setting replaces the Fullscreen toggle, with Borderless as the default.
• Graphics presets on first launch and Reset now pick Low for cards from 3 to 7 GB and Fastest only below 3 GB.

Memory and Performance

• Map loading and travelling no longer cause a short spike in video memory above what playing uses.
• At Medium 1080p the video memory peak dropped by about 0.8 GB.
• Shaders load once instead of up to six times.
• Chinese, Japanese and Cyrillic fonts load only when that language is selected.
• Memory leaks tied to travelling and save loading are fixed, so memory stops growing over long sessions.
• Many textures, meshes and animations use less memory.
• Animations of animals, villagers and dialogue use a lighter compression, and the developers ask players to report anything that looks off.
• On first launch and Reset, cards with 3 to 7 GB get Low graphics, while Fastest is chosen only under 3 GB.
• Map generation now uses the faster grass placement it was meant to use.
• Effects for fire, food steam, cursed areas, floating lights, Leshy and the Three Oaks shrine no longer make the graphics card report their size back every frame.

New Features

• The Display Mode setting takes the place of the Fullscreen toggle; Borderless is the default and existing saves keep their choice.
• In Borderless, a resolution shaped differently from your screen, such as 4:3 or 21:9, shows black bars instead of being stretched.
• The new Stretch to Fill setting stretches it again.
• The empty Spirit Jar can be carried home after a prompt and becomes a building block.
• Lutki drop more varied loot, and many items got updated loot tags.
• The Tonic of Connection building block now has moths.

Graphics Fixes

• Clouds and the sky glow around the sun produced broken pixel values on older NVIDIA cards, causing the black screens and flashes.

Gameplay Fixes

• Players can place orange chickens in nests again, and placed ones stay after loading.
• Growth accelerators work reliably and speed up plants consistently.
• Harvesting a plant can no longer be undone in building mode.
• Plant counters go down when plants are harvested, stored or removed.
• The watering can is always usable after the Siva shrine.
• The forgetful villager lesson works after completing the game.

Recipes, UI and Saves

• Default recipes are now revealed by crafting stations, so journal entries that were missing appear.
• The last flour recipe can be obtained again.
• Recipe progress on the reward page shows correctly.
• Shelf food is visible again on the travel screen and in quest item lists.
• Very old tutorial saves load correctly in a few more edge cases.
• The building hint about placing furniture on another surface appears after 1.5 s on that surface, not on placing.
• A loaded save is no longer recorded twice in the visited places history.