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Background: The Raijin integration team was still dealing with problems on older players’ machines. Today: A-Zhen set three support tickets for older graphics cards side by side, reproduced the same lag point, and placed a patch in the next update that afternoon. Impact and next steps: One side of the work held a fault that could be located and scheduled for an update; the other held project relationships that old announcements could no longer establish.
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Background: The Raijin integration team was still dealing with problems on older players’ machines. A-Zhen was responsible for getting reproducible lag into the update process. Meanwhile, the narrator reviewed games the community had celebrated over the past two years, trying to see which projects still kept in touch.
Today: A-Zhen set three support tickets for older graphics cards side by side, reproduced the same lag point, and placed a patch in the next update that afternoon. The narrator made a list that included Unicorns, fantasy football, Valeria, a runner, and an avatar project. He crossed out those that had fallen silent. At the end, only two were still sending messages. He did not label silence a departure.
Impact and next steps: One side of the work held a fault that could be located and scheduled for an update; the other held project relationships that old announcements could no longer establish. A-Zhen would check after the next update whether players still hit the lag. The narrator planned to follow up separately with the two projects still in contact and mark the last confirmed contact for the others.