The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II for PC adds XeSS support and performance improvements

NIS America and PH3 have released a new PC update for The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II following its recent major update that added in TAA, DLSS4, and more. Today's update brings in XeSS support and performance improvements for select GPUs.

After adding DLSS4 and TAA, PH3 and NIS America have released a new update for Trails Through Daybreak II adding in XeSS support and also improved out of the box performance for dedicated Intel GPUs and integrated AMD GPUs. This has been detailed in a Steam blog post from PH3's Durante. As revealed with the last update, there are plans to port the new features back to Trails Through Daybreak on PC, but a timeframe has not been given.

Read Scott's review of The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II here, my console comparison here, PC port feature here, and my interview with PH3's Peter 'Durante' Thoman about his work on Trails Through Daybreak II and much more here.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II is now available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC (Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG) in the West through NIS America. 

You can find the full Steam blog post for this update below:

Hi everyone,

In the patch notes for the previous major update which introduced DLSS, we noted that we would like to support other upscaling technologies (such as XeSS and FSR) as well, but that they do not offer DirectX 11 support. Amusingly, on the same day, Intel released XeSS 2 with DX11 support.

As such, this version introduces support for Intel XeSS upscaling on supported Intel GPUs (see Intel's XeSS web page for detailed information on supported hardware).

Here's the full list of changes and improvements:

• Introduce Intel XeSS SR support.
• Fix an issue where the delay for active voice dialogue lines might be inappropriate for some audio/text language combinations.
• Improve out-of-the-box performance on dedicated Intel GPUs and integrated AMD GPUs by providing a more fine-grained automatic configuration of host write buffering behaviour.

I hope you enjoy this update. As always, in the unexpected case that you run into any regressions, you can revert to a previous versions of the game by using the Steam "Beta" feature.

Cheers,
Peter "Durante" Thoman, CTO, PH3