A free patch is being released for all those who own the Risen 3: Titan Lords game on Steam which will greatly enhance the graphics of the game.

Piranha Bytes have made significant upgrades to the graphics and the patch is totally free; but if you run a 32-bit operating system you’re out of luck, the patch is only available for users of 64-bit operating systems. The full list of updates reads thus:

• Improved texture resolution for items, objects, foliage, terrain, particle effects, characters, monsters and other in-game models.
• Improved draw distances and viewing ranges.
• Larger caches, leading to smoother frame rates and less LOD streaming.
• The introduction of a new state of the art post-process effects such as bokeh depth of field and HDR bloom.
• Addition of a new physically based, more visually realistic cloud rendering technique that adds even more spectacular skies and sunsets to the dynamic day/night cycles.

The patch will be automatically applied to all with the automatic updates enabled on their Steam clients and enough bits, and while the vast majority seem to be having no problems it’s worth noting that a few have reported the loss of save games and some performance issues with the new patch downloaded. So might be best to wait off a little while to see if the patch is further tweaked to prevent these issues.