Version 2.18 · 2026-09-14
🚀 Major Performance & Optimization Upgrade Update 2.18 brings one of our biggest performance upgrades yet, and this is one you're going to feel. Major work has gone into making Pixel Crowd faster, smoother and far more capable in crowded rooms, while reducing memory usage and bringing broader support to older and lower-end computers.
Major: Huge performance improvements when many avatars are present in the same room Internal testing with 170 fully clothed avatars on an NVIDIA RTX 4060 showed a major leap from around 5 FPS to 45–50 FPS in basic benchmarks Improved: Significantly reduced overall memory usage, along with fixes for numerous memory leaks Improved: Avatar controller performance and efficiency Improved: Base avatar performance and optimization Expanded Hardware Support: These optimizations should make Pixel Crowd significantly more accessible on older and lower-spec computers, while also improving performance on newer hardware Note: Loading into heavily populated rooms may temporarily feel sluggish while avatars and their assets are being initialized
👗 Major Wardrobe Upgrade The Wardrobe received a major overhaul with new customization tools, improved controls and an overall redesign.
New: Head Sculptor for deeper head and facial customization New: Sliders now highlight the body regions they affect New: Tattoo size and position controls New: Undo / Redo support Improved: Overall Wardrobe design and controls Added: Outfit photos Fixed: Various Wardrobe bugs and issues
👤 Avatars & Customization Improved: Base avatar remake, including proper skin attachment for genitalia and additional performance improvements Fixed: Hair and other LODs not displaying correctly on SUPER LOW Fixed: Avatar right click checkup and name tag highlighting
💬 Chat, UI & Social Added: New focused theme for chats Added: Send Money notifications Improved: Chat Up Arrow behavior, along with additional Chat UI updates and fixes Updated: Poses Panel UI with Favorites support, a text filter for quickly finding poses, and improved performance Fixed: Name tags appearing over UI elements Fixed: Overall UI layering issues where some UI elements could incorrectly appear behind others Fixed: Guild invitations now correctly assign the initial role
🎮 Gameplay & Controls Added: Owned Avatar Switcher / Avatar Selector Changed: Owned avatars no longer automatically load when entering a room. You can bring them into the room manually by clicking the Avatar icon next to your name and selecting the avatar you want to use Added: Dynamic wetness effects for intimate areas in response to certain interactions Fixed: Speed slider Fixed: Swimming stopping when switching between walking and swimming Fixed: F8 look mode not working in private rooms Added: Scroll wheel zoom while using F5 Freecam
✈️ Vehicles & Flight Improved: Plane controller with better flight controls, Flight Radar and Squad Formations Fixed: Various jet plane issues Updated: Jetliner mesh Fixed: Various hoverboard issues Fixed: Audio inconsistencies, especially with vehicles and planes
🌅 Graphics & Rendering Added: VSync toggle to help reduce screen tearing Added: GRD performance option, now Off by default. This new Quality setting can help improve performance in larger rooms Added: Subsurface Scattering for more natural and realistic skin rendering Improved: Shadow performance for both sunlight and artificial light sources Added: Day/Night Cycle Freeze