PES 2021/FL 2026 Cloth Physics 0.9.8 Update Changelog + download (Patreon)

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Changelog 0.9.8 Early Access (18-10-2026)

Performance - about 80% less FPS cost

Before: the cloth cost about 30% of your FPS (300 -> 210 fps). Now: about 7% (300 -> 280 fps). That is about 32% more FPS with the cloth on (measured on an RTX 4090 at 300 fps).

The cloth of all players is now calculated together, so the graphics card no longer waits between calculations.

The calculation itself waits less on memory.

The cloth looks exactly the same as before.

Low FPS and frame caps

Fixed: below ~54 fps the cloth was far too bouncy and shirts flew up on turns. PES slows down its own internal clock at low fps while the game keeps running at normal speed; the mod now corrects for this.

Below 40 fps part of each frame's time was dropped; it is now kept (max_substeps raised from 12 to 32).

Wind and gusts are smooth at any frame rate.

Slow-motion replays still follow the game clock.

The cloth now moves the same at 25, 50, 100 and 300 fps.

Fixed

AMD GPU's: sleeves standing out like bells and shirts lifting up to the chest.

Settings

cloth.ini now has 109 settings instead of 20, each with its default value and a plain explanation: tune shirts, tight shirts and shorts separately (fit, stiffness, wind, bounce, collisions and more).

New setting [sim] game_clock_cap.

Body mods and custom player models

Very detailed (high-poly) kits now get moving cloth too (before, they were skipped): they use a lighter calculation model behind the scenes, while you still see the full detailed kit.

Kits made of differently built pieces now work as one garment.

Loose collar / yoke pieces now move with the shirt (no more stiff "T" at the collar).

Normal game kits are unchanged.

Players close together

Fixed: in close duels at lower fps two players could swap cloth for a moment and the shorts would jump.

Players are now recognised by where they should be at their running speed.

About the PES Custom Celebrations Mod issue

With the PES Custom Celebrations mod, the shirt can sometimes "explode" for a single frame (a huge flash of shirt across the screen), right after a camera cut in a celebration. This is not a bug in my cloth mod. These celebrations put the player in a new pose at a camera cut without telling the game that the player moved. My mod then thinks the body moved hundreds of metres in a split second and throws the cloth away for a moment. Normal PES cutscenes and my converted cutscenes from UFL and eFootball tell the game correctly, so they work fine with my mod.

This needs to be fixed in the PES Custom Celebrations mod itself, not in my mod.

Until then, you can press F5 during a celebration to turn the cloth off for a moment.

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