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by Scoob » Sat, 31. Oct 20, 11:23
Hey all,
I started a fresh game with this mod, along with VRO, XR Ship Pack, FWEE and a few others. LOVE the new map layout.
However, I find performance is pretty bad vs. my current other game - same mods bar this one. FPS will regularly drop into the teens at times, yet nothing specific seems to be going on around me. In my experience, a MASSIVE battle might be going on, causing a slow-down, but the moment I leave the sector - or get far enough away - FPS is fine again. Basically, only things going on in my current sector has any real impact on FPS.
I was in one of the "cross roads" sectors where several factions all clash. There was a HUGE and pretty constant battle going on here. FPS took a bit of a tumble during this, down into the 30's at times, but generally held at around 40 or so - acceptable, considering what was going on and the Engine's single-threaded (for certain tasks) limitations. However, to have even worse FPS in sectors where nothing of note is going on, is quite surprising.
Initially, performance seemed GREAT as I was exploring, but it's gotten pretty bad now even in quiet sectors. I do wonder if my combination of mods has perhaps pushed things a little too far. The universe feels very alive, which is fantastic of course, but something seems to be tipping things over the edge performance-wise.
I have a 3900X which is pretty solid, boosting to 4.6ghz quite happily on multiple cores in the primary CCX as needed. Indeed, during gameplay one Core is usually at 4.5/4.6 all the time, due to the game being highly reliant on one thread to do most of the work. My other save - sans DeadAir - is now a very mature one, with a very busy universe too and lots of battles going on. Yet, unless I'm in a sector with one of those larger fights going on, performance is a solid, vSync'd 60fps - even the battles are still pretty good.
Just wondering what other's experiences are. I love the changes, but the near constant low FPS gives me a headache. Perhaps there are things that can be tweaked?
Edit: You know, I think I fell foul of the X4 slow-down over time bug. I played a particularly long session for me last night, about three hours, and performance got pretty dire. Just loaded my save while at my Station in a relatively quiet sector - Black Hole Sun IV - and I'm back at ~60fps while standing on one of the docks. I've been away of slow-downs over longer sessions for a while of course, but never quite this extreme.
Cheers,
Scoob.