what exactly does "texture streaming" do?

[. . .]

i notice it makes skins on the dressup menu and loading menu backgrounds blurry for a few seconds. is there anything else it does?

[-Variant]

Tacks down on loading textures for performance.
Basically it only loads in textures when needed, rather than always.
You get more performance at the cost of rarely seeing them as blurry or viewing them load in.

[SonicDen220]

Here is an example. Texture streaming off:

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Texture streaming on:

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When it's off, it's a bit choppy. When it's on, it's smoother, but you can see everything as it loads in.

 

[Captain_Rage]

Loads textures on-demand instead of loading every (?) texture at start-up.

[Resul]

Guys. Does Bearger despawn if I go away? Can I keep him alive as long as I want? for wood gathering

[Gods fiddler]

4 minutes ago, Resul said:

Guys. Does Bearger despawn if I go away? Can I keep him alive as long as I want? for wood gathering

he don't despawn, he will stay in your server all the year.

[Resul]

10 minutes ago, Gods fiddler said:

he don't despawn, he will stay in your server all the year.

I want to ask another question. How do you sustain your hp with wormwood when you fight to bosses? compos wraps are very inefficient and expensive honey drug is also hard to get. is there any way that you recommend?

[Gods fiddler]

9 minutes ago, Resul said:

I want to ask another question. How do you sustain your hp with wormwood when you fight to bosses? compos wraps are very inefficient and expensive honey drug is also hard to get. is there any way that you recommend?

with wormwood it is best to dodge the attacks, and if you are hit bring an ice staff to freeze your enemy while you heal with healing salve, another way to heal is the bat bat

[Cheggf]

1 hour ago, Resul said:

Guys. Does Bearger despawn if I go away? Can I keep him alive as long as I want? for wood gathering

Why are you hijacking a thread about texture streaming to ask about Bearger and Wormwood?

[Scrimbles]

For me, I get an absurd amount of screen tearing when texture streaming is on.

[Rafi.]

Which one is best performance wise, Texture streaming on or off ? 

[Cliffford W.]

I prefer it On cause everything ain't loaded at once and saves some computer resources.

 

[Rafi.]

2 minutes ago, Clifford W. said:

I prefer it On cause everything ain't loaded at once and saves some computer resources.

 

Oh, that's nice, but, since you need to reload everything everytime, isn't it costly for the computer ? If it's not, might put it on.

[Cliffford W.]

Texture Streaming is something like you have in 3D games you can sometimes notice when you get closer to an object it loads High resolution image from the low one. 

It saves memory and resources and mostly GPU.

Basically ín DST its like that it loads the textures only when they are need as example when you open inventory of your character you can see there are invisible spots that will load the texture in and if im correct they will all load without you scrolling down but not sure about that never tried.

It just makes the GPUs job easier

 

34 minutes ago, Scrimbles said:

For me, I get an absurd amount of screen tearing when texture streaming is on.

That's weird Texture Streaming only manages loading assets in but has nothing to do with tearing and also confuses me a bit cause DST is Windowed Borderless game which should not contain any tearing it's probably your monitor or something with GPU.

[Resul]

14 hours ago, Le Rafistoleur said:

Which one is best performance wise, Texture streaming on or off ? 

If you have lag or low fps then make it on. If you play perfectly then it not gonna make any difference

[Rafi.]

On 4/16/2021 at 8:05 AM, Resul said:

If you have lag or low fps then make it on. If you play perfectly then it not gonna make any difference

Thank you for the answer !