Extreme performance degradation

Sounds like pathfinding. The more paths dupes can choose to reach a certain destination, the worse it gets. 

For example: you dig to the surface, and everything is fine, because dupes can only walk ON the surface in a straight line. Now build a jetpack station, and let dupes fly. The framerates will drop like hell, because now the whole surface AREA is availlable for pathing. See it like an excel-sheel. Many many rows, both verticaly and horizontaly to choose from, and also change hight along the path.

Same, but in a weaker impact, goes to pathing in your asteroid. The more ways, the performance degrades.

I was using jetpacks, so this may be the answer...... well that sucks, because the jetpacks open up some really cool options.

Changed Status to Known Issue

Hey, thanks for bringing this up. There are several known performance bottlenecks in the game, and while performance is always tricky to solve and I can't make promises, we are going to be working extensively on performance over the coming months.

1 hour ago, Ipsquiggle said:

Changed Status to Known Issue

Hey, thanks for bringing this up. There are several known performance bottlenecks in the game, and while performance is always tricky to solve and I can't make promises, we are going to be working extensively on performance over the coming months.

Been lamenting for this for over an year! Hopefully it'll be fixed with the coming updates!!!

I can run Assassin's Creed, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Subnautica etc in 50+ FPS easily. ONI is barely toughing 5fps in later stages :( 

12 hours ago, Ipsquiggle said:

Changed Status to Known Issue

Hey, thanks for bringing this up. There are several known performance bottlenecks in the game, and while performance is always tricky to solve and I can't make promises, we are going to be working extensively on performance over the coming months.

I suggest that replicants in jetpacks by default would use the floor and stairs, but fly to the knapsacks in impassable places. This will greatly simplify the calculation of the path and make jet packs more convenient.

Agreed on that overman, it appears that in any room with height greater than 2 they choose to fly. It would also conserve fuel and reduce CO2 levels.

I started a new colony without jetpacks and with pathing limited as much as possible, and I am now closing in on cycle 400 and still maintaining 60 fps. However, there must be a memory leak or something, because I have to restart the game every 4 hours or so due to at the 3 hour mark the frame rate starts steadily dropping.

@Ipsquiggle which graphics API is ONI using? DX9? DX11? DX12?