WTF Low FPS on SO and a few Tests and results

I have a SO cluster that is approx 10,000 cycles old.  All asteroids have been visited.  Most are colonized.  I have a 6700k (pretty old these days) and 16GB.  I wont say its running perfect but its .... well mostly tolerable.  I do have those moments where FPS sinks.  Question, have you let it sit there and run for lets say 30mins.  Just doing nothing?  It almost seems like asteroids you haven't visited in awhile are either going to sleep or arent fully active before your first visit after loading or?  For instance, when I first opened up the Moo asteroid my FPS tanked and stuttered for awhile.  Now, that its been mined out mostly and the Moos pathing is easier? the game has resumed the better fps of 20s.  There does seem to be like a warm up period where the game (or possibly Windows) is perhaps optimizing?  Being that maps like mine take around 9GB it possibly makes sense there is some memory optimization that would occur.  How this could translate into these wild fps swings we experience I'd say probably it wouldn't.

Edited April 18, 2022 by ONIZone

Hey thanks for your comment.

I experience too the fps drop on my gaming asteroids. I'm not speaking of it here. There is no drop on a fully destroyed map. I'm at 30fps straight despite having nothing to calculate. (on my gaming asteroid, 600cycles and four planetoids discovered, I play with about 25-30 fps in speed 1 and 15-20fps in speed 3, which are tolerable but not really enjoyable, especially with the UI lagging).

What I am pointing out here is that there is something wrong, fps should not be as low with almost nothing on screen. Especially since it is not the case in vanilla.

We'd have to find out if it's a tick rate issue or render issue.  My guess is something in the simulation is what is causing the rate drops even with little to render on screen.  Of course, this is less than useful information.  Just thoughts on the subject.  Profiling a working disassembly of the code is all I can think would help at this point.

I see the biggest dips in FPS when i land on a new planetoïde , i can get most back bij disabling most diagnostics items per planetoïde. If i do not do this i get i almost unplayable game after the third planetoïde.

Could you maybe test again and see if this makes a difference for you?

You make an interesting point.  The information panels do seem to have much influence on rates. Opening the consumables panel is quite painful (especially when you accidently hit the hot key as often as I do).  I always minimize the Diag option on the middle right panel.  The one that report breathability and such.  I'm not sure how much that matters though.  When I open the full resources panel things get laggy for sure though.  I'll give a try to eliminating as many report GUI options as I can and see what turns up.

I do not mean closing the diag panel, i mean deselecting items in the diag window. Minimizing the diag panel seems to make no difference to me. It makes a lot off difference in my performance on my under powered laptop when i deselected most items. i'm interested to see what you find out.

On 4/18/2022 at 12:51 PM, bethypso said:

Hey thanks for your comment.

I experience too the fps drop on my gaming asteroids. I'm not speaking of it here. There is no drop on a fully destroyed map. I'm at 30fps straight despite having nothing to calculate. (on my gaming asteroid, 600cycles and four planetoids discovered, I play with about 25-30 fps in speed 1 and 15-20fps in speed 3, which are tolerable but not really enjoyable, especially with the UI lagging).

What I am pointing out here is that there is something wrong, fps should not be as low with almost nothing on screen. Especially since it is not the case in vanilla.

If you remove all material then there isn't "nothing" on screen to calculate, click the light overlay and the radiation overlay!

If you remove all the material it is now having to calculate light and radiation decay all down the map. Vanilla didn't have radiation so will run faster.