Hello everyone, as you can read from the extensive changelog, we added a whole lot of new tech and other code to make Alpha 8 look and feel and play the way it now does. And, although the increase in size of the new planets did not have an effect on performance, the new shaders we use to make the terrain and the whole playfield atmosphere more varied, immersive and nicer, will have - simply because they are new and not fully optimized yet. During the EXP phase, we already collected info about where bottlenecks can happen and what possibly can be optimized. But we need a more generalized and organized approach on that topic to make real progress on that matter! That's the point where we want YOU to chime in! What we want you to do is the following: Start a FRESH new Alpha 8 game Activate FPS counter (F8) Open Console (ö or ~ ) and type in 'di' (> this will add an overlay at the top right) Go in a place where your FPS drop THE MOST (lowest FPS) Make a Screenshot Open Console and type in 'stats' Make a Screenshot WHILE CONSOLE IS OPEN Add the FPS-Screenshot and the Console Screenshot to this thread Add your system Specs to your report. Make a screenshot of your OPTIONS menu and add to your report REPORT TEMPLATE: SYSTEM SPECS - (CPU) - (RAM) - (GCard, VRAM) QUALITY PRESET: (Fast,Medium,Best, Custom) CUSTOM QUALITY PRESETS: (add the settings that are NOT set to default for any preset, like using BEST but deactivating option X!) LOWEST FPS WHERE Scenario: (Default Random, Akua-Omicron, Dawn of Galaxy,....,Custom) IF Custom Scenario: (Download link / Workshop Link) Mode: Singleplayer Note: For technical reasons, please this time ONLY test in SINGLEPLAYER so we get the maximum compareable feedback!
EXAMPLE REPORT _______________________________ SYSTEM SPECS - i5 6600 K - 16GB Ram - GF 1070, 8GB VRAM - Game installed on SSD disk (Samsung Evo 850) QUALITY PRESET: BEST CUSTOM QUALITY SETTINGS: - Deco Distance: FAR LOWEST FPS 67 WHERE Forest at dawn Scenario: DEFAULT RANDOM IF Custom Scenario: n/a Mode: Singleplayer
SYSTEM SPECS: - AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor - 8 GB Ram - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950/Primärer VRAM: 2047 MB - Game installed on SSD disk (Samsung Evo 850) Lowest FPS 11 Where: Forest Scenario: DEFAULT RANDOM Mode: Singleplayer I changed: shadows off and sky reflection off - not much more fps, but i dont really have a Problem with it, because my Geforce has 4gb total and Gameplay works out good for me any more you Need?
SYSTEM SPECS - Core i7-3630QM @2.40GHz - 32GB (31.6 GB usable) - Quadro K1000M QUALITY PRESET: FAST CUSTOM QUALITY PRESETS: FAST EXCEPT: SSAO OFF Shadow Quality OFF LOWEST FPS 9 WHERE Escape Pod falling Scenario: Default Random (SEED: 614301) IF Custom Scenario: N/A Mode: Singleplayer
SYSTEM SPECS OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit CPU: AMD FX 8350, ~4000 mhz RAM: 8 GB Video Card: NVidia GeForce GTX 960, 4 GB VRAM HDD: Western Digital Black 1 TB 7200 rpm (WD1003FZEX) SSD: None. QUALITY PRESET: Custom (Modified from Good/Medium) CUSTOM QUALITY PRESETS: SSAO: Off Grass Density: Low Tree Quality: High LoD Quality: High Shadows: Off Parallax Occlusion Mapping: High Anisotropic Filtering: Off LOWEST FPS: 61 WHERE: Deep Forest at Sunset Scenario: Default Random Mode: Singleplayer I pasted the 3 lower options in on the right. Edit: Aw crap I missed the "di" setting, I'm sorry. Let me see if I can get back to that spot triangulating off those distances to pois/deposits. Edit2: Found it, I apologize. Providing the full image to show that I found the correct spot: Spoiler
I made some changes to get better FPS: You can see between Pic.1 and Pic.2, that the "Screen Space Reflections" takes a lot! The first Pic. are my final Settings now….
Hi, here my investigation! SYSTEM SPECS - i5 4590 - 16Gb Ram - GTX 950 / 2Gb QUALITY PRESET: Custom CUSTOM QUALITY PRESETS: Textures Quality: Half Scenario: Default Random Mode: Singleplayer I note different fps with cockpit view, Open cockpit and exterior view so I made several screenshots. Exterior view and Open Cockpit are nearly the same fps but I have -10 fps with cockpit view except in one case (see fps boost below) Init test -> time 0 Cockpit view: 14 fps Open Cockpit view: 25 fps Exterior view: 26 fps Lowest fps -> time 21403 Cockpit view: 10 fps Open Cockpit / Exterior view: 21 fps Fps Boost -> time 8084 Cockpit view: 50 fps Exterior view: 46 fps Keep going on Devs! Like always, on each alpha you made an amazing work
SYSTEM SPECS (shown on screenshot) - i7 2600K @ 4,4GHz - 16GB DDR3 - GIGABYTE GTX 1070 Gaming 8GB VRAM Game is installed on SSD Intenso 512GB GPU MAX Power is limited to 60% of maximum QUALITY PRESET: Custom CUSTOM QUALITY PRESETS: As shown on screenshot LOWEST FPS 46 WHERE Scenario: Pandora IF Custom Scenario: Pandora WS link Mode: Singleplayer When GPU is set to 100% power LOWEST FPS 55 Further playing and moving by foot through the forest give me even lower FPS... LOWEST FPS 35
_____________________________ SYSTEM SPECS - Intel Core I7 Extreme 975 @ 3.33GHz - DDR3 18GB Ram - EVGA GeForce GTX 1080, 8192 MB VRAM - Game installed on SSD disk (Samsung Pro 850, 512GB) QUALITY PRESET: BEST CUSTOM QUALITY SETTINGS: - Deco Distance: FAR LOWEST FPS 20 WHERE Deep Forrest Scenario: DEFAULT RANDOM IF Custom Scenario: n/a Mode: Singleplayer
SYSTEM SPECS - i7 870 @2.93 - 8GB Ram - evga 1050ti ftw, 4GB VRAM - Game installed on SSD disk (Samsung Evo 850) QUALITY PRESET: fast CUSTOM QUALITY SETTINGS: - Deco Distance: near LOWEST FPS 14 WHERE Deep Forest Scenario: DEFAULT RANDOM IF Custom Scenario: n/a Mode: Singleplayer
Something is seriously wrong with your shiny new Deep Forest biome, guys. Empyrion 8.0 seems to run just fine in general (aside from the stutter once in a while when the Unity engine runs its garbage collection, which isn't unique to Empyrion at all), but when I enter a Deep Forest there is a very noticeable frame rate drop, followed very shortly, like in 30 seconds or so, by the fans on my graphics card spooling up to the level where I can clearly hear them; something they very, very rarely do. In fact, the only other game that has ever managed to cause the fans to spool up enough to be noisy was Total Warhammer, and that one caused my system to overheat after a while. This phenomenon appears to be even worse during (in-game) sunset, but that's just my limited experience. Leaving the biome will cool the card back down after a couple of minutes; what's really odd is the speed with which it heats up when entering a DF biome. I have played around with disabling SSAO and Antialiasing and reducing tree quality, but the issue persists. I7 3770K, 3.5 GHz 16 GB RAM GTX 980 with 4 GB of VRAM My costum graphics options can be gleaned from the screenshot included, but I guess the major difference from the presets is that I have Screen Space Reflection and Depth of Field turned off, and Antialiasing set to low. Lowest FPS is 30-40ish, from a normal steady 50 Location is (any) Deep Forest biome.
I do not have "lag" but "freezes" now and then when try enjoy Single Player (IM8). For maybe a second nothing responds, then everything OK. In a short period of time it can happen several times, then OK for a good while. Probably something with my system, like wifi that I use for the moment, where the speed might be a bit unstable. For time being no need to comment on this, until I have more detailed info or others have similar issues. (EDIT: So far in 8.2.x it seems fine.) I play with everything on max with 4K resolution, "turbo mode" off: MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X (11 GB) MSI X299M Gaming Pro Carbon AC, S-2066 Intel Core i7-7820X Cooler Master MasterLiquid 240 Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 2666MHz 32GB Samsung 970 EVO 500GB PCIe SSD (1 partition) Fractal Design Define Mini C - Window Corsair TX750M, 750W PSU
SYSTEM SPECS - (Intel Core i7 - 2630QM 2.0 ghz) - (8Gb RAM, don't remember the model) - (nVidia GeForce GT540m 2GB) QUALITY PRESET: (Custom) CUSTOM QUALITY PRESETS: (SSAO: off, shadows: off) LOWEST FPS 8 WHERE in front of the sea, escape pod, 13 fps everywhere else Scenario: (Default Random) IF Custom Scenario: (n/a) Mode: Singleplayer I used to be able to play Empyrion on low to medium settings at 30 fps average, now I get 13 or 15 everywhere. I know my rig is old, but it shouldn't be this bad just from one update. (All options on lowest settings.)
Waking up an old thread since I am encountering a performance issue (and as it seems some other players do too). It is described on this thread Frame Time spikes every few seconds (gameplay performance issue) Summary : Spiking on Frame Times and drop on FPS that occur every few seconds, while flying on any planet. Bellow I have captured a video showing the issue and the monitoring tool showing my configuration. Tested on two SSDs, the second had a RAM cache of 1GB (Rapid Mode of Samsung Magician software). Tested various video configurations and even disabling the Meltdown patch and Antivirus on my PC. It does not happen in space and not while in a BA, but gets worse in heavy fights where many enemies (POIS and Zirax) are involved.
Sadly still have the freeze issue, even with 50 FPS and gone down to 2K res. Particularly noticeable when using F5 Drone or played for some hours, then "micro freezes" happens every few seconds. Could be a driver/optimization reason, so can see the behavior in ea9.0 or so.
I will also post in this thread: I am having similar problems to Myrmidon(and I presume Styx) here. I can tolerate it when I am out and about flying, but near clusters of enemy POI's it is brutal. I have a wonder; does the game load and unload the zirax patrols around POI's when you near them? Related, I am also seeing dramatic performance drops when right on the threshold of a series of Bp's since the "load the structures at a certain distance" feature was added: This is, in fairnes, multiplayer and the BP's involved are more complex ones. BUT! I suspect the issue may also happen in single player and is related to the dramatic slow downs I see in the first problem mentioned in this post - clusters of POI's and the enemies around the POI's. This is just speculation on my part, but I would like to solve this. There was also a period pre-8.0 where there were performance minor pausing, and these may be those same problems just amplified. The frame-rate seems to be about the same even with the spikes; 15 - 35 in the evenings/mornings and 45 - 65 everywhere else, but here is a brief system over-view: CPU: Intel I7-6700HQ 2.6GHZ Ram: 12 GB Video Card: Nvidia 1060 6GB Harddrive: SSD/Disk hybrid - game is on the SSD Windows: 10 Home 64
