Framerate and Performance: Difference between revisions
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3. Vintage Story has a wide range of graphics settings. Adjusting these up or down, and switching on or off the fancier elements, can have a huge effect on performance. The tooltips on each control on the Graphics settings page should give you some pointers. | 3. Vintage Story has a wide range of graphics settings. Adjusting these up or down, and switching on or off the fancier elements, can have a huge effect on performance. The tooltips on each control on the Graphics settings page should give you some pointers. | ||
''Large view distances have an effect not only the framerate (fps) on screen, but also performance throughout the game. If everything is sluggish or there are frequent lag spikes, try turning down the view distance. The game is balanced to be smooth and playable on most modern PCs at view distances around 256 blocks to | ''Large view distances have an effect not only the framerate (fps) on screen, but also performance throughout the game. If everything is sluggish or there are frequent lag spikes, try turning down the view distance. The game is balanced to be smooth and playable on most modern PCs at view distances around 256 blocks to 512 blocks, depending on your hardware. Above 512 blocks is certainly possible on most PCs - at least to see what it looks like - but long-term play at such large view distances with max graphics is best left only for high-end gaming PCs who followed the advice in step #1... | ||
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5. Make sure your CPU is not overheating and therefore "thermally throttling". If you run Vintage Story with no VSync and unlimited frame rate, it will | 5. At max graphics settings, there can be framerate stutter on Radeon graphics cards (even top end cards) when moving across the map and loading new chunks; broadly the reason is the card cannot load in new chunks and draw the existing chunks at the same time. If you ease the card's load by reducing one graphics setting - for example, switching off shadows or lowering the shadow quality - then this should be improved. The VS Dev Team are aware of this issue. | ||
6. Make sure your CPU is not overheating and therefore "thermally throttling". If you run Vintage Story with no VSync and unlimited frame rate, it will push one of your CPU cores to 100% permanently. That in turn will cause the CPU internal temperature to rise. You can monitor temperatures using a free 'Hardware Monitor' tool, or just listen to the fan noise ramping up! If the CPU internal temperature is approaching maximum allowed levels (90-100 °C on a modern CPU, that's hot enough to boil water) then the CPU should automatically switch to running slower than its maximum speed, this is "thermal throttling". This will slow down the game's performance. To prevent this thermal issue, use VSync or max frame rate limits to prevent your CPU cores reaching 100% usage: your game will probably actually run faster overall if the busiest CPU core is at around 70-80% utilisation or less. | |||
''Tip: on a multi-core PC, the overall CPU usage percentage shown by Windows can look small even if one core is maxed out. For example, with 8 cores, one core maxed out at 100% would only be 12.5% CPU usage overall. To see what's really going on, you need to use a non-Microsoft tool like Hardware Monitor.'' | ''Tip: on a multi-core PC, the overall CPU usage percentage shown by Windows can look small even if one core is maxed out. For example, with 8 cores, one core maxed out at 100% would only be 12.5% CPU usage overall. To see what's really going on, you need to use a non-Microsoft tool like Hardware Monitor.'' | ||
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7. If you followed suggestion #1 above, you can tweak server performance by adjusting the "magic numbers". The magic numbers default values are aimed at a typical Vintage Story multiplayer server with let's say 3 or 4 players, playing over the internet, so some of them can be increased if it's only 1 player on your own machine. | |||
