PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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Well, performance-wise - this is the worst the game has ever ran for me. Every PC we play the game on has a severe drop in performance compared to before. I suppose when they made all their optimizations they just put all that overhead onto other things, bogged it right back down and maybe even went overboard? Game is just using way too much VRAM and CPU spikes are all over the place.

 
Well, performance-wise - this is the worst the game has ever ran for me. Every PC we play the game on has a severe drop in performance compared to before. I suppose when they made all their optimizations they just put all that overhead onto other things, bogged it right back down and maybe even went overboard? Game is just using way too much VRAM and CPU spikes are all over the place.
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See, I told ya :)

THere's something obvious that is an easy fix. I just hope they can do it today before people's first impressions get badly damaged.

 
See, I told ya :) THere's something obvious that is an easy fix. I just hope they can do it today before people's first impressions get badly damaged.
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its an experimental so people need to have some realistic exceptions in life.... first impressions should not be placed on the experimental build.

 
I also have performance losses when in open terrain.

In the console there are several warning messages occurring when the FPS tank:

"Detail rendering shaders not found for the active rendering pileline, falling back to default shader".

Could be just a missing shader in the end...

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The RWG terrain looks good btw. Good job on that.

 
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Well, performance-wise - this is the worst the game has ever ran for me. Every PC we play the game on has a severe drop in performance compared to before. I suppose when they made all their optimizations they just put all that overhead onto other things, bogged it right back down and maybe even went overboard? Game is just using way too much VRAM and CPU spikes are all over the place.
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When Alpha 17 was released I couldn't play on my older PC anymore and I had low fps even on the new one. After several updates, my performance was greatly improved. This Alpha 18 isn't exactly fast, but it's not horrible so far and I trust they will improve the performance again!

 
When the streamers have the same FPS issues now, compared to silky smooth gameplay last friday, you know you fscked up. :)

 
When Alpha 17 was released I couldn't play on my older PC anymore and I had low fps even on the new one. After several updates, my performance was greatly improved. This Alpha 18 isn't exactly fast, but it's not horrible so far and I trust they will improve the performance again!
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Yeah, I'm sure they will improve it some too. I wasn't being negative. But, if you have a problem with the game's performance..now is the time to speak up about it..which is all I was doing.

 
I thought the roads in A18 would be better than those in A17? They are.. Not, I think.
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They aren't perfect, but I think they are better. I haven't seen a ton of huge drop offs or massive walls blocking things. We will improve them.

 
They aren't perfect, but I think they are better. I haven't seen a ton of huge drop offs or massive walls blocking things. We will improve them.
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Love the new pic MM. Really looking forward to playing tonight!

 
so is a way to improve fs? i cannot play at 5-10 fs. Oddly my rig is that old, but the game without zombies on i can't even get over 23 fs. is there an option I should shut off to help?

 
Usual starting point in the wilderness:

A17.4- 55-60 FPS

Same options after experimental update, A18e- 31-FPS

I just quit.

 
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People of your age shouldn't be making these inappropriate jokes anymore, mister!
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Unlike most 53 year olds my performance is still quite vigorous. Lesson learned: Eat organic paleo diet, workout and do cardio or feel like crap and fall apart like every other old person.

 
Intrigue! Can you tell us what you found? I have a potato laptop, went from 35ish in A16.x to 25ish in A17.4. Now down to 5-7 in A18 . No money for a gaming rig. Any performance improvement is a god send for me.
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We're pooling up every model at startup, even the unused raft has 25 copies spawned at startup to "be ready to spawn". Not sure how much performance this can cause, but all that texture memory and ram could be freed.

 
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