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Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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Probably a gig of unstreamed textures just sitting there clogging up space. I'm still finding lots of them. I can't believe we missed this. Anyhow low hanging fruit!
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It happens. Just get me that patch before I do something drastic like peel the tag off my mattress that explicitly says "Do Not Remove".

 
The settings that i have finalized to both in game and nvidia's globals (mine is a 2070), that work for me now ThAnKs to some members from the community/forums, helped get me to more than i expected fps (~90). Admittedly i started with 4k res which was causing issues in the snow biome at night 8-12 fps, I reduced to 2k and that similar night setting, improved a bit (20-24fps) , and lastly lowered to 1080p (with applicable settings) -- if this helps anyone great, otherwise my apologies for extra text. And just so Faatal sees i took his advice with the texture streaming this alpha LOL..
Back to gaming :)
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Thanks for the info.

 
I am answering.

I have a computer with which I played at 16.4 and it did not work with 17 or 18 and I am not here giving the wand, I hope they solve it, to see if the only one with problems is going to think
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Can you describe "did not work"? Did not launch? Crashed? Bad FPS? Error message spam?

Giving us your log file will let us see some of what is going on.

 
Maybe, I 'll need to think about it. In the meantime I've added steel harvesting to safes, street lights some containers and that power pole thing with transformers on it.
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actually, this compromise is a decent stop gap til rngesus sends you some trader love. would suggest adding steel to the hoist as well. that is a solid piece of metal

better than snowdog love tho. your choice

 
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So,
Madmole - Can you make a new post/thread with specific tweaks to video settings on NVidia and AMD cards, and in the game that are currently helping users with frame rates/performance please? I have been going through the game settings (RWG) and trying specific things to help determine what is nerfing frame rates so bad and already posted in the bug section on it. I have just adjusted some of my settings based upon what I've been reading in the general discussion and this thread. I'd like to filter out what "really" helps from fiction. Do you have a confirmed list of tweaks we can make to help out the stability while your team is working on actual fixes?

Appreciated in advance
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I'd rather focus on the software than work arounds. Faatal is making ground with terrain and I found hundreds of textures that were not streaming so they were just eating vram, which is why *most* everyone is bottlenecked when they look at terrain. I'm sure some users can post some known workarounds, you can start a thread if you like but this problem should be resolved very soon. I've found hundreds of textures that were not streaming and eating up full vram constantly, so I expect some serious improvements in the next patch.

 
I'd rather focus on the software than work arounds. Faatal is making ground with terrain and I found hundreds of textures that were not streaming so they were just eating vram, which is why *most* everyone is bottlenecked when they look at terrain. I'm sure some users can post some known workarounds, you can start a thread if you like but this problem should be resolved very soon. I've found hundreds of textures that were not streaming and eating up full vram constantly, so I expect some serious improvements in the next patch.
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Thank you for the response. If there is anything we as a community can do to help you bug fix faster, don't hesitate to ask. I don't mind going through detailed testing on anything if it helps the cause.

 
Game day 26, still have not found a desert biome. This really sux because the biomes.xml indicates oil shale has zero chance of spawning anywhere but desert biome. All the other ores have a small chance to spawn in non-preferred biome, why not oil shale?

How about a small chance of spawning oil shale, at least in the burnt forest if not all biomes.

This going to bite folks and certainly biting here.

 
@madmole

The streaming issue fix will not change things for people who doesn't use streaming, correct?

I don't have FPS issues so I don't use it. I run at max setting (2560x1440 res) except for AA and reflections which are off and get between 35-70fps.

 
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Thank you for the response. If there is anything we as a community can do to help you bug fix faster, don't hesitate to ask. I don't mind going through detailed testing on anything if it helps the cause.
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The three known fixes to improve FPS are reduce textures (half or quarter), reduce resolution, and reduce or turn off anisotropic filtering in your graphic card’s settings utility.

Edited to add: type gfx dt in the console (F1) to turn off distant terrain.

 
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The three known fixes to improve FPS are reduce textures (half or quarter), reduce resolution, and reduce or turn off anisotropic filtering in your graphic card’s settings utility.
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You forgot switching off distant terrain!

@ Fataal

I noticed that the shader errors in console (Radeon) stop as soon as one disables distant terrain

 
Possibly for pregen maps, if you rolled your own seed you should be fine. Not sure yet though things change by the minute.
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Why would the pregen maps need a wipe but the own rolled ones not need a wipe? What would be different?

 
Why would the pregen maps need a wipe but the own rolled ones not need a wipe? What would be different?
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I’m thinking if they make changes to RWG and pregen the maps again they will be different than the map u are saved on.

 
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