improving performance?

just wondering what are some things i can do to improve my performance running starbound?
or does my computer just suck? >_<
cant even get through a fight without lagging to death

 

my PC isn't great, but it has run games that are much more taxing than Starbound without a problem

when I try to play it's like an interactive slideshow

 

Decreasing the resolution has helped me. I play on 1024 x 768 and play at a pretty good frame rate.

 

I think that Starbound is in need of a bit more optimization, if anything, I believe that the developers should focus on optimizing Starbound for better framerate first before adding more content.

 

Agreed 100%

 

I figured I wasn't the only one but I wanted to make sure. I heard some people say that it runs nicely for them.

 

nope, high end pc and runs at constant 10fps

 

The main issue is that it is running on one cpu thread, I found this base with robots and cool looking stuff, I get anywhere near it and its 5 fps, unplayable; similar issues with more than 3 mobs on a screen.

 

The game runs on one core?
If so, the devs need to stop what they're doing, and optimize for multiple cores. This was a huge problem in terraria. My brother was unable to host servers because of his low power per core.

 

this actually helped my game a lot.
found it in the work around bug section that molly put up
http://www.edugeek.net/forums/gaming/39417-fix-steam-thinks-its-running-compatibility-mode.html

 

I alt tabbed to see the issue, I was maxing out on only one core; RAM wasn't getting as much use as I thought it would... I dread actual MP with this kind of thing, is it even possible?

 

CPUs have multiple cores, it's almost stupid not to use them all.

 

this worked for me too - at least a 20fps increase! game is playable now!

can't thank you enough

 

going to finally play more of the game now

bumping one last time before i go - that steam registry thing is bizarre but it worked for me

 

yeah, i still get spikes here and there but its at least playable now =)

 

So when I try to play it wont go past the chucklefish logo. it crashes right after that.

 

From what I heard, you just have to wait a while then the game will start.

 

that's not true. freezing at chucklefish logo is a very common problem. Devs said they are working on it. Think it has something to do with windows xp or something

 

I tried this fix but am still having no luck with the quality of this game.
I have installed it on my laptop and my desktop the latter of which is VASTLY more powerful and the game runs equally poor on both machines.
Is anyone else experiencing this?

 

I just posted this some where els on the forums trying to help the windows xp players >.< But this is useful for you guys to
You know that steam is asking alot of Memory making a big amount of fps lag on the games so I learned to do this to steam,
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe" /low -silent
It makes him in low priority and -silent suppresses the dialog box that opens when you start steam,
OO and right click the game going to properties of a game, there it says enable steam cloud turn that off and its gives you like 43K In memory