improving performance?

If you guys paid any attention you would realise that Chucklefish said that this first stage of beta won't be optimised much and it won't be very stable. They said that if you want a more stable game then you should wait till at least the next stage of beta, they never claimed that the game wouldn't have fps drops frequently for some people but here you guys are complaining.

 

The thread is about making SB run faster. This thread is not about complaining about optimization.

 

Most of the posts in this thread are discussing ideas on how to get better performance out of the game in its current state.

 

Welcome to early access games, those games are terrible comparisons because they are all finished products and half of them are MMOs. This isn't an MMO so don't compare it to one.

 

Read through a bunch of the comments in this thread, they mention that Starbound is so poorly optimised and it should be something that needs to be fixed quickly.

 

Read the OPs post. He just wants to know how to make SB run faster.

 

Well i made a mod that improves FPS on starbound, so here you guy's go:
http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?resources/fpsboost.1463/
Doesn't work on multiplayer/existing worlds. [Sorry for bumping if that's a rule here]

 

Mine run perfect at bases and everything next an fps drop and then i had one day were everything just started running awful (Rust etc) and now i cant even go near a base

 

well, it seems kind of counter-productive to ask people to test a game that can't really run that well on their computers, doesn't it?

 

Sounds like your gpu may have broke, take it in, see what they say.

 

ive tried numerous things to help with the framerate isssue, everything steam and starbound related is run as admin, and i disabled compatibility mode, it was running fine at full resolution with spikes almost nonexistent now today it just spikes every few seconds, anybody got any ideas that could help me out :/ id appreciate it

 

This!! 1000x this! I have experienced this as well, and it makes it very hard to go through the base and retrieve any juicy tidbits within when in one frame you are in mid-jump, and in the next you are in a lava pool.

 

Yea, i wasn't complaining, i just thought the thread could be a good place to find some tips to "improve" performance, if there were any. I had no expectations that the game would run perfect.
Luckily i got a few good tips for at the time that help my game play a lot.

 

Guys i had a problem on terraria where running steam and the Steam Overlay would lag the game and cause the "Slow Motion Effect

My suggestion is to turn the Steam overlay off since you dont really need it for starbound.

To Do This just open steam and right click starbound then click properties and find an option called

Enable steam community ingame
And turn it off

Or try running it on it's own by going into properties again and find

Browse local files and click it

Then create a shortcut for

Starbound.exe and starbound_opengl

And drag it to the desktop. And try those. These methods are Very basic but it helped with starbound slightly but as you should know the game hasn't been optimised.

 

Aswell if you REALLY need FPS, i do have a mod made that improves framerate by about 15-25
[Look up a few post's to see]

 

I never have performance issues, but I play using OpenGL (my video card prefers OpenGL graphics over Directx) I suggest trying that, I also found with my 4000 series radeon card in my little laptop I get a average FPS of about 30-60 depending on how much is on the screen.

 

Running the game on full screen has helped performance for me.

Our server also runs the Ubuntu server distro, which seemed to help performance over using the desktop distro.

Finally, upgrading my ageing network equipment helped a bit as well.

All these were more or less minor improvements -- the big gains will happen when they optimize.

 

After spending my whole life searching for the answer I finally found it, in the starbound.config change the full screen resolution line to this: "fullscreenResolution" : [ 10, 10 ], Then play it full screen


Also if you don't mind playing the game in slow motion, change the max frame skip to 1.

 

Well, it is poorly optimized, for now. So I guess they aren't wrong?

 

Turning steam overlay off helped me.