Game is running MUCH Smoother now. Thanks!

So I played for a couple hours after the newest patch and I'd have to say I'm impressed!

The game is running much more smoothly now. Not perfect, but much better.

In fact, I found a Floran Tree Village and I didn't get as many FPS drops in there as I did back during Irritated Koala, so this newest patch seems to be an improvement on frame rates.

Still the occasional stutters, but these actually make sense (going from Underground to Above Ground where the music fades in/out, teleporting to your ship or to the planet, falling long distances, etc).

The only hiccup I ran into, is when I fell down a really deep mineshaft, and the game hung for about 10 seconds, showing nothing but a void around me and then suddenly the terrain filled in. Not too big of a deal; falls that long are rare. This was one really HUGE crevasse that I fell into, was surprised at how deep it was.

 

I second the title of this thread.

I still have to go to a high pop Apex Village though. That's where I first noticed fps drops. Also, the loading screen only stays up for like 2 or 3 seconds - fantastic.

 

Yeah I remember the 3-5 minute wait times on the loading screen....

 

Sadly not for me :/ my computer sounds like a jet engine running it. Might be a fan problem and less a starbound problem.

 

nope. it's starbound. commence the berating.

 

lol

 

i am having lag problems playing with my friend maybe its a server problem since i saw other people having their server crashed

 

Hi. Whatever Hot fix optimization that was in the secondary patch helped my fps a lot on my old PC. Its still not good but much improved and much more playable. Thanks
AMD Athlon 3500
Windows 7 32-bit
3gb RAM
ATI Radeon x1600 video card

 

for me it's the other way around, used to be fast and now it's all laggy for quite a while.
(around 15 mins of lag)

 

Hot fix made things worse for me. When I try walk, and release walk button, it keeps walking like 3 seconds before it stops. It's totally unplayable. Waiting for new hot fix. Pre-patch was ok, I had no problems playing the game.

 

In the release notes, Molly spoke of a hotfix for stutter on older PCs. I didn't quite understand wether she meant the big patch we received now contains that hotfix, or wether another one was on the way.
How did you read it?
Edit: Never mind, I just noticed a new patch coming in which is most likely the hotfix.

Apart from that, the loading times are great and the game is indeed slightly faster on my system. But I'd still be happy if the hotfix for older PCs was yet to come.

 

I think I have to agree that it is smoother now. Before I would get burst of lag spikes when going near slightly high population areas (like the human prisons and the like), now though, there may be still some form of slow down but no massive lag spikes. That, and I seem to notice less cursor lag also.

 

It runs much smoother here too, however with random FPS drops once a while at which the FPS goes down to like 5 to 10.

 

much better in my 2008 apple macbook pro... good work

 

Yes! On angry Koala on some occasions, Monsters would lag when they jumped and I couldn't hit them and i lost pixels because I died and then I couldn't print out Glitch furnaces.


...Glitch furnaces.

 

This. While mine is not as bad as M C's, I had no trouble whatsoever with the latter build, now I get occasional framerate drop.

I also noticed a 100% chance in FPS drop in the new prison facility compound.

 

it was a bit jerky for me as well but the hotfix did the trick.

 

It runs awesome.Better than last patch angry koala.

 

Yup, I when to a USMC compund thingy with a lot of enemies. Just as I was going down, the FPS dropped to unplayable levels