Closed More lag victims.

I understand some of why they'd want to optimize after balance, but supplying quality/CPU-heavy reduction options early doesn't seem harmful to me at all.. I keep begging for it everywhere I go (on these forums :> ) Most games I've followed development on generally optimize along the way, as things come up or are noticed (or cause evil problems for lots of people..)

I hate to be the guy that says whiny entitled crap, but I wouldn't mind at least a small acknowledgement of the problem, or even a re-issued statement concerning thoughts on all optimization being handled in "phase 2" from the coding devs If they truly can't be swayed into trying to fix some of this early I'd like to save my fingers some crusade-typing

 

The thing is none of them respond to anything on the forums about all of the fps issues. They don't respond to any posts about the fps problems. We're all just left in the dark about what they are planning to do about it. Yes, it does say in phase 2 that they are going to work on optimization, but that was before the beta was released and before all of the people with fps problems. I'd just like to know what they are planning to do about it and when.

 

Honestly, when a dev is on the forums I click into their profile to see what thread they're actively looking at (and responding to) and so far its been the Modding section almost every time.. Can even go now and look through their forum activities..

 

Yeah, I don't get the order. If more people could play the beta, there would be more people who could find and report bugs and report about too strong/weak features for balance purposes.

 

olny in villages
60 fps everywere else

 

Processor : AMD Phenom II x6 1090T 3.2 GHz
RAM : 16 GB
GPU : ATI Radeon 6800 series (latest drivers)
OS : Windows 7 64bit

Does not seem to be graphics related, change of resolution/ zoom level/ or gpu settings makes zero difference

major lag everywhere, except main starting screen, since latest update Dec 15 2013 .

 

Hey, i use the same system as you and i also have heavy lags.

 

I'm no developer, but as far as I'm aware optimization is usually one of the last stages of the development cycle, so it's not backwards at all.

I'm playing this on a really bad PC, running a Pentium D here, haha. The game doesn't play perfect, but it's more than playable(for me). I played a little bit on some multiplayer, and it actually runs significantly better. I guess it's because the server was handling stuff for my crappy computer? I don't know. I look forward to when optimization starts.

 

It really isn't afaik. Maybe in Indie dev cycles it is, but what I've learned from numerous rounds beta-testing a number of different games is that optimization comes first, balance 2nd, and then "overall" bug fixing (making sure everything ties together, etc.) last.

I mean to me, it doesn't matter either way (because I just got a new laptop and every game I've tried to play, including Starbound, has ran amazingly on it) but it doesn't make a lot of sense to me from a testing perspective to worry about balance first when a lot of people can't test the changes. Idk.

 

Just posted this thread.. For anyone with chronic/predictable lag, maybe check it out?? :O

http://community.playstarbound.com/...oring-for-those-suffering-constant-lag.55427/

 

My lag as far as gameplay/FPS goes is not terrible, HOWEVER, I very very frequently hit large blocks of unloaded world as I'm travelling, both on server and offline play.

 

i'm having the same problem....
i can run lots of great games and mmorpg without problems,
but starbound is really slow when in a dungeon or a village
even rain makes me lag lol

 

This regedit fixed everything right up. The game runs smoothly for me now. http://steamcommunity.com/app/211820/discussions/0/648813727953725108/

 

it's weird that works, as it involves removing the old compatibility settings for steam.exe, and doesn't appear to touch any of starbound's files/registry entries. (though i didn't have lag issues so i guess i don't have that file anyways?)

 

In a case where Steam is elevated, any processes it launches (i.e. Starbound) will automatically be elevated.

 

I am having framerate issues with Starbound as well but never with Terraria, it might be time to update your pc.

 

My problem with Terraria is something they changed with the way background images transition (or the way they alter the lighting when they transition, maybe..) Not sure, but they just hired on new people to the staff yesterday or day before, one of which is somewhat focused on further optimization, so Terraria's future is looking pretty bright, and in turn I am pretty damn excited :> Long as they don't up the graphics or lighting quality more, anyway My laptop is fairly awful, but it can play it fine enough.. Seriously considering begging on the local Craigslist for a 3-5 year old desktop with dedicated graphics for free or dirty cheap (VERY cheap)..

I should match my ambition to my gainful resources, which are non-existent :>

 

Did not worked for me first, but now when they realised the the diagnostic-feature, i changed up a few things and now its running flawlessly (not forgetting the point its a beta). Anyways thank you

 

same here me and 7 friends have decked out rigs but its unplayable. we found out the ones running dual cores and older systems are able to play the game with 0 trouble at 60 fps. anyone who has something not 3-4 years old on our end cant play the game at all getting 10 and something 5 fps. we all had the game pre-ordered and we been telling ALOT of people to just wait to buy the game until they see it at the next phase of beta. I am sure more then just us are warning folk of the issues.