The Unsolvable "Terraria Lag"

Starbound has big optimization issues with xp, its being fixed. Surprised nobody mentioned this...

 

Hmm... Well, Starbound runs pretty well even on my AMD Athlon II x2 250, gt440 1gb ddr3, 8gb ram. BUT! In Glitch castles fps drops from 35-50 to 10-15. Now i'm uncertain, is that because of lighting, or some other things, that i can't figure out?
P.S. Sorry for bad English.

 

The SNES had one architecture to code against, making optimization relatively straight-forward (PCs could have any number of hardware configurations), and it didn't have other processes running in the background. It was only running the game. You might as well argue a toaster should heat your house faster because it's hotter than the radiator. (Edit: Not to mention, Super Mario World != Starbound in complexity.) Like NeroAngelo and other have explained, start looking at what might be slowing your computer down (which specs should be able to run this game fine) before accusing the developers of not knowing what they're doing.

 

It seems to lag like that because of mobs; I've cleared out a glitch castle and the lag dropped with pretty much every kill, though it was still a little more laggy than normal.

 

I won't be posting too much in this topic because i don't want to troll, and the point i was making was about Terraria not SB, i'm pretty sure it's not exactly the place to do this (then again there's Terraria in the title of this thread so...?).
But let's face it, there was a huge drop in performance between 1.1 and 1.2 of Terraria, without a huge upgrade in game complexity or anything.
I'm a developer, i know what it cost to do a game, and wasn't seriously comparing Super Mario to Terraria (although it could do some good sometimes) but let's face it, i've seen the code of Terraria, it's laughable. So much so that it's actually (ironically) impressive that it does work so well in the end.

I'm pretty hopeful that the Starbound guys will do what is needed to make the game work ok, and hopefully every iteration of the game won't add more laggyness...

 

Getting back to OP's original questions, sounds like your GPU might be overheating or something. When was the last time you cleaned out your comp?

 

Well... It's a laptop so it doesn't need that much cleaning

Anyways the official fix should be coming out today so it might lag less
And I'm always playing in full screen less lag that way and I delete the explorer.exe also I don't have any options in starbound to "disable v-sync" I have a configuration file for that but it doesn't work lol

 

Pretty funny that people always default to the "your computer must be trash!" response.

There is no question that the game is poorly optimized i have 12gb ram 3.2 i7 quad with 3gb vram and I still lag in dungeons.

The response people should default to is that its a beta and it will be fixed when it can be.

 

Actually i would say this game is greatly optimized for it still being in the beta stage
I will admit my pc is trash by now and as 2014 hits it will be making it's 8th year on this world still working lol

Like i said i get less lag then Terraria... at times lol when i'm moving hysterically around.... like in temples or dungeons it will start to lag lol Rain is where it gets patchy

meh at night I'm still loving the game though
right now i'm going to test if MSI afterburner makes a difference... I may have 1 or 2 results.... it's either going to work.... or i'm going to get a blue screen.... wish me luck

 

I noticed the lag cycles on my Win7 as well, usually within the first hour of playing. When I use Ubuntu, I can go hours without any noticeable lag. Try ending any non-essential processes to free up more resources.

 

Doesn't work
I would like to say my computer is... In the twilight zone

The more processes I clear up the more it lags however the more stuff I run it lags less... Or it just completely doesn't want to try

Also I'm happy to report that the MSI afterburner actually does work
I saw great improvement
Use at your own risk though
It does tamper with your computer and may cause a BSOD or worse

 

isn't afterburner an OC tool ? be careful with that on a laptop hehe

 

It is but what ever you over clock at that time isn't permanent
That's also why whenever I recommend it I caution people before using it

 

Not everybody keeps a couple thousand dollars just laying around. Nor should people have to put down that much extra on a game that alleges it will be able to run on older hardware. So, unless you're offering to pay for that "better computer", this is not only not helpful advice, it's borderline trolling.

 

normally i would say "dont play on your toaster" but hey, its beta, and the minority of beta games is optimized.

so far i have absolutely no problems, no fps drops, lags...nothing.
CPU: i5 2500k - OC 4Ghz
Graphic: GTX560Ti
RAM: 4Gb DDR3 @1333Mhz

btw

oooh...you are so wrong. every single part with air-cooling eats dust over time, it does not magically disappear into the void. if your GPU has active cooling - dismantle it - clean it

this is a picture of my old card (9800GT AMP), from the outside it was clean, but it had 100°C, so i dismantled the cover and found thi, ok its not a laptop card, but it shows what i mean. only because you think it is clean does not mean that it really is clean.
CPU thermalpaste the same, most people dont care about it, i had a few PCs, Laptops and Desktop, where the paste was like concrete, we needed to break the cpu off the cooler to clean it, the paste was so dry that we could scratch it away like one of the lottery tickets

its always the same...people want to play everything, but dont want to spend money to fit the requirements.
your comment is the one that is not helpfull, IF (just IF) his system is too old to play simple games (from todays view), then he needs a better system. I cant see a post where NightFire posts his system speccs, so, how do you know that his system is not from the late 90s? Ok, he mentioned that his Laptop is 8 years old, so it would nearly fit, but still: we have no exact specification what he uses. On my old laptop (dont even know how old it is) i cant even open Firefox instantly, because the Singlecore CPU is trash and the HDD is full.
You dont even need thousands of $ to buy a decent computer, thats just EPEEN measurement

So, information for the future:
post your exact system specifications or risk a flamewar about "buy a new system noob".
you wont get help without informations.

 

You can get a computer that could run most (if not all) current games on the highest settings for 500-800 dollars.

It's not like I was being completely serious when I said that either, but hey, what was I expecting on the internet.

 

Ugh you reminded me of a project i had to do for my tech class a long time ago.... i still have it on my flash drive lol
man that teacher annoyed me

So what he said was:
I want this class to build a computer... your spending limit is 500$ and it has to run BF3 on high graphics with 50 fps
I was like
...
...
...
...
no
but i did it anyway and it seemed to have worked (by build he meant shop online but don't actually buy it)

Also after this being fixed for me at least and after i get my new PC the next item i must save up for is pair of space goggles

 

No, not mobs. I've killed all of glitches, but this didn't improved fps. Absolutely.

 

Just upgraded a PC so have 2 different computers running into the same slowdown issues when high amount of mobs on screen.

1st comp
ATI 5780
c2d 8600
8 gig mem
NON SSD
windows 7

2nd comp
780 ti
4770k haswell
32 gig mem
SSD
windows 8.1

This test sample indicates the issue is NOT hardware related. Especially the second pc.

 

Noticed on my server that the spikes aren't in cpu/memory/network. The spikes (and I assume lag) seem to be occuring in HD read/write.