When will the performance optimization happen?

Hi everyone, especially the developers

When will the performance optimization happen? I pretty much depend on it to be able to play Starbound.

 

At the later stages of the beta.
Optimisation is NOT a priority now even though most of us are suffering because of the lack of it, sorry!
=(

 

Usually content comes before optimization.

 

It's good enough for me atm. I'm just waiting on that next update to play again. (hopefully very soon!)

 

I have a feeling that the optimization will greatly help the game but by then so much new stuff will be added that the optimization won't be to the extent that you expect.

 

Thanks for all the answers, even if its bad news for me

Knowing this, I will pause Starbound for a while (I barely get 10 fps on planets).
Wish you all the best, hope we'll read again in a few months

 

Late stage 2 is when optimization will begin.

 

I don't want to be nasty but if the finished game lags as bad as it does now, with these system requirements, I will want a refund. I know I wouldn't get it but I would be pissed off. Still, I think it'll be fixed and the game will run as smoothly as it should.

 

It's also worth noting right now a lot of the "performance issues" is due to the huge amount of debug code present in the game; simply removing that would greatly boost performance without any special optimisation (But of course, they can't do that til the game is thoroughly tested)

 

I red this before starting my thread. There is no timeline included. I also could have called my thread "When will stage2 happen", but since I especially was after the performance part, I specified it.

 

I'm not saying it'll be as bad as it is now. I'm just saying it's not uncommon for, as a game is being developed and things are being added, the system requirements go up a bit.

 

As stated in the thread you linked, beta2 will be "largely feature complete". This leaves room for an unknown amound of features and therefore doesnt set a barrier for the game to be feature complete for beta2.

Talking as a junior software enginner, programming is math. uml-modelling is art, graphical work is art. While I cant know how chucklefish manages their projects, I assume there is a software-model done and actively being extended.

Game companies are known to take the risk and have a little more space for exceeding timelines (at least if there is no publisher whipping them), but Im fully sure there "are" timelines present. Writing commercial software is next to impossible without predicabillity. With this thread I ask for a sneak peek on that timeline(fully accepting that it may exceed).

 

I agree with that, you just explained a mandatory downside of backing an unfinished project (from the customer's view). Having a mentionable part of the projects revenue available before the project is even done can lead to loose timelines and generally lessen the motivation to work efficiently. I cant really tell if the software quality benefits from this, so I wont guess.

With respect, let us both please not go farer. We are discussing guessings and conclude from them. Maybe a dev will drop in and give us a "in half a week/month/year" or maybe not. I dont think we can add more valuable information to the initial question

 

Optimization is usually done last in these sort of things, innit? As so much can still change, it could undo whatever optimization has been done.

 

It makes sense that it comes in the latter stages of the final beta, since new additions could ruin any optimisations and then ultimately it'd have to be optimised again, etc. When everything is added, I suppose then they can dedicate their time to such a purpose .

 

At this point, he's only looking for a dev response, but I have to tell you, MichaelD, a dev's response would be no different than the ones you see here. How do I know that? previous responses by them.

 

The problem with doing it now is that when we continue to add new content and features a lot of those can screw it up again. We've optimized during the Alpha several times. I had a laptop from 2008 play it wonderfully, then gradually play it crappier and crappier until it was played really terribly. Then they did some optimization and it played like pie again at 60fps. Then of course, with new features came more things that weren't optimized and it started playing like crap again.

The point is optimization at this point is sometimes very temporary and is probably best to do most of it when most of the systems are in place so they don't have to waste a lot of time optimizing over and over (therefore doing other things slower).

This is an artist response. Not a programmer response. So I could be 100% wrong on everything.