[0.17.79] Laggy game.

[afrnjhb]

No mods, latest update, completely new game with default settings. Nothing is selected in F4 menu except show-fps.

There are significant FPS/UPS drops every few seconds. My hardware is good enough to run 1kSPM bases. I can see that it has something to do with the map generator, but I'm not exploring the map at the moment. It still happens if I stay still for several minutes. I even tried generating a world without enemy bases so they would not explore map by moving themselves, it did not matter.

I tried restarting the game and my computer.

Any ideas how to fix this?

[Loewchen]

Start with updating your graphics driver and stop forcing opengl.

[afrnjhb]

Lowering graphics settings seem to help. Thank you, I wouldn't start thinking about graphics without your post.

[posila]

If you haven't already, you should turn texture compression back on. Your GPU is not nearly good enough to handle uncompressed textures.

[ptx0]

as i understand it even good GPUs will benefit from texture compression due to moving fewer bits around a fixed width memory bus. yet another reason to be upset at nvidia for releasing the same model with more narrow memory bandwidth, ala 1060 and 1030.

i miss the days of the GTX 280 that had a 512 byte wide memory bus, but, a lot of that was wasted by inefficient architecture. c'est la vie.