Intermittent slow FPS (Waiting For Update)

[manishearth]

I'm experiencing intermittent unplayably slow FPS, and slow "catching up" progress bars. I'm on a computer with a decent setup¹, and my friend over multiplayer is not experiencing FPS issues ever. I'm on Windows, he's on Linux, I believe the server is also Linux.

We've reduced bot usage in the base and gone and killed a lot of demolishers, which improved the situation. Today while playing it was mostly at 60FPS for quite a while, but it later dropped to 5 and then I was autokicked from the server.

Screenshot of game during slow FPS

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I plan to also get screenshots when it's working again, but I can't at the moment since I'm literally unable to rejoin the server. Also plan to include the entitity timings.

Any advice would be appreciated!


¹ https://pcpartpicker.com/user/manishear ... iew=gzq4sY

[Loewchen]

That is the classic you are too slow for the server issue.

[manishearth]

Yeah, that's what I thought initially, but it's strange that it only happens some times, and this is a pretty fast computer! Our base isn't doing anything super insane either. My friend isn't having these issues at all, and he's on a similar computer. He is located physically closer to the server, however.

At the very least there's something about the base that's slowing it down to a crawl on my computer. I'm still trying to investigate numbers.