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Hi, I've discovered another semi-minor issue!

I was playing on a multiplayer server last night and went to Gleba. It was the first time anyone had gone to Gleba on that save file (not sure if that's relevant, but mentioning it just in case).

Once I was there, I started getting severe FPS drops (went down as low as 30 FPS). UPS was completely stable at 60. (I play with the FPS/UPS counter always enabled, so it was easy for me to check this)
After playing with the graphics settings a bit, I discovered the culprit - animated water. I could leave all my other settings as-is, but had to disable animated water. This completely fixed all the FPS issues.

I've also experienced some FPS drops in solo play (only ever on Gleba). I have not yet tested if shutting off animated water fixed them. My solo Gleba FPS issues are very inconsistent, and disappear after I shuffle around a bit (zoom in/out, flip to another planet for a moment, move away from the low FPS area, stuff like that).

The animated water looks beautiful, so I'd love to be able to play with it on!

Thanks as always for all your hard work on the game! It's still amazing, 11/10!

Your driver shows it's from 2021, 3 years old at this point. Have you tried updating it?

I had uhh, not realized that driver updates were a thing.. (hadn't thought of it, and the notifications to tell me about them were disabled. Not sure if that's a default thing or if I changed it at some point.. The checkbox is certainly ticked now though!).

In any event, I updated my drivers to the latest version (566.36), restarted my computer, and gave it a test in the area on my solo Gleba where I've occasionally gotten FPS dips, and the worst I got was some dips to 58.X, but it usually stayed at 59.9/60.
My FPS dips on my solo file were inconsistent, but I'll take this small test to be a good sign.

Up to you if you want to consider it resolved, or give it a day or three to see if the issues pop up again. If I encounter the FPS dips again, I'll make a new post to let you know!

Hopefully this fixes the issue though. Thanks for the help!

Extra update: checked on the server, and I'm experiencing no lag on Gleba any more.
Should be safe to say that updating my drivers fixed it!
Thanks again for the advice!