[0.16.51] FPS drop in heavy Smog Areas
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 4:55 pm
Hello Factorio Team, my last Bug Report posting was an long time ago, as with your new Bug reports you did patch my found bugs before i could report them.
Now I think I found something witch isn't a regular Bug, but witch does influence the performance.
In recent weeks I played frequently on Multiplayer Servers and in the temporal course of the respective Map i noticed regularly a drop in the FPS, especially when I was going around in areas that are heavily contaminated with smog.
As this Area will become bigger the longer an Map was played I found my FPS drop constant to lower than 20 FPS.
Yes I know my computer system isn't the best possible variant, but if in one Map in an Smogfree Area my FPS is 60 and in the same Map at the heaviest Smogarea the FPS is <20 than there should be an connection.
I was able to verify it by simply walking around. In areas without structures(player builds and trees), but with high levels of smog, the FPS drop was similar to an area with many structures and high smog. Also in areas without Smog and many structures my FPS was >59.
To be sure I have safed one very big Multiplayermap localy and have shut down most sources for Smog and have waited until the Smog was mostly gone. Initialy in the heaviest Smogareas I found an FPS drop lower than 5, but with the Smog mostly gone I could go everywhere and experienced no significant FPS drop.
I hope I could explain this understandably.
Now I think I found something witch isn't a regular Bug, but witch does influence the performance.
In recent weeks I played frequently on Multiplayer Servers and in the temporal course of the respective Map i noticed regularly a drop in the FPS, especially when I was going around in areas that are heavily contaminated with smog.
As this Area will become bigger the longer an Map was played I found my FPS drop constant to lower than 20 FPS.
Yes I know my computer system isn't the best possible variant, but if in one Map in an Smogfree Area my FPS is 60 and in the same Map at the heaviest Smogarea the FPS is <20 than there should be an connection.
I was able to verify it by simply walking around. In areas without structures(player builds and trees), but with high levels of smog, the FPS drop was similar to an area with many structures and high smog. Also in areas without Smog and many structures my FPS was >59.
To be sure I have safed one very big Multiplayermap localy and have shut down most sources for Smog and have waited until the Smog was mostly gone. Initialy in the heaviest Smogareas I found an FPS drop lower than 5, but with the Smog mostly gone I could go everywhere and experienced no significant FPS drop.
I hope I could explain this understandably.