Performance issues related to frame rate limiter

[Cauldyth]

This isn't really a bug, but reporting it here in case it's useful for other people or for the devs to look at.

Ever since the Hyperspeed update, I've been having performance glitches. Namely, when panning and zooming the map, I occasionally get severe stuttering for a few seconds. The ship icons/badges also wouldn't zoom/pan with the rest of the map, but would catch up and "snap" to the correct position after 1-2 seconds, and the game would pause for a couple seconds as well, almost as if it was swapping.

Well, yesterday I noticed in the Settings that my target framerate was set to 240 fps. I dropped it down to 60 fps, and suddenly all of the above issues disappeared completely.

Note that this isn't related to my hardware not being sufficient. I have a 24 core CPU, 64 GB of RAM, and a 4090. It was almost like it was swapping, even though I clearly have enough RAM. Anyway, lowering the target framerate has completely solved the issue, and now it runs very smoothly.

[MaximKI]

Thanks for the info! We'll keep this in mind for future investigations into performance improvements.

[tornnight]

OMG. THIS FIXED MY BUG. THANK YOU.

Seriously I've been fighting a bug where any combat ship selected and mouse movement.

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... 9#p5111799

This solved it!!!!

[MaximKI]

OMG. THIS FIXED MY BUG. THANK YOU.

Seriously I've been fighting a bug where any combat ship selected and mouse movement.

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... 9#p5111799

This solved it!!!!

Hey, thanks for the info.

Could you please let us know what exactly changed that helped resolve your issue? Were there any settings that you changed that ended up improving your situation?

[tornnight]

I simply set my frame limit to 60. That was it.

[Erik Rutins]

I simply set my frame limit to 60. That was it.

Which issue(s) did that fix for you, exactly?

[tornnight]

If you look at my posts in that thread near the end. You will see them in detail.

Basically, if I had a owned combat ship selected, then moved the mouse at all, all CPU cores would shoot to 100%.

I could pan with the keyboard just fine, but using the mouse at all when one of MY combat ships selected caused it.