Starbound low frame rate fix.

This guide will help fix your fps problems, unless you are playing on a calculator.

Solution

1. Close your game and quit Steam.
2. Go to steam folder (for example: C:\Program Files\steam) and uncheck compatibility mod on your Steam.exe in options
* If you can't change compability mod on step 2 - folow next steps. (if you can
change compability mod - proceed to step 7)
3. Press windows "start" button, find and open "run" window (or just simple press button with windows logo on your keyboard+R) and type "regedit"
4. Go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers and delete any entry with path to steam, if there is no recordings here - proceed to the next step.
5. Repeat step 4 with: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers
6. Repeat step 2.
7. Launch Steam and play Starbound.

*Note: this guide is only tested on Windows 7 .

Now you shouldn't experience any lag, this can also help with long loadings.

[Nesirof]

Thanks mate!

[JinxJynx]

Step 4 worked for me. You're a legend dude, thank you so much!

[PentaSquares]

do "/spawnitem npcwrench" to obtain that wrench (Note: You can't with it and it only has one attack)

[Scout Gaming]

Bought a better PC, fixed the issue, thanks

[Schwam]

So, this is for those of us who tried the above steps and could not get starbound to run any faster or at a higher framerate.

I found the issue.

You don't have a software issue, and it's not that you need to replace your hardware.

How long ago did you clean out the dust from your CPU, your motherboard, your power supply, etc.?

Contemporaneous to my framerate issue was a nasty increase in CPU temperature that I found with Speccy. So, certain things cause overheating in the CPU, but the most common of those is DUST.

When I opened my machine, it was like Dustman jumped out of Mega Man 4 and shot the crap out of my rig.

I cleaned my PC, and my framerate issues were resolved. I'm also a disgusting pig. I should clean my machine more often.

I hope this helps those of us who didn't have compatibility issues.

Good luck!

[q:{The-Best-Shadow-Man}:p]

I have an ATI Radeon HD 4800, does it will work ?

[jkund17]

Starbound wasn't listed in Step#4,

[Puddy]

Just go to your steam folder and run the "starbound_opengl.exe" as administrator and all of your lag will be fixed then create a shortcut to that on your desktop and your game will run great and you don't have to deal with the launcher :)

[Volker Schultz]

Well Rusty Calculator, it looks like it's just you and me. lol jk

[UnGoogle]

See? you're using a laptop, so I can't help you.