Stutter/FPS Drops

[Shpamo]

Just got this game yesterday and having a good time with it. However, every ~5 seconds the game stutters (dropping around 10-12 frames). I'm currently at K-Leg port (... or OKGL? Not sure), but I believe it was happening before I got there too.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
RAM: Corsair 16GB DDR4-3200Mhz

Obviously not game-breaking by any means, but slightly annoying for the game to freeze up momentarily every ~5 seconds. I started the save yesterday before it was updated to the current version, 0.9.0.7.

Cheers

[Joshu]

Sounds frustrating, those specs should be enough to play the game.
We'll get it looked at once the others are back working on monday!

If anyone else is experiencing similar could you put details of the experience and your hardware as responses to this thread? It might help us crack this bug! Thanks~

[Daniel@BlueBottleGames]

One experiment that might be worth trying is to see if it gets better or worse when not docked to anything.

There's a chance it is related to the amount of ship parts loaded and/or number of NPCs active.

[sir Evans]

I'm getting the same stutter, but maybe not freezing. Game sometimes become choppy.

[Krazyone]

I get the same freezes but usually only 1-3 seconds. I notice it most when NPC's are opening doors. Also when they open doors it closes all of my inventory windows if i am looking at them.

[Temnova]

Also getting these annoying lag spikes! Hope it's figured out soon.

[atm09st]

Started a new game and 10 npc's were brawling making the game stutter/low frames when I'm nearby.

[Yoko Taro >= GOD]

Also getting stutter.

[HMIMH]

Yep me here to. Every 10 seconds or so, screen freezes, and an ascii character error in the console

[atm09st]

Want to update on it, once all the npc's stopped fighting it got smoother

[thePalindrome]

I'm getting the same, it feels similar to garbage collecting stutters, although I don't know if ostranauts is built on a language that uses it or not

[Weyrling]

Very consistent stutters yeah.

Seems to be independent of the timescale but doesn't happen when the game is paused, if that helps.

[Rufert]

Also getting them, they don't seem to be tied to anything in particular they'll just happen at regular intervals as long as I'm not paused. It's doubly frustrating when piloting the ship since if it happens while I'm doing anything with E or Q it'll come out of the stutter in a mad spin.

[Basilisk]

I'm having this issue as well. Its less regular for me and a bit more random, though moving seems to trigger it more frequently than standing still. I'm running a GTX 3080, I've got a Ryzen 7 and plenty of RAM. Games running on an SSD too. I'm seeing the issue when paused as well, at the very least during character creation and flipping thru features.

When I use to see this kind of stutter on other games it was because I still had a HDD for my boot drive and something accessing it would spike the usage up. I've got a SSD for my boot and I was monitoring my Task Manager Performance and didn't see any spikes in anything that coincided with the stutter.

I've tried toggling into windowed mode (at 1600x900) as well as toggling the fog of war feature but neither helped.

[zantanzuken]

it may be a good idea to watch the console (top left, the exclamation point) when it happens to see if the game is attempting to do something when the stutters happen.. that said i also experience these stutters and the only explanation i can think of is the game attempting to do something which freezes the game, up until it hits a point it decides it cant and force stops it.

[Basilisk]

Originally posted by zantanzuken:

it may be a good idea to watch the console (top left, the exclamation point) when it happens to see if the game is attempting to do something when the stutters happen.. that said i also experience these stutters and the only explanation i can think of is the game attempting to do something which freezes the game, up until it hits a point it decides it cant and force stops it.

I'm not seeing any activity in the console when it happens to me. On my initial look I had some pathfinding errors but I just got one with a clean console. The only messages are tagged [info] and checking load order.