high end pc lagging on terraria

[quadridder09]

okay so i feel there has been a lot of posts about this topic but i have yet to find a solid answer from any of the other posts so here goes. whenever i play terraria hosting a multiplayer server I seem to lag fps wise, a lot. It will run fine for the most part but from time to time my fps will drop to 1-15 fps for either a short amount of time or sometimes an extended period of time and i can't seem to find what is causing it. I havn't tried this on a singleplayer world for an extended period of time but for the little bit of my time i have spent in singleplayer i havn't experienced any lag.

added note: this same thing seems to happen to me while playing borderlands 2 but it seems to be more of a stutter almost in timed intervals so it is deffinetly possible that it may be a software or hardware issue but i may also just have another issue to deal with when it comes to borderlands 2.

Pc specs:
nvidia gtx 1060 3gb
i7 7700k cpu
16gb ddr4 g skill trident z rgb ram
4tb hard drive and 500gb ssd


I mean i'd like to think that hardware could run a 2d platformer but maybe i'm wrong. Any help would be appreciated

[meat beat mania]

whats your frame skip set to?

[NickEver27]

Originally posted by meat beat mania:

whats your frame skip set to?

Isn't subtle the best?

[meat beat mania]

Originally posted by ImNick27:

Originally posted by meat beat mania:

whats your frame skip set to?

Isn't subtle the best?

depends on specs and fps having it too high on say 60 fps and it will be really stuttery and and slow as if it was like 5 fps and have it too low if say you get 30 fps dropping to 15 it will be droping frames cosntaly

[quadridder09]

Originally posted by meat beat mania:

Originally posted by ImNick27:

Isn't subtle the best?

depends on specs and fps having it too high on say 60 fps and it will be really stuttery and and slow as if it was like 5 fps and have it too low if say you get 30 fps dropping to 15 it will be droping frames cosntaly

i've tried every setting of frame skip from off to subtle to on, I should add that frame skip being on keeps the lag from making the game seem like it is in slow motion but the fps drop is still present

[ilgazzz]

I was having the same problem, I posted about this yesterday but no one has found an answer. However I found something online while searching and it fixed for me. Start the game, alt tab and open task maganager. Go to details tab and find terraria. Right click and set affinity. Deselect CPU0 and apply. Try this and see if it helps. I think it resets affinity everytime u start though so you might need to do this every time u play.

[meat beat mania]

check cpu usage when playing if its high you cpu might have cucked it or it could be a hardrive problem if its not either of those i would suggest looking at the programs running in the background and checking what they are using

[rwvy]

Hosting or joining a MP server is going to cause lag or the occasional FPS drop due to said lag. It's internet trying to process it all and if it catches a lag then the frames will drop trying to compensate for the missing information.

[Mr.Izmir]

Idk man its happening to me to for some reason

[Eucoir]

Ok, I am no expert, but here is my suggestion

Open up the task manager, and moniter if the CPU drops for Terraria. If it does (in my experience) this might be due to overheating in your PC/Laptop. The only reason I say this is because you say it happens with Borderlands 2 also. Get some software too see how much the temperature is rising by. If it is a lot, then you need to find a solution to keep your PC/Laptop temperature down.

If this doesn't solve your problem, even though you have a higher spec PC, I would try some lower settings, with frame skip ON, then from Task Manager, right click Terraria > Go to Details > Right click Terraria > Set Priority > Set to High. This will focus your CPU onto Terraria before any other application. This needs to be done every time you load up Terraria.

Let me know if it helps.

Note - Any suggestion I post is up to the users discretion on whether they use them or not, and I will not be held accountable.

[quadridder09]

Originally posted by ilgazzz:

I was having the same problem, I posted about this yesterday but no one has found an answer. However I found something online while searching and it fixed for me. Start the game, alt tab and open task maganager. Go to details tab and find terraria. Right click and set affinity. Deselect CPU0 and apply. Try this and see if it helps. I think it resets affinity everytime u start though so you might need to do this every time u play.

thanks for the suggestion but i already tried this and to no avail D:

[quadridder09]

Originally posted by Banks:

Ok, I am no expert, but here is my suggestion

Open up the task manager, and moniter if the CPU drops for Terraria. If it does (in my experience) this might be due to overheating in your PC/Laptop. The only reason I say this is because you say it happens with Borderlands 2 also. Get some software too see how much the temperature is rising by. If it is a lot, then you need to find a solution to keep your PC/Laptop temperature down.

If this doesn't solve your problem, even though you have a higher spec PC, I would try some lower settings, with frame skip ON, then from Task Manager, right click Terraria > Go to Details > Right click Terraria > Set Priority > Set to High. This will focus your CPU onto Terraria before any other application. This needs to be done every time you load up Terraria.

Let me know if it helps.

Note - Any suggestion I post is up to the users discretion on whether they use them or not, and I will not be held accountable.

i have checked my cpu usage and it doesn't seem to be too high. thigh maybe it is a glitch with task manager but when i forst open it my cpu usage is at like 70% for a split second then drops down to 15 ish but maybe it isn't a glitch. I'll check my temps but i have ran stress tests when i first built the pc so i could test temps and everything seemed good but yeah i'll check this out thaks for the suggestions

[Mister Euclides]

d+

[Fuge57]

its you internet conection(that only aplly's when your using the internet)
the other reason is its just terraria, it does that

[meat beat mania]

Originally posted by BodieBoy12:

its you internet conection(that only aplly's when your using the internet)
the other reason is its just terraria, it does that

it aint to do with the internet i get 600 ping and i play with friends all the time never drops below 60