How to enable multi-core?

[Damocles]

Hello,

Terraria use only one core on my CPU. That's make me lose so many fps.
I've seen on internet a setting call "Multicore-Lighting" to set how many core terraria use, but when I search this on my game, I not found this.

Anyone can help me?

My CPU : I5-7200U (2 cores, up to 4 with hyper-threading)

[Ness]

Looks like the setting was removed. It's no longer in the in-game settings menu. I also checked out the config file and compared it to my backup, and it looks like it got removed from that as well (as in, it was in my config file before launching the game, and it wasn't afterward).

[generic hooman moat.gg]

you lot are tripping, its in tmodloader

[Damocles]

ya I've seen it in the modloader but... the modloader only have easy and hard level not journey... also i have try to put the line "LightingThread" in the config file but terraria delete this line at launch...

[Ness]

Originally posted by generic hooman moat.gg:

you lot are tripping, its in tmodloader

Right, but tModLoader isn't updated to 1.4 yet. It still runs using the 1.3.5 version of the game.

[Damocles]

Do you think, Re-logic will re-had multi-core setting in future update?

[Ness]

No idea. Your best bet in the meantime is probably to change the Lighting setting (under Video) to Retro (or Trippy) and/or the Quality right below that to Low (or Medium). There's also a Frameskip option above the Lighting option that you may want to consider turning on (if it isn't already).

Retro changes all light sources to emit as white light and applies light per tile instead of smoothing the light, so it looks more blocky. This is how the lighting used to look way back around release. Trippy does the same, but allows for colored light. Both have much better performance than Color or White, but worse visuals. Setting the lighting to Retro or Trippy also disables some other effects, such as water flow smoothing or the screen tinting during certain events.

Quality affects the quality of the lighting. I personally didn't notice any difference on Retro, so it might only affect Color and White, or the difference was too subtle for me to see.

Frameskip lets the game skip rendering frames when it's struggling, allowing for better performance. This can occasionally have some downsides, though. If you hit a really rough patch, at least in older versions of the game, it's possible for so many frames to be skipped that your character visually appears to teleport or skip ahead, which I found jarring.

These can all be changed while you're playing in a world, so try out various combinations until you find something that works well for you.

[Siluva]

Oh so that explain my FPS loss since the update.

[.: DBM :.]

if you were using frame skip before 1.4 launched (set to either ON or SUBTLE) and are having performance problems, you could try disabling it altogether & enable triple-buffering through your display adapter instead. the third buffer makes a huge difference for some people experiencing dropped frames/slowdowns.

i noticed multicore lighting was gone too, that's kind of a bummer :'(

[Damocles]

First, thank you for answer.

I have already try to modify quality setting, but my gpu is already around 25-30% and my fps already go around 30-48fps.
It's me or quality setting change nothing? Just lighting setting has noticable visual change.
I think i have to wait for optimization update and expecting for an other multicore setting.

I found other forum that some people have the same issue. I will continue to search.

[NovasGoSuper2]

I can see why it’s in tmodloader, with all those insane mods and bosses that would drop my fps.

[Null]

Terraria literally cannot use multiple cores, it's one of those games where everything needs to happen in a specific order and skipping steps wreaks havoc.

[Pur]

Originally posted by Persephone:

Terraria literally cannot use multiple cores, it's one of those games where everything needs to happen in a specific order and skipping steps wreaks havoc.

There was a "multi-core lighting" option dude, and it did use them.

[Null]

Originally posted by Purpurite:

Originally posted by Persephone:

Terraria literally cannot use multiple cores, it's one of those games where everything needs to happen in a specific order and skipping steps wreaks havoc.

There was a "multi-core lighting" option dude, and it did use them.

That's rendering, you can do whatever you want with that for the most part.

[Damocles]

I've got some news:
Terraria is by default in borderless mode, if you put this in fullscreen mode the results is the same but will gain 15-20fps

[Damocles]

I don't now why but my game was always in fullscreen but the setting was "borderless", just change it...