State of optimization and New Frontiers?

[Diemosthenes]

Haven't touched the game in a while because of the campfire fps drops; how is the optimization going these days? Can you solidly state above 60fps for the duration of a mission now?

Also, do the people who bought the "larger game" when it dropped get New Frontiers, or is that separate from the initial full game?

[Carbon]

Don't know what kind of PC you have, so I can't comment on what you'll experience. I have no issues and yes, those who purchased the Supporter's Edition get the DLCs for free.

[Diemosthenes]

Ryzen 7 5800x
6900XT
32 GB RAM

[Prodaddy]

5900x
3060ti
32gb
nvme m.2 ssd

game runs like ♥♥♥♥, seems to be the known hitching problem the devs have mentioned which has not been fixed but will hopefully soon

[Tabulerator]

3080 + 5800X3D + 32gb ram @ 1440p

I get stutter and don't know why. I run mid/high with the costly stuff on mid. I average at 100 fps, which is fine with me. Just the stutter has to go. Seeing that updates come frequently i'm sure this will get fixed soon.

[Alderaic]

3900x 32gig 3080rtx and it runs very smoothy for me as well, I did not notice any frame drops whatsover recently (on olympus)

[turk0gamer]

6900xt
5900x
32gb
980 pro ssd

stutter drops the hole bunch of annoying things are happening.
especially while running and looking around left right etc.
will start a lets play but so at this stage ???

[Rocket]

Note, many of the users having issues (many of the ones above, for example) are AMD GPUs.

Some recommendations for AMD users, do one - test - and keep going down until you have performance improvements:

• Update your AMD drivers
  
• Turn on "Simple Building Shadows"
  
• Make sure "Contact Shadows" is on
  
• Turn down "Shadows" setting from High, to something lower
  
• Turn down "Shadow Cascades"

If you still have issues, please raise a support request at AMD, as we would very much like them to spend some time on the game with their hardware diagnostics and get them to put some hardware optimizations in their drivers. Nvidia have been regularly doing this, testing, and including specific changes for ICARUS in their drivers.

[Rocket]

Again, I cant stress enough how important it is to update your drivers for both Nvidia and AMD. Each update Nvidia has been releasing specific changes that will help with ICARUS, not having the latest drivers can also cause crashes especially if advanced rendering settings are turned on.

[BeardedChicken]

optimisation is the issue not the driver updates

[turk0gamer]

"maybe" you havent optimised your game for amd gpu´s because the majority on steam plays with nvidia? and now dont throw the ball to amd!

i have especially at turning left right also at small angles by turning a line of deformationed graphic on that line of blocks or whatever...

[Tabulerator]

Originally posted by turk0gamer:

"maybe" you havent optimised your game for amd gpu´s because the majority on steam plays with nvidia? and now dont throw the ball to amd!

i have especially at turning left right also at small angles by turning a line of deformationed graphic on that line of blocks or whatever...

My friend they haven't properly optimized AT ALL.

I play on Nvidia. I see that the majority of people who have issues have AMD CPUS. I for some reason have fps drops at night into the low 30s /40s ? how does this happen when there is zero stuff to render because it is night ?

[Sunny]

I haven't seen them do a single thing to optimize DX 11 or 12, RTX, etc. Like, it's nice to see frequent updates with content but what's the point when the main foundation of your games performance is ♥♥♥♥♥♥?

[Sunny]

Originally posted by Rocket:

Again, I cant stress enough how important it is to update your drivers for both Nvidia and AMD. Each update Nvidia has been releasing specific changes that will help with ICARUS, not having the latest drivers can also cause crashes especially if advanced rendering settings are turned on.

Hi Dean, big fan of you and your games (especially Icarus!), but please, you guys need to focus more on DX12 + RTX optimization. The frequent updates to the game are wonderful with fixes and new content, but none of that really matters when the foundation of your games performance is seriously troubled. I really hope you devs put more time into this than anything else

[Cik]

I run an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super...hows the open world experience with similar cards?

[Diemosthenes]

Originally posted by Rocket:

Again, I cant stress enough how important it is to update your drivers for both Nvidia and AMD. Each update Nvidia has been releasing specific changes that will help with ICARUS, not having the latest drivers can also cause crashes especially if advanced rendering settings are turned on.

Appreciate the response, Dean! I ended up reinstalling and firing it up to test/play with a few friends! It seems like a lot of issues (including the torch issue) may be resolved; I only get ~20 fps hit when I join our dedicated server and there are other people around which is totally manageable.

That being said, I'm a little concerned about base fps: just started putting tier 2 benches in our tiny wooden cabin, and are seeing 50-60 fps dips which is somewhat game-breaking. Are there settings or things I can do to mitigate this issue? I get that this is the crux of the "base wipe after mission" core gameplay mechanic, but I just hit tier 2 and am already at half my original fps.