Please Optimize this game. Lag and stutter is insane.

[zaurgis]

Not everyone has a high end computer. I have a "decent" PC, but I had to upgrade my RAM just to run this properly, and STILL I get lag. (I can run Space Marine 2 and Cyberpunk with less stutter than this game) Maybe we should look at optimizing this game a bit? Instead of adding more stuff all the time? Please? I would appreciate it!

I love this game. I love survival games. I love the detail, the weather, the sound effects. The farming, the talent and tech trees, I love this game!

I wish the combat was a little better, but I will take just some optimization, please? I'm already running at the lowest settings. Thank you!

From,
Zaurgis
An appreciative customer

[DrJenkins]

+1

I feel like the stutter has gotten worse in the past few months. I didn't use to notice it, but now it's present all the time. I thought maybe it was because of all the thatch huts on the map from those "scan" missions, but I destroyed almost all of them with no change. Game is still playable, but it's really annoying.

[SylenThunder]

When yall are in the game having the issue, hit escape.
How many objects does it show you have?

Posting this information, along with how complex your power/water distribution lines are, and your system specs would go a long way. Especially if you do it in the correct forum section.

For example, our save has...
1,193 Buildings
578 Deployables
22 Mounts

I have four systems I have run this on, and none of them have the issue y'all are having.

AMD R9 5950X on a custom overclock curve. Usually around 4.5-4.8GHz when gaming, though it can boost up to 5.2GHz.
64B DDR4 RAM at 3600Mhz
MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming Z Trio that is OC'ed a pinch over the factory OC.
OS is on an SSD, Game data on ultra-fast Gen 4 NVMe's in RAID-0.

AMD R9 3900X overclocked to 4.25GHz currently (I can run up to 4.4GHz, but some games have issues)
64B DDR4 RAM at 3600Mhz
MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming X Trio with factory OC.
OS is on an SSD, Game data on a separate SSD.

AMD R9 3900X overclocked to 4.0GHz
32B DDR4 RAM at 3200Mhz
MSI GTX 1070 8GB
OS and Game are on ultra-fast Gen 4 NVMe's in RAID-0.

AMD R5 5600X
32B DDR4 RAM at 3600Mhz
XFX Speedster SWFT309 AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
OS is on an SSD, Game data on a separate SSD.

Note that all systems are playing on a dedicated server that is hosted on the following hardware.

Intel i7-8400 overclocked at 3.8GHz on all cores
32B DDR4 RAM at 3200Mhz
MSI GTX 1060 6GB
OS and Game Server are on a single Gen 4 NVMe.

[Geothermalcat]

yea logging into my prometheus open world is a chore (fps around the 15 mark where it used to be in the 60s at worst), i used to play for like 6hrs a day, now i login once a week to try the new updates and log out after 20 mins.

6 of the people i also play with regularly havent played for several months now due to this.

please optimize!

[Divine Hero]

I don't use NVIDIA hardware, I decided to disable this option in the settings. Maybe it doesn't work without the appropriate soft, but I disabled it. It's the second day of observations, it's hard to say anything yet.
"C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Icarus\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor"
"NVIDIAReflexLowLatency=Off"

[Sileighty-Nine]

I am also having stuttering issues.
I spend hours troubleshooting any possible issue and was able to get the game running reasonable well and the stuttering minimised.

I build a few more things in my base and the stuttering is back.
I'm currently on Prometheus and have less then 400 buildables and less then 50 deployables...

AMD R5 7600x
AMD RX 7600
32gb Ram

[Sileighty-Nine]

Originally posted by SylenThunder:

Note that all systems are playing on a dedicated server that is hosted on the following hardware.

Do you think maybe it's the hosting/dedicated server that's helping share the load and reduce the lag for your systems?
I know a streamer I follow got horrible lag when he was hosting, the group switched to a dedicated server and that really made the game run a lot smoother for him.

I don't have a dedicated server to run this on, many people probably wouldn't.
If you can test your four systems in SP and see if you get stutter...

[Mackerel]

I was having major stuttering even with a 4070ti and decent fps. Turns out DLSS was the problem. After turning it off everything is running smooth on max including all RTX options. Still surprised I managed to figure it out. That was the last thing I expected to be the culprit.

I also read expanding the FOV to 110 or 120 helps a lot of people.

[Cultivator]

even with a great pc like mine i still get stutters and lag. Rtx 3080 i9 12900k 64 gb ram and a ssd

[SylenThunder]

Originally posted by Sileighty-Nine:

Originally posted by SylenThunder:

Note that all systems are playing on a dedicated server that is hosted on the following hardware.

Do you think maybe it's the hosting/dedicated server that's helping share the load and reduce the lag for your systems?
I know a streamer I follow got horrible lag when he was hosting, the group switched to a dedicated server and that really made the game run a lot smoother for him.

I don't have a dedicated server to run this on, many people probably wouldn't.
If you can test your four systems in SP and see if you get stutter...

Not seeing any stutter or latency on the local client.

One thing I did notice though was that FPS was slightly better when connecting to the dedi when compared to the local client.
Average FPS with the local client across the systems was 60-70. When making the same rounds and tests on the dedi the average was 80-95FPS.

I could get better FPS by adjusting some of my settings, but I prefer the higher quality graphics and can live with not getting 120-160 FPS.

[Spaceminnow]

Try searching with your favorite browser...
"Does AMD support ICARUS?"
It's^ no secret; You may find some interesting information to read...

I would love to see picket protest at "you know who" on TV...! :D

[SylenThunder]

Originally posted by Divine Hero:

I don't use NVIDIA hardware, I decided to disable this option in the settings. Maybe it doesn't work without the appropriate soft, but I disabled it. It's the second day of observations, it's hard to say anything yet.
"C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Icarus\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor"
"NVIDIAReflexLowLatency=Off"

I just tested this using the same criteria for my last post, and did not see any notable change in performance.

[SylenThunder]

Originally posted by Spaceminnow:

Try searching with your favorite browser...
"Does AMD support ICARUS?"
It's^ no secret; You may find some interesting information to read...

I would love to see picket protest at "you know who" on TV...! :D

It was curious to discover that only FSR-1 support was listed.

[[KIN] AlphaObeisance]

Bruh, I just bought this game. I have a Ryzen 9 5950x 16 core, 32 thread CPU, an RTX 4090 24GB OC edition GPU, and 128 GB DDR4 @3200Mhz RAM and this game still stutters. I just end up restarting the game. Optimization is pretty wild lol

[Sileighty-Nine]

I'm curious, for the people who are having performance issues, do you have them with a new prospect, or around the time you got a stone building and are working on tier 3 tech?
I just started a new prospect to check and the stuttering is minimal, but both my old prospects started getting bad around the time I was working on tier 3 tech.

[Sileighty-Nine]

Wait, is it the windmill?