FPS/Lag issues, doesnt go over 60fps with vsync off

[Proton Decay]

Game lags and shows 60 fps no matter the settings, when you alt tab to a different window, game shows 240fps or less if you limit it to like 120 and doenst lag. Any way to fix or is the game completely just broken at the moment?

RTX3080/5950X/64gb ram

[Evil Tidings]

I don't have a solution for you, I just want to remark about how amazing it is that people experience lag at 60FPS when my game usually runs very smoothly at 20FPS lol... But if you do a quick FPS search through the forums you'll find that it's been a running issue since the EA began and the main argument is that it's extremely GPU intensive. There could be some settings you could adjust to make it a little better but seeing as I only get as high as 60FPS on a brand new save file with nothing going on yet I don't think I could be of much help... Good luck though, I hope you find a setting that'll work so you can enjoy the game too.

[Dave]

Dievas の投稿を引用：

Game lags and shows 60 fps no matter the settings, when you alt tab to a different window, game shows 240fps or less if you limit it to like 120 and doenst lag. Any way to fix or is the game completely just broken at the moment?

RTX3080/5950X/64gb ram

Make sure to set the number of threads (logcal frame thread count) to 4,6, or 8. Anymore than 8, and performance goes way down. If I set mine to 16 or 24, my FPS goes down the toilet, and I have a 20 thread intel CPU at 5.3GHz

The game is HIGHLY CPU limited and only moderately GPU intensive. So it will never take advantage fully of a 3080 or 3090. At most, the game currently will use about 4 CPU cores no matter what you set the above setting to and setting it higher than 8 just bogs the game down as the new thread system isn't fully optimized. MAke sure your CPU is overclocked as much as possible. Around 4.8 to 5.0GHz if possible.

Once you have a MASSIVE factory, you're going to lag under 60FPS no matter how powerful your CPU and GPU are.

If you have a Gsync/Freesync monitor, set it to OFF for this game. Unity has massive issues with it and can cause the FPS to lock at 60.

Now if you can't get over 60 fps right after starting a new game, THAT is a problem... but try the thread count setting as well as checking for Freesync and turn it off if you have it on that can FPS lock some Unity games to 60FPS sometimes.

Also, many Unity games have mega issues with 4K. So I would limit yourself to 2560x1440 (16:9) or the equivalent in 21:9 or 32:9.

[Dave]

HEre's my PC. I'm about a few hrs into a new playthrough, and I'm pulling around 144 to 156FPS.

Intel i9-10900K @ 5 to 5.5GHz
RTX 3090
64GB RAM
Windows 11 64 bit

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/384119440716988420/893292818632675359/unknown.png

I looked at the real time CPU monitoring in the game, and I adjusted the threadcount until my CPU ms was at the lowest ms. 4 worked the best for me. 2 was crap, and 6 and 8 were a tad slower than 4. Anything over 8 got rapidly worse.

I have a freesync monitor on my system, and I had to adjust my game settings in the nvidia control panel , and I told it not to use Gsync/Freesync for the game as I had huge FPS issues with it on.

[Proton Decay]

Vispher101 の投稿を引用：

I don't have a solution for you, I just want to remark about how amazing it is that people experience lag at 60FPS when my game usually runs very smoothly at 20FPS lol... But if you do a quick FPS search through the forums you'll find that it's been a running issue since the EA began and the main argument is that it's extremely GPU intensive. There could be some settings you could adjust to make it a little better but seeing as I only get as high as 60FPS on a brand new save file with nothing going on yet I don't think I could be of much help... Good luck though, I hope you find a setting that'll work so you can enjoy the game too.

It shows 60fps, but lags like its 15fps, that's the issue, 60fps would be fine.

[Proton Decay]

Dave の投稿を引用：

Dievas の投稿を引用：

Game lags and shows 60 fps no matter the settings, when you alt tab to a different window, game shows 240fps or less if you limit it to like 120 and doenst lag. Any way to fix or is the game completely just broken at the moment?

RTX3080/5950X/64gb ram

Make sure to set the number of threads (logcal frame thread count) to 4,6, or 8. Anymore than 8, and performance goes way down. If I set mine to 16 or 24, my FPS goes down the toilet, and I have a 20 thread intel CPU at 5.3GHz

The game is HIGHLY CPU limited and only moderately GPU intensive. So it will never take advantage fully of a 3080 or 3090. At most, the game currently will use about 4 CPU cores no matter what you set the above setting to and setting it higher than 8 just bogs the game down as the new thread system isn't fully optimized. MAke sure your CPU is overclocked as much as possible. Around 4.8 to 5.0GHz if possible.

Once you have a MASSIVE factory, you're going to lag under 60FPS no matter how powerful your CPU and GPU are.

If you have a Gsync/Freesync monitor, set it to OFF for this game. Unity has massive issues with it and can cause the FPS to lock at 60.

Now if you can't get over 60 fps right after starting a new game, THAT is a problem... but try the thread count setting as well as checking for Freesync and turn it off if you have it on that can FPS lock some Unity games to 60FPS sometimes.

Also, many Unity games have mega issues with 4K. So I would limit yourself to 2560x1440 (16:9) or the equivalent in 21:9 or 32:9.

Ok, thanks for the great answer, so this pile of ♥♥♥♥ game is unplayable then, sad.

[Evil Tidings]

Dievas の投稿を引用：

Ok, thanks for the great answer, so this pile of ♥♥♥♥ game is unplayable then, sad.

It's only unplayable if you're an FPS ♥♥♥♥♥, even with a "bad" computer spec-wise compared to yours my performance is clearly far better. So You could have something off in your settings that's throwing the whole game off, or you need to reinstall the game but I'd save that as a last resort thing... keep in mind too that this is still EA so there's a lot of things they will be improving on, they have continuously optimized the game to handle it's massive load of whatever it's doing much smoother, it's quite noticeable for me as I've been playing from the start.

So TL:DR? Other people find this game highly playable and have similar or worse specs than you. To me that suggests you have something messed up in your settings somewhere, whether ingame or in your pc settings... find it, and play the game.

[Evil Tidings]

Also I'm not 100% clear on this but you can upload and share your gamesave using something like google drive. (very clear on that part actually but the next part idk for sure ya know?) It should share your settings as saved, I believe that's a per-file thing and not a universal setting type thing for the whole pc's worth of save files, savvy? So you could try sharing your save and let someone else check over the settings, preferably someone with a similar build and there are quite a few here who do... not me, my system is nearly trash in comparison but someone else for sure...

[Proton Decay]

Vispher101 の投稿を引用：

Dievas の投稿を引用：

Ok, thanks for the great answer, so this pile of ♥♥♥♥ game is unplayable then, sad.

It's only unplayable if you're an FPS ♥♥♥♥♥, even with a "bad" computer spec-wise compared to yours my performance is clearly far better. So You could have something off in your settings that's throwing the whole game off, or you need to reinstall the game but I'd save that as a last resort thing... keep in mind too that this is still EA so there's a lot of things they will be improving on, they have continuously optimized the game to handle it's massive load of whatever it's doing much smoother, it's quite noticeable for me as I've been playing from the start.

So TL:DR? Other people find this game highly playable and have similar or worse specs than you. To me that suggests you have something messed up in your settings somewhere, whether ingame or in your pc settings... find it, and play the game.

Ive tried changing all game setting, anythjing else is just too much effort.

[Proton Decay]

Vispher101 の投稿を引用：

Also I'm not 100% clear on this but you can upload and share your gamesave using something like google drive. (very clear on that part actually but the next part idk for sure ya know?) It should share your settings as saved, I believe that's a per-file thing and not a universal setting type thing for the whole pc's worth of save files, savvy? So you could try sharing your save and let someone else check over the settings, preferably someone with a similar build and there are quite a few here who do... not me, my system is nearly trash in comparison but someone else for sure...

Not a save game issue, started couple new saves, same issue still, thanks.

[Zaflis]

Dievas の投稿を引用：

Ive tried changing all game setting, anythjing else is just too much effort.

You do need to check your graphics driver settings too you know? There can be things like forced VSync that will override whatever you have set to ingame. I don't have trouble getting game laglessly to 60 fps with this 3 GHz i5 cpu. Sure i don't max the graphics settings but just because i like performance levels to be at 20-50% or so for less cooler noise.

Then GSync and 4k monitors are another entirely different topic...

[Proton Decay]

Zaflis の投稿を引用：

Dievas の投稿を引用：

Ive tried changing all game setting, anythjing else is just too much effort.

You do need to check your graphics driver settings too you know? There can be things like forced VSync that will override whatever you have set to ingame. I don't have trouble getting game laglessly to 60 fps with this 3 GHz i5 cpu. Sure i don't max the graphics settings but just because i like performance levels to be at 20-50% or so for less cooler noise.

Then GSync and 4k monitors are another entirely different topic...

The game is broken, period...

[Dirkels]

Dievas の投稿を引用：

The game is broken, period...

Works fine for most people, but just because it does not work fine for you and your computer the game must be broken. Interesting conclusion.

[Gaz]

Dievas の投稿を引用：

Zaflis の投稿を引用：

You do need to check your graphics driver settings too you know? There can be things like forced VSync that will override whatever you have set to ingame. I don't have trouble getting game laglessly to 60 fps with this 3 GHz i5 cpu. Sure i don't max the graphics settings but just because i like performance levels to be at 20-50% or so for less cooler noise.

Then GSync and 4k monitors are another entirely different topic...

The game is broken, period...

hahahahahahahahaha

[Dopey Shepard]

Dievas is right though, I too experienced certain stutter in the game while playing at 60 or above FPS. Doesn't matter if vsync or not, doesn't matter what limited options I have adjusted. Basically the game acts as 60 fps while introducing certain lag. I look at my MSI Afterburner's FPS counter, and the game is locked to 60. I don't get it either

I made 2 threads about this before when this had just come out and nobody was able to help me

Not sure what the issue is

I even played this game on both Windows 7 and 10, same issue, just doesn't keep stable 60 fps from the looks of it even though the fps counter says 60, this must be external issue because I don't experience this in other games that are basically all Vsynced for me ( i dont have Gsync or Freesync monitor)

[Dave]

Dievas の投稿を引用：

Zaflis の投稿を引用：

You do need to check your graphics driver settings too you know? There can be things like forced VSync that will override whatever you have set to ingame. I don't have trouble getting game laglessly to 60 fps with this 3 GHz i5 cpu. Sure i don't max the graphics settings but just because i like performance levels to be at 20-50% or so for less cooler noise.

Then GSync and 4k monitors are another entirely different topic...

The game is broken, period...

It's not broken, but it is un-optimized. don't forget, it's an EARLY ACCESS game. So it's bound to have issue. So it's not really a POS. They are slowly improving the performance over time.

If I can get my FPS working normally, so can you. The only difference in our 2 machines is our CPU. We have the same amount of RAM and very similar GPUs.

It may be best to upload a video to show exactly what's going on.

You say you're getting 60FPS, but it's not performing like 60FPS.

That statement doesn't make much sense. You either are getting 60 FPS, or you aren't... unless it's 60FPS average with a lot of lag spikes.