What are these setting and how taxing are they for the GPU & CPU?

[Barbarian]

Planet surface shadow
Dithering
Render planet nephogram
Render cloud particles
Max debris amount

Question: MSAA - which setting is mot intensive? FXAA should be off if using MSAA?

[dhitch89]

Not sure about specifics regarding the GPU/CPU, but from what I've looked up:

Planet surface shadow = if turned on, light casts shadows on planet objects, such as Icarus, trees, buildings, etc.

Dithering = basically means "creates the illusion of more colors/shades of color than are actually present". Makes a difference in situations where color amount is limited, and softens hard edges if those bother you.

Render planet nephogram = the last word means "picture of clouds", and so would add them to the above-planet view.

Render cloud particles = makes cloud and smoke physics look better.

Max debris amount = when certain things are broken - ie, mining/clearing rocks and trees, destroying Dark Fog ships - they break apart into smaller pieces (which fade away after a time), with this controlling how much/little it can show on screen at once.

^If I'm wrong about anything, I apologize in advance.

[Barbarian]

Originally posted by dhitch89:

Not sure about specifics regarding the GPU/CPU, but from what I've looked up:

Planet surface shadow = if turned on, light casts shadows on planet objects, such as Icarus, trees, buildings, etc.

Dithering = basically means "creates the illusion of more colors/shades of color than are actually present". Makes a difference in situations where color amount is limited, and softens hard edges if those bother you.

Render planet nephogram = the last word means "picture of clouds", and so would add them to the above-planet view.

Render cloud particles = makes cloud and smoke physics look better.

Max debris amount = when certain things are broken - ie, mining/clearing rocks and trees, destroying Dark Fog ships - they break apart into smaller pieces (which fade away after a time), with this controlling how much/little it can show on screen at once.

^If I'm wrong about anything, I apologize in advance.

Thanks a lot!!!

[sh3riff]

There was literally zero reason to quote him O.o

Its taxing based on your hardware.
I had zero issues with performance in vanilla .. even on my old pc it was running perfectly 60 fps at 2K. (3060)
Now on new, even better. (4080)

I am using galactic scale basically at max sizes with 20 000 planets, not much issues even on my old pc. Only at start after loading for about 30-60 seconds i had like 20-30 fps before everything loaded. But once it loaded, it was fine.
The only problem I had was removing or placing dirt .. for some reason in GS thats extremely taxing .. no issue in vanilla.

[Shiroe]

Based on discussions, I guess in Dyson Spehere panel turning on/off of rendering the Dyson Sphere in game might have more impact than those settings once Dyson swarms/spheres are created.

[josmith7]

Originally posted by Shiroe:

Based on discussions, I guess in Dyson Spehere panel turning on/off of rendering the Dyson Sphere in game might have more impact than those settings once Dyson swarms/spheres are created.

I'd say so. Rendering the Dyson Sphere once it's designed with hundreds of million of points is a real FPS hog (even when you're not in visible range of it).
So I usually end up hiding the sphere and swarm to keep it from bogging down my game too badly.