Not Optimised?

[cheiften98]

Im getting 50fps on med settings with a gtx 1070, r5 5600x. 1440p 50fps med is pretty shocking. hmm

[DarkBoolen]

I had to drop it to 720p on a old 750ti. With something like a 3090 I'm sure you'd get 4k at over 60fps. What resolution are you running it on? If at 4k drop it down a little.

[cheiften98]

Originally posted by DarkBoolen:

I had to drop it to 720p on a old 750ti. With something like a 3090 I'm sure you'd get 4k at over 60fps. What resolution are you running it on? If at 4k drop it down a little.

I run games like Escape From Tarkov at 100+fps with my GTX 1070 1440p. This 50fps.

[DarkBoolen]

Originally posted by cheiften98:

Originally posted by DarkBoolen:

I had to drop it to 720p on a old 750ti. With something like a 3090 I'm sure you'd get 4k at over 60fps. What resolution are you running it on? If at 4k drop it down a little.

I run games like Escape From Tarkov at 100+fps with my GTX 1070 1440p. This 50fps.

Not that it matters but your comparing a game that came out in 2017 to a game that came out 4 years later. Obviously different development studio's which also means much different overall code. Just because you get 100+ frames on one doesn't mean your going to get that on the other.

With that said I am Fish might look more like a Pixar movie visually then a photo realistic war sim, but that doesn't mean it's not demanding. For could they optimize better, maybe. But then again they aren't a huge developer so I'm sure they made the code as tight as they could.

Not to mention I am Fish is more physics based. Doing the calculations on physics can be demanding too.

[theSparktank]

I've got a smaller system, but the game shouldn't be tanking this bad.

Turning off SSAO and lowering the Fog to Low gave me 57-60 fps.

With everything set to their highest on 1080p, I was getting 30fps and lower in just the beginning of the game. I did *not* have the FPS capped at 30 in the options. I set that to the highest possible so I can play with the graphics settings.

I tested by setting everything to lowest and turning one option at a time to its highest level and found those to be the culprit.

That's including having fog and shadows on their lowest with the SSAO enabled that was giving me horrible performance of 25-35fps.

Ryzen 5 2600 cpu, gtx 1060 3GB, 32GB of RAM, and everything is all SSD (OS, games, etc).

I seem to remember a few new, indie games where the ambient occlusion is not optimized that creates terrible performance.
I know anything volumetric can tank performance.

The cutscenes alone tank. There isn't a lot of demanding physics going on that it needs a quantum computer for a cutscene.

It's just not optimized in the slightest.

[ThorN]

Yeah, I'd say the lack of optimization is pretty extreme with this one. I was playing it on the Steam Deck, and I put everything on low and set the resolution to 800x500 with FSR upscaling to get a somewhat stable 48 fps.

For comparison, Kingdom Hearts III on the Steam Deck runs at 60 fps at medium to high settings at 1200x800. And that game is much more detailed to boot

[yokkigr]

Originally posted by cheiften98:

Im getting 50fps on med settings with a gtx 1070, r5 5600x. 1440p 50fps med is pretty shocking. hmm

it is that damn series s's fault. (those who know know the reference)

[Otomon]

Game had random frame drops for me whenever I would swing the camera too fast, regardless if I had everything on max or lowest... in a game about precision that is not good.

Oh well the game sucks anyways for those of us who dont have patience to master the extremely frustrating controls.. so may as well not optimize it to make it even more frustrating.

[Doctor Hades]

This game runs abysmally at maxed out 1440p settings on an i5-13600KF, 32 GB, RTX 3080 system with drops below 50 fps as soon as I look to the left of the tank at the start of the Level 3 mission as a puffer fish. If I drop the Quality setting from High to Low then it stays above 60 fps. GPU usage with Quality on High is at 98% but goodness know what the game is rendering here because while the draw distance is far, the game's visuals are certainly nothing to write home about and are relatively simplistic compared with other far better looking games that run much much better, though not without their charms.

Good game but extremely poor optimisation. About par for the course for a Unity Engine game though in my experience. It is certainly my least favourite game engine to the point where I am actually put off buying any game that uses it unless the game itself is really good. I Am Fish is certainly a good game; it's just a shame that it is lacking in that final polish but then it isn't exactly running great on consoles either (Xbox Series X is locked at 30 fps!).

[ThorN]

Originally posted by Doctor Hades:

This game runs abysmally at maxed out 1440p settings on an i5-13600KF, 32 GB, RTX 3080 system with drops below 50 fps as soon as I look to the left of the tank at the start of the Level 3 mission as a puffer fish. If I drop the Quality setting from High to Low then it stays above 60 fps. GPU usage with Quality on High is at 98% but goodness know what the game is rendering here because while the draw distance is far, the game's visuals are certainly nothing to write home about and are relatively simplistic compared with other far better looking games that run much much better, though not without their charms.

Good game but extremely poor optimisation. About par for the course for a Unity Engine game though in my experience. It is certainly my least favourite game engine to the point where I am actually put off buying any game that uses it unless the game itself is really good. I Am Fish is certainly a good game; it's just a shame that it is lacking in that final polish but then it isn't exactly running great on consoles either (Xbox Series X is locked at 30 fps!).

I'm surprised it runs on the Steam Deck at all, reading this...

[bystander]

Too bad devs seem to actually not care on this little beauty. Too bad I have the care of not supporting companies with similar practice.

[Zekkah]

Yep, I have to play at 1440p upscaled to 4K for smooth gameplay at max settings and I have a RX 7800 XT. On the other hand, Resident Evil 4 Remake works smooth at 4K and max settings.