Performance issues

[NoDMoD]

Hi guys,

I am currently playing on the beta branch and started playing a 1000 star galaxy, with 12 empires. I have reached mid-game and am starting to have some trouble.

The game already crashed once when clicking on a message.
I have frequent freezes when clicking on messages and the "show me" button.

The freezes every couple of seconds start to get more frequent (usually restarting the game helps, but lately it got worse).

I think my rig should be able to handle 1000 stars without much trouble. My specs are as follows:

Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 19044)
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor (16 CPUs), ~3.8GHz
Memory: 32768MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 32690MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 12

I have tweaked several settings:
Maximum FPS set to 60,
System load target set to 100
Texture streaming and Vsync off,
Rendering mode Vulkan 2.1.0
Windowed mode
etc.

Is it to be expected with my system or should I change the options?

Any other tipps on how to improve performance?

Thanks for any advise!

[Nightskies]

I think 1000 star 12 empires is asking a lot of the Ryzen 7. That's what I use, off the top of my head, and only have generic performance advice otherwise, like close other programs (browsers, video players), make sure your CPU runs cool enough, clean out the dust from the tower... things like that you could check YouTube for.

[Ax4711]

The system load target at 100 may be problematic, this is only for the game logic, doesn't include the graphics. Maybe putting it down a notch would improve things.

[NoDMoD]

Originally posted by Nightskies:

I think 1000 star 12 empires is asking a lot of the Ryzen 7. That's what I use, off the top of my head, and only have generic performance advice otherwise, like close other programs (browsers, video players), make sure your CPU runs cool enough, clean out the dust from the tower... things like that you could check YouTube for.

Thanks, but I did already all the standard stuff. Unfortunately I prefer the 1000 stars because of the distances. How is you experience with the Ryzen?

If I could play 800 stars or maybe 900 with 8x8 that would be perfect probably, but for now I can't.

Originally posted by Ax4711:

The system load target at 100 may be problematic, this is only for the game logic, doesn't include the graphics. Maybe putting it down a notch would improve things.

I had it at 70 before, doesn't seem to make a big difference.

[NoDMoD]

I turned off steam overlay and the performance has improved by a lot, on the same game. No more freezes (for now).

[AK_icebear]

I find system load setting above 80 is consistently unstable.

[Polly Agstrom]

I play stable branch and I have a R7 3700x. I can play with 2000 stars and 16 empires no problem even late game. I think the last time I tried beta it was a lot more stuttery than stable branch and also I also experienced a lot of crashes.
So my guess is that the beta is maybe not great performances wise?