Disable hyperthreading for massive FPS increase

[Avean]

The game doesn't seem to support hyperthreading for whatever reason. Disabling hyperthreading gave me 20fps more on 4K with a 3080. Now its actually enjoyable.

Not sure for AMD users.

Edit: Not sure if i would recommend doing this for this game only as it will destroy performance in other games. I am sure a patch will arrive soon to correct this behaviour.

You do this through Bios settings and usually under CPU Platform specific settings.

[Zer0]

THIS. For AMD it's SMT not hyperthreading.

[Mathias Giovanni]

Bumping for the non-potato folks so they can stop flooding the forums and go play the game with the rest of us.

[Barufaruku]

Ok, can someone else test it or even better - do a comparison? I am on the fence about buying the game. Also - what about stutters and 1% low?

I7-13700k and 4090 here - I am not gonna touch this game if it drops below 60FPS in 4k but if the game can hold 60FPS in most scenarios that would be passable for me...

[liquidmetal14]

I can't bring myself to play it lol

If anyone wants to buy the Steam Deluxe from me for 80 its yours

[Ricky Spanish]

Originally posted by Barufaruku:

Ok, can someone else test it or even better - do a comparison? I am on the fence about buying the game. Also - what about stutters and 1% low?

I7-13700k and 4090 here - I am not gonna touch this game if it drops below 60FPS in 4k but if the game can hold 60FPS in most scenarios that would be passable for me...

I have a 13900k and a 4090 the first level had significantly more issues than the second where it averages around 100fps at 4K epic no rt. Every once in a while it will drop to 44 for a split second but I am enjoying the game.

The bigger issue is how it fluctuates between 70-120 pretty consistently.

[Arkanis]

not claiming this will help but to me it looks like i gained some frames but could be a placebo so if somebody else is willing to test these out. Past these at the bottom of the GameUserSettings ini file located AppData\Local\SwGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor obviously back up the file first

[SystemSettings]
bForceCPUAccessToGPUSkinVerts=True
OneFrameThreadLag=1
FinishCurrentFrame=0
TextureStreaming=1
Streaming.PoolSize=3072
Streaming.LimitPoolSizeToVRAM=1

[ConsoleVariables]
AllowAsyncRenderThreadUpdates=1
AllowAsyncRenderThreadUpdatesDuringGamethreadUpdates=1
AllowAsyncRenderThreadUpdatesEditor=1

[ShaderPipelineCache.CacheFile]
LastOpened=SwGame


you do need to adjust the streaming.poolszie accoding to how much mem is on your gpu

6GB - 2048
8GB - 3072
12GB+ - 4096-5120

[Xan84]

Wait, what?! Now I have to thinker with my CPU!?

[Zer0]

Originally posted by Xan84:

Wait, what?! Now I have to thinker with my CPU!?

Yes, unfortunately. But it's nothing harmful. I'd google how to do it, but the way to enter most BIOS is something like DEL, F12, etc before POST.

Look for hyper threading or SMT. And disable. You can always turn it back on. Feel free to google this until you feel comfortable.

[Viper]

DOn't do that just to run 1 game...

[Yswr]

step by step, how do you do this?

P.S I'm drunnk but other people may also want to know

[Zer0]

Originally posted by Yswr:

step by step, how do you do this?

P.S I'm drunnk but other people may also want to know

Restart your PC. Enter your BIOS by holding down a specific key. You may have to look up which one or try common keys. That's just about the only difficult part.

Intel CPU -> look for and disable hyper threading.

AMD CPU -> look for and disable SMT (simultaneous multi threading).

How to confirm it worked? Look at task manager and the number of cores should match your physical core count. One thread per CPU core.

This can be turned back on by a simple restart at any time.

[Xan84]

Originally posted by Zer0:

Originally posted by Xan84:

Wait, what?! Now I have to thinker with my CPU!?

Yes, unfortunately. But it's nothing harmful. I'd google how to do it, but the way to enter most BIOS is something like DEL, F12, etc before POST.

Look for hyper threading or SMT. And disable. You can always turn it back on. Feel free to google this until you feel comfortable.

You can do it from windows 10 directly from what I've seen in a video. Think is, I don't want to disable features from my CPU to run 1 game and then what?! Turn it back on when I play something else? Screw that! I am thinking on just refunding the game tomorrow, will see...

[Yswr]

Thank you, performance was great for me, permanent 60 FPS in ultra with

3070ti

Ryzen 5 5600x

16Gb RAM

Got to the second planet and when it went to a massive open world it tank to 10 FPS

[Xan84]

Originally posted by Yswr:

Thank you, performance was great for me, permanent 60 FPS in ultra with

3070ti

Ryzen 5 5600x

16Gb RAM

Got to the second planet and when it went to a massive open world it tank to 10 FPS

4070 TI, I7-7700k (yeah, its old but I run other game on max just fine), 32g or rams. Runs like garbage on the first planet with everything set to medium and no ray tracing.

[The Bushwhacker]

Has anyone else tried this?