Frequent lag spikes

[Layla Spellwind]

It should be noted, my computer is definitely good enough to run this game. So let's get that out.
This game uses a LOT of memory. It competes with google chrome in my task manager. But even then, it shouldn't be having lag spikes. Every now and then while building something, it'll stop building, my character will keep moving, I'll fall off the path I'm building. Then naturally it all appears in because it's done lagging, and I am now trapped under my path, I have to break it to get out.

It's not always a path, but that's what's going on here. I'd be able to ignore it if it was once every 20 minutes or so, but it's once every two-three minutes, sometimes more frequently than that.

I've been looking into recommendations online and there's a ton of stuff that doesn't work, but not a lot of talk about stuff that does work. But most posts are 5-10 years old.

So it's time for an update of information, is there any good fix for this? A mod perhaps? Something that is likely to help. I would really like to finish building my base.
(It'll never finish, bases are a forever project.)

[Fractard]

You mean your character fall through the ground? Or you fall from plateforms? Do you have mods? Check if you have errors on your log, \Starbound\storage\starbound.log the one without number (should be the latest modified), open it with Notepad (or Notepad++). If you have warnings/errors you can share your log by copying its content on www.pastebin.com (or similar) and share the link here.

For the performance side the game is poorly optimised and mods can improve a bit but won't fix this. Atm there is project called OpenStarbound that is using leaked source code to fix that, its on GuitHub.

[Layla Spellwind]

No. I mean like when I'm walking forward and there's a lag spike, I fall off whatever I'm walking on, because it has picked up on my characters movement, but not on what I'm building.
You know, like when you want to build something long, you hold click and build as you walk.
It's lag spikes, not falling through the floor. Sorry if I didn't explain that clearly enough.

[Fractard]

Don't think there anything that fix that. Even in vanilla I never have been able to build a road continuously while walking. You could walk smoothly by holding maj key.

[Layla Spellwind]

I do walk slowly unfortunately. The lag spikes happen even when not building paths, it was just an example of one way in which it affects me.
My suspicion is that it might be caused by building too much on one planet. So I've moved all my crafting stuff to another planet, on which I am building a castle high above the clouds. Because floating castles are cool.
Will probably move my garden and 20 fridges there too. Because sky gardens are cool.
I don't know if it'll fix the lag... but it'll be fun to build.

[COREY3500]

I know its a stupid question but have you got it on an SSD or IDE drive?

[Layla Spellwind]

I have it on my HDD. I do have an SSD, but it's preserved for... more demanding things. =D