how to optimize kenshi?

[Kust5]

people who know how to optimize kenshi so that the game runs much faster, we are not talking about fps here, everything is fine with him. we are talking about tedious loading when moving to locations, fast-forwarding time when the character runs by loading everything. How can I make the game run much faster? I have the game on ssd but it doesn't help much, there are different optimization mods, but the problem is the same. maybe you can increase the consumption to 8GB of the game?

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

install it onto a SSD is the best way.
there are mods to help with other things.
have 16gb of ram or more.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

idk benchmark your game and then lower every setting and see whats the difference, then test what happens if it's highest on everything perhaps?

or just buy a 5800x3d lol

edit: just re-read you are talking about "tedious loading", what do you mean by that? have you perhaps tried chunk size setting?

you really should start by listing your spec, otherwise we are just talking arbitrary things here

[Kust5]

Originally posted by Khergit Horse Archer:

idk benchmark your game and then lower every setting and see whats the difference, then test what happens if it's highest on everything perhaps?

or just buy a 5800x3d lol

edit: just re-read you are talking about "tedious loading", what do you mean by that? have you perhaps tried chunk size setting?

you really should start by listing your spec, otherwise we are just talking arbitrary things here

I don't understand you that yes "idk". and you say as if you don't know the optimization problems with kenshi yourself, that everything is very deplorable there. a specific case, yeah

[Khergit Horse Archer]

Originally posted by Kust5:

Originally posted by Khergit Horse Archer:

idk benchmark your game and then lower every setting and see whats the difference, then test what happens if it's highest on everything perhaps?

or just buy a 5800x3d lol

edit: just re-read you are talking about "tedious loading", what do you mean by that? have you perhaps tried chunk size setting?

you really should start by listing your spec, otherwise we are just talking arbitrary things here

I don't understand you that yes "idk". and you say as if you don't know the optimization problems with kenshi yourself, that everything is very deplorable there. a specific case, yeah

well you could just list down the specs, show a video or something of the issue or you could just be dismissive about me trying to help lol

[Kust5]

Originally posted by Khergit Horse Archer:

Originally posted by Kust5:

I don't understand you that yes "idk". and you say as if you don't know the optimization problems with kenshi yourself, that everything is very deplorable there. a specific case, yeah

well you could just list down the specs, show a video or something of the issue or you could just be dismissive about me trying to help lol

I understand, thank you. but this is not my only problem, this is an engine problem and I thought maybe I would learn tips from those who know how to improve the optimization of the game as a whole, location downloads, etc.

[Morkonan]

Install the game on an SSD.

Do not run the game at accelerated game speeds, especially while traveling long distances. (You've got to give it time to load the game cells or else you'll get longer periods of game stutter.)

Use a mod to remove unnecessary debris/terrain decorations. (May not really be necessary except for old systems noticing lots of chugging while doing simple things, like rotating the camera view.)


You may experience some game stuttering when cells with lots of assets load, like Towns. Some patches have improved that in some ways or may have made it more marked in others. You'll have to adjust your options to fine-tune settings to get the best results.

In any case, if you experience some stuttering while approaching a Town, stop moving the character/camera and let the game cell load/generate the assets before continuing. This is an engine problem, but it's the best way the engine/game can cope with it and still produce a gameplay experience.

There are texture optimization mods, but i think LoFi implemented their own fixes, there.

I run the game on a PoS crap computer running Win7Pro, an old i7, with 8gig Ram and was running it on an ancient vidcard until that died, now running it on one that's still several iterations away from being considered recent... and don't encounter any terrible performance problems. But, it seems that i have low standards compared to many other gamers, these days. :)

[Cattrina]

Turn on the "fast zone hopping", helps tremendously with the region crossings

[Loot]

Originally posted by Cattrina:

Turn on the "fast zone hopping", helps tremendously with the region crossings

All that does is keep areas around all your characters loaded, allowing you to switch back and forth without having to load each time. Doesn't do anything else, other than use more resources.

[Cattrina]

Originally posted by Loot Repeat:

Originally posted by Cattrina:

Turn on the "fast zone hopping", helps tremendously with the region crossings

All that does is keep areas around all your characters loaded, allowing you to switch back and forth without having to load each time. Doesn't do anything else, other than use more resources.

Ah, well that helps me at least, cause I have several parties all across the land often.

[shin.satsuma]

What does import save do, exactly?

Also do you know what triggers the purging of items/corpses on the ground... I lose a lot of loot this way 8D.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

Importing you save has several options.
most importantly though, it resets yuor game world where it is like day 1. cleaning up the save files and reducing save file bloat. and can be needed with some mods so that it loads the new items into teh game properly.

[Bandy]

Surprised nobody has mentioned the obvious, tell original poster (OP) to turn off all unnecessary background processes, including steam overlay and any other game overlay, discord, uninstall nvidia experience (because it is terrible bloatware), and just so on... at least until they understand their system limitations.

Kenshi is a single-threaded process, the game engine (Ogre) is so damn old, that you - the player - needs to understand how computers and process threads work to know what to do on your own computer. We do not have crystal balls (or any other sort of balls...) to tell what your computer is doing in background, Right?

And yes, asking for performance advice BUT NOT posting system specifications, well, what more can be said... :C

Good luck OP...

[Synopse]

Originally posted by Kust5:

people who know how to optimize kenshi so that the game runs much faster, we are not talking about fps here, everything is fine with him. we are talking about tedious loading when moving to locations, fast-forwarding time when the character runs by loading everything. How can I make the game run much faster? I have the game on ssd but it doesn't help much, there are different optimization mods, but the problem is the same. maybe you can increase the consumption to 8GB of the game?

Take a look here: https://kenshi-modding.fandom.com/wiki/Kenshi_Modding_Wiki:SCAR%27S_Performance_Optimization_Guide

Best information on how to tweak things.

IMHO this mod is a must have. It improve performance massively:
https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/950

Edit: If you am Nvidia this is also helpful (but requires basic knowledge how things work because it is not foolproof):
https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/804

[Bandy]

Kenshi is AFAIK a single threaded process, so very VERY limited opportunity to make it run "much faster" as requested.

And what can you do when the OP does not provide system specs? Guess??? No, simply not worth the trouble of remote diagnostics when 95% of advice is not relevant. Just IMHO...

[Synopse]

Originally posted by Bandy:

Kenshi is AFAIK a single threaded process, so very VERY limited opportunity to make it run "much faster" as requested.

And what can you do when the OP does not provide system specs? Guess??? No, simply not worth the trouble of remote diagnostics when 95% of advice is not relevant. Just IMHO...

Why so defensive? The links are helpful stuff and I did answer to the OP for a reason.