Just A Little Guide To Improve Performance

[coolgamer20151]

I have seen a lot of posts about low fps and I know there is a while page on space engineers website but I thought I would post a little guide here!.

I know you might want the highest settings possible but seriously, if you want to play the game but can't handle it just follow these instructions!

Screen Resolution-
This has been a major thing which affected my fps count.It will help a lot if you go into the settings/display and then change the resolution to a smaller setting but I recommend keeping it to the proper aspect racio even if I didn't!

Graphics Settings-
These will mostly make or break your ability to play this game. They are some of the most important settings in my opinion and they can be tweaked just right to make performance just right! Go into Settings/Graphics and then you can see all the options. Mess around with these until you find the best settings that work for you.For me I had to turn everything down low unfortunately but I am happy that I did!

Game Settings-
When you are loading the world or just editing the settings open the advanced tab and turn down the view distance if it is causing you trouble. 5km is the lowest option but it is the best for low end machines like mine as it says.But most likely if you have the correct specs you could run it at performance friendly or vent the default which is 15km. Thruster damage is another major thing. The game has to run multiple calculations with thruster damage to damage certain blocks so by having this on you are losing some frame rates. Asteroids also steal your fos because if the calculations also. If your computer is very vs you can turn off destructible blocks to prevent damaged blocks causing further lag. Also be sure to turn down the maximum items floating around.I turned mine down to 56 because I had to mess around with it.But for most of my mining operations I collect the ores well before the limit is exceeded.

Memory Priority-
The default windows priority in task manager is Nornal.I am sorry but I don't know how to do this for mac.When the game is up click on windows xp up to 7 click CTRL + ALT + DELETE. Then find space engineers and right click and click go to details and then riht clok soace engineers again and click high priority. It is pretty much the same with windows 8 and 10.Butall you need to do is click Win + X and then click task manager and then do the same.I think I am correct for windows xp up to seven but I never did this on those operating systems.Correct me if I am wrong and I will update this post

Minimum System Requirements- This is the final point and it is important to make sure your computer is meeting space engineers minimum requirements as these are set for a reason.If the pc specs fall below these the game may not run smoothly and mightn't even run at all!

Guide for Posting Questions-
When you are posting a question about performance issues and fps be ire to include a couple of things like:
1.What are your computers specs like CPU, GPU and Memory and if possible computer manufacturer and model
2.What are your settings set at?-Do you have low performance but your settings are up high or do you have poor performance with settings low.It is helpful to know this information
3.Are your ships and stations damaged or is there a lot of junk in the game?This could also be helpful to point out where the issues are.

This is my guide and I would have posted this in guides only that I am using the app and I don't know how to. I hopes I helped any bit.

Best Regards,
coolgamer20151

[KalashniFox]

Thanks. Pc can run fallout 4 at max 50 fps, yw with se medium with about 20. Now running SE at about 35. Not great but, meets my qualifications.

[bloop]

Game is just poorly optimised not much u can do about it

[Fizzgig]

I'd just like to give a little info about your "Screen Resolution" section. Your display has whats called a "native" resolution. This is the physical number of LEDs present on your display. And your vid card reads this info from the display. Typically, reducing the resolution below your native resolution does not increase performace because you just make the vid card do extra work converting the image for your display. It is usually always best to run at your displays native resolution for best performace.

[Daring Ninja]

Originally posted by Fizzgig:

I'd just like to give a little info about your "Screen Resolution" section. Your display has whats called a "native" resolution. This is the physical number of LEDs present on your display. And your vid card reads this info from the display. Typically, reducing the resolution below your native resolution does not increase performace because you just make the vid card do extra work converting the image for your display. It is usually always best to run at your displays native resolution for best performace.

This is not true, the work it takes to upscale the resolution is incredibly small.

Let's look at running the game at 1080p, that equals about 2,073,600 pixels, and 720p equals about 921,600 pixels. That's less than half.

Now what that means for performance is that when running the game in 720p your GPU has to do less work when compared to 1080p because it only has to do the calculations for half as many pixels to fill up the screen.

TL:DR Lowering your resolution does up your fps.

[BrowneyeBill]

this thread was next to useless. Everyone knows lowering res can increase FPS. all this post gives us is a bunch of broad generalities. the poster basically is just saying experiment with graphics settings and maybe lower your resolution LMAO!!!! you call this a guide? thanks for the effort, but I think you may have wasted your time. I mean this with complete respect. I do not intend to offend you. I love you. just thought I'd give a little constructive criticism.

[Governor]

This thread is almost 10 years old, the game is not the same. Why did you dig this out the grave?

[Dan2D3D]

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The game was not the same in 2015 so this discussion is now locked