Light Source Lag

[Archon]

Everytime I set up a base and get a few forges running, and enough torches to light the place, I seem to get massive FPS drop in the location. The game runs smoothly for the rest of the time, but as soon as I look at my base, or enter it, my FPS plummets into oblivion.

Does anyone else have this issue? And if so, are there fixes, or do we have to wait for the devs to do something? Thank you.

[KillerPookz]

I jave the issue. I usually just try ro only use a few torches

[Shadex]

Try using candles or the mining helmet for night time light for the moment. They have mentioned that they were aware that the lighting from torches, I believe it is the flickering, causes lag for some.

[Wrothbog]

light sources are expensive to render, overlapping lightsources are more expensive to render

shadowed light sources are extremely expensive to render

a light source that casts shadows and flickers is stupidly expensive to render

so they let players place one every metre

find a mining hat or detune the lighting/shadow options for improved performance or just use less lights

[Crazybilly189]

Still a huge performance problem can confirmed

[Steve]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.