performance after recent updates

[Shikii]

i come back playing after taking a 1-2years break and generally the game was running smooth (it was even modded) except that sometimes during planets loading the game would frooze my entire pc for 15-20seconds. now i noticed a huge aggravation of the performance the fps will easily pass from 100 to 45 randomly and space stations or player bases will murder my fps making the game unplayable you have to restart the game to fix that, has anyone else experienced a worse performance in this last year?

[MycroftCanadaNS]

Originally posted by Shikii:

i come back playing after taking a 1-2years break and generally the game was running smooth (it was even modded) except that sometimes during planets loading the game would frooze my entire pc for 15-20seconds. now i noticed a huge aggravation of the performance the fps will easily pass from 100 to 45 randomly and space stations or player bases will murder my fps making the game unplayable you have to restart the game to fix that, has anyone else experienced a worse performance in this last year?

I did until I decided to uninstall, delete the game folder after uninstalling, and deleting the folder in C:\Users\<user account>\AppData\Roaming\HelloGames I reinstalled the game, made the changes (keybinds, video etc) I normally use and the game ran smoothly with the occasional hiccup landing on planets. That odd issue has been there from 2016, and I still can't figure it out.

Anyway after doing what I've mentioned above it works smoothly.

[cogvos]

The fps drop appears to be a vram memory leak. Basically something in the game is not being cleared from your gpu's memory which gradually fills up until your pc starts using normal ram. At this point the fps tanks.

How long it takes depends on how much ram your gpu has, and the performance drop depends on how fast you cpu and main ram are. I go from 60ish fps on planet to 15 after around half an hour with a 6gb 1060. Restarting the game clears the gpu's ram, returning the fps to what its was, until the leak fills it again.

Its got worse since the worlds 2 update, probably due to the increase in detail on planets. I (and I guess a lot of others) have reported it to Hello Games. here's the link if you'd like to >
https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new <

[Yxklyx]

You should install the game on a disk other than the operating system's disk - that way the OS's memory management (which writes to disk all the time especially for a large game) doesn't conflict with the zillion reads this game requires.