How you deal with bad TPS and FPS?

[SnaKe]

It is almost impossible to play more than 3-4 years! I always have great TPS drop on 2nd and 3rd speed.
30-50 mods, tried many guides and fps-fix mods but nothing changed.

I have i9 and rtx2070q enough for 90% of modern games to play on ultra settings

[Astasia]

Try without mods to get a baseline, then figure out how much of an impact your mods are having. The game shouldn't feel remotely sluggish after just 3-4 years on a modern CPU unless you are spamming colonists and animals, or using mods with a significant performance cost. Some mods by themselves can cause absolutely brutal TPS loss over time. I can generally maintain 500-700 TPS for 5-10 years in my games, playing on 400x400 maps and with around 200 mods.

You can play on like a desert map and avoid using any animals if you want to squeeze more TPS out of a bad modlist. With a colony population of around 20 or less in such a situation if your performance is still bad after 3-4 years then you might actually just have broken mods doing something very wrong.

[kongkim]

You must be using some really bad mods.
So show ud your mod list.

Also have you looked for errors in the log?

[kaczorski]

Also: how many pawns do you have?

[CloudSeeker]

When it comes to programs that run a lot of things. Like a game like Oxygen Not Included.
The more stuff a game needs to do, the slower the game runs. The game can only process so many operations at the same time. Adding more things to process means it takes longer as the processing queue fills up.
The longer the queue, the slower the game run.

The best way to cut down on this is to simply not have a lot of things that needs to be processed. Remember that EVERYTHING needs to be processed. This includes animals, grass tempreature, dity and and so on. So a smaller map means less to process. Fewer pawns and animals means less to process.
Also the less mods the better as mods can add errors which cause issues. Having fewer mods also add less things and mechanics to process.

There are a few mods that help out of with preformance. Performance Fish has done some great things for my heavily modded games.

[Geekbar Enthusiast]

im using 307 mods and it runs decent since i got stuff like rocketman and preformance fish. If you aren't already download rimpy database on steam workshop and download rimpy from a browser and have it auto sort your mods and tell you any problems.

there is also this spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12mAva1anZribuz6PmNoTJvTq5AdgarPyiB1cd1pFsMg/edit?gid=1968762060#gid=1968762060

which shows a bunch of mods and if they do or do not cause a bunch of lag or break your game (from my experience anything at orange or lower is usually fine to play with)

[Veylox]

Peformance fish mod, and careful management. Just keep your colonist count lower really, that's what costs the most performance

That and mods

Tailor your modlist and colony size to your hardware specs

[MadArtillery]

The amount of years shouldn't be impacting your tps like that. Sounds like you have some performance heavy mods though, just not having tps problems is usually how I deal with tps problems.

[Ruttukulli]

I'm having the same issue. 26fps with no mods? Couple days ago run just fine with 20 mods or so. Tried uninstalling the game and mods but it didn't help... still 26fps wtf.
Ryzen 5 3600 and 5700XT

[Tera_Matt]

I played 4 years with a single pawn. Years is a horrible metric to measure the scale of your colony. How many pawns do you have? Animals? What's the size of your colony? What mods are you using.

How can anyone help you improve your fps/tps when they don't know why they're dropping in the first place?

[Radiosity]

Originally posted by Ruttukulli:

I'm having the same issue. 26fps with no mods? Couple days ago run just fine with 20 mods or so. Tried uninstalling the game and mods but it didn't help... still 26fps wtf.
Ryzen 5 3600 and 5700XT

I've got the same CPU and can easily run the game at 80+ fps with 50 colonists and 200 mods. If you're having performance issues that bad, you either have a dodgy mod causing issues, or you need to add all the performance mods.

Performance Fish
FPS Stabilizer
Performance Optimizer
Red's Performance Fixes
RocketMan

Those all help a great deal, especially in the early to mid game.

If you're playing any sort of medieval/tribal colony, or just like putting down lots of torches/fires (all of which have a tick associated with them that can impact performance), I'd also highly grabbing Lag Free Torches and More.

Performance Analyzer can also help you track down the source of issues by looking at the ms delay on particular mods and their components.