Stutter caused by employees

[Silly Billy]

I started experiencing fairly noticeable frame stutters after buying the farm and getting 9 employees to work there for a cocaine farm. It only started after I assigned everyone to their jobs/establishing destinations, etc...

I've tried everything, running the game at lower settings, turning off Vsync, setting my target Fps to 60, removing literally all the trash in all my properties, and the stuttering persisted until I fired all 12 of my total employees across all my properties.

I feel like I'm being punished for trying to automate processes, which is a shame because I really enjoy this game. Does anyone have any kind of workaround other than just keeping my workforce small?

[Tomaco]

I have the same issue. After I bought the warehouse, I hired 5 employees. I also had 5 more employees at the barn, but I started experiencing a lot of stutter. After firing my employees, the issue went away.

[Silly Billy]

I'm just gonna make a copy of my save and try see how many employees I can get away with before it gets annoying

[panzerd18]

Turn off v sync

[Silly Billy]

I said that I did, no difference

[Jokby]

botanists are bugged right now. I bought the warehouse and had automation set up for cocaine, then I just started stuttering ever second. It seems that unselecting everything from the botanists will work. All other employees work without causing that kind of lag.

[sneekyspider]

Originally posted by Jokby:

botanists are bugged right now. I bought the warehouse and had automation set up for cocaine, then I just started stuttering ever second. It seems that unselecting everything from the botanists will work. All other employees work without causing that kind of lag.

Were you able to rehire the botanists or do you have to do it yourself until the devs fix it?

[spicy penis]

I have the same problem. From what I've seen, they say it's a problem for the botanists, but without them, you'd have to do all the tasks yourself, and it would be a huge waste of time. Is there any news about whether it will be solved? Or is there a way to solve it right now? A way that doesn't involve eliminating the botanists from the equation, since then I'd have to dedicate myself solely to the meth.

[Arknor]

I get this too on a 4090 its like rubber banding but fps is always like 80 and never drops when it happens.

[A Warm Box]

I have the same issue whenever there's more than 4 employees in one building. Playing in windowed mode fixes it for me.

[johnlucci]

its not a gpu issue. Something is bugged with employees. I had an 8 botanist, 2 cleaner weed setup in the barn and it all started stuttering when I put them to work. Only thing that resolved it was firing them all. Haven't tried rehiring anyone yet. If its just botanists that are bugged, then I think I might just have to switch to meth.

[saintRock]

I also have this issue. Turning off V sync or lowering graph settings didnt do anything.

[BigDrock]

It only gets stuttery for me if there is some bad pathing going on for botanists. Just make sure they have their room to move around, dont cram their area up, and it seems to solve it for me.

[McKl1992]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/3164500/discussions/1/830459135855266569/