Low FPS

[Dennis™]

I was playing with a friend and my FPS kept hovering arround 30 with drops to 15 and higher moments to 45 but my hardware usage from my pc never went above 40% so why not use more power from my pc instead of dropping FPS?

[Chibbity]

Are you talking about CPU usage or GPU usage?

If it's CPU it's likely the game's physics are limited to one core, like most physics engines.

[Xilo The Odd]

noticed this as well, typically on max settings i sit about 120+, but playing on a friends game i was dipping down to 40. not sure if its based on his hardware at that point or if mine is still a factor. or if its a mix of internet and hardware. but it seemed to happen more deeper underground.

[Dennis™]

Originally posted by Chibbity:

Are you talking about CPU usage or GPU usage?

If it's CPU it's likely the game's physics are limited to one core, like most physics engines.

both my CPU and GPU never went above 40% usage, neither did my RAM...

[Chibbity]

Originally posted by Dennis™:

both my CPU and GPU never went above 40% usage, neither did my RAM...

A. The game isn't that demanding on the GPU, it's likely CPU bound more than anything.
B. A game only uses so much RAM, it's not really a measure of performance, it's a binary thing; you either have enough or you don't.

Long story short; Your single core performance on your CPU is likely bottle necking the game.

[Dennis™]

Originally posted by Chibbity:

Originally posted by Dennis™:

both my CPU and GPU never went above 40% usage, neither did my RAM...

A. The game isn't that demanding on the GPU, it's likely CPU bound more than anything.
B. A game only uses so much RAM, it's not really a measure of performance, it's a binary thing; you either have enough or you don't.

Long story short; Your single core performance on your CPU is likely bottle necking the game.

Well i don't know how alot more people don't have the same issue seeing as i have one of the best CPU's on the market right now... the intel i7 7700k

[Chibbity]

Originally posted by Dennis™:

Well i don't know how alot more people don't have the same issue seeing as i have one of the best CPU's on the market right now... the intel i7 7700k

4 cores and 8 threads, and it's likely only using one of them.

So you're never gonna see 100% usage or anything close obviously.

However, you shouldn't be getting performance that low on that CPU. It's the same one I have and the game plays at a locked 60 on Ultra 1080p, whilst playing with 2 friends.

[Dennis™]

Originally posted by Chibbity:

Originally posted by Dennis™:

Well i don't know how alot more people don't have the same issue seeing as i have one of the best CPU's on the market right now... the intel i7 7700k

4 cores and 8 threads, and it's likely only using one of them.

So you're never gonna see 100% usage or anything close obviously.

However, you shouldn't be getting performance that low on that CPU. It's the same one I have and the game plays at a locked 60 on Ultra 1080p.

It might do for me too when playing single player but i don't see why doing multiplayer would have such an impact on performance

[Chibbity]

Originally posted by Dennis™:

It might do for me too when playing single player but i don't see why doing multiplayer would have such an impact on performance

Do all your friends have work lights?

Not only are light sources very intensive, but the shadows they cast even more so.

The only time I see frame dips is too many lights in a close area.

[Dennis™]

Originally posted by Chibbity:

Originally posted by Dennis™:

It might do for me too when playing single player but i don't see why doing multiplayer would have such an impact on performance

Do all your friends have work lights?

Not only are light sources very intensive, but the shadows they cast even more so.

The only time I see frame drips is too many lights in a close area.

I have one and i was playing with a friend who has one too but that's it so a total of 2...

[Chibbity]

Originally posted by Dennis™:

I have one and i was playing with a friend who has one too but that's it so a total of 2...

Hmm...I'm not sure?

Do you guys leave a lot of items lying around? I've heard that can bog the game down.

[Dennis™]

Originally posted by Chibbity:

Originally posted by Dennis™:

I have one and i was playing with a friend who has one too but that's it so a total of 2...

Hmm...I'm not sure?

Do you guys leave a lot of items lying around? I've heard that can bog the game down.

Not that i know of, obviously i don't know what my friends do but usually they never leave more then 1 item wich most of the time we go back for

[Chibbity]

Originally posted by Dennis™:

Originally posted by Chibbity:

Hmm...I'm not sure?

Do you guys leave a lot of items lying around? I've heard that can bog the game down.

Not that i know of

Experimental clouds are a pretty big FPS hit, I was getting 60 on 4k but with the alternative clouds I had to drop it back to 1080.

Not much else I can suggest.

[Dennis™]

Originally posted by Chibbity:

Originally posted by Dennis™:

Not that i know of

Experimental clouds are a pretty big FPS hit, I was getting 60 on 4k but with the alternative clouds I had to drop it back to 1080.

Don't have those on either

[MoonLight 🌙]

When a friend joins my game my fps drop like 20 fps i go from 60 to 40fps and then when we go in a cave it's like de deeper we go the lower my fps goes to even 10 fps
but the thing is when my friend leaves it jumps back to 60 fps but if he joins back it drops back to 10- 15 fps i have no idea why it does that

[Dennis™]

Originally posted by MoonLight ☾:

When a friend joins my game my fps drop like 20 fps i go from 60 to 40fps and then when we go in a cave it's like de deeper we go the lower my fps goes to even 10 fps
but the thing is when my friend leaves it jumps back to 60 fps but if he joins back it drops back to 10- 15 fps i have no idea why it does that

I can imagine the FPS taking a hit when ur on the other side of the planet from eachother but i don't see why it would just smash into the ground as soon as someone else joins even when said person is right next to you