About the lag spike

[TaoistYi]

Hi,
I found the game will become extremely heavy with large city ( modern, more than 800 population). Every few seconds( about 3 second) there will be a small lag spike, and it happens constantly and periodically which makes the game really tough to continue.

My hardware is definitely better than the recommended one on homepage, and I think it may has a software problem. It will be really appreciate to show me some solutions.

Best regards.

[Battleclown]

I experienced this in the beta, in my case it may have been the metros that I built. I'm guessing it's pathing issues where the engine struggles with the pathing of the Tropicans, maybe it can happen when you build a lot of new things that requires new pathing; metros, ports, free wheels edict etc.

I ended up demolishing the metros and then rebuilt them.
Restarting the game would also be worth testing.

[TaoistYi]

Originally posted by Battleclown:

I experienced this in the beta, in my case it may have been the metros that I built. I'm guessing it's pathing issues where the engine struggles with the pathing of the Tropicans, maybe it can happen when you build a lot of new things that requires new pathing; metros, ports, free wheels edict etc.

I ended up demolishing the metros and then rebuilt them.
Restarting the game would also be worth testing.

Thank you very much for your solution.
I tried a game without metro and the lag spike not happened.
I think you are correct that routing causes some problems.

However, I am still looking forward for a patch to fix this annoying problem.

Best regards.

[Maria]

Hello there,

1. Can you please share your system specs anyway please?
2. Can you tell me how your grapgic settings are in Tropico? e.g. FPS cap, Vsync, etc.

[Thom]

I have had the same problem a couple of times. Lots of lag spikes around 1k population, where in other games with fewer transportaion options I have 2500+ population and it's still running at full speed and constant 50-60FPS

i5 6600k
1080ti FE
16GB RAM

Graphics all set to maximum. No FPS cap, Vsync off.

[TaoistYi]

Originally posted by LaPresidenta:

Hello there,

1. Can you please share your system specs anyway please?
2. Can you tell me how your grapgic settings are in Tropico? e.g. FPS cap, Vsync, etc.

Hi,

1. The game is installed in SSD which has more than 300G space left. My graphic card is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080， 32G ram， Win10 system.

2. The settings are default mostly very high(I also tried to change to high or medium but nothing changed).
I have read your response to another threadr about Vsync and FPS cap. I tried to change it but nothing changed.

I think the problem is mentioned above, it seems to be some bugs caused such lag spikes rather than the hardware issue.

Looking forward to the release of the patches for such problems.

Best regards.

[SNIPEROFLOVE]

Originally posted by LaPresidenta:

Hello there,

1. Can you please share your system specs anyway please?
2. Can you tell me how your grapgic settings are in Tropico? e.g. FPS cap, Vsync, etc.

So with this being a question from the dev team it must be the hardware on our PC. Just like when a ISP asks us if we have reset our routers because we are having a connection issue.

[Autism]

happens the same to me, with no metro in the city