New update slowing my game

[Terra]

So with this new update that gave us the three new subs and monsters i cant seem to run barotrauma as smoothly anymore. I seem to have run from a stable 30-40ish fps down to a stuttering and uncomfortable 10 fps, its so bad to the point that inputting commands such as walking, equipping items, and fixing things seem impossible as i need to press and hold down on the key needed for quite awhile before i can interact with things rather than just simply clicking and using said items or fixing said things on the sub. In the alien ruin overhual update my system was running perfectly fine until this new update a few days ago.

[Great Blue]

same

[joememe787]

low fps

why my game low fps

[Space Wolf Hudson]

cuz u pc bad

[joememe787]

Originally posted by Space Wolf Hudson:

cuz u pc bad

i have mac pro m1 16 gb

[The Kook who Cooks]

Originally posted by joememe787:

Originally posted by Space Wolf Hudson:

cuz u pc bad

i have mac pro m1 16 gb

"Well there's your problem!"

[Buggy Boy]

If that's a MacBook Pro then it's not an ideal machine to play games on, and considering Barotrauma is not a fully optimised and polished final release game yet, your system probably needs to do extra work compared to other games.

Also, MacBooks are not known for their efficient cooling, Apple have a habit of throttling their hardware to keep temperatures down rather than providing better active cooling, so ironically the more demanding a game is, the slower your system might perform.

[zircon]

*sigh*

message just got deleted because my dumbass decided to reload steam oh well

Those saying mac is unplayable, f* yourself straight away, I will be protecting the sacred mac gang till the end of times.

I have played Baro for 2 years with 3k+ playtime, on the current mac I am typing this from, which is mid-2014 macbook pro


Question related troubleshooting:

first, open mac settings - go to battery - switch off automatic graphics switching

second, open baro local files, find config_player.xml, open that with text editor -> find a line about resolution and graphics, set it to 1280x800 instead of the default one, can change later if works better for you. For borderlesswindowed, delete that, type Fullscreen instead

thirdly, dont join overcrowded servers, too demanding or large vessels, or super modded servs, because again, optimisation

fourthly, just a personal remark, disable everything but finder via cmd+opt+esc, you don't want anything working in the background

Hope this helps. If not, let me know.
edit: grammar

[SeeSeeBee]

to op:
try throwing all stuff out the airlock. leaving only the bare necessity, save and load after that:
-small cache of spare ammo
-small cache of medicals, all poison/antidote must go.
-only keep minerals in 1 storage, empty the rest
-only keep equipments needed for missions, dump the rest.
-everything must go other than above.

i did this and game went from 15fps to silky smooth. u can backup your save first incase if this dont work.

[Procura]

Huge lag since last patch

Me and my friends play a coop campaign, we play every tuesday evening since a few months. It's a group of 5 players, and up to now, none of us ever experimented lag, except for one player who sometimes has an unstable wifi.

Last week everything was still fine, but this evening our game was a mess. Everybody started lagging at what seemed random times, I personally started lagging like crazy and alternating between being alive and dead everytime my PUC injected me with fentamine, I had to stop using it since it made everybody lag since I'm the host. Later we got attacked by a bunch of Spinelings, three of us got knocked unconscious and only one could be rescued since the 2 others were lagging so bad they had trouble interacting with the bodies.

Will this be fixed soon? And is there a way to roll back to a previous patch? I can't find any way to do it with Steam.

I had to Alt-F4 multiples times this evening to avoid the unfair deaths and it killed the fun. We usually take the deaths with stride but when you're unable to do anything to save the others because you lag and stutters, it doesn't seem fair. I tried looking at the other posts but people are talking about getting better computers or lowering the graphics or things like that, which make no sense since last week nobody in my group lagged and now everybody is lagging, but not always at the same time.

[Кха Кхакер]

Try this one, this helped me with server setup
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2701251094

[Dynamoon]

Hi everyone and sorry for the inconvenience! I've merged a few of the newer threads on low performance since the latest update to respond to everyone in one place.

Since we have seen a number of reports like this in recent days, there indeed appears to be a performance issue somewhere that we've unfortunately not managed to diagnose yet. If you would like to help us, sending us diagnostic data as screenshots could be useful – please read more in this quote from my colleague:

Originally posted by Regalis:

Hello and sorry to hear about the issues your having with the game. :/

We have gotten some reports about decreased performance after the latest update (even though weirdly many players are reporting drastically improved performance), so it's most likely not an issue with your system. Unfortunately we haven't managed to pinpoint what's causing the performance problems yet.

Something that could give us more clues is if you enabled the in-game performance statistics and sent us a screenshot of what you see when the FPS drops. You can enable it by opening the debug console by pressing F3, and entering the command "showperf" in the console.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience, I hope we can get this fixed asap!

You can send us those screens most easily as links posted in replies here, or you can send them as bug reports through GitHub, https://github.com/Regalis11/Barotrauma/issues. Once more, sorry for the trouble and thank you in advance for any extra information you can provide.

[Buggy Boy]

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡󠀡⁧⁧zircon:

*sigh*

Those saying mac is unplayable, f* yourself straight away, I will be protecting the sacred mac gang till the end of times.

I have played Baro for 2 years with 3k+ playtime, on the current mac I am typing this from, which is mid-2014 macbook pro

I apologise if that's how my comments came across (although I don't apologise for anyone else), I stand by my comments as I own a 2011 MacBook Pro myself and it would be a fine machine, I'm sure it would be capable of running Barotrauma fine, if it wasn't for the badly designed heat management, which has by the way (apparently along with Apple's poor choice of GPU IC) caused the discreet graphics to overheat and die, so now my MacBook Pro can only run on the onboard graphics which probably is not capable of running Barotrauma that well or at all. I hope the 2014 MacBook Pro is better, maybe by then they had the better GPU IC, but I still stand by the poor heat management comment.

[MedicalPol]

while testing around in sandbox, i spawned a bunch of human bots and when i lit something on fire, all the bots started going crazy (just normal game mechanics, that's not the thing i wanna pin out), although that specific kind of lag began exactly at that moment, which led me to think that maybe, in relation to the ai improvements from the update, the lag comes from ai in general

[joememe787]

Originally posted by Buggy Boy:

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡󠀡⁧⁧zircon:

*sigh*

Those saying mac is unplayable, f* yourself straight away, I will be protecting the sacred mac gang till the end of times.

I have played Baro for 2 years with 3k+ playtime, on the current mac I am typing this from, which is mid-2014 macbook pro

I apologise if that's how my comments came across (although I don't apologise for anyone else), I stand by my comments as I own a 2011 MacBook Pro myself and it would be a fine machine, I'm sure it would be capable of running Barotrauma fine, if it wasn't for the badly designed heat management, which has by the way (apparently along with Apple's poor choice of GPU IC) caused the discreet graphics to overheat and die, so now my MacBook Pro can only run on the onboard graphics which probably is not capable of running Barotrauma that well or at all. I hope the 2014 MacBook Pro is better, maybe by then they had the better GPU IC, but I still stand by the poor heat management comment.

yea mine didn;t use to long until i downloaded this ship so probably its that, its a ship that runs AI to run sensors and auto reactor

[Buggy Boy]

Originally posted by joememe787:

yea mine didn;t use to long until i downloaded this ship so probably its that, its a ship that runs AI to run sensors and auto reactor

AI running the reactor? If you mean components that form a reactor control circuit then I think that is different to the AI that the bots use. A complex custom sub might cause slow-downs for other reasons such as lots of shadow-casting lights or similar CPU intensive things which the vanilla subs generally don't have a problem with.