how to achieve better performance

[Laimikis]

what settings should I disable or lower to improve performance?

[smoking_greaseroller.]

Honestly I’m having the same issue, I didn’t end up getting the game because I tried it on a friends account on my computer, and I lowered every setting the the minimum and the game is still nearly unplayable so I need help too because I really want this game. Sorry man I can’t help but I hope someone can.

[RiisWolf]

Try making the corpses disappear faster. Shadows also greatly affect performance.

[smoking_greaseroller.]

Originally posted by RiisWolf:

Try making the corpses disappear faster. Shadows also greatly affect performance.

I had every setting to the lowest possible, I just think my computer isn't strong enough.

[Mathmatics]

Originally posted by smoking_greaseroller.:

Originally posted by RiisWolf:

Try making the corpses disappear faster. Shadows also greatly affect performance.

I had every setting to the lowest possible, I just think my computer isn't strong enough.

This. Game is extremely well optimized. If you are having issues it is probably your system. Integrated graphics card?

[Sepherix]

Originally posted by Mathmatics:

Originally posted by smoking_greaseroller.:

I had every setting to the lowest possible, I just think my computer isn't strong enough.

This. Game is extremely well optimized. If you are having issues it is probably your system. Integrated graphics card?

It isn't. Rather, unity itself isn't.

The only fix i'm afraid is to lower the resolution. Beyond the normal, set ones. And due to how garbage unity is, it only sets the render, not actual resolution. So you're always in fullscreen windowed, which is BAD for performance.
Talk aside. I use " -screen-width 768 -screen-height 432" as launch commands, it extremely helps with performance with the downside of not being able to read much.
I suggest you look for a list of 16/9 resolutions and find whichever works best for you.

[CaBoOsE]

Originally posted by Mathmatics:

Originally posted by smoking_greaseroller.:

I had every setting to the lowest possible, I just think my computer isn't strong enough.

This. Game is extremely well optimized. If you are having issues it is probably your system. Integrated graphics card?

That is verifiably false. While I don't expect amazing performance at all times with how chaotic this game can get, it is not well optimized. I have my FPS capped to 120 with an RTX 2070 and a Ryzen 7 2700X. It regularly dips below this, even well before things get their craziest. That means there is a bottleneck somewhere. Checking my CPU and GPU usage, no core maxes out, and the GPU usually stays below 50% utilization. I think the game is CPU limited and doesn't utilize cores well (in a recent quick test I got noticeable drops in FPS while one CPU core peaked at ~85% while none of the others were above 40).

Also I believe there may be memory issues of some kind, or at least some sort of long term performance issues. I've noticed some of the later levels, before anything really spawns in or gets too crazy, regularly can't reach my 120 FPS cap even with basically nothing happening on screen. Once again I think the game is CPU limted, but if it weren't I would expect a game that looks like this to easily get hundreds of FPS when just the level is rendering and a few enemies.

Oh, and there are definitely frame pacing issues. They are visual, but I also notice things like 122 FPS on my Shadowplay FPS counter, so it's pretty obvious while it's trying to cap the FPS it can't do it properly.

Still love this game, still highly recommend it, but at least on some systems it runs much worse than it has any right to.

[Sesharim]

where is the problem ? i run it @ 144 fps 2560x1080 max settings on an1080ti 3600x

[TrueEvil]

Originally posted by Sesh:

where is the problem ? i run it @ 144 fps 2560x1080 max settings on an1080ti 3600x

This game runs awfully on some systems for... reasons. One friend of mine has a 1650 that has achieved higher FPS in this game than my other friend's 1080Ti. This doesn't happen in other games. And it most definitely isn't a CPU issue - the 1650 was paired with an FX processor while the 1080Ti was paired with a 7700k.

[Tequila007]

Originally posted by Evil:

Originally posted by Sesh:

where is the problem ? i run it @ 144 fps 2560x1080 max settings on an1080ti 3600x

This game runs awfully on some systems for... reasons. One friend of mine has a 1650 that has achieved higher FPS in this game than my other friend's 1080Ti. This doesn't happen in other games. And it most definitely isn't a CPU issue - the 1650 was paired with an FX processor while the 1080Ti was paired with a 7700k.

What you are saying does not make sense. Your friend with the superior computer probably has some serious underlying issue if that is the case.

[TrueEvil]

Originally posted by Tequila007:

Originally posted by Evil:

This game runs awfully on some systems for... reasons. One friend of mine has a 1650 that has achieved higher FPS in this game than my other friend's 1080Ti. This doesn't happen in other games. And it most definitely isn't a CPU issue - the 1650 was paired with an FX processor while the 1080Ti was paired with a 7700k.

What you are saying does not make sense. Your friend with the superior computer probably has some serious underlying issue if that is the case.

As I said. It doesn't happen in other games. The 1080Ti user obliterated the 1650's performance in everything but Risk of Rain 2.

Considering both of them are linux-using, antivirus-free, hyper-paranoid-about-privacy crackheads who wipe their drives and OS every few months, I sincerely doubt an underlying issue is to blame.

[Corky]

The game is very cpu heavy especially when tons of enemies are involved, having an 8-core cpu will greatly improve performance over a 4-core unfortunately.

[Tequila007]

Originally posted by Evil:

Originally posted by Tequila007:

What you are saying does not make sense. Your friend with the superior computer probably has some serious underlying issue if that is the case.

As I said. It doesn't happen in other games. The 1080Ti user obliterated the 1650's performance in everything but Risk of Rain 2.

Considering both of them are linux-using, antivirus-free, hyper-paranoid-about-privacy crackheads who wipe their drives and OS every few months, I sincerely doubt an underlying issue is to blame.

Originally posted by Morky Mouse:

The game is very cpu heavy especially when tons of enemies are involved, having an 8-core cpu will greatly improve performance over a 4-core unfortunately.

This.

His 1080ti is basically asleep playing Risk of Rain 2 because the game is soo CPU intensive, If you want to maintain high fps Shadows and corpses essentially need to be turned off. If you are going to benchmark both machines I would suggest both users turn off both of the above settings.

[TrueEvil]

Originally posted by Tequila007:

Originally posted by Evil:

As I said. It doesn't happen in other games. The 1080Ti user obliterated the 1650's performance in everything but Risk of Rain 2.

Considering both of them are linux-using, antivirus-free, hyper-paranoid-about-privacy crackheads who wipe their drives and OS every few months, I sincerely doubt an underlying issue is to blame.

Originally posted by Morky Mouse:

The game is very cpu heavy especially when tons of enemies are involved, having an 8-core cpu will greatly improve performance over a 4-core unfortunately.

This.

His 1080ti is basically asleep playing Risk of Rain 2 because the game is soo CPU intensive, If you want to maintain high fps Shadows and corpses essentially need to be turned off. If you are going to benchmark both machines I would suggest both users turn off both of the above settings.

Totally get that. His 1080Ti + 7700k would get smoked in this game by a 1080Ti + 11600k.

The problem here is that in this game only, he will occasionally be matched and (rarely) even beaten by the 1650 user. Except that this guy is using an FX-8350. Which gets obliterated by the 7700k[www.cpubenchmark.net] in terms of performance. Here's another link with more synthetic benchmarks[technical.city], with the 7700k leading the FX-8350 in every single test, even the multi-core ones, by margins anywhere between 27%, and more than 100%.

So really, I think this game is just "like that" for some. Not gonna hate on the devs for it because that's the nature of PCs. But this is the only game where I notice this behavior to this extreme.

Also my 3060Ti and another friend's 1070 heat up to like 65C in the main menu for reasons. 1080Ti user and another 3060Ti user have not reported the same issue. So there's that too.

[Tequila007]

Originally posted by Evil:

Originally posted by Tequila007:

This.

His 1080ti is basically asleep playing Risk of Rain 2 because the game is soo CPU intensive, If you want to maintain high fps Shadows and corpses essentially need to be turned off. If you are going to benchmark both machines I would suggest both users turn off both of the above settings.

Totally get that. His 1080Ti + 7700k would get smoked in this game by a 1080Ti + 11600k.

The problem here is that in this game only, he will occasionally be matched and (rarely) even beaten by the 1650 user. Except that this guy is using an FX-8350. Which gets obliterated by the 7700k[www.cpubenchmark.net] in terms of performance. Here's another link with more synthetic benchmarks[technical.city], with the 7700k leading the FX-8350 in every single test, even the multi-core ones, by margins anywhere between 27%, and more than 100%.

So really, I think this game is just "like that" for some. Not gonna hate on the devs for it because that's the nature of PCs. But this is the only game where I notice this behavior to this extreme.

Also my 3060Ti and another friend's 1070 heat up to like 65C in the main menu for reasons. 1080Ti user and another 3060Ti user have not reported the same issue. So there's that too.

Are you 100% sure that all users are running at the exact same graphical settings, refresh rates and resolutions?

[Brick Shithouse]

Originally posted by Corky:

The game is very cpu heavy especially when tons of enemies are involved, having an 8-core cpu will greatly improve performance over a 4-core unfortunately.

Hate to necro an old thread but I was running into some problems with my fans running super loud and my PC getting extremely hot while running the game on the lowest settings possible at the starting menu. In-game it's even worse, and you can clearly see it in the framerate.

I'm running a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X with 12 cores in my system so I can assure you that a beastly CPU will still get shafted by this game. Just wanted to put this out there for anybody who might have questions like mine in the future. All I can do now is lower the resolution until performance is somewhat favorable.