Any more performance tips apart from the ones in the performance guide?

[TacticalGoose]

Hello,

unfortunately none of the guide's recommendations helps with my performance problems, including turning ingame settings to the absolute minimum.

Just to reiterate, I tried the following:
- Added folder/process/EXEs to Windows Defender exclusions
- Tried both borderless and exclusive full screen
- Did the process lasso things
- Enabled Maximum Performance and Multithreading in nVidia control panel
- Set the pagefile to both auto and a fixed 24GB
- Deleted all savegames except my current 2
- Tried ingame and driver Vsync both


It's especially bad during story missions (constant frame drops/skips), but noticable anywhere. I have an i5-6600k at 4.5Ghz (tried disabling OC too just to be sure, but again, no difference), 16GB of Ram and an RTX2070 on Win64 10bit.

The performance problems did not happen when I just started the campaign, they started and got much worse very quickly after around the 3rd or 4th story mission.

I really, REALLY like the game so if anyone does perhaps have any other tip I can try for improved performance, I'd love to hear it. I'm willing to try the most esoteric stuff at this point haha.

Thanks in advance!

[Jamie Wolf]

Not sure if we updated the wiki yet, but have you tried this: https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/fztkou/how_to_fix_escape_from_tarkov_the_dev_way/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

This was discovered for the escape from tarkov game but applies here as well since it's a unity thing. Some users reported no difference in BT others reported major performance improvements so your milage may vary.

[TacticalGoose]

I was a bit confused by the post - should I just alter the boot.config file to the lines the OP posted and set threaded optimization to auto?

[Asuzu]

Originally posted by Tyrael Archangel:

Not sure if we updated the wiki yet, but have you tried this: https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/fztkou/how_to_fix_escape_from_tarkov_the_dev_way/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

This was discovered for the escape from tarkov game but applies here as well since it's a unity thing. Some users reported no difference in BT others reported major performance improvements so your milage may vary.

Wow, interesting thread, thanks!
Unity is such a ♥♥♥♥ engine tbh, so many games I see just being brought low by this trash engine...

[Werecat101]

yeah but when you look at the numbers buy unity and you can create a game for 2 million dollars, create your own engine or buy one of the better engines and that doubles or more.
Unity has a large amount of tools already made.


Some of the limiting factors are that Unity doesn't support a multi threaded AI. when you are making a game with a set budget which this was it was Kickstart funded.

for strange reasons some pcs can run this fairly well but I would say yet again the specs are a little low on the recommended and minimum side since they dont post the performance with those specs. people expect 60+fps and when minimum specs gives you 30fps you feel its a problem, but the word minimum mean it runs the game not that it will give great performance.

Boot.config can be found in steamapps\common\Battletech\Battletech_Data

the boot.config should be altered to read

gfx-enable-gfx-jobs=1
gfx-enable-native-gfx-jobs=1
wait-for-native-debugger=0
scripting-runtime-version=latest
vr-enabled=0
hdr-display-enabled=0

[talemore]

So basically disable supersampling and it will work fine.
That's what you did when you added 1 to enable native resolution.

[TacticalGoose]

Performance is ok-ish (definitely better) with the modified boot file, but still the game often just stops for a short moment when selecting a mech or clicking something in the UI. Guess it just hates my computer.

[JC]

I do see people complain about unity engine but i've never run into a problem. I think i have at least 5 maybe more at this point.. Maybe it is my superior i5-3350 processor? Yea i could use an upgrade, soonish i hope.

OP:
I was having issues with this game but they were related to cooling, i upgraded my heatsink and added some new thermal paste and popped in an SSD and that fixed my problems.

so have you checked your temps? I was getting stuttering from that.

[Jamie Wolf]

Originally posted by talemore:

So basically disable supersampling and it will work fine.
That's what you did when you added 1 to enable native resolution.

No what that does is enable rendering jobs across multiple CPU cores instead of just 1 thread

[TacticalGoose]

Originally posted by JC:

OP:
I was having issues with this game but they were related to cooling, i upgraded my heatsink and added some new thermal paste and popped in an SSD and that fixed my problems.

so have you checked your temps? I was getting stuttering from that.

Yea my temps are alright. It's not really the engine per se either, I also play Escape from Tarkov a lot, which is running on Unity too and I don't encounter those problems there.

There is also a rather popular performance fix mod for Battletech, but it seems to cause problems with the story campaign, so I didn't want to use it, but I'll give it a go later just to see if it helps.

Regardless - thanks for everyone's suggestions!