Preformance / number of pax [SOLVED]

[EssTee]

Hey. I'm building my third airport and am going for max capacity on a large map. I have laid out the whole thing in planning mode, and have actually build and operational roughly 1/3 of the stands. That's 20 large and 10 medium stands, and only about 100 flights per day.

However, already now I am experiencing massive performance issues, meaning lags and often FPS of 10-20 or even less. I have already reduced graphics settings and installed the performance CEO mod, but that does not seem to change much.

I'm also wondering why the dashboard reports up to 30.000 pax being at the airport. With the ~100 flights that seems way much. Could there be some problem here that also kills performance?

Any other ideas what I could do to keep the game playable when I further build the airport?

(System: i7 13700k, RTX 3060 12 GB)

[Humoresque]

It is very possible that you have a billion pax on a tile somewhere because of a bug. Best thing you can do is check all your zoning everywhere.

[andycishere]

Often they get stuck hidden at a jetway exit because of a missing zone there.

[EssTee]

That's exactly what happened. Thank you. Man, that was hard to find. i think I had changed an area with a couple of existing medium stands to international zone, and did apparently not zone that one exit tile hidden by the jetway. That was several game years ago.

Fixing that was so hilarious. Immediately an endless stream of pax poured out of the gangways - just to head straight to the nearest restroom :-))) Guess there was some pressure after spending years in a jetway.

It took 1,5 game days to get these folks out of the bathrooms and eventually the airport. Number of pax went from 33.000 to 4.000 - performance back to normal :-D

Sometimes I don't know whether to love or to hate this game

[Bowelas]

I'm so incredibly thankful for this advice.

Holy crap, it was like poking an ants nest. Millions and millions of passengers ...
They clogged the whole airport for a while, after i fixed the issue. Hundreds of people massing in the toilets and the exits.
And i was wondering how such a game could kill the CPU so easily.

[andycishere]

The game should usually fix those missing/wrong exit zones after a reload. But when you are ingame for hours that can happen. :D