Why people often make games with Unity without setting FPS limit on their game ?

[spoilerspree]

Using lower setting than 1080p Ultra on my rig make the game FPS shoot to hundred-thousand ......

[spoilerspree]

I was using windowed 1366x768 at medium. I didnt think I need to use higher setting for idle games at that time. Since mostly I open several games and doing other things.

Im just pised off because several game made with Unity that I download recently have problem with v-sync.

Yes, toggleable v-sync in option would be good.

[Ragical]

Whoa.. thats curious. On any setting above medium it should be getting sync'd.
What quality setting were you trying?

As to why we dont cap at lower levels, theres a lot of reasons for it behind the scenes mainly in terms of optimisation, so it would run on everything from a 10 year old android phone, to a laptop running only on board graphics, to ultra rigs like yours.
It has nothing to do with it being made in Unity. :)

The game starts very tiny, but in the end you can have hundreds of chickens and buildings. On my ancient 7 year old Android I can run the game albeit without shadows with all of that on the screen with a fluctuation between 30 to 50 fps. If we locked it, people on lower end machines would suffer.

We really didnt account for people with high end systems running it at lower levels, though that is perfectly acceptable. :)
A solution could potentially be we add an option to toggle Vsync even at lower levels?

Hmm on your computer you should be able to run it on higher settings with little to no performance difference. Those ultra low settings are simply to cater for really low end rigs. Give it a try on Ultra and see how you fare.

That said, we will definitely look into it and add a toggle, should be a really easy addition. Hopefully have it patched in tomorrow. Thanks for the feedback, it is very appreciated. :)

(sorry for the edit/repost, had to switch accounts but didnt want to delete the thread.)

[alveolate]

i kinda have the opposite problem... i'm just grinding out the last couple of quests now and the game causes my fairly high-end PC to really churn along sluggishly...

i've lowered quality to lowest @ 640x480 and the game still eats up 60% of cpu, so it's nothing to do with graphics at that point.

i do have ~120 chooks and ~130 buildings... and the lag goes down at night when the chooks go back to roost, so it's probably the AI code you gave the chooks that really clogs up cpu.

[Ragical]

Originally posted by alveolate:

i kinda have the opposite problem... i'm just grinding out the last couple of quests now and the game causes my fairly high-end PC to really churn along sluggishly...

i've lowered quality to lowest @ 640x480 and the game still eats up 60% of cpu, so it's nothing to do with graphics at that point.

i do have ~120 chooks and ~130 buildings... and the lag goes down at night when the chooks go back to roost, so it's probably the AI code you gave the chooks that really clogs up cpu.

He alveolate, I believe that would be an unrelated issue. Would you be able to possibly post a reply in our bug forum with your system setup?

We are a small indie team so our playtesting was limited, however the AI manager is meant to detect how well the system is handling things and cater accordingly. We have people playing on toasters or old android phones with 2/300 chickens with no issues.
I'm not saying you are lying! Just that this is may be a weird bug we just haven't encountered before.

So any info you can give us would be greatly appreciated.(edit: And also apologies you are having issues!).

[alveolate]

Originally posted by Ragical:

He alveolate, I believe that would be an unrelated issue. Would you be able to possibly post a reply in our bug forum with your system setup?

here you go!
https://steamcommunity.com/app/922460/discussions/0/1735469327936161750/#c2805074491026012822

hope it helps, i'm guessing my system is high-end enough on the graphics end, but my processor is actually just an i5