Performance Megathread

[Davipb]

If your thread has been merged here, or if you have been directed to this thread, then you have asked something regarding the performance of the game.

[TekksTV]

Same with me Ryzen 7 1700 and gtx 1070 all updated! started the game 1st part i was at 35 fps not even moving! turned the game off instantly not worth my time!

[tidus89]

Reduce Shadow Detail to High and you get double the performance.
I also reduced the overall visibility range from 15 to 10. I now play pretty much locked at 60 fps with very few times falling below that on 3840x2160 with a gtx 1080 and a 8700k.

[Zerixar]

performance issues on a 1080ti

i have a beast of a rig. 7700k i7 cpu, gtx 1080ti gpu, 16 gb of ram, ssd, game constantly lags from 60 fps down to below 30 and back up. feels and looks like crap. like just standing around looking at a fire drops me to 32 fps. what the heck

[Just Chill]

Ehm... I beg to differ.
That's a beast of a rig:
https://www.hitech-gamer.com/en/Xtreme-Gamer-PC/XTREME-GAMER-PC-NANODOM-V14-IN-WIN-909-black.html


And even on that rig it will lag.
Why? Because it's an old DX9 engine on a 32bit executable and Enderal is that detailed, that it almost breaks the engine. ^^
Which is also the reason why it looks and feels so much more believeable than Skyrim. It feels like a living world.

I personally recommend to cap your frames to 30.
This is how it looks and performs for me on 30 FPS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQeO88PBNe8

[Microsoft]

After playing for 90 hours Enderal literally melts my PC, maxing out my GTX 980 and I still barely get 20fps in some areas. Dropping down from a mix between high and ultra settings to medium and low settings gives me about around 30 fps ...
I started the game with 60fps ultra and over my time played the performance got worse and worse. Currently it isn't that much fun any more, especially when the heat generation from the PC and the power consumption is absolutely beyond any other game... It is more like a synthetic benchmark at this point... on low settings!
I don't have any additional mods installed, except for the invisible helmet toggle mod, so I have no idea what's going on.

[Zerixar]

huge fps losses

i have a 1080ti, have turned off antaialiasing, fxaa, game can't maintain 60fps, and frequently even drops below 30. any suggestions?

[Zerixar]

large fps drops

running a 1080ti, have turned off antialiasing and a couple other things, but still can't get a solid 60 fps. constantly drop down into the 40's and sometimes even the 20's. really choppy. any suggestions?

[ErikRedbeard]

Publicado originalmente por Zerixar:

large fps drops

running a 1080ti, have turned off antialiasing and a couple other things, but still can't get a solid 60 fps. constantly drop down into the 40's and sometimes even the 20's. really choppy. any suggestions?

Draw distances and shadows are your best bet to reduce low fps.

You're most likely never going to get 60fps in most villages/cities or other high npc dense areas due to how Skyrim and thus Enderal handles things.
Neither your 1080ti or your cpu are the issue in low fps in this game.

This is the main reason why they are considering an SSE version after they're done with this one.

[Zerixar]

why are my posts getting deleted constantly?

I'm having fps issues and i have now posted 3 times about it and every time my threads have been removed without warning or explanation. i haven't cussed or said anything bad or broken any forum rules so why?

[Zerixar]

nevermind. just saw while browsing that it was apparently merged into a performance megathread without me ever being notified it moved.

[Zerixar]

sorry for the 3 almost identical posts. i never got notified they were moved/merged to this thread so i thought mods were deleting them and kept reposting.

so from what i'm seeing basically "engine sucks not a lot you can do" :\

[ErikRedbeard]

Publicado originalmente por Zerixar:

sorry for the 3 almost identical posts. i never got notified they were moved/merged to this thread so i thought mods were deleting them and kept reposting.

so from what i'm seeing basically "engine sucks not a lot you can do" :\

That's the gist of it yeah.

Some tweaks here and there might get you a few fps more in the low fps places.
But fe nothing will suddenly give you 60 fps in ark if you currently get like 30.

Just as an example.
I'm running 3440x1440 and get about 30fps in the ark marketplace (looking into the middle from one of the entrances.
Lowering my resolution to 1920x1080 gives me no performance gain whatsoever.

All I know is that everything in this engine is cpu limited and it's very bad at multithreading.
A fast single core clock will net you a few fps more, but not much.
It's the way the game queues things that slows it down a lot.
But it's also why disabling/lowering say shadows helps (since that's all cpu rendered).
The less it has to queue the faster the game runs.

[Jouchebag]

Publicado originalmente por Zerixar:

nevermind. just saw while browsing that it was apparently merged into a performance megathread without me ever being notified it moved.

On the right side of the window there's a link that says "Post History"

If you click that and then click your post you'll find it no matter where it moved.

[Necro-Drake]

Nvidia 960m
core i7 quad
16g ram

Medium graphics setting.

Looks beautiful, games runs nice and no dropped frames... until I turn. System tells me a consistent 50 fps, but I can tell there are some frame drops when I look around (enough that its giving me a headache and its hard to see certain details until I stop turning and stare at it).

Fiddled with the settings and found some things that the game engine can't seem to handle: antialiasing and shadows...

No other setting change seems to be worth a darn. I am fine with the antialiasing and I'm even fine with the low quality setting for shadows themselves, but it looks plain terrible when I have to reduce the viewing distance for shadows down so low (improvement is only noticeable when antialiasing is off, shadows are low, and shadow view distance is a 1.... and it only becomes buttery smooth when the view distance is at 0).

The pop in looks so unappealing. I'm curious why this is such an issue for the mod. Is it because of the older game engine? Skyrim SE ran well enough and I even had some very graphics intensive mods running on that with no issues what so ever. I'm sure I can deal with this for the time being, but I hope there is some fix later... that or this gets moved over to SE at some point (SureAI have talked about it, but have said that more than likely it will be a while and in the mean time they will continue working on the current version).

Anyway, hope my shadows/antialiasing hypothesis pans out for others.

[Microsoft]

Publicado originalmente por AggroBuLLeT:

Publicado originalmente por Microsoft:

After playing for 90 hours Enderal literally melts my PC, maxing out my GTX 980 and I still barely get 20fps in some areas. Dropping down from a mix between high and ultra settings to medium and low settings gives me about around 30 fps ...
I started the game with 60fps ultra and over my time played the performance got worse and worse. Currently it isn't that much fun any more, especially when the heat generation from the PC and the power consumption is absolutely beyond any other game... It is more like a synthetic benchmark at this point... on low settings!
I don't have any additional mods installed, except for the invisible helmet toggle mod, so I have no idea what's going on.

its called savegame bloating. there are alot of trash refs in your save. e.g. every dead body, every item you dropped or that fell on the ground and your save needs to remember the exact position etc. this makes the game naturally more laggy and unstable. you can (kinda) fix that by sleeping for 30 days. most things in the world get cleared and respawn this way.

but it will never be as clean like when you first started. skyrim has this problem as well. thats normal. you can easily notice that by how fast you save your game. fresh start -> less than a second.

100 hours? 3-4 sec.

basically the longer you play the more bloated your savefile will get. except that 30 day sleep trick there is not much you can do.

HOWEVER

dropping as low as you especially on low settings, is NOT normal.
are you perhaps in silvergrove or dark valley? these regions are the most laggy of the entire game. outside of them the game should run fairly lag free. even on a 100h save.

The worst fps slowdowns occur indoors ( worst one: deep diggers hollow, shed [the one between dark leap watch and deep digger settlement] I get around 25fps here on lowest settings), when I look up and it is snowing in Frostcliff Mountains and looking up in Goldenfrost, seeing the leaves fall, I get around 25 fps as well.
Dark Valley isn't that much of an issue however compared to the aforementioned parts. A constant 60fps on lowest and around 50fps on medium. 35-40 on ultra.

I will try the 30 day sleep later on.