Game runs like Trash. Acts like Mining malware.

[DennyPhantom]

Runs at the same FPS at all low (And lowest Res) And maxed out at 4k.
This game eats up my CPU, while GPU usage is none existant.
TF is this ♥♥♥♥.

[Antaiir]

Game runs perfectly fine and smooth at max details. So when we talk about "trash", it's definitely not the game.

[Dante]

Originally posted by DennyPhantom:

TF is this ♥♥♥♥.

A game that isn't graphically intensive but spends most of it's time in the update thread.
Meaning it is more bound by the CPU than the GPU. Much like Factorio.

[Wrayday]

So the game on 4k Max settings is only using 30% of my CPU, 30% of my GPU, and around 4gb of ram. The game runs buttery smooth and instantly loads. I'm also watching YouTube in chrome on the other monitor.

So, it might be an issue on your end.

[Zenthar]

I run into problem with this game as well but only at specific times. No matter the graphics settings, it runs at 60fps+ but the moment the eruption timer hits 2:00 everything runs horribly. The game lags so hard it's difficult to even move. After the eruption happens it returns to being butter smooth with no problems at all. Weirdest thing. This also started happening after entering the Titanium 3rd zone.

[Wrayday]

Without posting your spec's it's nearly impossible for anyone to properly help you.

[K e y s]

I personally feel there needs to be some optimization with the game. For me, I found that at specific times, the game drops to 0 fps for an extended period of time then full frames, doing this many times, then I'll have normal frames afterwards. I tested this by staying underground and not moving my character for 2 full in game days + lots of in game hours.

The times start at 14:00 mins left, and will continue to be a smooth game around 11:30 mins maybe up until 11:00 mins left. I also noticed all the drills will burrow shortly afterwards. My guess is the game is doing a very expensive calculation on where the drills are next.

It also drops my fps to 0 at 2:00 mins left and will resume normal frames at around 23:00 mins left after the eruption. My guess on this one is the calculation for the replenishment of the minerals.

Again, these are guesses, but it happens each day at those times. I didn't notice it at the beginning of my game play, but it got worse. I'm pretty far into the game.

[Gerom]

in beging game 60fps on high graphics, in the end 1-20fps on low graphics))
It's very badly((

[MarcusSheperd]

I have the same problem, small hangs again and again. Especially in combat it hangs again and again and often times very strong.

[Antaiir]

Interesting, all the complaining people are not posting their hardware. All i read is "this game is running soooo bad, it's just bad optimized crap". Did you consider, that your own rig could be the bad part in this equation?

I have no performance issues with this game, and i have old midrange hardware only: Ryzen 5 2600X, Radeon RX470 8GB (nitro+), 32GB RAM. It's installed on a NAS, so i even don't have SSD speed for data transfer. I play on 1080p capped at 60 FPS. So if this game runs so bad on your computer, than you must have either a pocket calculator or you messed up your system configuration... or both.

[supernet2]

Originally posted by Antaiir:

Did you consider, that your own rig could be the bad part in this equation?

cpus; multiple types of i5, multiple types of i7, i9, multiple Ryzen 5 versions, Ryzen 7, Ryzen 9.

GPUs: gtx 1050, gtx 1060, gtx 1650, 1080ti Dual sli, Intel Iris Xe,

Ram: DDR3/DDR4/DDR5 16gb, 64gb, 128gb,

Storage: NVMe 2 and 4 lane, and ssd as storage medium where game is on the NVMe portion

Variety of laptops, gaming desktops, custom build desktops and laptops, prebuilt gaming laptops/desktops. Can't be telling me, all of these machines i have, having these identical issues.

And the solution i mentioned seemed to be a viable solution on all machines i play this volcanoids game on. As of the current build dating to 3/16/2023.

Still have the aforementioned stuttering, issues.

Alienware, Asus ROG, Acer Nitro 5, Helios, Predator 16 and 17 series, a variety of custom dell machines and customized toshibas,


So... in my experience, this tells me, the game is horrifically optimized. Gonna have to say, its definitely a lack of optimization, and not a lack of under spec'd hardware on my end.

Actually on the machine with what i believe is the crappiest gpu of the mentioned gpus, the intel iris xe, runs butter smooth, when i lower cog spawn from 100% to only 99% (Or i increase that number), and suddenly i have no problems multiplayer wise, i get 22-45fps.

Im used to games running at 60-180fps. So.... yeah. Gonna have to argue its not necessarily hardware, and lean more towards its optimization problems/issues.

[MarcusSheperd]

i5 gtx 1050 ti 16 gb ram

[k]

Hello,

We are working on the optimizations and for sure we will do our best to increase the game performance in the future updates. I will have more info about this in the upcoming weeks.

Thanks for your reports and sorry for the inconveniences.

[MarcusSheperd]

that's something, thank you very much. Good to know.

[MarcusSheperd]

then I wait for the performance update is so simply not playable for me, sry

[Fhryfuejhdgd]

I saw in the last few hundred discussions that this game doesn't have mulithreaded support, which could be the reason why the game doesn't run so well. Check your resources! I have my game set on all max graphics, and my gpu only is utilized at 30%.