Poor perfomance.

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Hello.
Any ideas why this game runs at 10 fps? Maxing out gpu? My trusty nvidia 970 GTX can run cyberpunk pretty well on low-medium settings, and this is a 2d tower defence with sprites... WTF?

[Maestro]

depends how much crap is going on your screen at the moment, you might have large waves of bloons + tons of your towers doing crazy shooting all over the map...which is a lot of process to intake, lot of things happening in the same second

cyberpunk does not do such things, if it did then you would not be able to play cyberpunk above 1fps or crash

this goes for any game if you place a lot of entities it will lagg the game

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Originally posted by CrazyPenguin:

depends how much crap is going on your screen at the moment, you might have large waves of bloons + tons of your towers doing crazy shooting all over the map...which is a lot of process to intake, lot of things happening in the same second

Zero. I just started the game. Thats why I'm asking. It starts, blasts me with music, I start the first map and have 10 fps.

I really enjoyed the game in the past, in the browser version (previous editions), wanted to get it on steam for occasional madness, but its unplayable until i figure out why its so laggy, even before theres ton of stuff on the screen.

[PichuYang]

It always sounds hilarious when you run a fully detailed AAA 3D games even with less impressive computer, but runs 2D-liked games in poor performance. However, it is completely normal, and this is only one of the reasons:

Originally posted by CrazyPenguin:

depends how much crap is going on your screen at the moment, you might have large waves of bloons + tons of your towers doing crazy shooting all over the map...which is a lot of process to intake, lot of things happening in the same second

cyberpunk does not do such things, if it did then you would not be able to play cyberpunk above 1fps or crash

Any AAA games that will involve tons of calculations will also crash or drop FPS at some point. It isn't about "BTD6 is a 2D game". In fact, BTD6 has 3D elements such as MOAB-class bloons and Towers.

A GTX 960 Card can also runs a stable 60 FPS BTD6 except higher Freeplay with obvious reasons: Tower that spam stuff that some-more spam a lot of stuff. (Read Patch 22 Mini Avatar change as a proof) This is from my past experience with 3-4 years old said card. (It can runs Far Cry 4 in 60 FPS, high details bcs there isn't a lot of calculations going on screen)

It is important to check your resolution. This game is not specifically programmed for higher resolution beyond than 1920 x 1080, or multiple displays. There are player reports that it will stop capping low FPS when screen is out of focus, etc.

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Originally posted by CatChu:

It is important to check your resolution. This game is not specifically programmed for higher resolution beyond than 1920 x 1080, or multiple displays.

You might be on to something. I got double 4k monitors...
But how the hell do i resize the game window, there is no resolution controls, there is no resize bars if I alt-enter out of full screen? I'm not going to switch my screen resolution to 1080 everytime i want to play...

Damn, i though that popping baloons would be easier ;DDD

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Are there any runtime/startup commands i can input, to force lower game resolution?

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Thank you gentelmen.

Startup parameter:

-screen-width 1920 -screen-height 1080

I got a window with the game, runs good.

[Maestro]

Originally posted by arrow:

Originally posted by CrazyPenguin:

depends how much crap is going on your screen at the moment, you might have large waves of bloons + tons of your towers doing crazy shooting all over the map...which is a lot of process to intake, lot of things happening in the same second

Zero. I just started the game. Thats why I'm asking. It starts, blasts me with music, I start the first map and have 10 fps.

I really enjoyed the game in the past, in the browser version (previous editions), wanted to get it on steam for occasional madness, but its unplayable until i figure out why its so laggy, even before theres ton of stuff on the screen.

You are having technical issues on your side then

Because I run this game on potato laptop
Intel Duo 2Ghz
4 GB Ram
Intel HD Graphics 3000
Win 7 64bit
DirectX 9

And the game runs smooth until I go late game 100+ waves and have a lot of crap on my screen

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Fu.... hell, now that i've gone through the first mission... there are resolution controls.


All is good now. 1920x1080 is working fine. It started in 4k which it was not optimized for... I'd just want to have that resolution picker BEFORE first mission.

[PichuYang]

Originally posted by CrazyPenguin:

Because I run this game on potato laptop
Intel Duo 2Ghz
4 GB Ram
Intel HD Graphics 3000
Win 7 64bit
DirectX 9

As I said, this game is not designed for anything beyond 1920 x 1080. It is not about specs only, rendering in different resolutions can cause a game goes odd, even for AAA games.

A lot of users also goes beyond 1080p for their display.

Originally posted by arrow:

All is good now. 1920x1080 is working fine. It started in 4k which it was not optimized for... I'd just want to have that resolution picker BEFORE first mission.

As far as I know, it starts at fullscreen by default, so having resolution picker is nice.

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Originally posted by CatChu:

As far as I know, it starts at fullscreen by default, so having resolution picker is nice.

Yes and you can't change it, until you finish the first mission and enter the 'hub'.