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Starmade | Excessive FPS droppage and lag due to new power stabilizer path
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Normally I'm able to run starmade with approximately 20-40FPS in most situations.

If I Spawn any previously made entities in, or build a new entity with practically sized reactors, my FPS takes a hit because of the new Stabilizer path feature. The bigger the reactor gets, the worse the problem is, up to the point where my FPS gets brought down to 1.

Removing any entities with regularly sized reactors will fix this right up, but it's kinda hard to build a working ship without a reactor to power it.

I think this is some kind of a bug, since I took a look at the log files and found this:

"[2017-12-20 01:46:11] Exception!!! Overflow in AABB, object removed from simulation PCGhostObjExt([StabilizerPath: Ship[Reactor Trial](6); StabilizerUnit1588954716[(15, 17, -36)/(18, 20, -30)](54; 54)])@367004147; (NaN, NaN, NaN); (NaN, NaN, NaN)"

Details

Task Type
Bug
Testing Results
Affected Gamemode(s)
Single and Multi
Reproducible
Yes
Last tested (version)
0.200.277
Category
Physics
First occurrence (version)
0.200.262
Hardware/Software/System
OS-Specific
No
Hardware-Specific
No
Video Card Vendor
uncertain
Steps to reproduce
  • Spawn or Build any kind of a viable structure with large enough reactors to run it.
  • FPS bombs, and won't come back up until the affected structure is either totally removed or the reactors in it are pulled out.
Tester information (Internal use only)

The streams have physics and check for blocks passing through it, causing fps problems.
A sector that suffers greatly from this particular issue has been uploaded in Slack, name: "lagSector".

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lancake moved this task from New / Unconfirmed to Confirmed on the Issue Navigation board.Dec 20 2017, 5:28 PM
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The streams have physics and check for blocks passing through it, causing fps problems.
A sector that suffers greatly from this particular issue has been uploaded in Slack, name: "lagSector".

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Tested on Macbook Pro 2012, Intel HD Graphics 3000 1024MB, OSX Mavericks.

I can't get more than 15 FPS in version 0.200.269. I only had a shop and a small wad of systems on screen.

lancake added a comment.Dec 29 2017, 5:55 PM
In T2779#116861, @Valiant70 wrote:

Tested on Macbook Pro 2012, Intel HD Graphics 3000 1024MB, OSX Mavericks.
I can't get more than 15 FPS in version 0.200.269. I only had a shop and a small wad of systems on screen.

This only happens if there is any energy stream visible? Or just bad performance in general even if there are no stabilizers?

Valiant70 added a comment.EditedDec 30 2017, 12:51 AM
In T2779#117011, @lancake wrote:
In T2779#116861, @Valiant70 wrote:

Tested on Macbook Pro 2012, Intel HD Graphics 3000 1024MB, OSX Mavericks.
I can't get more than 15 FPS in version 0.200.269. I only had a shop and a small wad of systems on screen.

This only happens if there is any energy stream visible? Or just bad performance in general even if there are no stabilizers?

Both. About 21 FPS max without beams, 18 or so with them.

Correction: That was due to camera angle. With the same camera angle, FPS is the same with and without beams in 0.200.273, about 15 with that ship and shop in view.

lancake added a comment.Dec 30 2017, 1:33 AM

Could you try out a few pre-set graphics in the Graphics option menu? Compatibility mode low is the lowest one available. Make sure to completely restart your client after applying the changes.
And what's the comparison with the current release version? Preferably use a separate installation for that, and upload the settings.cfg + logstarmade.0.log for both the release, and the dev/pre version you used to check with.

lancake moved this task from Backlog / Unclassed to Confirmed fix on the Quality Assurance board.Jan 4 2018, 5:10 PM
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lancake changed Last tested (version) from 0.200.263 to 0.200.277.Jan 4 2018, 5:10 PM