Does everyone's FPS plummet when they have a base built? down 60% around arge vicinity

jpinard · September 2016

My base right now has 4 common rooms, several straight pieces, lots of stuff inside the base, and 9 vertical tubes that go to the surface in which I was able to put 3 solar panels on. I can take a screenshot if that would help. So my frame rate was wonderful before I started building. It averaged 60+ all the time. Now, even when I can't see the base, but am anywhere remotely in the neighborhood, the frame rate is abysmal and averages 20 FPS. 20 FPS wouod be livable if not for the very bad hitching.

I know optimization is the last thing done before the game goes gold, but is there anything I can do to help this situation out? Does this happen to everyone?

DagothUr · September 2016

I lose about 2FPS per module.

EvilSmoo · September 2016

I remember someone talking about bugs specific to certain upgrades, or certain subs. Not impossible that something in the base went weird.

Best way to test that is to remove the base and rebuild a new one.

nocommonsense · September 2016

If you really want to mess your game up you can build a base in the active lava zone then use the vertical connectors to drill through the ceiling until you hit the safe shallows. Instant transport back and forth, at the price of the game straight up clipping, as in freezes for a couple seconds updates for a second then freezes again repeat, nearly unplayable. Though using the straight habitats to also connect to the mushroom caves was what really pushed it over. Seeing as how the terraformer was removed for good reasons, restricting the placement of base parts wouldn't be a bad idea to discourage miscreants like myself (especially since they're kind enough to have teleporters in the future).

Lonnehart · September 2016

Hmm... I haven't sensed any drop in FPS when my bases are built. Then again I'm not playing on the highest settings so...

Harry82 · September 2016

If it might help;

Someone said they found that the Thermal Reactors were what was killing his/her frame rate. Get rid of them, or only 2-3 built might be ok...

Personally I don't have any problems even with big bases... Ok computer, i7 4210U, 8gb 1600mhz, mSata 80gb SSD and nVidia 765m. I play on recommended with high water settings, 1376x768, 1gb pagefile on normal HDD.

Is it possible you have low memory somewhere? RAM? GPU? Maybe Subnautica is filling your ram with textures and overflowing onto your page file located on a normal HDD? Just thinkin'....

Some things to look at anyway....

Whats your system like OP?

EvilSmoo · September 2016

I run with SQUADS of thermal generators nearby, and it never seems to make much difference.

jpinard · September 2016

Harry82 wrote: »

If it might help;

Someone said they found that the Thermal Reactors were what was killing his/her frame rate. Get rid of them, or only 2-3 built might be ok...

Personally I don't have any problems even with big bases... Ok computer, i7 4210U, 8gb 1600mhz, mSata 80gb SSD and nVidia 765m. I play on recommended with high water settings, 1376x768, 1gb pagefile on normal HDD.

Is it possible you have low memory somewhere? RAM? GPU? Maybe Subnautica is filling your ram with textures and overflowing onto your page file located on a normal HDD? Just thinkin'....

Some things to look at anyway....

Whats your system like OP?

* Win 10 64x all drivers up-to-date:
* 2 Nvidia 970 in SLI
* Intel i7 4790k @4.4 GHz
* SSD
* Asus Maximus VII Formula
* 16 Gig duel channel DDR3 RAM 21k
* Sound Blaster Zx
* XBox One wireless controller (non-Bluetooth)
* Usually playing over Steamlink in big picture mode over a wired Cat 7 ethernet cable.

Here are some pictures of my base:

Does everyone's FPS plummet when they have a base built? down 60% around arge vicinity

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