fix for low FPS?

[John_Foe]

Hi all, new player here.

I'm using medium graphics settings to get around 25-35 FPS on the specs below. Is this normal? I think I should be able to play on high settings comfortably.

i9-9900K, 3600 Mhz, 8 cores

16 GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Windows 10 Home edition

 

 

EDIT: I'm using a few mods, but none of them are graphics heavy.

 

 

 

 

Edited March 1, 2025 by John_Foe

[DUCATISLO]

game optimization is shit tho

[WiggleStick]

10 hours ago, John_Foe said:

Hi all, new player here.

I'm using medium graphics settings to get around 25-35 FPS on the specs below. Is this normal? I think I should be able to play on high settings comfortably.

i9-9900K, 3600 Mhz, 8 cores

16 GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Windows 10 Home edition

 

 

EDIT: I'm using a few mods, but none of them are graphics heavy.

 

 

 

 

I Started Here (originally posted by ieatchickens)

In-Game settings:

• Max FPS: unlimited
• V-Sync: off

Nvidia Control Panel:

• Low latency mode: Ultra - default is off.
• V-Sync: Fast Sync - regular and adaptive didn't work. Off should work too if you don't have fast sync in the options but the screen will tear.
• FPS limit: 150 - double the refresh rate of my monitor - for fast sync to work and to reduce the GPU usage.
• Threaded optimization: off - default is auto. I still had some stuttering with it set to auto. Turning it off solved the issue for some reason.

From there I set  graphics to max and started turning things down to get the best fps.

Alt F3 to tun on FPS graph

1 turned off God Rays

2 SSOA, Shadows, Particles, to 1/2 slider

LOD Bias to 67%

My View Distance is 1024 and this works for me you may need to go lower.

I also save after a while and restart and that seems to help.

 

 

Edited March 1, 2025 by WiggleStick

[John_Foe]

Thanks, WiggleStick.

I did the changes you mentioned, with marginal effect. I turned off shadows, that helped a bit. The other setting that seems to make a noticeable effect is View Distance, which I set to 352. I don't want to go lower on this.

 

Additional observations:

Changing FXAA, god rays, and bloom, resolution and far geometry LOD have no effect.

[WiggleStick]

Your CPU seems fine, You Video card seems a little weaker (Mine is only a 3060ti), But I would think it Should work better.

I have 32g ram, But the other thing I did, had some effect was, to turn on all my cores since my #1 Core was pegged @ 100% and over heating.

After that It would still hit 100%, but would run between 85-95% most of the time.

I also set my FPS in game to 72.

I run between 50-70 fps pretty consistently, after playing a while and traveling large distances I See my FPS Monitor dropping ( looking fuzzy) I save and reload and it steadies out

I don't blame you for not wanting to go with a lower View distance I don't like going to 512 so I adjust  everything to use 1024.

I would rather turn everything to minimum to keep my view distance up.

 

[CrookedLightning]

You should be able to run it with better fps, I get around 140+ fps (my refresh rate is 144) on medium with I think around 448 render distance (I have a gaming laptop with the same ram amount but a worse graphics card than you). I think your problem is the mods, I have had massive frequent lag spikes when playing with mods that look like they shouldn't affect frames at all. From other forum posts I have seen it just seems to be a problem with VS mods in general leaking memory. From what I have seen, it looks like the fix is that if you want to play with mods, use a dedicated server (idk if the official VS servers support mods). What fps do you get if you run a world without mods enabled?

[Thorfinn]

1 hour ago, CrookedLightning said:

From other forum posts I have seen it just seems to be a problem with VS mods in general leaking memory.

Very much this. Particularly when you only have 16g to start with. On that setup, I think I would make sure to have some memory tool running on a second monitor to keep track of what's happening.

If you want to start narrowing it down, turn on Developer Options and turn on at least the first couple options plus VAO. (Sounds are a lot less common than textures, but turn those on too depending on your modlist.) The logs are a lot more to read through with all the extended debug info, but it's a lot faster than most other methods of checking for mod issues.

[Zane Mordien]

1 hour ago, CrookedLightning said:

. From what I have seen, it looks like the fix is that if you want to play with mods, use a dedicated server (idk if the official VS servers support mods). 

I have a $300 used Dell server blade with 128gb of ram that I use and I agree it works better than my gaming laptop.  It would probably work even better if I was smarter on how to set things up optimally. Lag is almost non existent unless I run a prune command ... haha that lags it out.

[WiggleStick]

One more thing to check.

Since 1.20 I absolutely can not leave Any browsers running in the background.

This was not a problem in 1.9x.

[Never Jhonsen]

On 3/1/2025 at 3:46 AM, John_Foe said:

i9-9900K, 3600 Mhz, 8 cores ,16 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super, Windows 10 Home edition

I have a 6th gen Pentium, 12GB DDR3, and a 2060 on Windows 10.

And at Very High (+ god rays and FireFox YouTube music) I get about 60-75 FPS with an occasional drop to 30. This photo I took just after running 500 blocks from home (June 26th btw. .. look at that lake ice still there smh)

I haven't done any of those settings from above (that I know of), but there is one thing I did that hasn't been mentioned yet;

Settings (Windows app) -> Gaming -> Game Mode (set to on)

Then from that screen, Graphics Settings -> Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling (Set to on)

And on that same page, Graphics Performance Preferences. I've added all my games to get max performance.

 

 

 

[RetroTekGuy]

That's definitely not normal... 

These are my specs

GPU : Nvidia GeForce 2070 Super
PSU : Corsair 750w 
MOBO : ASRock H310CM-HDV
CPU : Intel Core i5 9600K 
RAM : Crucial 16GB 2133mhz
SSD : Samsung 860 EVO 1TB
OS : Windows 10 64-bit

 

Sliders on max at 2560x1400 I get 70-90 fps. It definitely sounds like one or a combination of mods you're using might be causing some issue. Only way to solve that is deactivate 1 mod at a time and load back in and see if anything improves. Hope you solve it

[Broccoli Clock]

For reference, I am on..

Ryzen 5 5500 / MSI RTX 3050 (8Gb VRAM) / 32Gb DDR4 @ 3200Mhz / Win 10 (running on SSD)

https://i.imgur.com/k9xJb2j.png

I am generally running 80-100 fps @1080, sometimes it'll drop down to 60 when in dense forest but it bounces back fairly quickly.

 

 

20 hours ago, WiggleStick said:

Since 1.20 I absolutely can not leave Any browsers running in the background.

I find things like YT absolutely saps my GPU. I do have hardware acceleration enabled in the browser settings, and I'm using FF (always have!) which can have a heavier memory footprint, but I can have 20 odd tabs open with "basic" html stuff and the game is fine. Have one of those tabs open at YT and the difference is notable.

I am my own worst enemy though, as I'm someone who will happily have like 3 separate browser instances each of them with multiple tabs open.

[John_Foe]

A little update. I did something, don't know what, and nod the game runs at around 130-140 FPS. One thing could be the browser being open at the same time, as was mentioned.

Thanks for all the advice!

 

[Broccoli Clock]

14 hours ago, John_Foe said:

A little update. I did something, don't know what, and nod the game runs at around 130-140 FPS.

I feel a meme is appropriate here...

 

..and as a dev, I feel this pain on a regular basis!