[4.10] Weird performance hickups - mid game - Due to a 3rd party mod.

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[4.10] Weird performance hickups - mid game - Due to a 3rd party mod.

Post by Xkuka » Mon, 22. Nov 21, 11:22

Hey there,
i have some weird stutter problems in my game and i am looking for some help. But i dont have so much hope right now, and i already tried a lot to figure out what is happening. Generally i dont have a performance issue, my framerates are consistently above 60 (usually above 100 but its limited in gforce settings) except for map view where i got 40fps upwards. It just stutters in situations where i would not expect it. As example, an escort mission in a fairly empty sector, and i get stutters when encountering some Khaak, sometimes when they spawn sometimes when they start to shoot. But i got these stutters at random moments all along, but especially in combat. So its not like unplayable, but very annoying, and i simply dont get it why...
My CPU is clearly not challanged and is only used up to 30%. GPU whise its also still not a problem (~70% usage), especially i dont think its a visual problem since i can play at stable frames even when looking over my busy giga factory. RAM is also not used extensively, only 10GB of 16 most of the time.
Only thing that is constantly maxed out is usage of dedicated gpu memory (4GB). And that is my only guess that the game struggles to load new stuff in smoothly. But if that is the case... i am out of options here.

And yes, the game is modified. But only functional script mods, no world changes or ships or stuff like that.
I suspected some of these stutters to be related to the mods i use to mamage my freighters. But i made tests with and without many station traders running and could not see a difference. Also it is apparent that it happens a lot in combat, and as i described it above it seems to be clear that there is some of it directly related to that. And i have nothing done to alter combat. And i am not even talking about big battles, just a handfull of ships. But it gets worse quickly if numbers go up. And its not like fps droppes, stutters just come more frequently. Last thing i quit the game frustrated when i started a fight in a Xenon sector because i even got stutters after boosting away and turning and looking into empty darkness.


Here my system:

I9 9900k
16GB Ram DDR4 @ 2666mhz
GTX 980
System on NVMe SSD and games on SATA SSD
1080p monitor

BIOS and grafics drivers up to date, as well as the OS (win10)
***Never not modified***
Specs: I9 9900k, 32GB DDR4, ASUS RTX2060 12GB, Sys drive: 1TB Nvme SSD, Games drive: 1TB Nvme SSD, Win10 pro 21H2

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Re: [4.10] Weird performance hickups - mid game

Post by CBJ » Mon, 22. Nov 21, 11:32

Xkuka wrote:
Mon, 22. Nov 21, 11:22
And yes, the game is modified. But only functional script mods, no world changes or ships or stuff like that.
Unfortunately the kind of mods you are using are exactly the kinds of mods that can cause the sort of problem you're reporting, so while it's possible that they are caused by the game itself, we're not going to spend time investigating that unless you can provide an unmodified savegame that demonstrates the problem.

That said, the graphics memory could indeed be a limiting factor, but I wouldn't expect the stutter to be very frequent if that were the case. Lowering settings, particularly for things like AA, could help with this situation.

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Re: [4.10] Weird performance hickups - mid game

Post by Xkuka » Wed, 24. Nov 21, 13:22

CBJ wrote:
Mon, 22. Nov 21, 11:32
Xkuka wrote:
Mon, 22. Nov 21, 11:22
And yes, the game is modified. But only functional script mods, no world changes or ships or stuff like that.
Unfortunately the kind of mods you are using are exactly the kinds of mods that can cause the sort of problem you're reporting...
It was "mules_and_warehouses_extended". Great mod, and great lags...Without its smooth like butter.
I try to get by without trading mods now...
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Re: [4.10] Weird performance hickups - mid game

Post by CBJ » Wed, 24. Nov 21, 13:26

Glad to hear you've found the culprit. Thanks for reporting back. :)

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