Terrible performance around Straining Coppice in Lookout Alpha, Albion

bmtv0957 · Post by **bmtv0957** » Mon, 28. Jul 14, 03:10

My ships take the root from Wrecksville to Auspicious Excavation, they pass through Straining Coppice. For some reason when doing this my game will drop to 1 fps. Once it's reached the gate to leave Albion, my fps goes back to normal.

http://i.imgur.com/O07GCS7.png

There are a lot of ships at Straining Coppice, but not really a lot more than anywhere else. I went to Far Out -> Steady Mole, and there apeared to be hundreds and hundreds of interceptor drones arranged in a giant X formation, and I still got decent FPS there.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

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exelsiar · Post by **exelsiar** » Mon, 28. Jul 14, 05:15

The drones thing is an issue caused by mods, details here:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=369694

as for the lag caused by your ships going somewhere, i cant tell if you mean your own Albion Skunk ship, or any other player ship. if its the albion skunk then its deffinitely the drones causeing the issue.

Post by **Terre** » Mon, 28. Jul 14, 08:15

@bmtv0957 Are you using any mods?

bmtv0957 · Post by **bmtv0957** » Mon, 28. Jul 14, 14:55

exelsiar wrote:The drones thing is an issue caused by mods, details here:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=369694

as for the lag caused by your ships going somewhere, i cant tell if you mean your own Albion Skunk ship, or any other player ship. if its the albion skunk then its deffinitely the drones causeing the issue.

Oh, I mean the albion skunk.

I'm using the Ultimate Fleet Overhaul mod, could that be causing it? Is there a way to disable the mod without making my save game incompatible?

YorrickVander · Post by **YorrickVander** » Mon, 28. Jul 14, 15:03

Yes - UFO 050 was made for patch 1.31, the changes in the drone ai (and other areas) from 2.0 on break UFO.

Miniding · Post by **Miniding** » Mon, 28. Jul 14, 15:31

problem solved...

and.... click

dammit I'm not a moddo here

Ok I get out!

bmtv0957 · Post by **bmtv0957** » Mon, 28. Jul 14, 15:31

ah, I understand. My fault then I guess. I can't seem to turn it off, either. I'll have to start all over again. >_<

YorrickVander · Post by **YorrickVander** » Mon, 28. Jul 14, 15:42

Removing the mod is possible, and will stop new drones breaking in this fashion. It won't remove the ones already there though. This is the risk we take with mods - if unwilling to risk the game time, never use them.

If the save can't be loaded, open it in wordpad, notepad++ or whatever editor you like that can handle very large text files (i use notepad++ myself) and look for a line like

<patch extension="ws_285697432" version="11" name="Galaxy Station Range"/>

but the name= referring to UFO of course. After unsubbing from Workshop, manually delete *only* that line and reload game. Have fun shooting all those stray drones

bmtv0957 · Post by **bmtv0957** » Mon, 28. Jul 14, 16:04

I'll give that a try man, thanks. I guess I'll just buy a butt load of hellbusters and travel system to system.

Post by **Terre** » Mon, 28. Jul 14, 21:36

Miniding wrote:problem solved...

and.... click

You got it.