{"id":9603,"date":"2023-03-12T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/?p=9603"},"modified":"2023-03-12T16:00:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T16:00:29","slug":"p0-b4-part-1213-debugging-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/p0-b4-part-1213-debugging-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"P0-B4: Part 1213: Debugging, Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have fixed another, more minor, optimisation issue, which I again identified using the unity profiler, and I have made other significant optimisations to performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The framerate is now substantially higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During testing, the framerate, even in a debug build, it usually capped at the target framerate, which is currently 80 in my build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It sometimes drops below this if geometry is being loaded in, etc, but the lowest framerate I saw was over 60 FPS, which is excellent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is, however, running at 1080P in a window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Running a release build at 4K in a fullscreen window (not exclusive fullscreen) resulted in an average framerate of 40-50, and a minimum framerate which was over 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think this is, again, excellent, since it means that users can either choose 1080P at over 60 FPS (For those who prefer framerate to resolution) or 4K at around 40-50 FPS (average) for those who prefer resolution over framerate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While these numbers are coming from a build running on a very powerful system (AMD 5950x, nVIDIA 3090, 128 GBs RAM), they are “worst case” numbers, with all graphics options maxed, all post-processing effects enabled, and while rendering the most complex scenes in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For less powerful systems, it would be possible to significantly improve performance by making even very slight changes to the graphics settings (Grass rendering, in particular).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game allows extensive changes to be made to the graphics settings, so users can customise it to their hardware, or even for future hardware, as it becomes available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have fixed another, more minor, optimisation issue, which I again identified using the unity profiler, and I have made other significant optimisations to performance. The framerate is now substantially higher. During testing, the framerate, even in a debug build, it usually capped at the target framerate, which is currently 80 in my build. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,17,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astral-realms","category-meridian","category-p-0","category-software-and-games","category-spiritus-astrum","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9604,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603\/revisions\/9604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}