Bug Issues with Weird FPS, model visibility, rotation preview

[NeonSturm]

The FPS is between 20 and 30 now after fiddling a lot with settings that are easy to overlook (no grouping at all).

But the FPS still drops to constant 14 while the settings window is open.
The FPS drops by 20% if just the chat window is open.

Player models (including enemy or player astronauts and NPC-traders) are invisible. I have played a lot with settings but no one fixed this.
I use mostly the settings I had a year ago when this was not an issue (neither today with older versions of SM).

Rotation of non-full cubes is tricky.
I have to blindly guess and place the block which COMPLETELY ruins all fun while building.

When using an older version of star-made and an older launcher, it is not an issue.

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It's definitively some update since February/March or a stupid setting when I make a new clean install through the new launcher (beta).

 

[Deserea]

The FPS is between 20 and 30 now after fiddling a lot with settings that are easy to overlook (no grouping at all).

But the FPS still drops to constant 14 while the settings window is open.
The FPS drops by 20% if just the chat window is open.

Player models (including enemy or player astronauts and NPC-traders) are invisible. I have played a lot with settings but no one fixed this.
I use mostly the settings I had a year ago when this was not an issue (neither today with older versions of SM).

Rotation of non-full cubes is tricky.
I have to blindly guess and place the block which COMPLETELY ruins all fun while building.

When using an older version of star-made and an older launcher, it is not an issue.

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It's definitively some update since February/March or a stupid setting when I make a new clean install through the new launcher (beta).

Glad im not the only one with FPS issues...i had to lower my chunks loaded down to basically nothing after this latest update, before 1000, now, 250, and it makes building big ships a pain in the rear.

Also getting random FPS drops, placing a block drops my FPS from 30 to 10, rotating does the same. Using an older version, the problem goes away too.

Before this update i used to be able to get 30FPS easy and constantly, i could push for 60, now im lucky to get 30, and ive fiddled with every setting i can find.

 

[SmilingDemon]

both of you please search for the logs folder inside your starmade install
there should be a file named "logstarmade.0.log" in there after one of those events happening (end the game then)
drag and drop that file into an answer here (you might have to zip it first)

the size of chunks got increased by 8x .. so reducing the count from 1000 to 250 is still loading twice as much as before

 

[NeonSturm]

the size of chunks got increased by 8x .. so reducing the count from 1000 to 250 is still loading twice as much as before

Agree.
But the FPS got halfed and now I have to set everything to very low to get the same FPS as before (including 800x600 resolution).

1920x1080 gives 5 FPS drop compared to 800x600 and 7 FPS bonus compared to 5k*3k (just for testing, I don't have such a monitor)
I expected it to FPS/resolution scale squared, not near-linear.

Block count doesn't matter thought and texture quality has only a difference between 128 and 256, not between 64 and 128
Feeling controversially, loaded chunks are no problem even in crowded sectors. Collision checks are (planets especially).
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I never had to use simple lightening in the old builds and can't fix missing player/NPC-visibilty still.

UPDATE: I somehow fixed block rotations now being shown at least inside the 1x1x1 build wire-frame by winning a settings-lottery.

 

[SmilingDemon]

NeonSturm
please try to force download repair your game installation. the startup claims to have a lot of missing ressource files.
use the green arrow marked button here :

then please activate in the options menu under Tech Info -> SOME_INFO and get me a screen shot from the lower left corner when that FPS drops happen.
looks like this:

 

[NeonSturm]

I moved 1m. The zoom changed only because of blocks above my head (where my head should be displayed.
As you can see, you see nothing. No player-avatar.


I tried to make a screenshot like the one you took as example, but it didn't work.
Lag statistics are included, but the white text bottom left is not.

Update:
When I have the settings-window fullscreen (resized it to take the full screen), my FPS drops to 14.
When the settings-window is as small as possible, the FPS-drop is not noticeable – maybe 1 FPS.
It's directly dependent on window size and not on the settings-menu itself.

 

[SmilingDemon]

Did you or did you not do what i suggested ?

 

[NeonSturm]

I did a forced update/reinstall.
It didn't change anything though.

 

[kikaha]

Hi !
I have the same problems since around the same time. I hought it was due to the fact that the proprietary drivers for my video card are no longer supported by AMD. I run linux Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS and have a radeon 7660 (yep, does exist).

I see no player model, no NPC models nor myself.
When fast lighting isn't selected i don't even see structures such as stick shop. Ships don't render unless from a certain distance and angle.
And of course framebuffer and bloom effect cause a drastic drop in FPS.