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I've been playing starmade off and on now for the past 2 years. I'm having a lot of trouble with frame rate and would like to know if there are any ways I can help my Starmade run smoother.
For Single Player:set sector sizes to something large (to avoid loading/unloading sectors so often, even if more can be in each sector)
my experience on sector sizes is entirely opposite. Large sectors do not lag (espescially client FPS lag) anywhere near as much as small sectors. The load/unload is a major component of traveling, and lower speed(or fast HDD) CAN mitigate that. The main problem I notice is there's a lot of background artifacts that get rendered in small sectors, where with large ones they are outside your FoV/render distance. A 50km sector with 9 ships in it is less laggy to me than a 10km one with 9 ships.For Single Player:
Set your sectors Small. This is the big mistake i keep seeing. You do not exist in a single sector. But in a 3 by 3 by 3 sector bubble. That is 27 sectors in total. Cross a sector boundary and you load up another 9 sectors.
There is fierce debate on sector size and it mostly boils down to a specific group who cry because it takes away room for duels. In there opinion. I am a pvp player and rather have a server with small sectors and 40 people on it without lag. It is a specific need and not something you need to cater to if your playing StarMade as a single player on a weak computer.
Use the maximum server speed to limit sector crossings. StarMade used to have a 50m/s max speed. Now it is default 75 m/s. Leave it at that or go back to 50 m/s. You can always use an overdrive to get more speed.
To move about from sector to sector use a jump drive. Increase the jump distance if it takes to long. Use your thrusters to move within a sector. If you go on long range travel only use the jump drive and do not use your thrusters.
For Multi Player:
The Server will take care of the above. So find one that uses small sectors and play there. Shadows, high texture detail, and filters are the most intensive to calculate and they add nothing to the game play so just turn them off. As a pvp player I tend to turn everything off as fps is the only thing that matters. I do not care how it looks. Apart from maybe some backgrounds.