Update 01.180.2 Minor - AMD Compatibility Improvements

Sweet

 

such fixes, wow

 

No Teaser this week. *snif* ^^

 

Thanks as always guys.

 

I assume AMD means both GPUs and CPUs?

 

So glad to see optimization

 

Fixes AMD, shows video talking about intel and nvidia. I don't have AMD anything but I thought it was funny.

 

@Drui Can you elaborate a bit more on what optimizations were done towards AMD? Is it Ryzen related? For GPUs? If it's for GPUs, what generations may see any benefit.

 

mfw i see the words "Good News"

 

Is the AMD stuff for CPUs or GPUs?
I have an AMD GPU, but Intel CPU, so the distinction matters.

 

new 3rd person camera working well with attached grids.
Hype level: |------------------------------~/ . . . . ....... []

 

A+ rating for communication this update; knowing what's being worked on really helps a lot. Fantastic news about the work on optimizing the game. And as someone with an AMD GPU, this is good news for me!

 

¿por qué no los dos?

 

Very nice update. Always like the idea of optimisations like that. Happy for the AMD fixes! Good news! Sad, no teaser. I was looking forward to it. Keep up the awesome work Keen!

 

Soooo does that mean I can start using LCDs again, or is this some other lighting bug?

 

I have AMD CPU and GPU so ..... THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!

 

"An i5 processor".....the i5 750, which I am currently running BTW, came out in 2009. The difference between mine and something like the 7600k is pretty big....much bigger than the difference between an i5 and an i7 that are the same generation(especially for SE, which may run better on an i5). Saying you're running an i5 is like saying you're running an intel processor that is at most eight years old...how useful

 

The fact that they've doubled the sim speed on their test hardware with 16+ ships moving around, is a massive improvement that we'll all benefit from regardless of CPU. Some will see bigger gains than others but it's still going to be a pretty sizable performance boost.

I'm looking forward to whenever the improvements hit!

 

Performance improvements are really appreciated guys! <3

Hope to see some ideas about gameplay improvements and motivating game content soon!

 

Boring! What's the SimSpeed improvements for the Tapping? Bring me a single Tapping moving at 20 m/s at 0.9 SimSpeed and i'll be impressed.

 

Still need to fix getting stuck on every slope when jumping, that's a quite urgent bug to fix, as it impairs general gameplay heavily

 

thank you for thinking of us AMD guys..

but the shadows are still flickering in X-fire mode for me.

AMD FX-8150 @4.1Ghz
AMD Radeon HD5970

(its kind of older hardware, sure.. but it works fine for other games.)

 

Anyone else look at the pic of all the red ships and immediately think "oh look, target rich environment!" or that just me....

 

Keen the red ship is alright but its still very low poly/complexity. If you want to analyze the game running slow id advise trying out something like my ship here https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=771720381&searchtext= and I dont mean this as a self plug. Its just that I know it lags like hell, more so than anything else ive ever used, and looking at these upper extremity examples may be a way to figure out what the issues really are.

Other examples would include:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=728724865&searchtext=

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=605060077

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=815813862&searchtext=

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=774455636


Id really encourage you to use more demanding models in your tests. Using the red ship is like practicing for le mans by driving around a sleepy neighborhood in a honda civic.

 

Yup no question it's a pretty solid bump. But I still think saying i5 is incredibly vague these days though.

 

Greetings

Thanks very much for the extra information you included in this patch post!! I am in Oztralia and can't watch the streams thanks to our crappy Telstra internetz in the OZ outback so a bit of extra information like this is awesome! I really wish there were summaries of the main points in the streams, usually have to spend days searching about for tidbits to see whats happening.

P.S. at least I can manage to watch the update videos to see whats arrived with the patches, though I have to walk away for a while to let YouTube pre load the video for a bit lol.

 

You're missing the point. It doesn't matter if it's a current gen I5 (most likely is) or one from 5 yrs back, on the same box their optimizations increased the sim speed from .5 to .9, that's progress. An I5 is a good test because you can bog it down easier and ensure the changes have some positive effect.

As for the AMD love... I was so hoping for it... coming from this:

I was hoping to be able to read text again but we get this instead:


Better luck next patch? If I had to guess it's something about shadow memory getting all clustered together as it's showing shadows from several nearby LCD's none of which is on the same grid. Shadows on LCD?? How about none and just turn it into an emissive like it should be?

PS: not a performance issue, this is on an R9-Fury with an 8 core FX-8350 and 16gb of RAM.