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[SONZ-INA]

Specs:

RX580 8gb VRAM
Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz
16gb DDR4 3200MHz
I game the game 8gb of RAM.

I've always had FPS problems with this game, and i don't know for the life of me what to do with it. It's an amazing game but i cannot play in 40FPS.

When using mods, just flying around drops me to 21FPS, and when using speedup mod it drops to 15FPS, at first i thought it was because of the heavily modded game, but then i turned off all the mods did a clean install and ran the game vanilla (with 8gb RAM changes), only to find out i have around 45-52 FPS when not moving. It drops to a staggering 35FPS when just flying around which is nonsense.

I've read a couple of posts and it seems that's because i have an AMD card, but every game i've ever played, no matter the graphical demand it would ran at 60+ fps, depending on what graphical preset i play at.
Starsector does not seem like a graphical-heavy game, it's something else.

Does anyone have any suggestions? playing the game on 30-40fps is really wearing down my ability to play, and that's vanilla.
Is the game even using my GPU?

[Schwartz]

Is your graphics driver older than Oct 2022? AMD fixed their OpenGL to a good degree with that driver version so the game should run better from then on. You can get version 22.11.2 WHQL here. Make sure to "clean install".

Yes, LWJGL and AMD OpenGL do not play nicely together but with the latest driver it's very playable.

Also, if you run GraphicsLib, you can try going into GRAPHICS_OPTIONS.ini in the mod folder and setting  "enableShaders":false, to get some more FPS.

[SONZ-INA]

thanks, i'll try it out.
I think my driver version is adrenaline march 2022. Never bothered to update them since with every update they messed up the streaming/recording software which i use a lot.

As for the graphicslib, i tried it out already, didn't help.
Hopefully the drivers will fix it. They added this whql that wasn't there before.
will update soon with results.

[SONZ-INA]

Is your graphics driver older than Oct 2022? AMD fixed their OpenGL to a good degree with that driver version so the game should run better from then on. You can get version 22.11.2 WHQL here. Make sure to "clean install".

Yes, LWJGL and AMD OpenGL do not play nicely together but with the latest driver it's very playable.

Also, if you run GraphicsLib, you can try going into GRAPHICS_OPTIONS.ini in the mod folder and setting  "enableShaders":false, to get some more FPS.

Alright man, forgot to say that i didn't have GraphicsLib enabled, and the main problem was that i was getting 35ish FPS even in vanilla, but updating the drivers like you said worked.
I now have ~120fps on average with these.
thanks so much

[Schwartz]

Cool, glad that worked. You'll get better FPS in Minecraft too now.

[Ruggedgolem]

I am having a similar problem. However its even tanking in fps in the MAIN menu. And I haven't been able to find a fix for it. I might end up just reinstalling the game and all the mods I have installed on it.