Hello everyone,
📢 Today, it’s a big call for your help!
I always read all your reviews, and some recurring ones are about the bad optimisation of the game. So for a bit more than a month now I’ve been working on HEAVILY optimizing the game, especially for Steamdeck.
But because optimizing pretty much crushes everything and alter deep core code in the game, I can’t push this big update without having a good playtest before.
So I’m calling to all voluntaries out there who would like to stress test this new optimized version of the game.
60 FPS with moderate power! Oh yeah!
I – Test the optimized version
It’s on a beta branch right now. Nothing complicated, you just:
- go to the game properties on Steam
- beta panel
- enter the beta code “computeshader”
- select the optim6 branch which should now appear in the available versions
- Just launch it and play with the lower graphics quality settings (“Very Light”) and no ocean reflection. You can play on Steamdeck or on any old hardware you have.
If you spot any problems (low frame rate or bugs), please report them in the Steam forums or my Discord server.
II – For the big numbers:
- size on disk 5.5 GB -> 2.6 GB (but you’ll ironically still experiment a few GB of download for this update)
- framerate on Steamdeck: 10 to 30 fps -> 40 to 60 fps but hopefully 60 fps for 80% of the game
- should be playable with 8 GB RAM only and 4GB GPU RAM (still working on this)
- Faster loading time, less hiccups
- GPU & CPU power consumption reduction (between 30 et 50%), now the GPU fan can breathe a bit and you can play longer
I’ll go deeper in the details for the official update release, but of course, the content of the game itself is the same.
That’s it for now! Thanks a lot for your help 🙏🙏🙏, I hope this will make the game available for even more people with mid and low end configs 😁
Have a great day, take care, peace!
Mathias, the dev
