Performance has been improving throughout EA, and it they have even more performance improvement in 1.0. They released a ~10min video focusing on their custom engine and performance optimizations ahead of release.
I've also played it on my Steam Deck and it works well enough for short sessions (25-30 FPS)
Current pre-1.0 barely hits 15 FPS on all low in a built-up base with water on Steam Deck. It's absolutely not playable. I hope there are some tangible improvements in 1.0.
What are your settings? I have about 10 large buildings with all NPCs and doing anything water related pretty much grinds the game to a halt while neither CPU, GPU, nor memory are fully utilized.
Settings are all either Performance or the feature is turned Off. Resolution scaling is at 80%.
I just ran through my base and was getting somewhere between 20-25 FPS most of the time with occasional drops as low as 15. Not great, but I still consider it playable.
I hope that the performance upgrades do improve Steam Deck performance because I honestly like playing the game in that format.
OK, so your performance is not that far off. My base might be a bit bigger or just hitting some edge cases. I guess we'll see in a few hours if there are any improvements.
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u/Akabaneist 13h ago
Is the performance passable now?