Alpha 0.4 crashes

Kaiser_Friedrich · July 7, 2015, 6:04pm

Good evening guys I already used the search function but couldnt find a current topic. If I oversight something I am really sorry for it!!! My problem is that the game chrashes many, many times with the new 0.4 alpha version. Sometimes this happend also in 0.3, but since 0.4 is out I can only play it between 1 and 10 minutes until it crashes… sometimes while there are framedrops and often without any sign… Cant even go from the new arena to the cumans without a crash I have to close it with task manager then.
My system: Intel i7 4770k, GTX 770, 16 GB Ram, drivers up to date. Ingame I can play on low or high setting doesnt matter…fullscreen is on.
Is this only the alphas fault or can I optimize my setting, that the alpha runs better? (other games work fine)

Greetings and thanks for answers
Kaiser Friedrich

McWonderBeast · July 7, 2015, 6:33pm

These threads can give some insight.

Performance Drops (Alpha 0.4)
Poor performance & stuttering since 0.4

This quote from the WH team sheds some light on the issue.

►Alpha 0.4 Bug List

since everybody tends to brag about AI performance, I took some time to shed some light on it:

just few numbers to get you all into picture about the AI systems - the overall numbers of NPC have gone up by 300% . not including all the support systems. presently there are about 1200+ AI entities of various degrees of simulation capabilities. presently we are running all of them in full simulation without the dark magic we put up during works for the E3 presentation. since we need to stabilise most of the optimizations it takes time. and trust me, it is an endless cycle of identifying where the next bottleneck is

just to compare we have a persistent setup, where games like witcher have no overall persistance.

some other numbers to compare - newest far cry is capable to have only about 24 NPCs running active.

about the hickups - some of them are actually AI related in respect to synchronous queries into our connectivism realm of information. we utilize to create the dynamic relations in our world.

so please be patient, the scale we are working on is insane.

we are also doing the AI for combat which took us quite some time to get to rework into the current tech.

The only setting changes I have adjusted that have given me any noticeable change to frame rate is lowering the water detail to low, and turning vegetation slider off completely. still with that I can only get a stable 35FPS for fighting, and 40FPS exploring.