10,040 Peeps...

[Bitter Jeweler]

I was just playin' and tried to see how many peeps I could get tin the park, and see what my laptop could handle.
So, I placed 50 rides, no paths to them, not open, to reach a target of 10K peeps.

I made a crazy path section to see how a large number of peeps behave. I put shops in to help keep them happy.
The interesting thing was, I maxed out at 6,350(ish) peeps. I thought that was odd. So, I thought maybe I better put in a ride and open it.

Holy crap!

The entire population went for the ride!!!
The bottleneck of peeps at the ride entrance destroyed my framerate.

I put it more rides to disperse the crowd.

It's funny how 10K Peeps doesn't really look like a busy park, when most of them are standing in line.
I still wonder about how performance is effected by peeps in line vs. free raoming peeps.
Maybe I should load the park up again, and put one ride queue large enough to hold most of the peeps?
Does the program do fewer calculations when they are standing in line?

[video=youtube;mBHHPXWIbG0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBHHPXWIbG0[/video]

 

[techen]

I was just playin' and tried to see how many peeps I could get tin the park, and see what my laptop could handle.
So, I placed 50 rides, no paths to them, not open, to reach a target of 10K peeps.

I made a crazy path section to see how a large number of peeps behave. I put shops in to help keep them happy.
The interesting thing was, I maxed out at 6,350(ish) peeps. I thought that was odd. So, I thought maybe I better put in a ride and open it.

Holy crap!

The entire population went for the ride!!!
The bottleneck of peeps at the ride entrance destroyed my framerate.

I put it more rides to disperse the crowd.

It's funny how 10K Peeps doesn't really look like a busy park, when most of them are standing in line.
I still wonder about how performance is effected by peeps in line vs. free raoming peeps.
Maybe I should load the park up again, and put one ride queue large enough to hold most of the peeps?
Does the program do fewer calculations when they are standing in line?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBHHPXWIbG0

12,600. I get to 13,500 and the game starts to glitch out. Infact in my photo you can see the glitches. Thats with a 980TI and a Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz

 

[breezerHOG1]

If you build it, they will come [haha] awesome awesome video! so glad somebody finally did this [up] weird how the park doesnt seem crowded like you said... it seems based on this that as long as we have sufficiently long/wide paths we shouldnt see too many overly crowded areas... although that bottle necking was pretty crazy LOL

@techen that does not look like 13,000... thats soooo weird/not good if thats a max/full park

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Techen, it looks like you have at least one section that's a peep trap.
What's that black thing back there? A villan from Kingdom Hearts??? LOL

You might laugh at my laptop specs. I'll try to see how many more peeps I can get.

Asus Rog:
GeForce GTX 880M
i7-4700HQ @2.40GHz
24GB RAM
1920x1080
Max quality settings.

 

[gregorburns]

I still wonder about how performance is effected by peeps in line vs. free raoming peeps.

That's the exact thing I've been wanting to test actually if I ever got a chance. Also whether or not having rides open and connected to the path to summon people in would make a difference from just having the rides sitting in the corner and disconnected? I'm not sure what I would expect either way to be honest.

 

[aDOLPHINjoy18]

I saw someone post they achieved 9,000 peeps in the Early Birds Alpha Feedback section. So I've already done my own 10k peeps video here > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub6ktmOvtJE

I'm not quite sure how to post images on here. I do have AMD Raptr but half the time my recorded videos are just black screen. I also have Hauppauge HD PVR2 (with Hauppauge Capture software) which I use for Xbox videos and it can record PC videos too.

I like it how Frontier I think are utilizing the CPU for AI. As "GPU clock speeds" are quite low compared to "CPU clock speeds". Even the GTX 1080 only has a "GPU clock speed" of like 1.5-2Ghz. My CPU is Intel's "flagship" 6th gen Intel Core i7-6700k. I was surprised I even got about 15-21fps with 10k peeps. I was expecting like 11fps.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Thanks for sharing that Skywaterbird!
I've been looking at getting a new desktop, but part of me wondered how much performance I'd gain. Your post gives me a good idea, and reasonable expectations. 20fps looks decent in your video, and you even put some scenery in.

I'm still impressed with what I saw with my weaker system.