Is there a computer that can run Planet Coaster at 60 frames per second? If so, it must be really powerful.
Computer that can run Planet Coaster at 60 FPS
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WingardiumLevicoaster
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All depends on what size park you are talking. Given the nature of the game, the more you build the more it will lower FPS. Even on the highest spec. My husband's pc (i7, 1080ti) will run at 60fps or more for playing of Planet Coaster on a medium to large sized park but I have also seen a park run at 4fps on it ( it was huge!). To be honest 60fps is not really necessary to play. Doesn't look much different from 40 or 30. Even my PC (i5, 1070) can run the game at 60fps on small parks.
This is so far from true. Anybody with the slightest ammount of gaming experience can tell the difference. If every game you play is on 60fps and suddenly there is a game that performs closer to 40fps or even 30fps this is very much noticable and will give you a bad time. Not to mention alot of people already play competetive games on monitors with a much higher refresh rate than 60hz (they use 120 or 144hz) so for them it is even more noticable. But even my most casual console-gaming friends can tell the difference between 30 and 60hz.
Anyway OP, you should be able to reach 60fps if you have a decent computer and don't go too wild with the ammount of scenery and rides/coasters. Unfortunately a realistic size park recreation is not really possible at those frame rates unless you limit the ammount of guests and total rides.
WingardiumLevicoaster
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I am 30 years old and been gaming since I was 11 on console and PC. I am a big player of Final Fantasy and similar so I am aware that below 60 would be uncomfortable for these games. I would say that is experienced. For this game it does not need it in my opinion it's quite enjoyable at less than 60fps. It only really becomes a problem under 30fps. I wasn't suggesting you can't see it, it's just not that annoying. It's also not a competitive game so fast refresh is not required. However obviously it is best to have a PC that will run a medium park at 50-60 so that if you build it bigger, it still performs well enough to play. I have also played on my husbands 4k monitor (as he is a competitive gamer). He likes to use Planet Coaster to test out his rig whenever he changes things actually so we have done a lot of opening huge parks, checking the FPS we get etc.
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Hmm apparently older players feel more comfortable in 30-60FPS range. Personally, even 50 FPS can be quite irritating for me and below 30, I would literally refuse to buy planet coaster key below that mark. To get solid 60 FPS on larger parks of planet rollercoaster seems pretty damn difficult, I don't have RTX 2080 Ti or anything so I try to stick to smaller parks
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Yeah i had a similar problem with my biggest Park (that doesn't even use the whole Map mind you) and it had roughly 10 FPS. So it was definitely time for an upgrade. It is really hard to say since multiple Factors have an impact on the FPS. Piececount, Guests and so on.
It really depends what you are upgrading from, but don't expect miracles.After the release of the game I upgraded from a i7 950 to a new motherboard, ram and an i7 6700k (which was brand new back then and cost like €400, total cost almost €700) only to notice it didn't affect FPS at all in my parks. That was a huge a mistake for me because the processor could have been used for a year or maybe more for other games which kinda made it like a failed investment for me. So it really depends what your current hardware is and even then it remains the question if you are gonna see any differences. Really depends on the parks you build.
Hi Everyone,
I've been looking through all these messages and I have a question.
I'm not that Tech - but I've just restarted Planet Coaster again and noticed an extreme lag.
My monitor is 75HZ and I've set the Game to a similar refresh rate.
How do you know how much FPS you are getting?
I needed advice and spoke to someone from Currys PC World who said that I needed a new monitor with a refresh rate/HZ of anything from 140-240.
Advice please - shall I upgrade my monitor and therefore won't experience the extreme lag in the game such as slow moving people, a delay in pressing any icon, slow to move the cursor - the whole game feels unnatural ?
Thanks
T
I've been looking through all these messages and I have a question.
I'm not that Tech - but I've just restarted Planet Coaster again and noticed an extreme lag.
My monitor is 75HZ and I've set the Game to a similar refresh rate.
How do you know how much FPS you are getting?
I needed advice and spoke to someone from Currys PC World who said that I needed a new monitor with a refresh rate/HZ of anything from 140-240.
Advice please - shall I upgrade my monitor and therefore won't experience the extreme lag in the game such as slow moving people, a delay in pressing any icon, slow to move the cursor - the whole game feels unnatural ?
Thanks
T
For a very smooth experience, true. But there's a HUGE caveat: you'd need a beefy PC to get that much FPS out of it.
The Currys person either doesn't know or doesn't care about your current PC specs (saw them in the other thread).
Absolutely not!
The monitor alone will have no difference in that regard.
So a graphics card is needed?
Or can I not just buy a monitor with approx 144hz for a smoother feel to the game.
No, the monitor alone will not change the feel to smoother. It can do the opposite though, if you accidentally begin to use higher screen resolution after swapping monitors.
Your 75 Hz monitor will feel really smooth after the current choppiness, if you get your system beefy enough to supply it with that rate.
The monitor needs powerful enough graphics card to feed it picture at high enough FPS.
The graphics card needs powerful enough processor to feed it geometry etc. data, in addition to accomplish all AI, physics etc. routines without slowing down in the meantime.
To power these beasts you need good, stable and big enough power supply for your PC.
etc. etc.
Thanks. Can I ask what do you use. At the moment Im running 75hz and getting all the lag. So what you are saying is 100% i need a new graphics card. Ideally, I may buy a new pc. What specs in terms of G.cards would you suggest
Please and Thanks
I don't own Planet Coaster, so I cannot offer game-specific advice, but something that applies universally I can say.
With the specs you gave in the other thread, the safe bet (without knowing PSU details, assuming "no name" 300W or 350W model) would be going for another low power GPU.
Something like GTX 1050 /1050ti /1650 or if you prefer AMD, RX 560.
Any of those should be a substantial improvement, and going any higher performance-wise would just bottleneck your CPU (and you probably would need better PSU too).
Even then, the PC is low end or lower middle tier at best in gaming PC circles, so game will start lagging again quite soon when the amount of rides and guests goes up.
Judging by other comments in this thread, for getting butter-smooth experience with big parks, you'd need very beefy PC that can easily cost over $/£/€ 1000 or much more. Eventually you will hit the limit and start experiencing choppiness anyway.
Haven't really looked, but I suspect that there are threads about various PC builds and their limits regarding this game around, so you could get some idea of what to expect if you decide to buy/build new PC.
As for showing FPS in game, I don't know if there's a tool for that built in (like E: D has, ctrl+f shows FPS).
You could use something like good old FRAPS to show FPS, if no in game tool for that.
WingardiumLevicoaster
Volunteer Moderator
Thing is fps changes based on how much you place in your parks and how many guests, how much of certain items (like glass, billboards) you place. It's just better performance machines, you get better results based on size. You would have to have a series of reviews of different pcs with different size parks to compare. It would be quite complicated. I upgraded from a decent i5 to an i7 and got 10 FPS extra on a huge park. I would need to upgrade ram and GPU too to get more. All 3 matter for planet coaster.
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True still it would be a cool review to see!