OK, done some testing the last few hours and it seems we've got 2 seperate problems. One is the load times issue on the cobra screen, the other is ingame performance.
Loading Time:
I am subscribed to nearely every TMTK-Item on the Workshop and I also experiencing high loading times. I've monitored various system data while loading.
Time to load up the Game: around 15 Minutes from start to Main Menu
While loading, theres nearly no CPU or GPU activity. RAM goes from 6.5GB up to 8.4GB usage just a few moments before loading is done.
What makes me curious is disk activity. Theres nearly no disk activity either active time, read or write.
Just for fun, I've changed the install directory of PlanCo from the SSHD to the Samsung Evo NVME Drive. With this, I increased Bandwith and lowered latency dramatically, without any effect on PlanCo. Load up of the Toolkit Item Tab takes ages, just testet it on an empty sandbox. Again, nealy no drive activity on the disk.
Loading of Parks and Game Performance:
1.- Port Aventura Recreation by alfatm:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfil...?id=1322672912
Load Time: ~8 Minutes
FPS Unpaused, Zero Guests: 9-12
FPS Paused, Zero Guests: 18-20
CPU Load: between 30 and 70% all 16 Threads, no Thread at 100%
GPU Load: Theoretical 50 to 85%, but the GPU is less used and clocks down to 1300 to 1400 MHz. At 100% Load it boosts up to 1680 MHz.
GPU Memory Load: 8GB @ 4K & 7.5GB at 1920x1080. Resolution Change does not affect performance in any park tested.
RAM Load: ~11GB
2.- Pinewood Hills by Geekism:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfil...?id=1227670863
Load Time: ~4:30 Minutes
FPS Unpaused, 2000 Guests: 15-21
FPS Paused, 2000 Guests: 23-28
FPS Unpaused, Zero Guests: 17-22
FPS Paused, Zero Guests: 25-40
CPU Load: between 30 and 55% all 16 Threads, no Thread at 100%
GPU Load: Theoretical 50 to 85%, but the GPU is less used and clocks down to 1300 to 1400 MHz. At 100% Load it boosts up to 1680 MHz.
GPU Memory Load: 8GB @ 4K & 7.5GB at 1920x1080. Resolution Change does not affect performance in any park tested.
RAM Load: ~11GB
3.- American Celebration Resort by RobCo:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfil...?id=1305014445
Load Time: ~8 Minutes
FPS Unpaused, Zero Guests: 5-10
FPS Paused, Zero Guests: 10-14
CPU Load: between 30 and 55% all 16 Threads, no Thread at 100%
GPU Load: Theoretical 15 to 70%, but the GPU is nearly unused and clocks down to even below 600MHz. At 100% Load it boosts up to 1680 MHz.
GPU Memory Load: 8GB @ 4K Resolution Change does not affect performance in any park tested.
RAM Load: ~15.4GB out of 16GB. Im near at a RAM Limit with this Park.
For my System, at least the First Park seems to run as ever. But with 2 and 3 I suspect I'm also somewhat affected. But from System usage I am able to monitor, nothing, except the RAM in Test 3 is very much stressed. Even for loading up a Park there is no really noticable load on Hard Drives/SSD's. It also does not make any difference for me, if I load up from HDD or NVME SSD. This irons out that it could be related to latency or available bandwith of the drive.
The Only somewhat limiting thing here is my Graphics Memory, wich allocates near or completely all available Memory with 8GB Physical on the Card, but this does not mean that the Game "needs" that much. The Resolution change to FullHD proves this, with just slightly lower VRAM allocation but no performance uplift at all.
EDIT: While I was typing this Post, I left PlanCo running on the main Screen and opened the Forums on the second. While Park 3 was running unpaused. Over Time, RAM usage has gone down to just ~8GB. Even with the Game back in foreground, it hasn't gone up to the initial 15.5GB. But after few seconds scrolling and zooming around, PlanCo freezed and crashed!
Greetz,
Danny