I have not yet bought Planet Coaster for myself. I've probably watched every Planet Coaster LP on Youtube that's in English, and really want to play it, but was concerned my computer wouldn't be able to handle it and it seems my fears were more than justified. Every LP series I've watched that has built a decently developed park has run into major FPS problems. These are people with very high-end systems, so I'm guessing this is some sort of optimization issue with the game? I know it's just in Alpha 1, I really just hope the Devs are aware of the issue and plan to fix it before it goes to retail.
An example:
Youtuber Tycoon-a-Tron recently purchased an Asus Strix R9 Fury (with the help of donations from followers), largely because his rig wasn't handling PC very well.
While the card improved the performance for every other game dramatically, PC is still running at about 16 FPS:
https://youtu.be/1RSQLMFS6Cg?t=11m47s
The rest of his system is no slouch, either. His CPU is a FX8350 overclocked to 4.8Ghz, and he has 16 gigs of RAM.
He's by far not the only one. Other YouTubers who were huge cheerleaders of the game at first are now discontinuing their PC series because the game is unplayable after a point. It is sad to watch some like Skye Storme go from so excited and gushing about the game slow descend into sad resignation about having to give up on it. Silvarret has been featured by Planet Coaster's official channel but he can barely run the game now himself.
Anyways, has there been any official word on this?
An example:
Youtuber Tycoon-a-Tron recently purchased an Asus Strix R9 Fury (with the help of donations from followers), largely because his rig wasn't handling PC very well.
While the card improved the performance for every other game dramatically, PC is still running at about 16 FPS:
https://youtu.be/1RSQLMFS6Cg?t=11m47s
The rest of his system is no slouch, either. His CPU is a FX8350 overclocked to 4.8Ghz, and he has 16 gigs of RAM.
He's by far not the only one. Other YouTubers who were huge cheerleaders of the game at first are now discontinuing their PC series because the game is unplayable after a point. It is sad to watch some like Skye Storme go from so excited and gushing about the game slow descend into sad resignation about having to give up on it. Silvarret has been featured by Planet Coaster's official channel but he can barely run the game now himself.
Anyways, has there been any official word on this?