When can we expect performance optimizations?

I'm using a RTX 2070 Super (...).

average frame rate is 57 fps (...)

My minimum frame rate is 27 fps due to exactly this.

Then:

I have a number of issues with Odyssey, but performance isn't one of them.

Dear me people, you don't even know how you're being played. Not only for what the game draws this score is HORRENDOUS, but also if you play on a rig that runs with a 60Hz screen monitor you essentially deprive yourself the improvement in monitors and display comfort of the last 10 years.

60Hz screens are NOT a gaming standard in 2021. That's office gear. You are playing on an equivalent of a CRT telling people that you think you have a good performance.

Your PC is capable of rendering this game at a constant 120 frames at all times, if not for the cauliflowers in the code.
 
I don't know what you mean... FD said the release would be optimized, unlike the Alpha, and that Alpha was just an old build. And now we've released, so it's optimized, right?!
 
6-12 months
And how does this compare to Horizons at the same settings?
I don't have odyssey.. but here's some horizons data:

I game on a 17" strix hero 3 I7 laptop with an RTX2070 and a 144MHz screen. I get 144 fps constantly everywhere in horizons with no dips ever on ultra
 
There's a patch coming tomorrow morning (with the Thargsday/PP downtime I guess).


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I remember playing Elite on a Q9500 with GTX550Ti and some dumpster find DDR2 ram. 😪
Back then i was happily in my apartment with not a care in the world.
Now I have a house, wife, kids and a career.

Am I getting old ?
Am I expecting to much ?
Should i buy another new €2000 gaming pc ? No im going to re-do the driveway.
I spent my last personal savings on a 1080Ti and its showing its age as i have to downclock it to keep it crashing, if it goes, its goes and then its game-over. period.
 
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I am (attempting to) playing with the minimum specs CPU.
I have set low in the settings and some things turned off aswell.
I was getting 3-23fps in a settlement today. I get about 25-40 (40 is max and rare) fps in stations in a ship.
I get 15-25 fps in stations on foot.

CPU - AMD FX 8350 (8 core @4.00GHz)
GPU - GTX 1660 Super
RAM - 16g
Drive - SSD

I used to stream Horizons and still have 60+fps in stations with settings on high with some things turned off.
 
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IMO, it's more of a problem of the graphics upgrades/engine not being finished than it is pure optimization (although that's part of it).

Like not having culling enabled isn't "lack of optimization"... it's "this thing isn't close to done yet".

To answer OP: 6-12 months
 
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Grab an old ATARI or AMIGA and play Frontier Elite II. 100.000.000 stars on a 720 K floppy disk, 1 mbyte RAM, no 3D hardware and an 7 Mhz (not Ghz) processor is enough :)
 
what's your disk speed or are you using solid state? how about your bus speeds and RAM timings? what resolution are you playing at? Surely you're not using an HDMI cable I hope
Say what? Come on you should not be expected to have top of the line everything to be playable... And HDMI?
 
Yikes! A 2070 Super and you're satisfied with those frames at less than 1080p? ...on high settings? You could probably make a nice profit by selling that card and getting something less powerful. It'll run about the same.
I have a 60 hz monitor only. :(
 
For me performance in a spaceship - the only place we could be previously of course - is the same as ever, a vSync'd 60. However, my GPU (GTX 1070) is working harder than before to obtain that. I can sometimes see a slight dip below that (GPU hitting 100% load) just as I lift off the pad before exiting a station. Once outside though, everything is as before, bar the harder-working GPU. Getting out of my ships and wandering around it is initially 60 FPS, with the GPU working moderately. If I enter the concourse area though, my fps starts to drop. It's 60 when I first exit the lift but quickly drops as I approach the windows, to the mid-40's. GPU load hits 100% the moment the FPS begins to drop below 60.

CPU-wise, 3900X FYI, I'm not sure, a few Cores have some work to do, but none of them loaded above 30% based on the fidelity of my reporting tools. CPU doesn't really ramp up any of the Cores other than briefly. 4.2 Ghz on one or two Cores is about as high as it gets, and then only for a moment. It's all about the GPU in my case it seems. I've not bothered to go on foot anywhere other than the concourse, because the poor FPS makes things unplayable. From reading about other people's experiences, things get worse on planets and planetary bases - even on GPU's far better than mine - so I'm avoiding them for the time being.

My settings are default - I tried the delete settings trick, it did nothing for me - at 1920x1200 Full Screen mode. I bumped up Anisotropic Filtering to 16x, which makes zero FPS difference, and ensured Blur was off if they weren't already.

My other system, which I installed my Epic account version of ED on, can run Horizons flawlessly at default settings 1200p. That machine is a 2500k and a GTX 680. Doubt it'd run Odyssey even remotely well in its current state, certainly not at default settings anyway.

Some people seem happy with performance, whether that's because the game hasn't fallen below their vSync so they've not noticed the GPU is working harder, or they really haven't noticed a drop. Good for them if they don't notice it, great for them if there is no drop.

Game needs some work, that's pretty much a given.

Scoob.
 
Grab an old ATARI or AMIGA and play Frontier Elite II. 100.000.000 stars on a 720 K floppy disk, 1 mbyte RAM, no 3D hardware and an 7 Mhz (not Ghz) processor is enough :)
It was ok on my A1200. Must have been a massive 15 FPS.
Wing commander. Now there was a game unplayable on the A500 (It was barely playable on my A1200)
 
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I spent my last personal savings on a 1080Ti and its showing its age as i have to downclock it to keep it crashing, if it goes, its goes and then its game-over. period.
A 1080Ti is more than viable. If you have to downclock to keep it from crashing, I recommend removing, cleaning and reapplying the HS+F on your card. There are several vids on YT that go through the process. It's not difficult at all.
 
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This is not a particularly demanding game graphics wise in a world where they actually had basic optimizations implemented.

There are much more graphically demanding games that run fine on the lower spec cards people are talking about in this thread.
 
what's your disk speed or are you using solid state? how about your bus speeds and RAM timings? what resolution are you playing at? Surely you're not using an HDMI cable I hope
SSD helps a lot and update drivers, and activate Windows high performance and gaming mode. if using HDMI try the latest cable version if possible.
 
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