the game runs fine for me but when i turn on 2 more lamps it becomes laggy, i wonder why (also the more lamps you turn on the less fps you get )
I noticed that too. I figure a future trolling method is to make a Condo full of lamps, turn them all on, then start a Party. Everyone that shows up will then suffer a massive FPS drop.
i just hope they fix it because its very dark in some places in the condo and the lamps are a nice effect
I can confirm this on my computer, steam profile for specs, with 4 bedside lamps off, average frame rate is around 109 FPS, turning on all four lamps, FPS dips down to around 65 ~ 70. Optimization is still needed in that department, but is expectedâŚ
I feel this is just an issue with the Alpha. Lamps shouldnât cause that much of an FPS drop since, in reality, it should just be lighting.
Itâs more of an issue with the type of lighting rather than just optimization issues. Most of the lights used in the map are most likely static lights, which are baked before gameplay, so after theyâre loaded in they donât impact performance that much. However, since the lamps are movable lights, everything has to be calculated while itâs on. From the UE4 Documentation page:
Movable lights setup to cast shadows use whole scene dynamic shadows, which have a significant performance cost. The performance cost comes primarily from the number of meshes affected by the light, and the triangle count of those meshes. This means that a shadow casting movable light with a large radius will cost many times more than a movable light with a small radius.
TL;DR: Toggle-able lights are different from other lights because theyâre laggier, and they get even laggier if theyâre placed next to more stuff.
Never really had an issue with toggable lights in any other game, but I donât really do much with UE4.
Are you saying that this is not an Alpha issue, then? I donât see why such a sharp FPS issue canât be ironed out or at least significantly lessened.
Iâm not saying that they canât do anything about it (after all, they did add Vista support when it wasnât built-in), just that the type of light has a bigger performance hit than the rest. There are a lot of minor tweaks that they could do to the lamps to make it less laggy (reduce the radius, reduce brightness), but either way, itâs still going to be fairly expensive (performance-wise).
Also, âtoggle-able lightsâ in my previous post should just be âcondo lampsâ since there are toggle-able lights (stationary lights) that arenât as laggy as the lamps.
To be fair to Unreal Engine, you just need to compile the engine yourself to get Vista Support. Downloading the pre-compiled Unreal Engine 4 editor from the Epic Games Launcher does not include Vista Support.
Iâll be looking into improving their preformance.
I believe itâs the dynamic shadows. They look really pretty though, so it might be end up being an advanced graphical setting.
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