Replaced with FPS drop after upgrading video card (Planet Coaster)
Replaced with FPS drop after upgrading video card (Planet Coaster)
This is all about Planet Coaster. Share your thoughts if you also play this game and have performance issues. I know this has probably been discussed before, but thought I would post a couple of screen shots and share my thoughts.
System I am playing on is:
Core i5 4670K @ 4.2 GHz with Hyper 212 Evo CPU cooler
MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming
Corsair HX650 PSU
WD green 1TB HDD
Patriot Viper 3 Series 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-17000
SSD is an Intel 240GB 520 series
Win 7 Pro
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 Gaming OC 6GB <- I actually bought this card to play this game (as well as many others) as I was running a MSI Radeon 7970 OC 3GB card.
I have included a couple of screenshots.... I haven't played a simulation game like this one that is so poorly optimized. I am running on ultra settings as I should be able to with no difficulty. My GPU isn't even hitting 100% usage and I am only getting 19-23 FPS..... And to do a test, I just loaded into the game and set the graphics settings down to "medium" and I was still getting the same FPS. This makes no sense, because by lowering the graphics settings, my FPS should raise correct? With my old video card I was seeing basically the same FPS.
I recently started playing this game after owning it since December 2017. I am so glad I got it when it was on sale for C$15 because if this is the type of game play I was getting after paying C$60 (C = Canadian) I would ask for my money back.
The other thing I have noticed it the game really likes to hang on the first black screen and there is no loading bar or anything. At first I though the game had froze, but then it finally loaded. The loading times on this game are way too long. It will sit on the blue loading screen for well over a minute.
If not for the horrendous FPS and horrible path system, it is a pretty decent game. You think that after being out for over 2 years now they would have release performance patches to increase people's FPS and better optimize the game. And you can't tell me they can't do that, because there are a couple games my brother plays and the performance has gotten much better since first release as they release patches that help to optimize the game.
I enjoy Planet Coaster, but dislike its editor interface. Overall, it seems more CPU-intensive than GPU because it needs to manage a large number of users and staff (guests, employees), similar to many strategy or management games that have numerous persistent entities to track. Many players also express wanting better performance.
Did you ensure DDU was used to clear previous drivers and then install new ones afterward?
Open Task Manager, navigate to the performance tab, choose CPU, right-click the graph, select "Change graph to" > "Logical processors", then access Background Task Manager. Play the game briefly, return to Task Manager and check if any cores are at 100%.
Windows 7 already displays my 4 separate cores. I had the task manager open during the screenshots, and the usage was fairly balanced across all four cores, with none reaching 100%. Yep, that's what happened.
Improve your CPU performance, or else Planet Coaster on a GTX 1060 will slow down a lot. The game engine, Cobra, is built to use many threads, which means it relies more on multithreading than single-core speed. With the 4670k's limited thread count, this will noticeably affect how well the game runs.
Yes, I'm aiming to improve my motherboard, CPU, and RAM by the end of the year. I've got an RTX 2060 and plan to switch to a Ryzen 3000 series processor. It's interesting since on the Coaster forum they mentioned it only uses one core due to DX11, but I noticed load across all my cores.