Solar and battery bank low FPS

[bobrpggamer]

I had 9 generators running with gas on a lot of electrical lights and I would get 60FPS but at some views it would drop to 55 or so.

 

So I decided to go green and spend boatloads of money on solar cells and hooked them up to battery banks. Now I get as low as 30FPS in some areas. Is this due the the solar electrical setup?

 

Thank you.

 

Also if so, does anyone know of a certain Video Setting (like shadow quality or whatever) to up the FPS on this issue?

Edited March 11, 2023 by bobrpggamer (see edit history)

[Jugginator]

20 minutes ago, bobrpggamer said:

I had 9 generators running with gas on a lot of electrical lights and I would get 60FPS but at some views it would drop to 55 or so.

 

So I decided to go green and spend boatloads of money on solar cells and hooked them up to battery banks. Now I get as low as 30FPS in some areas. Is this due the the solar electrical setup?

 

Thank you.

 

Also if so, does anyone know of a certain Video Setting (like shadow quality or whatever) to up the FPS on this issue?

 

Hi, 

 

There is a known issue where if you overload solar cells (e.g. your setup requires 200 power and the solar bank can only output 75) it can take up some performance on older CPU's. Try reducing the load on them.

[bobrpggamer]

1 hour ago, Jugginator said:

 

Hi, 

 

There is a known issue where if you overload solar cells (e.g. your setup requires 200 power and the solar bank can only output 75) it can take up some performance on older CPU's. Try reducing the load on them.

That was the issue, I had almost 260 watts on one 180 watt solar panel setup, so I split them and them and the FPS issue is gone.

 

Thank you.

[Jugginator]

22 minutes ago, bobrpggamer said:

That was the issue, I had almost 260 watts on one 180 watt solar panel setup, so I split them and them and the FPS issue is gone.

 

Thank you.

You're welcome. Thanks for letting me know that this solved it for you. Hopefully we'll get a fix in for it.

[bobrpggamer]

Another question about FPS, If I have a lot of bulletproof glass at my base. Does this effect FPS and would just business glass blocks be better, FPS wise?

[Jugginator]

13 hours ago, bobrpggamer said:

Another question about FPS, If I have a lot of bulletproof glass at my base. Does this effect FPS and would just business glass blocks be better, FPS wise?

 

Hmm, good question and one that I can't answer on hand. I'll take a look at it and see, but my conjecture is that it doesn't matter. Both would reduce the amount of occlusion while inside the base due to them being see-through and add reflections and such. If windows are causing some FPS drops, settings like SSAO, SS reflections, reflections and maybe sunshafts would be your more taxing areas. 

[bobrpggamer]

25 minutes ago, Jugginator said:

 

Hmm, good question and one that I can't answer on hand. I'll take a look at it and see, but my conjecture is that it doesn't matter. Both would reduce the amount of occlusion while inside the base due to them being see-through and add reflections and such. If windows are causing some FPS drops, settings like SSAO, SS reflections, reflections and maybe sunshafts would be your more taxing areas. 

My main FPS drop is loads of lights with a light mod that you can adjust the intensity and distance. I just thought of the windows because of the low FPS in cities is due to the windows. I think its the bulletproof glass in the cities. I love the way the lights look so I decided to drop the video settings to medium to keep good FPS with all the lights on.

 

All in all I think I will replace the bulletproof glass with regular glass. Mainly because unlike A19 or earlier the bulletproof glass looks like someone smeared something on it. I have no Idea why this was done to the glass in A20, It seems like a feature that should not be. And hopefully may give me better FPS is I am lucky.

 

Here is my setup and all the windows on all 4 sides of the base are the same, so 2 walls of windows per side.

 

 

Thank you again for your help.