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Extremely low fps at speed 3

When using the fastest speed mode the fps drops into the single digits, this happens even when having just started a game.
Suggested by: Tom (15 Sep, '21) Upvoted: 08 Feb Comments: 48
Under consideration Performance

Perfomance issues with higher beavers population - low FPS with many beavers

The game starts to lag after reaching 400 Beavers. First it starts with very short lags but with increasing progress the Lags get longer and longer. The FPS rate ...
Suggested by: Metzger_008 (28 Dec, '21) Upvoted: 08 Feb Comments: 112

Improve Multi-Core Use, better multi-threading performance

Hello, I have played about 15 hours in game so far. I have noticed that as the population goes up and the gameplay expands further into the map, only 1 core is ...
Suggested by: Lazyperson17 (18 Sep, '21) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 15
Under consideration Performance

Performance (not necessarily FPS) issues (Lag, game runs slow, low framerate)

I have been waiting for early access since I played the demo and I haven't been disappointed, congrats ! But the performances are just not there IMHO. On my ...
Suggested by: Sugz (23 Sep, '21) Upvoted: 15 Feb Comments: 81
Under consideration Performance

Huge FPS Drop on Fast Forward - even with a fresh start colony

Clean Install. Ran fine for two weeks until a few days ago and now Fps drops to 1FPS with no background processes interfering on super fast forward. It was running ...
Suggested by: John (26 Sep, '21) Upvoted: 18 Jul, '23 Comments: 7
Under consideration Bug Performance

Game starts constantly lagging after some time independetly on new or old colony

Hi there, this just started today. On speed 2 and 3 there is lag and it doesn't matter if I am on a saved game or start a new one. I tried multiple times through out ...
Suggested by: Tristian (20 Sep, '21) Upvoted: 02 Jan, '23 Comments: 14
Under consideration Bug Performance

FPS dropping right before dark

I created a map and now have 233 beavers working a great city. My FPS drops to 2 frames every beaver day about 2 or 3 hours before dark and persists until almost next ...
Suggested by: Larns (26 Sep, '21) Upvoted: 09 Aug, '23 Comments: 13
Under consideration Performance

Low FPS during daytime

On my big save during night at 3x time warp avg fps ranges 15-30, during day it drops to 5
Suggested by: LEWiKK0 (20 Dec, '21) Upvoted: 15 Oct, '23 Comments: 17
Under consideration Performance

Running Insanely Laggy on Mac

I've downloaded the latest early access build (as of 9/22), running on an 18 month old MacBook Air that far exceeds the minimum specs and matches or exceeds the ...
Suggested by: JK (22 Sep, '21) Upvoted: 23 Aug, '23 Comments: 13
Under consideration Performance

Memory Leak in large cities.

After creating a village with 5 districts with 300 Beavers, I'm noticing a significant slowdown in the game. In addition, I'm noticing tearing in the beavers as they ...
Suggested by: actuallychris (17 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 22 Mar Comments: 3
On our radar Performance

Better optimization for high beaver population 2024: low fps, game performance

Game received major optimizations with update 4, but it still can use only 2 threads and settlements with thousands of beavers are unlikely to have decent performance ...
Suggested by: Gin Fuyou (04 Nov, '23) Upvoted: 19 Mar Comments: 15
Under consideration Performance

Autosave Tanks Game, auto-saving is too slow (lag \ freezing)

When it autosaves it tanks my game. then i have to first pause and unpause the game to work fine again
Suggested by: Christopher Koen (28 Sep, '21) Upvoted: 01 Mar Comments: 12
Under consideration Bug Performance

Performance Problems, FPS dops

Hi, I have been playing Timberborn for some time and I love the game. Unfortunately I have a problem with the performance since the last patch. At the beginning ...
Suggested by: Eideard (11 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 11 Feb Comments: 2
Under consideration Performance

Lagging since 12/2022 experimental patches

The game is lagging badly since the new December 2022 experimental patches. I am running Low graphics and game speed 1. My PC is not the best previously i would run ...
Suggested by: Louis (11 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 23 Aug, '23 Comments: 3

Loading takes forever

When I start the game or load a game file, it takes up to three minutes each. It doesn't bother me, but I'm a little bit worried. What if I once reach a colony of ...
Suggested by: Fluddy (04 Feb, '22) Upvoted: 01 Feb Comments: 1
Under consideration Performance

Loading Times are unusual long.

I have a NVMe and Timberborn installed on it. The loading times are, unusual, long, compared to other games. I just wanted to go through my auto-saves for a bug i ...
Suggested by: Herschdorfer (06 Oct, '21) Upvoted: 04 Jan Comments: 1
Under consideration Performance

Hauling Post causes lag when storage is full

recently i noticed significant lag during daytime on my world, it has 300 beavers and the performance is usually around 30 updates but it drops to 2 or less. after ...
Suggested by: Jan Willem Verzijden (30 Oct, '21) Upvoted: 02 Jan, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Performance

Lag on new game after Update 1

Hey, i'm experiencing weird things with game on speed 2-3. After 'update 1' I started new map and the game became very laggy, dropping to 1-4 fps, with Ultra or low ...
Suggested by: Sev (27 Dec, '21) Upvoted: 12 Aug, '23 Comments: 1
Under consideration macOS Performance

fps drop to single digits during drought.

hello during a drought at midday on 3 speed my colony drops to single digit fps. before midday i have about 30 fps after the drought when everything is working at ...
Suggested by: darkshard (14 Jan, '22) Upvoted: 07 Oct, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration Performance

FPS drop after june update

fps after the june update has dropped to 1 fps. it was 30+ before that,
Suggested by: Chris Solomon (28 Jun, '22) Upvoted: 16 Jul, '23 Comments: 6
Under consideration Bug Performance

game lagging on normal speed

even with GeForce, the game is lagging so much I can't properly run it. restarting my computer doesn't help. half my clicks don't even register, if they do it takes a ...
Suggested by: finn (24 May, '22) Upvoted: 31 Jan Comments: 4

Extreme Laggy with AMD and Radeon

Got an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Sapphire and with a small amount of animals, it´s already extremly laggy... Wasn´t this bad, when game was released...
Suggested by: penntgrad (08 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 15 Jan, '23 Comments: 3
Under consideration Bug Performance

Performance bug: The slower the simulation speed, the higher GPU usage. Paused game eat 100% GPU

When I pause the game, my GPU goes to 100%, as indicated by the Windows 10 Task Manager-GPU-3D. Running the game would only takes 30%-50%. And strangely, the slower ...
Suggested by: Sam (22 Sep, '21) Upvoted: 22 Jul, '22 Comments: 2
Under consideration Performance

Perfomance drops after Update 3 (lags started after patches)

i am unsure what happened in update 3 yet it is very lag and the game seem to almost un playable
Suggested by: Zen (18 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 05 May, '23 Comments: 1
Under consideration Performance

[Suggestion] Please allow switching off warehouse balancing

This way wa can have warehouses work poassively on the principle of "push" from producers rather than "pull" into the warehouse. This way even if there are full ...
Suggested by: Zam! (12 Feb, '22) Upvoted: 08 Sep, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Building Performance Suggestion

Game stutters on full speed still (update2) as settlements grow

There were a couple of performance improvements in update2, as the session is growing, the whole game becomes pretty much a cartoon still, however I've noticed a ...
Suggested by: gczuczy (27 Sep, '22) Upvoted: 11 Dec, '22 Comments: 6
Under consideration Performance

1 FPS Problem

So I just bought the game on Steam and was having a blast playing it. AFK for a while, came back to find my game is locked to 1 fps, and uses 6,4 GB of memory while ...
Suggested by: TheMichealJackson (01 Sep, '22) Upvoted: 09 Aug, '23 Comments: 4

Path placement causes a lot of lag, performance drop when laying roads

When the path network of a district is already very big and convoluted, the game grinds to a halt when a piece of path is connected in the building tool. The same is ...
Suggested by: Hai (25 May, '23) Upvoted: 21 Jun, '23 Comments: 2
Under consideration Performance

Memory leak in experimental mode

As the title describes. The longer the game is open, the more RAM it uses. Game open for 3 hours and currently at 16 gigs consumed and climbing; all other resources ...
Suggested by: Alex H (26 Dec, '21) Upvoted: 22 Jun, '23 Comments: 2
Under consideration Bug Performance

Decouple rendering and mechanics engine threads and introduce time diletation

Somewhere in between 3-400 beavers the game starts to lag on normal(>>>) speed and has to be slowed down. While pausing the game or using a reduced speed, the graphic ...
Suggested by: gczuczy (10 Jan, '22) Upvoted: 21 Jan, '23 Comments: 7
Under consideration Performance

Performance inconsistent [merge pending]

Hey, I have very inconsistant performance. My map has a population of ~500 beavers and a huge dam and its very much unplayable on 2x or 3x speed. Today I even had ...
Suggested by: Venson (20 Jan, '22) Upvoted: 29 Mar, '23 Comments: 5
Under consideration Performance

Lag Fix Please

It was all good, my beavers thriving, and plenty of food and water. But for whatever reason after loading the game up, it was HORRIBLE. I get maybe one frame per 2 ...
Suggested by: Adam B / Small Fry (18 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 27 Dec, '22 Comments: 2

poor performance after latest update

after the recent update on oct 12 2022 the performance has gotten worse my cpu is an amd ryzen 9 5900hx 8 core 16 thread with 32 gigs of ram and a nvidia 3070 video card
Suggested by: mike (15 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 01 Apr, '23 Comments: 2
Under consideration Performance

GPU/CPU Power idle-mode: limit FPS when game is on pause

i pause the game, no move etc... and the power of CPU/GPU is still very high! there is no reason to update by over 60fps, there can be break down to 10 or less
Suggested by: Michael (09 Apr, '22) Upvoted: 19 Dec, '22 Comments: 1
Under consideration Performance

BUG - Daytime Drought Frame Rate

After going through a few days on the Plains map, and experiencing 2 droughts, every drought afterwards drops my frame rate significantly during the day cycle. At ...
Suggested by: Myrddin (17 Jan, '22) Upvoted: 01 Jan, '23 Comments: 1
Under consideration Performance

high pop + drought = lag?

sorry about my spealing I'm dyslexic. ive seen that when i have a high pop (so say 200-250 beavers) that a huge drop in fps when a drought happens. it got even ...
Suggested by: bob the builder beaver (15 Dec, '21) Upvoted: 27 Dec, '22 Comments: 1
Under consideration Performance

Placing beehives has impact on performance

I'm running the latest experimental version of the game. When I'm playing on a 256² map partitioned into a few settlements, it seems that having many beehives ...
Suggested by: Hai (18 Nov, '23) Upvoted: 07 Dec, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Bug Performance

Perfoarmance degradation and lag in Update 4

Since update 4 released I can no longer play the game at the highest speed setting, the lag makes the game uplayable. The delay on key and mouse input is well over a ...
Suggested by: Eric (29 May, '23) Upvoted: 19 Aug, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Bug Performance

Flooded buildings lag game

I have a big town, running at the limit of my PC, although stable. When my town floods the game performance drops a lot, by a factor 2 or 3. About 220 buildings are ...
Suggested by: Emiel (11 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 07 Jul, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Performance

Random Frame drops after update 0.1.5

Ever since the last update I experience extreme frame drops randomly, sometime I am down to 2 fps.
Suggested by: Maxi (10 May, '22) Upvoted: 14 May, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration Bug Performance

Can you make the game more light on the soft side?

I always enjoy playing games. I always enjoy playing games. This time, I have a suggestion regarding game processing. My computer is a Windows 11 computer with a ...
Suggested by: Morio Takeda (13 Dec, '21) Upvoted: 28 Dec, '21 Comments: 0
Under consideration Performance

Performance tank when queuing builds without materials

Hello! Just noticing that while placing builds that already have materials is fine, but for example, queueing up 100 dynamite in a row without any is extremely ...
Suggested by: Apprisco (02 Oct, '21) Upvoted: 20 Jan, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration Performance

FPS drop on 9-dec-2022 update

FPS drop on 9-dec-2022 update I can't attach save file or log file here???
Suggested by: NGrey (10 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 26 Dec, '22 Comments: 10

Stuttery movement with high FPS

I play on "Ultra" with ~150FPS, but when I zoom out, the WASD movement feels stuttery, even tho the camera movement is very smooth. There is defenitly a boundary, ...
Suggested by: Elektryk_Andrzej (10 Feb) Upvoted: 29 Feb Comments: 2
On our radar Performance

Bad Performance since Last Patch

Since last Patch i have a very bad Performance when i fast forward the Game on Times 3 Speed on a relatively new Game. FPS are dropping from stable 60 to 30 and below ...
Suggested by: Frank (17 Apr, '23) Upvoted: 17 Apr, '23 Comments: 2
Under consideration Experimental Performance

Super slow performance after a while

CPU - Ryzen 9 7950x RAM - 64Gb GPU - RTX 2080 OS - Arch Linux (steam proton 7.0-5) Version: v0.2.9.1-0b5fdc2-sw There's some serious performance issues ...
Suggested by: CJ (19 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 07 Feb Comments: 2
Under consideration Linux Performance

Resolution won't lock in

My laptop is pretty dated and I need to run the game at low resolution, however every 5 mins or so the resolution returns to the highest setting.
Suggested by: Carter (06 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 10 Jul, '22 Comments: 2

Optimisation for Mac

I played the game on a Macbook Pro 13-inch M2 Edition. The game is very very very poorly optimized if felt. After you go to a sizable population like 100 or 140, the ...
Suggested by: Eikiyo (12 Aug, '23) Upvoted: 21 Jan Comments: 1
Under consideration macOS Performance

FPS drop after loading save

After saving my game and turning my pc off, I loaded the same save just 1 hour later and I experince sudden episodes of about 30 seconds where the fps drops down to ...
Suggested by: Lina (06 Apr, '23) Upvoted: 06 Nov, '23 Comments: 1
Under consideration Bug Performance

Freezing and eventually crash

Freezes for around 30-40 seconds every 5-10 minutes. Only goes to 'not responding' if I click, otherwise it just doesn't do anything. At first I thought it was the ...
Suggested by: Lucianne (13 Mar, '23) Upvoted: 28 Jul, '23 Comments: 1
Under consideration Performance