Suggestions for improving Timberborn – Bugs and Suggestions
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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
[Archieved] Performance 2021
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
District distance path lines overlay cause a performance drop \ lag
When you have a large district, there will be a stutter every time the district paths are highlighted, as the game takes a moment to check the pathing. (Clicking on a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
Stuttering on large maps since the version 6 update. (SMT \ core count issue)
Ever since the version 6 update, the game doesn't run on speed 3 anymore on large maps. Medium & small ones are completely fine.
However, the issue is limited to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
[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 ...
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.
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 ...
FPS drop after june update
fps after the june update has dropped to 1 fps. it was 30+ before that,
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 ...
[Experimental] Poor performance on large maps
I'm experiencing very poor performance on large maps in the new experimental build, especially at high game speeds. At 3x speed on large maps (such as Plains) it's ...
Creating worlds and loading should be optimized, long game load times
Creating worlds and loading worlds should be more optimized, I have noticed that when I try to create, or load a world it lags for around a minute before it finishes ...
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 ...
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 ...
Periodic lag \ freeze spikes while average FPS is fine (not autosave)
I have a 4070, i7 12k, 32GB RAM, and an extremely good SSD, now I don't know why but no matter what settings I have when my savefile reaches 100 Bevers, my game has ...
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 ...
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
Game lags if alt+tab out of game and then back into it
Game run wells on my pc except if I end up alt+tabbing out of the game to another window then go back to the game it lags, like dropping frames or something. Does ...
Memory leak in experimental 1.0?
I've been playing 1.0 on experimental since it was announced, and I've had a consistent issue with the game suddenly becoming so slow it's unplayable and freezes ...
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 ...
Performance drop after latest updates
As I said, there is a big performance drop after latest updates. Before the updates I run the game with speed 3 at ~20 fps.
Current version: 0.5.9.1-33dabbc-sw ...
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 ...
High RAM usage
Hi I play on a 256x256 map with 150 beavers and 500 bots and for a while it wasn't too bad but last week I exploded half the map to prepare for a big construction ...
Experimental: Max Speed setting kills framerate on large maps
I'm getting massive frame rate drops when on max speed settings, on a new town before building anything. FPS counter ends up at 1. Only seems to happen on 256x256 ...
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
When I use the priorities menu the FPS drop significally
Basically, when I use the assign priorities menu, the FPS of the client drops significantly.
CPU usage in menu
The calculations are very intense in the menu, without clicking anything.
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 ...
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 ...
EXTREME LAG since Update 7 (Ziplines & Tubeways)
Hi,
I am currently playing with a population of around 725 beavers and 575 bots. Prior to Update 7, my game would typically only lag during autosaves or large ...