Will EVERSPACE ever be optimized for Low End devices?
TheGenius
Posts: 4Member
Before I begin, here are my system specs:
2016 MacBook pr 13-Inch
MacOS:
Intel Core i5 2.7GHz (I configured it to 2.9GHz)
8GB RAM 1667MHz DDR3
256GB Memory
Intel Iris Integrated Graphics 6100, 1536MB
So yesterday I was over at my friend's, and I played EVERSPACE on his laptop, with the exact same system specs.
I have been considering buying EVERSPACE for some time now, but when I played it on his computer, it ran at a solid 10FPS.
*koff koff
I mean, that's just unplayable. I was busy fiddling with my Gatling gun while getting my -BEEP- kicked by a bunch of Okkar Drones. My friend said that I was trash. What happened to 1200 hours on Star Citizen?
I have yet to get to the worst part.
The worst part is, when the Colonial Warship (or any other large ship, in this case) shows up, my game crashes. It just stops working. By the way, I'm running this at minimum graphics. From what I've heard, you'd be lucky to escape the Warship's grasp, but for me it's just you and your measly little interceptor are very screwed.
What a shame.
So, I was wondering if Rockfish would ever show some sympathy and help optimize everspace to run on some less graphics-oriented PCs and/or macs.
To Rockfishy, if you are reading this:
Your game is awesome! I absolutely love it. After playing all of these space games like KSP, SWBF, Star Citizen, etc. etc., your gem is definetly the best one yet. I am definitely buying your game, even if I can't play or run it. After all, every little bit counts.
Cut the pretty speech anyways.
My point is, if you can't optimize the game for better FPS, well...
Great.
If you could optimize it, AWESOME!
To everybody else who is reading this:
If you could give me some advice for solving this issue, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
2016 MacBook pr 13-Inch
MacOS:
Intel Core i5 2.7GHz (I configured it to 2.9GHz)
8GB RAM 1667MHz DDR3
256GB Memory
Intel Iris Integrated Graphics 6100, 1536MB
So yesterday I was over at my friend's, and I played EVERSPACE on his laptop, with the exact same system specs.
I have been considering buying EVERSPACE for some time now, but when I played it on his computer, it ran at a solid 10FPS.
*koff koff
I mean, that's just unplayable. I was busy fiddling with my Gatling gun while getting my -BEEP- kicked by a bunch of Okkar Drones. My friend said that I was trash. What happened to 1200 hours on Star Citizen?
I have yet to get to the worst part.
The worst part is, when the Colonial Warship (or any other large ship, in this case) shows up, my game crashes. It just stops working. By the way, I'm running this at minimum graphics. From what I've heard, you'd be lucky to escape the Warship's grasp, but for me it's just you and your measly little interceptor are very screwed.
What a shame.
So, I was wondering if Rockfish would ever show some sympathy and help optimize everspace to run on some less graphics-oriented PCs and/or macs.
To Rockfishy, if you are reading this:
Your game is awesome! I absolutely love it. After playing all of these space games like KSP, SWBF, Star Citizen, etc. etc., your gem is definetly the best one yet. I am definitely buying your game, even if I can't play or run it. After all, every little bit counts.
Cut the pretty speech anyways.
My point is, if you can't optimize the game for better FPS, well...
Great.
If you could optimize it, AWESOME!
To everybody else who is reading this:
If you could give me some advice for solving this issue, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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ROCKFISH_Andi
Posts: 1,009 
Hi,
glad you like the game! I do have bad news for you, though. I doubt that there's much we can do on rather weak Macs with integrated Graphics cards. The thing is - when using bootcamp on a Mac and thus playing under Windows (but with the same hardware) in our experience the performance has always been much much better. It seems that Unreal Engine with Direct X work a lot better than Unreal Engine with Metal.
So sorry to say this - but it's unlikely that we'll spent a lot more time in optimization - especially since the non-mac feedback is generally very good regarding performance on "weaker machines".5 -
Neseface Posts: 27
DirectX is the interface between software and driver.
So you write a game, and you want to display an object, you have to create a piece of code that sends the object to the video card. The video card though speaks one language, one very specific language that is subtly different for every single version of hardware.
So, you write a software layer that abstracts the specific hardware features into general software functions.
So, you call that software function, pass it your object, and it converts it to the correct mode of language that your hardware speaks. That way, I can play the game on both an AMD and nVidia card... or intel... or whatever.
There are many different versions of this abstraction later. DirectX is one, OpenGL another... Vulkan... and plenty of dead ones.
Metal, I'm assuming, is fourth.5 -
ROCKFISH_Andi
Posts: 1,009
Hi, I honestly can't say- I'm a bit scepital regarding your graphics card. Win 10 or 7 should both be fine. If I were you I'd buy on Steam and then refund if it runs too slow (If you bough directly on steam you can refund in the first two weeks I think if you've played less than 2 hours)TheGenius said:
Also, could you give me an estimate of my FPS if I were to play EVERSPACE on windows 10, with my system specs? (My friend got a solid 4 FPS through my first run.)
One last thing - is Windows 10 good for running EVERSPACE? Would it work better on Win7? (How about Windows 98? jk i was just messing with you
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After reading what you've said, I have two things to say.
1. Macs are trash. (Apple you suck you ruined my favorite game for me.)
2. I'm buying the game tomorrow, but I'm worried that my mac won't be able to run it. (I mean, I partitioned the disk 170GB macOS // 80GB Windows.) Could it be the storage space issue?
Also, could you give me an estimate of my FPS if I were to play EVERSPACE on windows 10, with my system specs? (My friend got a solid 4 FPS through my first run.)
One last thing - is Windows 10 good for running EVERSPACE? Would it work better on Win7? (How about Windows 98? jk i was just messing with you
EDIT: What is DirectX? I'm terrible with drivers and that sort of thing. Is there a preference between Metal and DX in terms of EVERSPACE? Should I get DX11 or DX12?
Sorry I'm using you as tech support. I should really go bother apple.