Lag with Headlights

Hello ,
Whenever you turn on the Headlight there will be a huge loss of performance. (Around 10-20fps)
I had this problem a while now, but now especially on Italy i can notice this.

 

But i should have a more than good enough PC for that?

 

Ok thank you

 

IIRC maps are the GPU intensive part, cars are the CPU intensive part, but having many cars or heavy lighting and shadows can slow down both parts just the same. BeamNG is a resource intensive game graphically, even with just a single car in a simple map.

 

That is not quite correct, maps are more CPU intensive than single car is, well they were, it is much less impact now, but still single car is surprisingly light on CPU and SSAO is quite GPU heaviest thing in game, except that also adds lot of CPU load too.

So thing is, everything is CPU intensive, but some bits add GPU load too.

Headlights and shadows is CPU murder, even fastest CPU can be brought to it's knees with enough headlights. Future performance optimizations are very welcomed for that.

 

I have the game turned on almost every setting down, maybe that's why i dont notice a big CPU usage with many maps but rather notice the GPU dying when it has to render everything. Not like i can say much tho, my PC sucks.

 

Oh yes, when you turn down light and shaders, maybe even turn shadows off, then CPU load is reduced and there is more headroom for things to live in, also if your GPU is not the fastest, then it is easy to become GPU limited and changes on CPU load for same FPS are not clear after that.

I think there used to be quite large difference between normal and high few versions ago, but not so huge visual difference, I should test different settings more now, but there has been so much else that haven't had chance to learn every difference new performance updates have made.

 

in my experience wether or not i set lighting to low or highest doesn't matter since there is illumination and shadows being made.

 

I only had one car running at that time.
Im surprised that just one Car with Headlights on will basically kill the CPU.

 

I keep shadows at partial, which sometimes helps without being much of visible change.

It really depends from number of lights too and what other CPU needs to be doing, combination of everything becomes too great for CPU to handle is what then kills framerate.

Lights etc. just is there for now I think, not much is done yet to optimize those, driving at night I think is a future possibility, but for now kinda like place holder.

 

On some other game it was long shadows casting shadows on shadows etc.