Komet

[blissful elbow]

Komet is now public!

With a lot of time, hard work and math it's released, both on the ModDB Page, as well as on Github.

Komet (previously vsperf <- this was a placeholder) is a performance booster mod which uses harmony patching.

https://mods.vintagestory.at/komet

Komet - Performance Mod

[blissful elbow]

New Beta Release!

I've released the first Preview Build of 1.2.0.

Changelog:
Incremental Cull Cache Removal

• Replaced full cache rebuilds with direct slot removal for re-tessellated chunks.
• Reduced unnecessary cache misses across 4–8 pools.
• Added support for open appends during streaming to avoid unnecessary rebuild fallbacks.
  Rebuild Attribution in Hitch Logs
• Hitch log entries now report rebuild contribution as (X rebuilds, N pools).
• Makes it easier to identify whether 11–16 ms sweeps are caused by cache rebuilds.
  Frustum Culling for AnimatableRenderer
• Added stage-specific frustum checks for animated block entities.
• Skips rendering only when fully outside the relevant stage frustum.
• Shadow stages use the corresponding light-space bounds.
• Avoids unnecessary shader, lighting, uniform, UBO, and draw calls.
  Dedicated Pool for Chunk Mesh Clones
• Added size-class pooling for per-face arrays and custom-part data.
• Reduced recurring 18 MB/s clone allocations.
• Objects are now recycled instead of being allocated and discarded after Gen1 promotion.
• Pool return is handled via TesselatedChunkPart.AddToPools rather than Dispose.
  Added new Compact F7 Hud (Toggle by Pressing F7)

[honest wren]

Hi i'm DinoYeOldy from moddb.
Here's the vid.

As you can see i have high hopes for your mod

my laptop really struggling with game and capture even on low settings

[blissful elbow]

I see, could you maybe type in chat .komet hitch and afterwards .komet report

When you did that, you can drop your log files here so that I can take a look.

[honest wren]

Hera are the files.

Noticed error in main log
2.9.2026 22:48:35 [Error] [komet] could not enable 'frame + render stage measurement', running without it. This is safe but you lose the speedup.
2.9.2026 22:48:35 [Error] [komet] Exception: Ambiguous match in Harmony patch for Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.ChunkTesselator:populateTesselatedChunkPart
---> System.Reflection.AmbiguousMatchException: Ambiguous match found for 'Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.ChunkTesselator Int32 populateTesselatedChunkPart(Vintagestory.API.Client.MeshData[][][], Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.TesselatedChunkPart[] ByRef)'.
at HarmonyLib.AccessTools.<>c__DisplayClass50_0.<Method>b__0(Type t)
at HarmonyLib.AccessTools.Method(Type type, String name, Type[] parameters, Type[] generics)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at HarmonyLib.AccessTools.Method(Type type, String name, Type[] parameters, Type[] generics)
at Komet.Measure.MeasurementPatches.Apply(Harmony harmony)
at Komet.KometModSystem.<ApplyPatches>b__58_5()
at Komet.KometModSystem.Patch(Action apply, String what)

maybe something to do with that

[blissful elbow]

Thank you for the logs, I will try to fix the issues for the next preview build:)

@honest wren

[honest wren]

Glad it helped

Stable version works perfectly so its not game breaking or anything

[blissful elbow]

Well, the preview build is a... preview build, it's unstable with new stuff but sometimes it breaks ^^'

[blissful elbow]

New Preview/Beta Release (V. 1.2.0-pre.2)

Changelog:

• Fixed measurement patch failures on overloaded engine methods
• Fixed frozen GPU timing and added GPU usage tracking
• Fixed GC/allocation statistics when HUD is disabled
• Improved CPU thread budgeting for low-end hardware
• Fixed excessive shadow map quality on low-end GPUs
• Ignored false hitch reports while the game is paused
• Fixed misleading Linux thread priority reporting
• Added Harmony patch collision detection
• Added engine build fingerprint verification
• Added client-side allocation tracking and GC survivor statistics
• Added allocation sampling by thread and object type
• Added server block packet source tracking
• Added mesh pool allocation tracking
• Added per-stage GPU timing
• Added dialog identification for large Ortho hitches
• Improved diagnostics and crash/report accuracy
• Expanded verification and regression tests

As this is a preview/beta build, there may be bugs, crashes etc.

@honest wren Try it out and let me know if everything works now :)

[blissful elbow]

Changelog:

1.2.0-pre.3

SHA256 Checksum: d80c94ed06854f9a8d7cdcfc7fd56272481df03e1efcbc11ab7ef4b99be9fb59  Komet_v1.2.0-pre.3.zip

Github Release: https://github.com/xToast-dev/komet/releases

Everything here answers a report from someone running pre.2, or follows from one.

Fixed

• Joining a world could crash the client with a NullReferenceException in
    WeatherSystemClient.OnRenderFrame. pre.2 introduced a per-frame budget on the main-thread
    task drain, and a world join queues hundreds of those tasks — including the one that
    finalises the level. Spreading that backlog over frames let a renderer that was already
    registered draw before the packet initialising it had run. The budget now starts only once
    the world is finalised: everything a join queues runs in the frame it arrives, exactly like
    vanilla. Joining is lifecycle, not load, and it is not the place to save milliseconds.
• Two budgets could stop working instead of falling back. The entity tesselation and
    entity loading budgets reopen their window on the frame boundary and nowhere else. If that
    signal ever stopped arriving while the patch stayed applied, the tesselation budget skipped
    every further entity shape — permanently, for every animated creature in the world — and
    held entities were never loaded. Both now notice the missing signal, run vanilla instead,
    and count it on the HUD; and neither arms itself at all if the measurement it depends on
    failed to apply. A budget that loses its reset has to degrade to slower, never to never.
• The patch guard was quiet about the collisions that matter most. Where Komet replaces an
    engine method outright (its prefix returns false), another mod's transpiler never runs, a
    prefix ordered behind Komet's is never called, and a postfix sees the result of Komet's
    transcription rather than the original's. All three used to be reported as "info". They are
    now high/high/medium with the reason spelled out — this is the shape behind reports of the
    "entities are invisible since I installed this mod" kind, and it should not need a bisect.

Added

• German HUD and chat. The F7 overlay and the .komet replies follow the game language;
    English and German ship in assets/komet/lang. Missing translations fall back to the English
    text in the source, never to a raw key.
• Reproducible release builds with a published checksum. The same commit produces the same
    bytes, so the SHA-256 on the download page can be recomputed rather than merely trusted. The
    number is also published on the GitHub release, written by the build job.

Changed

• Logs, reports and hitch lines are English. They used to be German. These end up in bug
    reports and get read by people who do not run the client that produced them — the HUD and the
    chat replies are the surfaces that follow the player's language, and nothing else does.
• The mod zip is stored, not compressed (~180 KB → ~450 KB). Identical data does not give
    identical deflate streams across zlib implementations, so compressing would have made the
    checksum unreproducible on a different machine. The download is larger; the promise holds.
• The unused MeasureRenderStages setting is gone from the config class. It was never read.
    The config layout version stays at 11 on purpose: an existing komet.json keeps working,
    the leftover key is ignored, and nobody's settings get regenerated over a dead entry.

Internals

Every build runs on GitHub Actions: both mods built, the full patch and behaviour suite run
  against the real game assemblies, the packaged zips attached to the run, previews published
  under Releases. The SDK version is pinned in global.json — a different patch level produces
  a different assembly, which is measurable and would otherwise break reproducibility silently.

• Source folders sit next to the project file and each one is its own namespace
    (Culling/ → Komet.Culling, Measure/ → Komet.Measure). Not cosmetic: an editor rule
    that derives namespaces from paths had rewritten a generated file and silently disabled the
    engine-drift check.

[blissful elbow]

Komet 1.2.0-pre.4 released!
https://mods.vintagestory.at/komet#tab-description

(patchnotes to big, therefore an cool image :))

[blissful elbow]

Komet 1.2.0 Full release!

(again the patchnotes are so big, that I need to put it in an image ^^')

[blissful elbow]

Also now with a new Iocn drawn by me in Aseprite!

Please report any Issues here or on the Github Page!

[mental frost]

Hi! Really like to see more optimization mods, thanks a lot for that

I wanted to ask if this mod has some other incompatibilities, as im getting worldgen stuck in a loop when using this mod

[blissful elbow]

Hello! What Mods are you using?
Do you have some logs?

I currently do not have a full incompatibility list yet, but I could improve the Mod if I receive more reports regarding issues with other Mods

[mental frost]

I'll get some logs, for the moment I can give my mod list, thanks for checking!

additivechiseling_0.5.1.zip
algernonsterrainsampler_1.3.0.zip
AmbientsBird.zip
apewindows-v1.22.0-1..0.zip
armoryfork_1.11.1.zip
bedspawnv2_1.7.1.zip
BetterForest_0.1.2_Custom_V19.zip
boatautopilot_1.6.2.zip
butterflydisplayV1.22.0-1.2.0.zip
CaveOnlyOresRevamp.zip
claypress_1.1.0.zip
ClimateScalePatch_1.1.0.zip
CO-idle-reanimation-1.0.0_v1.22.7.zip
combatoverhaulfork_0.18.8.zip
DarcesDriftersRedone-1.3.0.zip
Easy Building 1.2.2.zip
ElkPhysics V3.0.3.zip
EternalStew_v2.0.1.zip
EvergreenPapyrus-1.0.0.zip
fairfish_2.0.0.zip
farseer_1.4.0.zip
fastmap_122.5.1.zip
firewoodtostick.zip
FunctionalMinerBeltAndLantern.zip
gearlock-firearms-net10_1.0.8.zip
immersivemodularbackpacks_1.7.6.zip
jsonpatcheslib_1.5.9.zip
Laboros-machete_1.0.2.zip
manualcrank_1.0.1.zip
MiningDropsMoreStone.zip
Opine_Upon_Pine_v1.0.10.zip
overhaulliblegacycompat_1.2.9.zip
ProspectingScan-1.22.zip
Re-Reforged Tools v1.0.2 Custom.zip
rivers_5.0.3.zip
riversextended_0.1.0.zip
scaffolding_1.3.1.zip
shipwright_1.4.1.zip
simplewatertweaks-0.15.zip
Skyrim Music.zip
SleepingBagMod_1.0.1.zip
spinningwheel_1.2.13.zip
statushudcont_4.4.0.zip
temperatureheighttweak_0.4.0.zip
TerraPrety_7.10.2.zip
toolsanimationsfork_1.2.7.zip
tzpraisethesun_v1.0.1.zip
visiblebags_1.0.2.zip
vsimgui_1.2.7.zip
vsroofing_1.7.2.zip
WarmerElks.zip
warmweathereffects_1.6.0.zip
waterweathersimulationredux_1.2.0.zip

[blissful elbow]

Thank you for also providing the Version Numbers of the Mods!

I'll wait till you include your log files, since otherwise I am sadly not really able to resolve the issue :/

[scenic kestrel]

How good is this can people confirm, is this better than optitime and tungsten?

[edgy ember]

Its pretty good
You can try both and see which one runs better for you

[scenic kestrel]

Hmmm

I'll have to test it out

[edgy ember]

Personally ive got better performances after switching from optitime to komet
Dunno about optimum
Could also depends on what is causing your lag

The main difference is that i get a the occasional random crash more often and that stuff like crafting or shadows are choppy

[mental frost]

Sorry for not posting the log files, the 1.2.0 release seems to have fixed the issue, the world now generates without problems

[scenic kestrel]

Hmm crashes is pretty huge I want to create a heavy modlist for a server so I can't afford performance mods who causes more problems then fix

[distant helm]

for me, in a direct 1-1 comparison, Komet seemingly gets a higher FPS on average VS Optimum, which is already really good.

the problems.
Komet, although getting a higher average FPS, has a less stable FPS average than Optimum.

Optimum has the benefit of being able to load chunks/worlds considerably faster and with much less compute overhead through optimized code, while Komet is simply better utilization of available hardware and block-culling.

I've done recent testing using both optimum and Komet at the same time, and while the FPS gain is rather substantial (ON MY HARDWARE), it comes at the cost of severe instability.

[edgy ember]

@blissful elbow The mod greatly improved my pc's performances, but I'm having issues with crafting, it often lags a lot when trying to put things in the grid
There is also a bug that doesn't let you craft some blocks at random intervals, I don't know how to describe it so I recorded it. To fix it I have to restart the game

[blissful elbow]

Heya, I am currently programming a full rewrite of Komet, I will keep you updated, when I release it! :)

[edgy ember]

Thank you!

[wicked flax]

hey I'm playing on a heavily modded server and my fps goes to shit when going from the underground to surface near my base. roughly around y=90, the worst offender "opaque" goes from 22% to almost 50%. what does "opaque mean"?

upon closer inspection, it seems to refer to blocks placed by me. no matter how many there are in frame, be it a big house or a piece of path, my FPS is low as long as there's man-made stuff in frame. the moment I turn to the forest it goes back to 60fps

server mod list:

narrowing FoV seems to SIGNIFICANTLY boost fps

I'll also include this

hope it helps with development!

oh yeah it makes sense it doesn't lag when looking at a forest but lags when looking at a path made of slabs - theres conflicts with place on slabs

[blissful elbow]

Thank you! And yes that helps!

[tough owl]

I have a problem thst only started to show up when i started to use Komet

At random intervals, there will be moments where the game freezes for a few seconds

Any idea of what could be causing it? It doesn't seem to be triggered by any action in specific

I don't recall this happening when i didn't have komet installed

[blissful elbow]

This seems like the garbage collector doing stuff.

Currently I am not really able to help you, since I am doing a full rewrite of the entire Mod.

If you're adventurous you can tweak a lot of settings in the komet.json File! (It's in the ModConfig Folder!)

[tough owl]

I understand and i'll be looking foward to the mod rewritte, but do you know aleast what settings i could tweak to help with this

[blissful elbow]

well, there are a LOT of settings, but you could try out some of the gc settings like disabling "LowLatencyGC"

something ssomething komet 2.0.0 hud & new profiler

[wicked flax]

that is much cleaner than the old one

[blissful elbow]

Well, I've continued to work on it

there are now three settings

compact, normal and detailed

I wanted to make it easier to read

[sharp crypt]

Definitely make a robust way of getting these windows to display over other windows, with the current version some windows can be occluded by things like the minimap or the hudclock mod’s display

[blissful elbow]

well these Windows shown here are written with the Inbuild Cairo so I am not able to make it draw above anything else sadly yet.

(Atleast I haven't found something that'll do it)

Komet

[wicked flax]

able to let us move them?

[blissful elbow]

yes, that is possible :)

But I need to implement it

[wicked flax]

well then implement it

please :)

[blissful elbow]

@wicked flax

It is pretty basic, but I hope you like it!

[wicked flax]

oh yes

as long as you can move it away if other UI elements obscure it it's perfect

[blissful elbow]

Yes you can :)

[wicked flax]

splendid!

[misty shadow]

looking forward to the rewrite!

the original version did good things for me

[blissful elbow]

New Settings Panel :D

[narrow monolith]

Yep, i got better framerate, also my chickens become astronauts 👍

[karmic ginkgo]

   at SmithingPlus.ToolRecovery.CollectibleBehaviorRepairableTool.GetHeldItemInfo(ItemSlot inSlot, StringBuilder dsc, IWorldAccessor world, Boolean withDebugInfo) in /_/SmithingPlus/ToolRecovery/CollectibleBehaviorRepairableTool.cs:line 33
   at Vintagestory.API.Common.CollectibleObject.GetHeldItemInfo_Patch22(CollectibleObject this, ItemSlot inSlot, StringBuilder dsc, IWorldAccessor world, Boolean withDebugInfo)
   at Vintagestory.API.Common.Block.GetHeldItemInfo(ItemSlot inSlot, StringBuilder dsc, IWorldAccessor world, Boolean withDebugInfo) in VintagestoryApi\Common\Collectible\Block\Block.cs:line 2401
   at Vintagestory.GameContent.BlockFigurehead.GetHeldItemInfo(ItemSlot inSlot, StringBuilder dsc, IWorldAccessor world, Boolean withDebugInfo) in VSSurvivalMod\Block\BlockFigurehead.cs:line 40
   at Vintagestory.API.Common.ItemStack.GetDescription(IWorldAccessor world, ItemSlot inSlot, Boolean debug) in VintagestoryApi\Common\Collectible\ItemStack.cs:line 402
   at Vintagestory.Common.CreativeTab.CreateSearchCache(IWorldAccessor world) in VintagestoryLib\Common\GameContent\Inventory\CreativeTab.cs:line 30
   at Vintagestory.Common.CreativeTabs.CreateSearchCache(IWorldAccessor world) in VintagestoryLib\Common\GameContent\Inventory\CreativeTabs.cs:line 50
   at Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.GuiDialogInventory.<OnOwnPlayerDataReceived>b__6_0() in VintagestoryLib\Client\Systems\Gui\Dialogs\GuiDialogInventory.cs:line 60
   at Komet.Patches.ClientAllocPatches.<>c__DisplayClass16_0.<QueuePrefix>b__0()
   at Vintagestory.API.Common.TyronThreadPool.<>c__DisplayClass11_0.<QueueTask>b__0(Object _) in VintagestoryApi\Common\TyronThreadPool.cs:line 119
   at System.Threading.ThreadPoolWorkQueue.Dispatch()
   at System.Threading.PortableThreadPool.WorkerThread.WorkerThreadStart()
   at System.Threading.Thread.StartCallback()```

)=

(komet, smithing plus)

smithingplusplus gave me the same error

both on startup

every time

[blissful elbow]

https://mods.vintagestory.at/komet

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       v2.0.0  //  Vintage Story 1.22

Komet 2.0.0 is out

A complete rewrite. Same game, same picture, just smoother. Built for the 1 % and 0.1 % lows, not only the average FPS.

[ SMOOTHER FRAMES ]
[x] Faster culling ....... parallel, a whole render stage at once
[x] Fewer draw calls ..... a quarter of them
[x] Fewer stutters ....... far less memory garbage

[ THE WORLD ]
[x] Faster loading ....... world ready ~19 s sooner
[x] Distant shadows ...... up to your view distance
[x] Black chunk repair ... automatic in worlds you host

[ IN GAME ]
[>] Options menu ......... Esc
[>] Performance HUD ...... F7

Multiplayer: works on any server. Komet is client side, the server does not need it. Hosting in singleplayer or LAN adds the server-side extras.
Mod devs: new API. Put your own page into Komet's options menu in a few lines, or check and pause Komet features that clash with your mod.

Download: https://mods.vintagestory.at/komet
Source & changelog: https://github.com/xtoast-dev/Komet

[karmic ginkgo]

optimum compat y/n? :3

[blissful elbow]

sadly no, but @serene otter and I are currently in talks regarding this possibly in the future

[karmic ginkgo]

hell yesssssssss

[blissful elbow]

also for all the devs under you, you have now MUCH MUCH more tools to test the performance of your mod!!

you can toggle, move and dis-/enable any window!

Komet - Performance Mod

[wicked flax]

AAAAA LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO

[blissful elbow]

btw. since you are a dev, that might be interesting for you!

https://github.com/xtoast-dev/Komet#options-menu-and-api-for-other-mods

There is also a Settings API so you can add your own tab aswell :) (It is still W.I.P. though, if anybody wants more features, request them on github!)

[wicked flax]

woah

[blissful elbow]

also something something faster chunk loading

[acoustic lance]

Aww mate amazing work there!

Also I wanted to ask if Komet is compatible with mods lighting mods like Lumos? I've played with Komet and Lumos both enabled and no issues so far but still wanted to confirm

[atomic flume]

Worldgen mod compat?

[blissful elbow]

nope

[atomic flume]

Landform replacement mods should work in theory, right?

Whatever only patches landforms.json

[fair island]

Is it normal for Swap/ VSync to be so expensive in render passes while having vsync and framerate limit turned off? Other than that amazing update, the fps increase feels like black magic lmao

[blissful elbow]

Oh you meant that, yes this should be compatible ^^'

[atomic flume]

I meant in general, just wanted clarification

What is or isn't

[blissful elbow]

Oh, content mods should be all compatible :)

Just other Performance Mods would be a bit funky and are incompatible, but Komet logs it and drops it into your log, so you can see, what might've bricked it.

Komet automatically disables modules which interfere with other mods

[blissful elbow]

Well, it seems like a Swap/Driver Issue but I am currently on it b:

https://klipy.com/gifs/volcano-volcan

[blissful elbow]

maybe you'll know if you see this gif on what I am building

[atomic flume]

I forgor, what's the ytt situation

Know tungsten/synergy/optimum have dubious compat

But I haven't tested solely with komet just yet

[blissful elbow]

I am in talks with the developer of these Mods (@serene otter), compat between these mods and Komet is still unknown

[blissful elbow]

however Optimum and Komet shouldn't crash together anymore since he and I implemented an anti crash patches

[atomic flume]

And transport tycoon?

That suite of mods (optimum, tungsten etc) + stratum doesn't work with the mod

So komet should be a good alternative if it does work, this I cannot check rn tho

[ember oriole]

Synergy and tungsten aren’t maintained anymore as they have been fully added to Stratum besides synergy’s minor client part

So they wouldn’t be compat unless another mod does that themselves

[serene otter]

well, they are maintained, yes, but not high priority xD

about compat, peeps, calm down, it's not been a day komet 2 has been released...

[blissful elbow]

Fully compatible with it and also Collapsestory :)

If you receive any issues, lmk.

[blissful elbow]

yes ^

[atomic flume]

Damn, also using collapsestory

Great

[blissful elbow]

Komet is just a project aside my full time job as a systems engineer

[ember oriole]

For updates to new game versions and maybe some compats. So I guess that’s maintained I meant not new updates/changes to them

[ember oriole]

Stratum and YTT should be compatible soon and remain so as best as possible

[ember oriole]

All good haha both are very new and big changes

[blissful elbow]

stratum works out of the box :)

[blissful elbow]

It was made in mind with it

[blissful elbow]

Since Komet has patches both for the Server as well as for the Client :)

[serene otter]

maintained until 1.23 drops nad has more ooportunities XD

[ember oriole]

Yeah haha fair not much to change in between and it’s gonna be such a big change to everything

[wicked flax]

thats not good, Extra Overlays didnt crash with Komet before

ah it's because extra overlays is on an outdated version of dotnet ok

[wicked flax]

also, through trial and error I found that Advanced Chat and its dependency, Gui, cause the game to crash without a crash report

[blissful elbow]

So is the issue resolved?

[wicked flax]

well, extra overlays fork for 1.22 might help, but Advanced Chat still crashes

it could be related to my system configuration, as the client log mentioned missing gtk3 support, but there is no direct crash cause logged

[blissful elbow]

Hm could you maybe try to figure out which mod interferes with Komet? So I can take a look and search for a possible fix

Maybe I‘ll open an Discord just for this Mod. @crude dagger wanna help out?

[wicked flax]

I checked the mods one by one, it is Advanced Chat and its depencency. it uses a renderer separate from the vanilla gui element rendering so it makes sense

[blissful elbow]

Hm I see, so this is what it bricks. Maybe the Developer of the Mod could make a compat patch to use the proper renderer

[crude dagger]

Perchance

[blissful elbow]

Send you a DM! @crude dagger

[last copper]

👍

[atomic flume]

bug? foliage color not updating, color seems to match the yearly temp average of the area, not current

[blissful elbow]

on it

please provide your client-main.log file

[atomic flume]

any grass at sea level acts strangely as well, it does actually follow temperature correctly

[blissful elbow]

and does it return to normal, when you disable komet?

[atomic flume]

yup

[blissful elbow]

Could you disable Sheydermod and join back in and give me an updated client-main.log?

I need to pinpoint down on what causes this

[atomic flume]

ok, i did suspect it may be sheydermod but let's see

... doesn't seem to be directly caused by sheydermod at least

[atomic flume]

quick check with natural foliage off... nope

expected, but

confirmed to be one of my mods

[blissful elbow]

Could you try pinpoint it down?

[atomic flume]

Doing it rn

this might be a really dumb way to test...

but is color somehow applied backwards as well??

[blissful elbow]

https://klipy.com/gifs/what-67287

what the

[atomic flume]

@blissful elbow
i figured it out

it's snow cap melt fix

and now, the reason said mod exists...

[atomic flume]

it was definitely something weird... maybe just a side effect of whatever is going on

[blissful elbow]

but it was interesting non the less

[atomic flume]

genuinely have no clue how foliage color got fucked up so bad by one mod that doesn't even touch this feature directly

-# whoops, guess it does

From mod page:
Version 1.0.1 also makes the mod able to run on the client and introduced a patch to a particular shader that interacts with the altitude temperature adjustment mechanic. If you run into any issues using this mod with shader mods, try disabling "PatchColormapShader" in the client config. Clients still don't need to mod to join a server that has it, and a client with the mod can join a server that doesn't have it.

so yeah, fix is to disable that

[sleek halo]

I use snow cap melt fix, sheydermod and komet, I dont see "PatchColormapShader" any any mod config or in clientsettings.json 🤔

[atomic flume]

really?

or are you on an ancient version

[sleek halo]

hmm checking

oh wait some other snow cap mod I have... nvm, need to do more "research" 🙂

[atomic flume]

heh

[narrow linden]

2.0.0 real smoke works strangely with Komet on client; the smoke is only visible directly if you stand right next to the smoke‑generating block

[wicked flax]

any chance this gets more aggressive entity culling? I am 100 or so blocks away from my farm and also behind several walls, yet my gpu usage spikes each time I look in their direction

granted, the entity count is remarkable, but I wanted some kickass cheese numbers

[blissful elbow]

Heya, it will be even better, I am currently working on implementing my own custom Vulkan renderer and a fully new Culler

So that'll be no issue anymore

[blissful elbow]

Could you maybe share some screenshots with me and also provide your client-main.log file

[narrow linden]

Yeah, sorry

[blissful elbow]

but that'll take some time, currently it's very very very w.i.p. and buggy

[narrow linden]

Answer from Real Smoke dev

[blissful elbow]

I'm in contact with him :)

[narrow linden]

yeah, I see, good to see interaction between moders

[crude dagger]

i wonder how shader incompatibilities can be avoided in the future

since how well a shader works in a given renderer specifically relies on assumptions made about said renderer

generally

[blissful elbow]

Well, they'll continue to happen but we can just fix and make it better

[crude dagger]

its true

i want to get into vulkan at some point

especially since you mentioned working on a renderer rewrite

in vulkan ^

im doing some opengl stuff today

ive never actually dabbled in multi-pass rendering myself so today i am doing just that

[blissful elbow]

Hybrid Renderer :D

Vulkan will take over everything

[crude dagger]

all of my rendering stuff in this voxel demo is done via single-pass

i can do a lot more with multi-pass rendering, especially SSAO

[blissful elbow]

opengl just composites the image in a single pass

sooo the gui and particles will still be on opengl until I find a better solution

[crude dagger]

im also working on a complete rewrite of my chunk mesher and renderer because im changing the mesh vertex layout

[crude dagger]

ohh icic

[blissful elbow]

But I'll write an extended API so Mod Devs can utilize my Vulkan Renderer better

You can always help out :D

[crude dagger]

my renderer currently uses greedy meshing to generate optimized quads, but im adapting my renderer to use naive faces instead because while it is more faces overall, im also factoring out quad vertices via geometry shading

so no more greedy quads, but i'll only use 64 bits per voxel face

rather than 128 per quad

and itll also better support shading and lighting

[crude dagger]

oh that'd be sick

[crude dagger]

i wish to at some point soon

ive never touched vulkan before, and ive never done VS modding

[blissful elbow]

well it's pretty fun

[crude dagger]

i want to play with komet sometime soon and see if i can get a dev build working on my machine

[blissful elbow]

but you need to tell vulkan to do a lot

[crude dagger]

so i hear

[blissful elbow]

If you need any help with that, let me know!

[crude dagger]

i will :)

[blissful elbow]

Maybe I'll make a badge for devs :D

[crude dagger]

yay yay

[blissful elbow]

so that they can pin their mod on it

[crude dagger]

lmao

[wicked flax]

splendid!

[blissful elbow]

guys and girls

I am tired, the Vulkan Renderer is now fully integrated

It's still just +7% extra Performance but I'll try to improve it (images are not needed since it's 1:1 to opengl)

[atomic flume]

Ehmmm 7% is still like 9fps for me

I'll take it gladly

[blissful elbow]

Well, it's still not my quality standard ;)

[atomic flume]

7% more graphics bs I can install to offset my performance gains

[serene otter]

test with some mods to see how many crash

[blissful elbow]

Well ;) Let's see how many will break haha

[void nova]

👍

[blissful elbow]

@fallow talon @atomic flume @serene otter 👀

[atomic flume]

witchcraft

[blissful elbow]

(also the new settings window can be disabled)

and reenabled with ".komet"

[atomic flume]

bu why, it good

[blissful elbow]

and as always everything is moveable!

(+ ofc. a german button)

[blissful elbow]

not yet good enough for me, this is still more or less a draft, so it's subject to change. It's still not yet there where I want it to be

[atomic flume]

unbelievable

[blissful elbow]

also for modders, you can actually see what's dragging your performance down (still, that window is heavily w.i.p.)

@fallow talon did a wonderful job with Real Smoke, it's performant AF

also it pops up a message on WHAT is causing lag :)

[sharp crypt]

Is it possible that 2.0.0 could’ve reduced performance on some devices? Does it enable anything more intensive by default?

[blissful elbow]

Yes, it was rebuild from the ground up and was more or less a big big cleanup.

[blissful elbow]

In the next release, you'll get better performance

[sharp crypt]

Hmm, alr. Well forests are causing me lag again, generally the worst source of lag in the game yk.

[blissful elbow]

Already fixed that issue in 3.0.0 :D

[sharp crypt]

Already going to 3.0???

[blissful elbow]

Yes, since it's a huge feature Update :)

[sharp crypt]

Anyway, how’s it fixed/reduced?

[blissful elbow]

Well, Vulkan, Better Meshing, APIs for other Mods and much much more!

[blissful elbow]

I spend the past few weeks on it

[sharp crypt]

I was wondering if you applied a whole bunch of instancing to all the leaf models

[blissful elbow]

Shadow casters culled by the camera view, Front-to-back sorting for leaves and plants and Depth pre-pass for the opaque terrain

but the depth pre pass is still very buggy

But I am currently working on it

[atomic flume]

Trees are my biggest weak point performance wise.

[red osprey]

hi, does komet focus more on graphical performance or would it help with memory issues too?

[blissful elbow]

Currently it only does CPU, GC and GPU optimizations, menory stuff is also in the future planned. However, I am the sole developer and maintainer of Komet, therefore I try to make it as best as I can.

[red osprey]

understood, thankyou

ive just been trying to troubleshoot a weird stuttering issue

[gilded cove]

@fresh rose this might be an option to see what's causing problems

[blissful elbow]

Pre-1 :)

@atomic flume @serene otter @crude dagger you know what that means :D

[crude dagger]

Oooh that’s looking awesome

[blissful elbow]

Well, it took a hecking TON of time, especially the Vulkan part

therefore I wanted to make a quick showcase video like old Mod Videos haha

[crude dagger]

I can tell, It looks really sweet,

[blissful elbow]

well, without @twilit wraith and @visual ore, I wouldn't have dug me this deep into Vulkan, so you can thank them BIG TIME :D

[crude dagger]

Yay yay

[blissful elbow]

And as always, it's still a drop-in Mod!

so no seperate Installer or altering ANY dotnet Settings :D

[visual ore]

Amazing work @blissful elbow!

[crude dagger]

VS modding is so versatile 😭

[blissful elbow]

Thank you! ( Komet x VSPT Compatibility ??? 👉 👈)

[visual ore]

I have had more fun modding VS than I have playing it, and that's saying something

[crude dagger]

Lol is that so !?

[visual ore]

I hope so! I am not even thinking about mod compatibility at the moment. Just trying to get base 100%

[crude dagger]

They made this game more modular than Roblox for the heck of it it’s so funny and awesome

[blissful elbow]

That's alright, you can hook into the Public Mod API of Komet, so you can tweak even stuff for your Mod if it's running with Komet :D

[crude dagger]

Whats VSPT?

Am new here

[visual ore]

https://x3200.media/vspt-gallery/

[blissful elbow]

https://discord.com/channels/302152934249070593/1556092616360071338

[crude dagger]

Ooooh I see

Interesting

[blissful elbow]

I find it still funky that I basically 8-10x my Performance

[atomic flume]

HOW much

Also on a 5500? That's convenient

[blissful elbow]

Yes and it will be released tomorrow :)

[atomic flume]

My 5600g is nearly identical

[blissful elbow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHqIu1lJV_0

I uploaded as well now the Video onto Youtube :)

[atomic flume]

Can't wait to maybe possibly hopefully get more than 50fps in a modded forest

[crude dagger]

I am curious, what made you decide to reimplement the renderer in Vulkan? Were there specific optimizations you wanted to make that required more control than what OpenGL provides?

I won’t reply till later cus I need to sleep but I wanted to get that out there before i forget

[blissful elbow]

Yes, it was about control. The point was to remove specific costs, not to switch APIs for its own sake.

• Recording off the main thread: VS renders terrain with lots of small draws on one thread. With Vulkan we record the command buffers on a thread of our own, so the game thread only hands off work instead of driving every draw.
• Precompiled, cached pipelines: shaders are compiled to SPIR-V and pipelines are cached on disk across starts, so there are fewer hitches from state or shader changes.
• Better depth testing for foliage: depth memory shared with OpenGL got no depth compression on my driver (RADV). With Komet's own depth image, hidden leaves are rejected before shading: measured 54 vs 9 fragments shaded per pixel in dense foliage.
• GPU-side work: occlusion and culling run as compute passes that feed the draws.

[sharp crypt]

How’s vulkan used and how can you enable using it without a game restart? (Feel like usually a restart is needed for changing the graphics pipeline)

[hybrid delta]

doesn't Vulkan run worse than OpenGL on nvidia cards specifically, or is it up to dev's implementation?

[blissful elbow]

You don‘t need to restart the game! Everything is dynamically loaded, so you can swap it ad-hoc!

[blissful elbow]

Devs implementation.

[blissful elbow]

Sadly, I don't have a proper Nvidia GPU, so it's a bit difficult to optimize it for Nvidia :/

I currently can't afford an Nvidia GPU, since the prices are... well, you know, datacenters are buying up everything :/

[crude dagger]

Oh that depth fragment optimization is actually sweet.

The occlusion and culling passes sound super convenient as well

You make me want to get into vulkan

[blissful elbow]

3.0.0-pre.1 has been released!

SHA:256 / 18eabea025b824c6c8717cd45701ca44e52524763b34e44b54b1838a09cbc1e8

Komet 3.0.0-pre1 is out (pre-release) the biggest update yet

New
• Vulkan renderer (experimental): terrain, shadows, liquids, entities, sky and post effects, picked by one mode switch
• GPU occlusion culling with compute shaders (experimental)
• Own tessellator for blocks, grass and simple models
• New HUD: overlay (F7), tabbed window (Ctrl+F7), debug window (Ctrl+F8)
• .komet debug protocol and .komet profile <modid> mod profiler
• Interop API for other mods (e.g. Optimum) (thank you @serene otter <3)
• Experimental: singleplayer server in its own process
• Slimmer settings, the rest under "Show advanced options"

Faster
• Faster chunk loading, uploads and occlusion culling
• Smooth creative inventory (worst frame 2139 → 60 ms)
• Much less garbage, no more multi-second GC freezes

Fixed
• Crash when joining a world

⚠️ Pre-release: please report issues with .komet debug!

@atomic flume @crude dagger @red osprey @fallow talon :)

[crude dagger]

WOOT

[red osprey]

i'll try it out 🙂 i do have an nvidia GPU, so if there's anything i should look out for that would help optimise for nvidia let me know

[blissful elbow]

Yes, if you see any weird artifacts, visual glitches etc. let me know!

But as mentioned above, it's a pre release, so it's still buggy somewhat

[red osprey]

is it fully clientside?

ill be testing it on a server with like 300 mods so im definitely expecting something to go wrong haha

[blissful elbow]

Yesn't universal!

It can be run both on the server & clientside

[void nova]

When switching to Vulkan (all), some chunks may appear blank, and they will return to normal after breaking or placing blocks.

Will the two errors in the log have any impact?

It appears that Vulkan was not successfully enabled?

Ah, it appears that the game must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

In another modpack containing 98 mods, severe rendering errors occurred when using vk. Are there any convenient troubleshooting methods?

[sharp crypt]

Yeah!!!! Looking forward to giving it a go!

My laptop has Intel arc graphics so can see if that causes any issues, it’s also linux

Btw, wow that was fast

[void nova]

After running .komet debug (yes, /komet debug does not exist), the rendering of the modpack with 98 mods returned to normal.🤔

[void nova]

Currently, on my computer, every Vulkan tier appears to exhibit an FPS regression relative to OpenGL.

The HUD window display indicates that OpenGL primarily consumes time in swap/vsync, whereas Vulkan (all) primarily consumes time in before.🤔

[copper compass]

it seems like Komet is making the item renders in specifically the creative menu turn invisible. the item models are still visible in hotbar/survival inventory and the guidebook

[blissful elbow]

This is actually a feature I implemented with lazy GUI, since the Creative GUI causes sometimes really heavy lag spikes.

But I'll take a look

[blissful elbow]

Thank you for the Debug Infos!

[void nova]

Thank you for creating the mod.

@blissful elbowAdditionally, at present, when the HUD window is opened, pressing Esc causes the game screen to freeze, and no errors appear in the logs.

[atomic flume]

vulkan doesn't seem to be running for me with settings enabled?

[void nova]

Have other shader mods been used? I have found that other shader mods may cause Vulkan to fail to take effect, presumably because the same method has been patched.

[blissful elbow]

Yes ^

[blissful elbow]

Hmm I see I see, what kind of GPU & CPU are you using?

is it unmodded?

[void nova]

i5 9300h + gtx1650

[void nova]

unmodded?

[blissful elbow]

so are you running the game with other mods aside Komet?

[void nova]

There are some, but they should not cause any impact: BetterHandbook, imblocker, precisepickedup, pinyinsearch, fontsettings. I will try enabling only komet to see whether this issue still persists.

[void nova]

The same issue also occurs when using only Komet.

[atomic flume]

even having nothing but komet prevents vulkan from working

[void nova]

It may be necessary to check the game logs for any relevant information.

[atomic flume]

i assume this has something to do with it

[blissful elbow]

Correct, could you provide me the client-main.log File?

[blissful elbow]

Yes, that might be it actually, the Hybrid Renderer needs that instruction

But I am currently building a different render path which doesn't require the Semaphone Extension

[atomic flume]

yeah same thing in client main

[blissful elbow]

Alright. I've put it up on my to do list

[blissful elbow]

Hmm, does the Hud show any Spikes?

[void nova]

Uh, after pressing ESC, the game screen froze completely, and the HUD information remained as it was before the freeze.

[blissful elbow]

Hmm, since you're running on Linux, what does your DE and Kernel say?

Since that is uncommon

[atomic flume]

speaking of esc, pressing it while in the f7/f8 menus freezes the game

[void nova]

me too

🤔

[blissful elbow]

Okay I think I know where the issue lies

But I need some time

[flat pilot]

Apparently I got stuck after turning on vulkan on and reloading the world

I'm running CachyOS. How can I disable vulkan if komet only starts working after the world loads, it needs to be loaded to access settings, and the world straight up freezes after load so I can't even access the settings?

[atomic flume]

try going in config?

[flat pilot]

komet-hud.json?

[flat pilot]

There might be an issue with rain particle collisions?

Because I get rain hit particle effects at the ground floor in the third story building

[blissful elbow]

Oh that is wild, I see that you use different mods, does it also happen when all other mods are inactive aside from Komet?

[void nova]

I look forward to the next update being able to improve Vulkan performance on my computer.👍

[blissful elbow]

I'll ping you when I'll release it :D

[blissful elbow]

The next update will have a lot of bugfixes with a ton of refactoring c:

[void nova]

By the way, will compatibility with shader mods be added in the future? Or will your own shader functionality be added (similar to OptiFine/Iris for Minecraft)?

[blissful elbow]

The second one!

Every Mod Dev can already hook into Komet and disable features and even add their own Settings in the Komet GUI.

[void nova]

I look forward to the emergence of shaders as powerful as those in Minecraft in the future.

[proven fern]

I am running a GTX3060, 16GBof ram. My RAM is fully utilized, but my GPU and CPU are sleeping. My framerate is only at 20-30. I do play with Sheyder and DRT, but I don't get why they are so taxing when my GPU and CPU are barely used. Regardless whether it's 128 view distance or 512, it barely impacts performance. Is it really just a RAM issue?

[blissful elbow]

You should try out running the newest 3.0.0-pre1 Version

[proven fern]

My suspicions proved true: even without sheyder and DRT, frame rate is at 30. I'll test the new version and come back,

[grave raven]

How well does this compare to things like Optitime, Tungsten, Synergy, etc?

[ember oriole]

Tungsten and synergy are server performance mods, not client. Both are built into Stratum, the vanilla server fork

Optitime does different performance optimizations mostly and is also built into the forked client Optimum

[sharp crypt]

@blissful elbow heyo, in messing around in the settings screen I realized that komet doesn’t allow using the arrow keys like the default screen does for moving sliders. In vanilla you click on a slider to focus it, then can use the left/right arrow keys to fine tune adjust. This’d be something really nice to have in komet as well

[blissful elbow]

Already on my todo list! Next pre.2 will have this included!

https://klipy.com/gifs/nod-puppy

[blissful elbow]

@sharp crypt

also the Creative Inventory Icon Bug is now fixed!

[blissful elbow]

You can now utilize your Arrow Keys as wished! :D

(+ new fancy sliders)

(It's not perfect yet, but I hope you like it!)

I am currently fixing a lot of Bugs and Issues you guys have reported :)

[sick storm]

so how many more fps % do I get with this on average vs vanilla?

[ember oriole]

Quite a lot more, exact # not sure

It’s also that, you’re likely not able to have your view distance set to a max of 1500~ blocks. With this you can and still have more fps than vanilla at your current settings

[sick storm]

https://github.com/KillerPixelCrew/VulkanStory/releases/tag/v0.1.1

this is the same thing?

[blissful elbow]

Nope

We use similar technologies

but we implement stuff differently

[sick storm]

Do you know Special K app? For some reason it improves vintage story performance quite a bit, even tho it's not even designed to do it.

I just tested FPS on the same stuff and settings with and without your mod and special K and here are the results:

VS (vanilla): 44 FPS
VS (vanilla) + Special K: 60 FPS
VS (Komet): 60 FPS
VS (Komet) + Special K: 76 FPS

Running VS with Special K changes how the game reports its renderer from OGL to D3D11 (at least that's what RTSS is showing)

You should check this out and maybe idk implement some stuff based on it

[winter herald]

I'm just glad your journey took you through whatever you did in v1.2 because that gives me the most stable experience and still gives me the best 1% lows

I'm on a 2 core 4 thread potato with and integrated intel gpu tho

[somber oak]

is komet causing problems?

[blissful elbow]

Could you please elaborate a bit

you have a huge log file. What is the Issue?

[somber oak]

it seems that when I open the komet hud my game gets a huge lag spike then it hits another time and freezes my game

I have areound 40ish mods

I think its a compatibility issue

oh

after disabling komet my game became much smoother and loaded a lot faster

but komet was preventing memory leaks and now I m having a memory leak...

[blissful elbow]

Could you try running it only with Komet and tell me if the spike issue still persists.

[somber oak]

thats a lot of turning of and on of mods

[gilded cove]

open the mod map, put the mods you need to turn off in another map for a second and then put em back in afterwards

no need to click em one at a time

[grave raven]

You could also just delete all but Komet, or at least, move everything but Komet out of the folder

I am noticing a memory issue as well, but I am not sure if it is this mod or not, but since I was using it, I am gonna investigate it.

[grave raven]

I was unable to tell if this mod was causing the issue or not, as I wanted to investigate a memory leak issue of my own I had

Mostly because the game froze

I do have an absurdly massive mod list, but I am pruning it a bit

[grave raven]

Sorry to ping again, but when you do come on, I think might be useful to list all of your mods. Because while I’m a glutton with mods and have 650+ mods at the moment, it is because I have so many that I probably share a few with you. And it’s possible those shared few may be causing some kind of issue here.

It could also be useful in finding weird conflicts

[blissful elbow]

KOMET 3.0.0-pre.2 IS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://mods.vintagestory.at/komet#tab-description

A lot of bugfixes (like A LOT), even better performance, no semaphone extension is needed anymore and much much much much MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE PERFORMANCE STUFF!

And a ton of Code Cleanup, I'll work on even more Code Cleanup and CodeQL Cleanup for 3.0.0-pre.3.

https://klipy.com/gifs/cat-performance

Let me know if you have any Issues. Always Include your log files!

[somber oak]

I have fixed my issue I just had to download crafting grid performance enhancer and switching my smithing plus mod with plus plus one

[grave raven]

Link to the former? I am getting quite a few options

[somber oak]

My lag spikes were gone my fps increased from 200 to 400 and crashes stopped completely

[somber oak]

I cant remember the name

Just type performance craft

I found it that way

[grave raven]

https://mods.vintagestory.at/opttagecraft This?

[somber oak]

No

its an ai generated photo of crafting grid with some stuff

I actually found this mod from the mods channel and gave it a shot and glad I did

[grave raven]

https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/54040

[somber oak]

Yeah

This one

[void nova]

@blissful elbow The Vulkan renderer doesn't seem to be working properly.

🤔

[blissful elbow]

Are you running Komet aside other Mods?

[void nova]

I tested using only Komet, and the problem didn't change

[atomic flume]

yeah vulkan still doesn't work for me.

[blissful elbow]

Found the Issue, thank you for the detailed report! The next pre.3 Build will have it fixed!

[blissful elbow]

Found as well the Issue. It was a missing library!

[twin dawn]

Hiya o/ i tried the pre.2 version and had some chunks flicker in and out of existence so i tried the 2.0.0 but its still there, any clue on what im doing wrong?

VS 1.22.7 | Komet 3.0.0-pre.2 & 2.0.0

nvm it was a SheyderMod compatibility issue i just disabled that mod
(dont i love issues that i resolve right after asking for help...)

Really love the settings UI change btw

[blissful elbow]

Thank you :D

[blissful elbow]

I am in talks with a lot of Devs so that we can get native compatibility between Shaders and more!

[royal cedar]

Disabling the Sun Shadows fixes this

[ember oriole]

Optitime isn’t compatible yet right?

[serene otter]

optitime doesn't implkement any compatibility... optimum tries to

[flat pilot]

Could optitime be technically useable with Komet?

oh

[flat pilot]

So, should I just disable optitime until it does?

[serene otter]

well, there's no planned compatibility layer from komet/optitime. if some of them conflicts with each other, you'll have to disable either one

[frozen sand]

So... One of the players in my LAN world is receiving crashes, when accessing chests/containers on Shipwright chests. The Crashlog reports that Komet and Immersive Modular Backpacks are causing a fatal error...
As far as a bug report can get, without his logs.

Theres the log.

[flat pilot]

komet seems to not be compatible with optimum now?

because komet just turned itself off when i launched the world with the optimum client

[blissful elbow]

Correct, but for Optimum & Komet there is

We are still working on a lot of things

styles :)

something something pragmata

also more compatibility

unbind keys as wished

and much much more :D

it's still a bit buggy with setting defaults :)

This time I took some visual insiprations by the game Pragmata, but you can also set it back to the default Komet Style

(Also for Devs, you can of course create your own Styles and add them to the menu, with the Public Komet API :)

[serene otter]

indeed.

[royal cedar]

I'm using the latest beta version and I'm unable to apply changes. The button is there and shows changes can be applied but nothing happens when I click it. I've also tried tabbing to it but it doesn't seem possible

[blissful elbow]

This is a fixed Bug in the newest pre.3 release :) It will release this week!

Pre.3 has taken a bit since I had over 100+ Bugs and Issues fixed I wanted to address

also done a lot of cleanup Stuff, added more API access for all Shader Devs, Ingame Docs and much much more

Devs should have it to have it as easy as possible to integrate their Shaders and Mods to Komets ecosystem

(Especially since there is a lot of demand for it :^)

That's why pre.3 will have native compatibility with DRTAgX, SheyderMod and Realsmoke by @fallow talon