[MOD]FPS Booster

[warm pumice]

This is mostly just a test mod to see if it works as an fps booster, initial results show for me small increase of about 20 fps (depending on situation and mission) and looking to get feedback if it helps others.

Step-by-Step Installation

1. Download BepInEx
   • Go to the BepInEx release page. -> https://github.com/BepInEx/BepInEx/releases/tag/v5.4.23.2
   • Download the BepInEx_win_x64_5.4.23.2.zip file.

2. Extract BepInEx
   • Extract the contents of the BepInEx_win_x64_5.4.23.2.zip file into the root folder of your game. This is the folder where your game's executable is located.

3. Verify BepInEx Installation
   • After extraction, your game folder should contain the following:
   • BepInEx (folder)
   • doorstop_config.ini (file)
   • winhttp.dll (file)

4. Place the FPSBooster.dll
   • Navigate to the BepInEx folder inside your game directory.
   • Inside the BepInEx folder, locate the plugins folder. If it does not exist, create it.
   • Copy the FPSBooster.dll file into the plugins folder.

5. Launch the Game

[clever briar]

Very cool and nice.
This is available for multiplayer? Because most part of problems with FPS in multiplayer.
If yes. This modification could become a part of vanila game

[warm pumice]

Yes, its multiplayer compat but its fully just a test atm, what works for me may be entirely different for others or just make it worse.

[clever briar]

Okay i with friend will try to test it.
You told about 20 FPS boost in different scenes.
If this measure in % FPS boost how much it is?

[warm pumice]

could be 0% could be 33% its really unknown at this time, my measurements as hosting appears a 1/3 boost, joining an ongoing mission? 5%-10%?

Start a singleplayer game -- press f3 to see fps, exit game and apply mod

see if it goes higher.

[clever briar]

Thanks. Sometimes randomly, but this is still could be pretty useful! I hope especially in missions with many aircrafts(which eat many resources) and with many ground forces

[warm pumice]

I have ways i can apply other fixes, i may make this into an experimental configurable branch.

[clever briar]

Nice. I will try to make good feedback when we end testing

[ashen lantern]

gonna note my free flight and talon one server performance here before installing the mod

oh bruh i had vsync

alr ill keep it off

[warm pumice]

yeah disable vsync lol

[clever briar]

Dont forget. Performance variety from players quantity

[ashen lantern]

actually makes it feel a bit smoother

might have to keep it on 😭

[warm pumice]

[ashen lantern]

ok heres free flight

current t1 roster

lol

eh ill disable it just to see what performance i can get

[warm pumice]

[ashen lantern]

ok this is just on the viewing aircraft screen

hopefully thats a good enough metric?

[warm pumice]

now to apply it?

inb4 its 100% worse

[ashen lantern]

actually in the aircraft

ok ill apply now gimme a minute to follow the instructions lol

ok this is a bit easier than harmony/umm and such

a lot easier actually

can i verify in game if it worked?

i think my free flight without vsync was 130

[warm pumice]

if you want the console to open -> Bepinex -> config folder -> just put this in it...

[ashen lantern]

😅

[ashen lantern]

alr

[warm pumice]

so 7 fps boost in aircraft? Lol

[ashen lantern]

yea lmao

the console opened so that is indeed with the patch

my pc is a 5 5600 + 1650 super + 16gb of ram so dont expect too much 😂

[warm pumice]

Its better than nothing!

I got another update coming give me like an hour or so... possibly earlier

[ashen lantern]

alr

wish it auto updated

[clever briar]

Pretty interesting result. Average small increase. But sometimes frames boost almost double. Average increase near 10% what pretty good

[ashen lantern]

oh i didnt see what it was with vsync

[ashen lantern]

this was with vsync i think

if it gets a constant 75 then thats a win in my book

oh shi im too poor on his server 💀

nvm reserved

hey not bad

[warm pumice]

Lol

[jovial raft]

makes the game lag extra extra hard for me

i7 13650hx

feels like when I bugger up the game with process lasso

oh u know what

my goddamn laptop charger was unplugged

lol

[solemn quartz]

how does this mod work?

[dawn viper]

lol actually wanted to ask it rn

[warm pumice]

so did it work after you plugged in lmao

[warm pumice]

Sets the unity JobWorkerCount to 2 instead of maxCores available, apparently splitting the load across cores is causing slight worse performance..

[solemn quartz]

strange

so multi treading actually hurts performance??

[warm pumice]

Appears so

first start altercation pala

unpatched ^

patched first start

[dawn viper]

464fps...

[warm pumice]

It drops very fast lol dont worry, as units spawn etc

[dawn viper]

But yeah i tested it and it's seems to working, but it's very negligible improvements for me. Sometimes it's the same, sometimes it's 1-2ms faster, which might give +2 more fps in escalation-like lobby.

[jovial raft]

i have to do some real testing but it did feel like the avg framerate hawas a bit higher

[rose rose]

In my case, I get :

• 45-75fps without the mod
• stable 60fps with the mod

For reference my CPU is a Ryzen 5800x3d

[warm pumice]

Just confirming vsync was off? weird its stayin 60 lol

Well glad its more stable then? interesting

[small reef]

I'd like to think my mission is the final boss of lag testing 😭

[warm pumice]

Well start your test then!

[rose rose]

nvm, AMD drivers being shitty as always, they randomly activated Vsync. I do get more stable fps tho, between 55 and 75 fps but without any sudden spikes or drops

[warm pumice]

Ay

[jovial raft]

i feel like I'm getting stutters with this when noblackbox is turned on

might be impacting the streamwriter dumping the tacview log in the background?

nah it can't be the disk writes because that only occurs every 60 seconds

[wintry geyser]

If you don't mind sharing, how does it work? How what exactly does it do to boost the fps?

[dawn viper]

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[clear socket]

wait what CPU are you using to get 300 wtf

[warm pumice]

13900k, 4080 super

[clear socket]

Huh. 7800x3d and NO gobbled it up like a glutton

Doesn't even make sense considering it performed way better than the 13900k at MSFS but idk

[warm pumice]

Actually playing as it fills up I'll drop to 60-55

First starts are always very high

[clear socket]

First as in literally the first second

I get a high burst of FPS then it immediately drops to 100 to 80

[feral basalt]

has this mod been tested on games with actually high entity counts

[cunning urchin]

JobWorkerCount = 2 😂

[clear socket]

I'll test out later

[feral basalt]

try a solo escalation and just donate to the ground forces

thats always a good stress test

[tawny bridge]

just tested it on ryzen 5 5500 + rx6600 + 32gb ram. launched escalation coop as pala and donated a shitton of funds to ground forces, they spawned, i flew fs-20 near them and it was 10-13fps unpatched and 20-27fps patched

[clever briar]

I long time check this mod. He works pretty good. He give at least 20% increase frame boost. And sometimes can increase 200% frames!
Overall give at last 60-100% frame boost! And it seems sometimes frame appear higher than apear on eyes. And graphic of frames appear this.

Best performance in dedicated servers!
And control feedback increased when you are change aircraft in aircraft change menu!

Looks like mod generate frames and something else, like probably turn off not needed UI part and probably, IDK turn off some data transfer if some units very far and when you not open map. And when you open map it seems map refresh to current state, probably some parts of game calculate and appears in lower frame like smoke, and probably something else.

I get bug with this mod. Sometimes not appear objective names at map and HUD, usualy on dedicated servers

I can recommend this mod for everyone. Nice job. @warm pumice thank you very much, now i can forget about 6 frames gameplay

||1050ti, 8GB RAM, I5-7400||

[ancient garden]

does this mod work on linux

[warm pumice]

Needs extra work for Linux but yes you can run it if you modify certain files

[ancient garden]

can you explain i’m stupid

[warm pumice]

bepinex needs a modification through wine/whateve rlauncher you use to use an external dll instead of inbuilt.

[wooden flume]

Is this normal to everyone? God that sounds terrible

[clever briar]

only if you host hard missions

[tawny bridge]

Yeah, basically was a stress test, in normal conditions i get anywhere from 40 to 60fps at 1080p vsync

[wooden flume]

Is there a way to change resolution in game? I run ultra wide

[wooden flume]

I think this is actually coming in handy, I used to get around 20 FPS now I'm getting 30, which will be nice

[ancient garden]

steam resolution settings

[wooden flume]

wow I don't even get to see my weapons, countermeasures or my map 💀

[ancient garden]

i think if you change your hud scale it’ll fix that

turn it down then back up

but lmaooo i had to zoom in to see

[wooden flume]

i mean even then I don't even get that good of a FPS boost. Its just 24 fps i get

ugh

[ancient garden]

is this multiplayer

[wooden flume]

yea

i mainly play multiplayer

[ancient garden]

how many people in the server

more people = lag grows exponentially

[wooden flume]

its just random coop servers i join

[ancient garden]

talon one (pvp server) cooks my device when i join at peak hours

[ancient garden]

if you’re joining like a few people then this is probably a rig issue

try to connect to a server that has the best ping for you

[wooden flume]

yea i play on a gaming laptop

[ancient garden]

yea that’s prob why

[long jungle]

how do you feel about making that mod open source?

[jovial raft]

it quite literally just sets the unity jobworker count to 2 and the process priority to high

you can confirm this yourself with a decompiler

[glacial mountain]

hi, avid ILSpy user here as well. though you're right, it makes life a lot easier for anyone wanting to read it or change it. there's no point in not sharing the src while you're at it

[long jungle]

i just find it "wrong" to not have a mod open source, cause, well, why would it not be, not meaning the author is likely to do malicious stuff, its just... the right way to have it open source

[final sluice]

pretty sure the code is just

JobsUtility.JobWorkerCount = 2;

[long jungle]

it absolutely is

its about principle

[long jungle]

as i already have done this lol

[final sluice]

@warm pumice did you try any numbers other than 2? I'm looking into setting this lower in the next release

[long jungle]

sorry if this sounds mean james, no bad intentions here

[final sluice]

I was reading other using unity saw better performance when its lower as well, but none of the posts said why

I'm guessing if it is using all the cpu cores, then other processes on your pc could slow it down 🤔 so I'm wondering if setting it to 1/2 thread count would be enough to fix performance

[long jungle]

TIAS?

[warm pumice]

1 was absolutely horrendous, other than that not really.

[warm pumice]

I have the tendency to never release any of my source code (ex rocket league mod for dedicated modded servers) I'm a huge "omg my source is shi.... what would others think"

[glacial mountain]

why would you feel good about running that on others' machines 😭

[jovial raft]

fun fact: the world runs on shit code

[long jungle]

absolutely

and any person which's opinion is worth something in the slightest would not shit on you, but would just.... try to improve things

but i understand exactly where you are coming from, ask me why my things are mostly private github repos

[vernal canyon]

Game engines notoriously suck at multithreading. I'd have to dig more into Unity to figure this one out specifically but it is not surprising.

[wind mantle]

props mate i got notoriously better framerates in high intensity multiplayer servers

[warm pumice]

None of it runs on others machines, I run the whole modded community servers for rocket league, as much as i'd like to open source it if i could... I'm practically under NDA for it as it implements hosting EXTREMELY dangerously high rated bots that cant be public

[warm pumice]

Make it a slider for user to "mess" with and have like a hover over text that says like "Tested results show positive the lower you go as long as you dont go to 1?"

[final sluice]

its not something I want normal users to mess with, because the wrong value could make it worse.

I might add a command line option to set it, so it can be used for advanced users and servers

[wind mantle]

Why not a "config.blk" file ? Similar to war thunder with this core system and a ""values at one and less reduces performance change at own risks"" so players with some knowledge and time could test optional values until one "perfect" optimal one gets decided by you devs

[clear socket]

Like a config file yeah, let's you change the max fps cap and other settings stuff

In some games you can even change the memory allocation

[wind mantle]

God i would LOVE to change memory allocation for NO

[ashen lantern]

i would give it 15gb out of my 16

[wind mantle]

I would give 17g out of my 16

[long jungle]

im so ready for that

[long jungle]

thoughts on settable ram amount for NO like java has it with -Xmx and -Xms?

(sure, this is for the java vm technically, but might also be possible for a game, not that into unity tech, just c# sadly)

[final sluice]

I'm not sure how much control we get over that with unity

and I think a lot of the memory will be taken up by texture and other assets, rather than the code side. so not much we can reduce there

[wind mantle]

Would that include moving extensive content to the gpu ? Not only could we allocate more memory but people could be able to use their rtx

[final sluice]

that's all handled by unity. so its mostly just settings like texture/shadow quality that we can expose

[vernal canyon]

Could maybe preload scenes but that's about it. And it would come with some problems

[wind mantle]

Trying not to push this but could this make more graphics settings a thing ? Light details mesh quality all that ?

Anything for people to manage their devices

[warm pumice]

those settings are saved in your windows registry lol...

[jovial raft]

but that doesnt make it impossible to configure programmatically...

[warm pumice]

oh no the server mod set em all to lowest

and that was before i realized it editted the registry lol

then i removed that part

[plain arch]

the game seems to have a problem with asynchronous calculations when multithreads...

How many times I have the same performance on 2 cores as all the others...

I've tried different combinations of shutting down cores and threads...

Interesting from 2 cores have almost the same performance as on 8

[plain arch]

@warm pumice how do I test that the mod works

[wind mantle]

Launch the game and press f3 to watch the fps

[plain arch]

but that's not proof of the mod's functionality...

[wind mantle]

Join a talon one server spawn check frames remove mod do the dame

I dont think theres a genuine way

[clever briar]

For many people this works, but for some people he not work

[wind mantle]

only genius way is to eyeball it

[vernal canyon]

Only way to measure it is to use some sort of benchmark and an FPS counter

[clever briar]

Yes. But even with fps counter, he lie. Because sometimes he show twice number frames, but real number of frames not twice, just 1.5

[vernal canyon]

Steam frame counter measures how often it is drawn by the driver (or whatever.) There is also an ingame frame counter and CPU latency.

[clear socket]

Use RTSS

[long jungle]

"easiest" would be, press <key> which opens a little dialog on what the current value of JobsUtility.JobWorkerCount

[clever briar]

https://tenor.com/view/thanks-boost-discord-gif-19993348

[somber fiber]

still working on new update?

[clever briar]

Seems still work. I checked

[plain arch]

I don't know why it's not implemented in the game if / maybe it works.....

[plain arch]

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I did various experiments, and it's funny that the game runs at the same performance on 2 cores as all the others.

This proves that one core of instructions waits for the other while slowing down.

When I disabled individual cores for the game process.

It logically follows that many instructions are not synchronized at the core level.

[final sluice]

I limited the worker count to between 2 and 8, in the last patch, so that's probably why there is no difference now

the mod probably isn't needed any more

[clever briar]

My friend said in 0.31 he get higher frame rate. And early he tried installing this mod, but on him PC he dont get frames boost.

Thank you so much for optimisation! Optimisation for this game perfectly give ability to players play in higher intensive war without 6 frames gameplay.

P.S. i feel a frame boost too(i still use fps booster) and this boost mostly help increase FPS in low and middle intensity battles(somewhere 15-25%), but even in high intensive probably get 5-10% frame boost(unfortunately im not counting, its just feelings)

[stoic mountain]

does this still work post-brawler?

[jovial raft]

it doesn't do much

if you have random dips where the game goes to like 5-10fps for a minute randomly, try limiting the framerate

also try launch options -force-dx12 or -force-vulkan

alongside capping the framerate

[jovial raft]

soz -force-d3d12 is the correct one for dx12

[stoic mountain]

these are for steam right?

[jovial raft]

yes you can set them for the game in steam launch options

to cap the fps you can try using the graphic's driver, you can certainly do it in NVIDIA control panel, probably for AMD too but i haven't had an amd card in over a decade so idk, or you can use external software like RTSS, or you can use my mod
https://discord.com/channels/909034158205059082/1458825271179215051

or you can just enable vsync, although that might only result in a reasonable fps limit if you have a 60hz screen

[stoic mountain]

my issue is specifically low fps on high vehicle count missions but im saying this as i have a 7 year old cpu

[jovial raft]

that's typical behaviour of the game unfortunately

[stoic mountain]

nah its not as bad as for others, i reach 15-20 on almost every non escalation mission

[jovial raft]

what this fps booster mod does it restricts the unity job system to 2 threads which depending on the cpu may or may not help, for me it stopped being useful several patches ago

[stoic mountain]

mmm the cpu im using is an i5 9400f

you probably dont know but if you do, do you think itd help?

[jovial raft]

if you don't try it you will never know

[stoic mountain]

i suppose

ty anyway

[stoic mountain]

i suppose those wont help if the issue is the cpu right?

[jovial raft]

it might help because new graphics apis are a bit smarter at pushing instructions to the gpu, so the cpu can work a bit more efficiently

[stoic mountain]

fair enough ill try these at home

[jovial raft]

-force-d3d12
or
-force-vulkan

only set one at a time

don't try to set them together

[stoic mountain]

does the mod function with the current game version at least?

[jovial raft]

it will work

[stoic mountain]

awesome

no known conflicts with other mods?

specifically NOTT

[jovial raft]

it doesn't modify actual game code, it just tells the unity player to only use 2 threads for the job queue

so it should not conflict with any other mods

[stoic mountain]

cool ty again

[stoic mountain]

Ok so combined with the dx12 forced i gained about 10 extra fps with the mod but its probably just the api change

[jovial raft]

i get something like that with dx12 over the default also, without the mod

[clear socket]

This is based on my own testing only, I have an AMD GPU so it may differ
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[gentle rock]

How do I know if ive install this correctly? Does this show in the mod manager? i've put it in the plugins folder but when i press f1, it only shows my other mods