Elemental War<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
We already talked about the upcoming performance improvements in Elemental War last month. So in April we worked a lot on them. So far we upgraded Unity from 2017.4 to 2019.3, which is the most recent version. That’s necessary to get the full potential out of Unity. And then we upgraded to render pipeline in use from the built-in (legacy) pipeline to the new Universal Render Pipeline (URP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, both upgrades went more or less without problems. The Unity upgrade itself was easy, the upgrade to URP took a while because we had to adjust quite a few shaders. It’s not 100% complete yet, but the missing stuff are just minor tweaks to improve the look again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the performance side we ran our benchmark in Elemental War and the results are pretty cool. In 1080p we now reach average values of 60-80 fps (zoomed in vs zoomed out view). And UHD also almost got an average of 30fps for both zoomed in and out (while the average before the upgrade was at 10-20fps). This on a GTX 970 and an i7 4790k. Keep in mind that so far we more or less just improved the GPU performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The work on the CPU optimizations already started. So far the whole monster movement and the monster updates are moved to DOTS. Not everything is multithreaded and not everything is already better now (but also not worse!), but we need to update a lot of code to get the best out of it and we can’t change everything at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The GPU improvements are already available on the dev-branch (beta branch) on Steam if you want to try it out. We’re continuing work on the CPU side during the next weeks and will release updates on the beta branch from time to time, maybe every week, but that depends on how much relevant progress we made there. We hope to get the improvements done in May, but we’ll see how it works out in the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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