[2023] Beyond Horrible Performance

Did anyone else place this like a year or two ago and coming back to it discover that it is completely unplayable like I did?

I remember this game running smooth as could be and I just left settings maxed out. I just turned it on again today, left things at default, and the game is running at like 20fps and lower, often frame dropping so hard I can't even jump up a hill properly.

I'm on a slightly older machine, but it DID run this game beautifully and now it chugs so hard. I took the time to check my settings, update my drivers, try some steam launch params, and play with the graphics settings but I couldn't get it to stabilize, verify integrity of game files. The best I could do was make it look like crap and have decent fps - but still had the sinkhole level frame rate drops.

This is nuts, seriously, ECO - you've broken your game.

Update: Still playing with settings, no luck - advice welcome of course.

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Originally posted by LawfulnessDue8199

Did a full reinstall already. I've got it barely playable now, managed to avoid the framerate drops - but I'm gonna wait a bit until I get a new PC. This laptop used to run this game great, but whatever stability improvements have come - they've clearly also banged the requirements up.

We have increased the minimum requirements several times over the course of development and that is likely going to happen again, as we want to make use of new technology and have changed some substantial things that require more power. Laptops have never been a good idea to run Eco on, so I can imagine it's not running well there - but as far as performance goes our last Performance Update series has mostly fixed issues aside of special cases we're still working on and will be in Update 10.

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