[2023] State of optimization and New Frontiers?

Note, many of the users having issues (many of the ones above, for example) are AMD GPUs.

Some recommendations for AMD users, do one - test - and keep going down until you have performance improvements:

• Update your AMD drivers
  
• Turn on "Simple Building Shadows"
  
• Make sure "Contact Shadows" is on
  
• Turn down "Shadows" setting from High, to something lower
  
• Turn down "Shadow Cascades"

If you still have issues, please raise a support request at AMD, as we would very much like them to spend some time on the game with their hardware diagnostics and get them to put some hardware optimizations in their drivers. Nvidia have been regularly doing this, testing, and including specific changes for ICARUS in their drivers.

Again, I cant stress enough how important it is to update your drivers for both Nvidia and AMD. Each update Nvidia has been releasing specific changes that will help with ICARUS, not having the latest drivers can also cause crashes especially if advanced rendering settings are turned on.