Post by FRACTiLE Games in KAUNA 0.07 update - Cloudy comments

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Really nice. I'm getting a lot of quake 1 vibes.

The game runs mostly well but there is some stutter at start of every level and drastic fps drop when multiple four-legged enemies get close to player.

The initial stutter could be caused by shader compiling (are you doing something to hide this?) but I have no idea what could cause the slowdown with the enemies. Profiler might reveal something. Unless of course this happens only on my machine..

Edit: I played on a laptop running Xubuntu 24.04 with Intel Arc GPU.

anttironkkagames197 days ago (1 edit)

Thank you for feedback!

Stutter at the beginning is definitely shader compiling issue and I have not tried to hide it, yet :)

I need to check my enemy AI code if there is something funny going on with those fps drops. My "low-end" test device is Steam Deck and haven't seen slowdowns on that one, but on the other hand it is still kinda powerful device.

Edit: Other enemies are not causing fps drops?

FRACTiLE Games197 days ago (1 edit)

Now that I continued playing the game, the slowdowns are gone, so it must have been something weird going on at my end.

I forgot to mention that this is what it looks like underwater to me:

I'm guessing this is not intentional.

anttironkkagames195 days ago

Ok that is strange :) Maybe something to do with Intel ARC GPU? There is camera wide shader effect applied when player goes underwater

FRACTiLE Games195 days ago

Yes, this has very likely something to do with Intel GPU or driver. Probably some edge case that Intel handles differently.

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