Steam: Is this low fps normal?

[nihilreich]

ty for the help in advance, I do have an old computer but I have a gtx970 which feels like should be able to run this fine in 2k. I'm getting low fps other than when looking at empty land or very zoomed in. Would love some help, ty.

[YourMaster]

EDIT:

This seems to be a windows 11 and steam issue. Running KeeperFX without steam runs this with a normal framerate.
When running it through steam, be sure to run KeeperFX as administrator. To do so: Right click your exe file > Properties > Compatibility > Tick the box "Run program as administator".

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Original post:

The game unfortunately does not use any video card at all. And it also uses only 1 CPU core.
Still, it's a very old game, I'd say most people would easily have it run over the 20 fps of the original game, even with an old PC.

You can enable 'easter egg mode' (-alex) from the launcher, then press Enter from the numpad to get a console. Type !ft.max, and show us a screenshot of what the framerate numbers say.

[nihilreich]

The game unfortunately does not use any video card at all. And it also uses only 1 CPU core.
Still, it's a very old game, I'd say most people would easily have it run over the 20 fps of the original game, even with an old PC.

You can enable 'easter egg mode' (-alex) from the launcher, then press Enter from the numpad to get a console. Type !ft.max, and show us a screenshot of what the framerate numbers say.

Hey thanks for the response, fps seems to be hovering around 30, Though it did feel smoother on this map compared to before.

[YourMaster]

What you can do is in the ingame options menu, reduce the draw distance and reduce the amount of shadows per sprite from 4 to 1 or 0.

[nihilreich]

What you can do is in the ingame options menu, reduce the draw distance and reduce the amount of shadows per sprite from 4 to 1 or 0.

thanks will give those a shot, I just logged back in now I'm at 8-9 frames at the start of the game, I guess I'll try to figure out what causes the flactuations, it was much better last time i played and sent the screenshots.

Edit: I believe it's launching the game through steam that causes this, Even if I launch the executable Steam uses but not through steam, I get 30 frames at lowest whereas through steam it's 7.

[YourMaster]

Interesting. If you figure out more let us know, this is uncharted territory.

[watler253]

thanks will give those a shot, I just logged back in now I'm at 8-9 frames at the start of the game, I guess I'll try to figure out what causes the flactuations, it was much better last time i played and sent the screenshots.

Edit: I believe it's launching the game through steam that causes this, Even if I launch the executable Steam uses but not through steam, I get 30 frames at lowest whereas through steam it's 7.

I had the same experience, launching the game with steam is causing a high reduction in the framerate, for me it's about a 80% loss.

[YourMaster]

Could you both try setting it to run as administrator? Word on the street says that fixes the low framerate issue.

[Yani]

Please try without the steam overlay:

[watler253]

Could you both try setting it to run as administrator? Word on the street says that fixes the low framerate issue.

Didn't work for me.

Please try without the steam overlay:

https://i.imgur.com/uymmuKL.png

Didn't work either, sorry.