I just went through all of the commonly played maps on Nuclear Dawn and ran frame-rate benchmarks. My hardware is an i5-8600 processor with a gtx 950 video card.

I found that four maps have very poor optimization. Clients with laptops or weaker hardware should expect problems on Downtown, Oasis, Oilfeild and Roadwork. The map developers who made these maps did not create adequate performance optimizations.


Clocktower - Okay
Coast - Good
Corner - Excellent
Downtown - Bad
Gate - Good
Hydro - Okay
Mars - Excellent
Metro - Excellent
Oasis - Bad
Oilfeild - Bad
Roadwork - Bad
Sandbrick - Excellent
Silo - Okay
Submarine - Good