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Khaydar

12 Apr, 2022 @ 10:54am

"maxMeshThreadsToUse" line

While looking inside rendering.data, I've found the line "maxMeshThreadsToUse":2.
I assume this allows the number of threads used by the game to render. If I increase it, will performance be better assuming I have more threads per core?

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Twice Circled [developer] 3

13 Apr, 2022 @ 3:48am

The game uses threads like this:
- 1 for UI/rendering
- 1 for simulation
- X for pre-processing matrix data for rendering (mesh threads), where X is the 2 you reference in your post.

If your CPU has 4 or less cores, then there's no point increasing the number as you are already utilising all of your cores.

If your CPU has more than 4 cores then increasing X may increase performance in very, very large aquariums, fully zoomed out*. However, I suspect the bottleneck at that point will already be one of the first 2 threads.

You can always try it but I suspect you won't see a difference.

PS mesh threads are only used when you turn on "multithreaded rendering" in the options.

EDIT: * If you are running mods with a lot of vertices then it might make more of a difference compared to vanilla.

Last edited by Twice Circled; 13 Apr, 2022 @ 3:50am

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