Beta Branch Note: These changes are currently available on the beta branch. The beta branch is for testing experimental changes and for finding and fixing errors.

This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK):
Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'Beta Branch - Newest Changes & Experimental Features'.

Performance

"While working on our next free content update (more on that later this week) we've made some adjustments to our RAM management, that we didn't want to keep from you, so, enjoy!"

• Improved general performance of scripts
• Strongly reduced memory usage of scripts
• Improved server performance when leaving rift sectors

More Performance Updates 2022-12-21

"More performance updates as a small christmas gift for y'all!"

• Improved performance of base game loop (client & server) by 0.6ms (ca. +4% better performance at 60FPS)
• Note: This was on our office workstations, impact on other machines can differ, but there should be a notable impact especially for older hardware
• Improved performance of loading screens when ambient shuttles are enabled, but none are active in the sector
• Drastically improved performance of loading screens when there are lots of asteroids and shaders are set to "Normal"
• Note: 24s loading screen down to 6s loading screen for massive asteroid fields on our workstations at the office
• F10, /profile and /status no longer stall client/server during the output filedump
• Mostly for modders: Dev-Script is no longer added to everything by default but when pressing F4