What is the most FPS friendly source of light?

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Hello Exiles,

I have a medium size base, and I plan to add source of light to illuminate it.

From your experience, what is the most FPS friendly source of light ?

  • Aqulionian Brazier

  • Argossean Wall Torch

  • Bracketed Torch

  • Cimmerian Brazier

  • Glowing Standing / Wall Torch

  • Hanging Brazier

  • Iron Brazier

  • Kithan Brazier

  • Kithan Lamp

  • Standing Torch

  • Stygian Brazier

  • Wall Brazier

  • Wall lantern

  • Witchfire Standing / Wall Torch

Thank you!

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So far, RTX can handle it where GTX is limited and crawling. There is no set frequency for RTX mode, but 30, 60, and ~120 for compatibility.

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Sorry ,Iā€™m a bit confused . You talk about graphics cards?

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Technically, yes. Because things are slowly changing where the effort to make lights work well under GTX modes can be easily answered with RTX modes. Iā€™m saying this from a software perspective as much as possible.

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Iā€™m using an RTX 3070.

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On Playstation we have found that the Khitan hanging lamps donā€™t seem to cause a problem and illuminate well.

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The RTX 3070 is equivalent to a PS5, hardware wise.

If youā€™re not seeing lots of lights with RTX, the limitation is indeed software. ā€œEverybodyā€ hasnā€™t switched over to RTX, of course, so I expect this to factor in to it.

You see, Iā€™m not naming one by pointing out the backend to improve first. The hanging braziers (at an angle) work pretty well. I only needed 4 of them compared to a torch on every other wall.

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Dzonatas :man_facepalming:

Thassarian the ones that glow. Torches and brazers have flame animations. Radium torches give you the most light per torch; they can also be dyed.

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Doesnā€™t matter. Every pixel under RTX can be a light.

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Itā€™s not the light the effects FPS, for that there is a few graphics settings in game. The more flame animations you have the more it effects your GPUs ability to render the scene quickly.

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Under a GTX rasterization process, yes. With RTX, the scene can rez in O(1). It canā€™t be said that way for GTX. Because GTX requires variable amount of passes to render the scene. ā€œSpritesā€ used to be a hardware only operation.

:cowboy_hat_face:

Umborls 13

The radium wall torches do seem to be less graphically demanding when compared to the standard wall torch.

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Although you have a dev reply that overpass anything else. I will share my way of lighting my bases on official gaming.
I use the standard standing torch, not even the reinforced one. Just a few of them in some corners of my building are enough to give all the light i need in my base and out of it. The best part is that they stay hidden behind my benches and they still illuminate the whole room.

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Personally I use witchfire. As I like my bases to not be lit up so much that I can see them from space, I tend to use no more than a dozen, even on big builds

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Amunet performed some very extensive tests a couple years ago and debunks several misconceptions commonly floating around:

Performance tests show no difference between ā€˜animated flamesā€™ and non animated radium lights. The exception seems to be the witchfire torch which seemed to be a little lighter on the client side FPS.

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You can dye the radium lights to suit your need. Just need them darker toss gray on there, cimmerian blue is a nice one. Use any of the vivid colors for a bright color wash. yes I have played around with the radium lights a lot :grin:

I try to keep my keep fps to minimum animated flames always costs me fps.