game becomes laggy and audio crashes

[billycop32]

Ok, first off if no one else is experiencing this is might be my computer, she is an old 2 GB ram vista computer....so heads up. 

so I've noticed that when I jumped back into rim world, the game was fine, but over time as my game progressed the game's speed is getting worse and worse. a shut down of rim world usually solves the problem for a while, but the additional time I've gotten from save/restart is on a diminishing return.... this last time I got less than 2 minutes before a full audio crash occurred. 

is this my computer being unable to keep up with rim world or could be another issue? thanks for the input.

[milon]

It sounds like some aspect of the system is unable to keep up.

What other applications/services are running in the background?

Are your drivers (especially graphics) up to date?

What version of RimWorld are you running?

What mods are you running, and in what order?

[billycop32]

I was letting steam run in background mode, I'll shut it off and try again shortly.

Yes, I performed a update check last night. No new updates.

I'm running version 0.13.1135 rev816

No mods, besides going into core and changing the component assembly bench's production output from 1 to 10 to rebalance it. I didn't mess with anything else.

I'm starting to wonder if my save file has become corrupt somehow, So I'm including it here via WinRAR (side note: No sap parties seem to come to my place anymore )
progreso is my colony on the world alcyone, both included.

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[billycop32]

update: so it turns out it was a combo of both steam running in the background and myself not setting up the job system correctly: my base had a massive dirt issue that I didn't see. once I cleaned everything up the game still encountered lagg spikes, but they aren't bad,and the audio doesn't try to cut out anymore. so problem solved.

[milon]

I'm glad to hear that it's fixed.  Here's 2 more potential causes of stuttering, just in case:

Another contributor to laggy games is often having a pawn stuck in a wall or forbidden room.  The pawn's AI keeps hammering the system looking for a job to do, which consumes the CPU like nothing else.  Cycle through your pawns with . or , and see if one is stuck.  Animals can cause this too, but their AI doesn't hammer as hard. 

Finally, if you're playing a large colony, having ALL jobs enabled on ALL colonists will eat your computer too.  On a large colony your pawns are pretty much all specialized anyway, so turn off any unnecessary jobs to reduce/eliminate stuttering.

EDIT - I just noticed this thread is locked (doesn't stop mods from posting, of course).  Which is weird because I didn't lock it, so someone else must have.  PM me if you want it opened and I'll unlock it.

[billycop32]

it was my doing. I figured that sense I had eliminated most of the issue, the topic was over. I also have a habit of locking a topic I created once I consider it closed, as I have served as a moderator on other sites and I hate when someone necros a old topic.

EDIT: i'll leave the topic unlocked for 24 hours this time, then I'll lock it again to prevent necromancy.

[milon]

Interesting. I didn't realize regular members could lock their own threads. Cool!