Chapter 46: Chicken Blood Level Optimization
"Chen Ba, will you come to the technical secondary school reunion the day after tomorrow? We haven't seen each other for a long time!"
"Next time I will..."
After looking at the WeChat message sent by his high school classmate, Chen Ba shook his head and decisively typed a rejection.
What kind of technical secondary school has parties every day?
Really, don't do that. You can invite him to the next graduate student gathering. I won't join in the technical secondary school gathering.
It’s called a technical secondary school reunion, but it’s actually just a joke. It refers to former high school classmates taking advantage of the New Year’s holiday to find a place to get together.
These are all reserved programs.
At the end of December every year, there is always someone who initiates an initiative to invite classmates who have returned home to get together, eat, drink and reminisce about the past.
Chen Ba also participated in it two years ago. He must admit that his classmates were all of decent character. Unlike the snobbish and mean supporting characters in online novels, the atmosphere was quite harmonious.
Regardless of whether they were doing well or badly outside, they would talk about the interesting things and dark history in high school. They would go AA and spend less than 200 yuan per person. No one rushed to pay the bill to show off their superiority, and they had a lot of fun...
Unfortunately, due to the development of the new game "Star Emperor", he cannot go back to attend the technical secondary school reunion this year.
Yang Dong didn't go home either.
Tianba Studio had already gone on holiday two days ago, and the employees went their separate ways and will not return until the eighth day of the first lunar month.
Chen Ba couldn't go back, partly because someone needed to connect with the outsourced art resources for "Star Emperor".
on the other hand.
Both of the studio's old games are participating in the Steam platform's Lunar New Year special sale, and someone is needed to keep an eye on the backend and solve any problems in a timely manner.
The reason why Yang Dong didn't go back home for the New Year was very simple. He was afraid of being urged to get married...
Yang Dong stayed in Jiangning for his ex-girlfriend, but his parents didn't know about it. The old couple had a simple idea: since their son had broken up, they might as well urge him to find another one!
"Instead of going home and being urged to get married, which is annoying but not being able to refuse, I might as well use the excuse of being busy with work as an excuse to stay in Jiangning and spend the New Year with you."
"You're such a nice person!"
Chen Ba was speechless. The words sounded nice, but what this guy was thinking was definitely that he had nowhere to go for the New Year, so he might as well come to him for free food and drinks.
It must be like this!
What do you mean by afraid that he'll be lonely? How is he lonely? He had made plans to go to Wang Kun's house for the New Year's Eve dinner, but...
I hope uncle and aunt don’t mind adding an extra pair of chopsticks!
The Chinese New Year is very lively, especially at Jiangning Food Plaza, where you can see various folk acrobatic performances almost every day.
However, the excitement outside had nothing to do with the two people left behind in the studio.
The 15-day Steam Lunar New Year sale has begun, with tens of thousands of new and old games discounted to send New Year greetings to players.
Among them, two games from Tianba Studio were also promoted at historically low prices.
There are even bundles available! Under the temptation of the lowest price ever, the sales of both games have increased, and the average daily download volume has almost tripled.
The good news is that the studio is making money.
The bad news is that the development of the new game has come to a halt due to the holiday.
Chen Ba and Yang Dong could do nothing else but eat and drink in the studio, quietly waiting for others to return.
Out of boredom, Chen Ba would go to the Dream Building Forum every day to read other people’s experiences in Dream Building 5 engine development and game optimization.
The focus is on visual effects! "Star Emperor" is a game with excellent visual effects, which is also one of the core selling points of the game.
Because the visual effects are so outstanding and fighting game skills are used so frequently, optimization becomes a difficult task.
In normal mode, Chen Ba and Yang Dong have tested it and found basically no problems. Without reducing the resolution, the game frame rate remains very stable.
But "ultimate sublimation" won't work.
Once you enter the extreme sublimation mode, the game frame rate will take a drastic dive, and graphics cards with slightly lower performance will be stuck and become a PPT.
Fluency is important!
Especially for a fighting game, if it freezes like a PowerPoint presentation, what's the point of playing it? Just don't play it!
In order to ensure that players do not encounter sudden frame rate drops while playing, Chen Ba has been working hard on optimization.
But unfortunately...
The optimization of such a complex scenario is not something he can handle alone.
Others didn't have any good suggestions either. There seemed to be no solution to this problem except lowering the resolution.
"The problem is that even if you set the game resolution to the lowest, the frame rate will still drop..."
In order to solve the problem of frame drops during fighting, Chen Ba used the system's built-in optimization tools.
The system is worthy of being a system! After the system's chicken blood optimization, the situation is indeed much better. Even if the extreme sublimation mode is turned on at ultra-high resolution, the picture quality will not drop drastically.
The frame rate may drop from 100 to 80, but it will never drop from 100 to 20. This is a qualitative leap! With this god-level optimization, the gaming experience of "Star Emperor" has instantly reached a new level.
Worried that this was an isolated case, Chen Ba took Yang Dong through several rounds of tests.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Finally came to a conclusion.
This optimization is really useful. No matter what the situation, the frame rate will be locked at the bottom line of 60.
60 frames is enough!
Many players' computers don't have high configurations. Under normal circumstances, they probably don't even have 20 frames. Being able to optimize to a stable 60 frames is already considered black technology.
How did Brother Ba do it? Yang Dong was shocked and wanted to know the optimization logic behind it, but no matter how he asked, the answer he got was always "commercial secrets."
Good, good! All the business secrets are here.
Although I don’t understand why the game optimization is so good, it is definitely a good thing anyway.
Originally, Yang Dong's biggest concern about the "Star Emperor" project was that it would require too much configuration, thus shutting out countless players.
This is not groundless worry.
Anyone with a discerning eye knows that although Brother Ba’s idea is a good one, most of these games that focus on high-definition graphics end up with few sales because the recommended configuration is too high.
For example.
For two games of the same quality, one with a low-end graphics card can play smoothly, while the other with a high-end graphics card can run them smoothly. Which one will have more players?
Without considering other factors, games that are better optimized, recommended games with lower configurations, and games with low entry barriers will definitely have the most players.
The creativity of "Star Emperor" is not amazing, nor is it difficult to implement. It is nothing more than an alternative fighting game that focuses on graphics and special effects.
But the reason why no one does it is because optimization is too difficult.
If we can achieve god-level optimization so that every player can play smoothly and enjoyably, I believe no one will refuse a game like "Star Emperor".
“That’s right!”
Chen Ba nodded: "The recommended configuration threshold for our game will be very low, and computers with configurations from four or five years ago can also play it."
Although I can only use the simple picture quality and set all special effects and textures to the lowest setting...but you can tell me whether 60 FPS is smooth or not! This is a stable 60 FPS, not the kind of average 60 FPS that fluctuates all the time.
The gaming experience is already comparable to that of the console.
Even from a visual perspective, this stable 60 frames may be smoother than the fluctuating 120 frames.
certainly!
No matter how optimized it is, it is impossible to break the constraints of hardware performance, so Chen Ba is talking about the mainstream computer configuration four or five years ago.
If the configuration does not meet this standard and the hardware is even older than this, then there is really nothing that can be done and even the best optimization will not work.
There is no hope, hurry up and buy a new computer! Second round of new book recommendations, please read and support!
(End of this chapter)