Todd Papy · Star Citizen Live Game Director

Right now, basically, we had something that was checked in, or something that was removed, on Thursday. So this morning when we came in, we did see better frame rate on the server. Now, it's like one or two frames per second better, but it is better than what we have in 3.12 right now. So yeah, we're working towards it, obviously, but it's still not at the point that I think we're completely happy with. But again, we're constantly doing optimizations. We're constantly going through and reviewing the RAD captures on it and making sure that if there's a feature or if there's content that's causing something to spike, we can actually fix it.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

And it's important to remember that the frame rate and optimization thing is something that's being tackled by multiple teams from multiple angles. Graphics are working on stuff with the Gen12 renderer. The network team is constantly working on stuff. You've got the stuff for iCache and meshing that's all designed to help. So there's no one silver bullet for performance.

Todd Papy · Star Citizen Live Game Director

No, unfortunately not. Basically what happens is we're able to optimize a lot, and then every single quarter, obviously, we throw new stuff in: new features, new content, so on and so forth. So every time that happens, we have to go through and sweep through those, make sure that those are optimized as well as they possibly can be, and then continue to optimize other things that maybe before might have been a little too risky or something like that. But obviously with time we were able to solve some of those issues and move forward with it with new code or even new ways of handling stuff on the content side.

Richard Tyrer · Core Gameplay Director

In every game that I've ever worked on, and Todd's probably the same, there never is a silver bullet. It just doesn't exist. Performance is a death by a thousand cuts. Essentially you have to look at those and look at where they are and identify them and work on them. But I know there's plenty of people on my team who are just purely dedicated to performance. There's definitely a big initiative this year to try and improve it. So we just have to evaluate and keep at it.