"Chen Ba, will you come to the secondary school gathering the day after tomorrow? It's been a long time since we've seen each other! ”

"I will ...... next time"

Glancing at the WeChat message sent by his high school classmates, Chen Ba shook his head and decisively typed to refuse.

What kind of secondary school gathers every day?

Don't do it, you can call him at the next graduate student gathering, and you won't go to the secondary school party to join in the fun.

It is said that it is a secondary school party, but it is actually a joke, which refers to the fact that the classmates of high school used to take advantage of the Chinese New Year to find a place to get together.

It's all on the repertoire.

At the end of the month every year, someone always launches an initiative to invite the returning students to come out for a small gathering, eat and drink and talk about old feelings.

Chen Ba also participated in the first two years, and he must admit that his classmates have okay character, unlike the snobbish and mean supporting characters in online novels, and the atmosphere is quite harmonious.

No matter how good or bad they mix outside, they talk about the interesting stories and black history of the previous high school days, the AA system is less than 200 per capita, and no one rushes to pay for the show superiority, and they have a lot of fun......

Unfortunately, due to the development of the new game "Star Emperor", he can't go back to attend the secondary school party this year.

Yang Dong didn't go home either.

Tianba Studio had already had a holiday two days ago, and the employees went their separate ways, and they would not return until the eighth day of the first lunar month.

Chen Ba couldn't go back, on the one hand, because the outsourced art resources of "The Starry Sky Emperor" needed someone to dock.

On the other hand.

The studio's two old games both participated in the Lunar New Year sale on the Steam platform, and someone needed to keep an eye on the backstage and solve problems in time.

And the reason why Yang Dong didn't go back for the New Year is also very simple, he is afraid of being urged to marry......

Yang Dong stayed in Jiangning for his ex-girlfriend, but his parents didn't know about it, and the old couple thought very simply, since their son was divided, then urge him to find another one!

"Instead of going home and being urged to get married, annoying and can't refuse, it's better to stay in Jiangning to accompany you for the New Year on the grounds that you are busy with work."

"You're weird!"

Chen Ba was speechless, and his words sounded good, but what this guy thought in his heart was that he had nowhere to go during the New Year, so it was better to come to him to eat and drink.

It must be so!

What does it mean to be afraid that he will be lonely? Where is he lonely? Obviously, he made a plan to go to Wang Kun's house for Chinese New Year's Eve to eat during the New Year, but the result was ......

I hope my uncle and aunt don't mind adding an extra pair of chopsticks!

The Chinese New Year is very lively, especially here in the Jiangning Food Court, where you can see all kinds of folk acrobatic performances almost every day.

It's just that the excitement outside has nothing to do with the two people left behind in the studio.

The 15-day Lunar New Year sale on the Steam platform has kicked off, with tens of thousands of new and old games being discounted to send New Year's greetings to players.

Among them, the two games under Tianba Studio have also been promoted at historic low prices.

There are also bundles to choose from!

Lured by historically low prices, sales of both games have increased, with average daily downloads nearly tripling.

The good news is that the studio is making money.

The bad news is that the development of new games has come to a halt due to the holidays.

Chen Ba and Yang Dong couldn't do anything else, so they could only eat and drink in the studio, quietly waiting for the others to return.

Out of boredom, Chen Ba goes to the Dream Building Forum every day to see what others have shared about Dream Building 5 engine development and game optimization.

The focus is on VFX-related!

Starry Sky is a game with excellent visual effects, which is one of the game's core selling points.

Because of the excellent visual effects and the fact that fighting game skills are used quite frequently, it became difficult to optimize them.

In normal mode, Chen Ba and Yang Dong have already tested it, and there are basically no problems, and the frame rate of the game remains stable without reducing the resolution.

But "extreme sublimation" will not work.

Once you enter the extreme sublimation mode, the frame rate of the game will take a high diving, and the graphics card with slightly worse performance will be directly stuck into PPT.

Fluency is important!

Especially for a fighting game, if it is stuck into a PPT, what is the game experience? Just don't play it!

In order to ensure that players do not experience a sudden frame rate crash when playing, Chen Ba has been working hard to optimize.

But it's a pity......

The optimization of this complex scene is not something he can do alone.

Others don't have good advice either, and the problem doesn't seem to be solved except for downgrading.

"The problem is that even if you set the game resolution to the lowest, the frame will still drop when you try to sublimate it......"

In order to solve the problem of frame drops in fights, Chen Ba used the system's built-in optimization tools.

The system is a system!

After the optimization of the system, the situation is really much better, even if the extreme sublimation mode is turned on at ultra-high resolution, the image quality will not drop sharply.

The frame rate may drop from 100 to 80, but never from 100 to 20, which is a qualitative leap!

With this god-level optimization, the game experience of "Star Emperor" has instantly reached a big level.

Worried that this was an isolated case, Chen Ba also pulled Yang Dong for multiple rounds of testing.

Finally draw conclusions.

This optimization really works, and no matter what happens, the frame rate will be locked at the bottom line of 60.

60 frames is enough!

Many players' computers are not high. Under normal circumstances, I am afraid that there is not even 20 frames, but it can be optimized to a stable 60 frames, which can already be called a black technology.

How did Brother Ba do it?

Yang Dong was shocked and wanted to know the optimization logic behind this, but no matter how he asked, the answer he got was always "trade secrets".

Ok, good, good!

Trade secrets are here.

I can't figure out why game optimization is so good, but it's definitely a good thing anyway.

Originally, for the project "Star Emperor", Yang Dong's biggest concern was that he ate too much configuration, thus turning away countless players.

This is not unfounded.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that Brother Ba's idea is good, but this kind of game that focuses on high image quality, in the end, most of them have few sales because the recommended configuration is too high.

Here's an example.

Two games of the same quality, a low-end graphics card can be played coolly, and a high-end graphics card can run smoothly, so who will have more players?

Regardless of other factors, optimize better games, recommend games with lower configurations, and games with low entry thresholds, and definitely have the most players.

The idea of "Star King" is not amazing, and it is not difficult to implement, it is nothing more than an alternative fighting game with graphics and special effects.

But the reason why no one does it is because optimization is too hard.

If you can achieve god-level optimization, so that every player can play smoothly and refreshingly, I believe that no one will refuse a game like "Star Emperor".

"That's right!"

Chen Ba nodded: "Our game, the recommended configuration threshold will be very low, and the computer configuration four or five years ago can also be played." ”

Although you can only turn on the simple image quality, the special effect texture is all pulled to the lowest...... But let's just say that 60 fps is not smooth!

That's a steady 60 fps, not an average of 60 fps that fluctuates and fluctuates all the time.

The gaming experience is already comparable to that of the console.

Even from a visual point of view, this kind of 60 frames that is as steady as an old dog may be smoother than the undulating 120 frames.

Of course!

No matter how god-level optimization 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 no way, and chicken blood optimization will not work.

It's hopeless, hurry up and get a new computer!