Dev Update #53
Added 2024-03-16 16:31:42 +0000 UTCHello Patrons!
I hope you are all doing well today. I wanted to give you guys a quick update on everything.
First, I'm happy to announce that I upgraded my PC and it's practically a new PC, besides the case and some HDDs. This was much needed. My hardware was pretty decent before, but I have been struggling in a lot of scenes lately while in Honey Select Neo. There are numerous reasons why my FPS has gone down a lot. My maps are generally bigger now with higher polygon counts, new updates to graphic plugins with new graphical features, and just more complex scenes overall. I have several scenes in which I was getting 10-15 FPS in HS, and it's hard to work at an optimal pace when you are restricted by frames and waiting for the program to catch up. So I've been thinking about upgrading lately and finally did it. So your support is going to good use and will make the development easier for me. People have been asking about the specs on the new PC build, and if you're not in Discord regularly, you wouldn't know. So, I'll list the new specs here.
-Ryzen 9 7950x CPU
-Asus TUF OC RTX 4090 GPU
-96GB (2x48GB) Trident Z5 DD5 6400 CL32 RAM
-990 Pro NVMe 4TB
-1200w PSU, AIO Cooler, New case fans, Strix x670E-E Mobo
It's all built now and running great. I had to take off almost two days from development to do everything. I had to prep my old PC, take it apart, put together my new PC, update drivers/bios, stress test, install all my software, and everything else. Everything is running well now, and I'm back to working on Ripples.
On the development side of things, I've been working on the new update every day besides the two days dealing with the new PC build. Everything is going good. I have pretty much all the writing and dialogue done, and I'll be able to mostly focus on the art now and try to make up some time. The scenes are going great so far, and they look beautiful. It's going to be a great update. I have about 705 renders and 37 animations done so far.
Have a great day, everyone!
-Jestur
Comments
pretty close to mine I have double 64GB ram and three 2tb nvme (c: games drive, and media drive) with only a 4060 but I looked at the specs and just don't need a 4090 for the games I play :-)
Tim Adams
2024-03-21 22:55:28 +0000 UTCI just found this game recently and boy, I've been bingeing the story, it's fantastic!
Timothy Hynish
2024-03-20 23:37:47 +0000 UTCGrats on the kickass pc specs. I'm just on a laptop now, but have a desktop pc that is a server. Look forward to the update.
William McCoy
2024-03-16 23:37:47 +0000 UTCI love ur game. Keep up the good work.
Luis Alberto
2024-03-16 22:30:56 +0000 UTCCool your RAM is faster then mine xD Never really carred was is on the compatibility list, just buy the RAM and watched for the Mainboard thats maybe possible :D
HazeBaze
2024-03-16 17:13:01 +0000 UTCYeah, I already had both a SSD and HDDs, and on the new build I added a Samsung 990 Pro, which is a NVME M.2 Gen 4 SSD. And yes, of course, I enabled DOCP in the bios and the RAM is running at 6400MHz. The RAM was on the compatibility list for the CPU and board.
Jestur
2024-03-16 17:09:04 +0000 UTC96GB (2x48GB) Trident Z5 DD5 6400 CL32 RAM i hope that you activate XMP/EXPO in you Bios setting or the 6400 MHz brings you nothing, because the Ram works with default settings. :)
HazeBaze
2024-03-16 16:54:19 +0000 UTCi hope really you mean you upgraded to SSD insted of HDDs (or just upgraded of HDD to SSD) xD But that you uprgraded your PC is cool men xD Maybe some wor will now be going faster :)
HazeBaze
2024-03-16 16:50:12 +0000 UTCNice! Congrats on yours too.
Jestur
2024-03-16 16:41:58 +0000 UTCAh, nice
SeamusX
2024-03-16 16:41:05 +0000 UTCI have two NVMe M.2 drives, a 990 Pro and 970 Plus, one gen 4 and 3. In addition to all HDDs I have for backup.
Jestur
2024-03-16 16:40:08 +0000 UTCHell yeah! Congrats on the pc upgrade, I recently got mine built and I love it!
Mike OxLong
2024-03-16 16:38:48 +0000 UTCI sughest M.2 or SSD next instead of HDD
SeamusX
2024-03-16 16:35:22 +0000 UTCBad ass PC for a bad ass dude. Thank you Jestur!
AmethystRealm
2024-03-16 16:35:13 +0000 UTC
