Update #30 (Big Optimization Test Results!)

Hey Everyone!

This week We've got some very promising optimization test results to announce... In the "Details" portion of this post!

Now let's get to this week's update!

Highlights:

⋅ Additional Dev Tryouts! (More details in "The Details")

⋅ Big Optimization Progress! (Test Results and breakdown in "The Details")

⋅ Waterpark Environment Overhaul progress (60% done)

⋅ Procedural Chase and Cutscene progress (90% done)

⋅ Some Exciting Animation Cutscene work! (no leaks yet...)

Coming Soon:

⋅ No Entity Mode Poll! (Set for Tuesday! 12/5)

⋅ DLC Level Submission Close and Results tally! (Set for Friday! 12/8)

⋅ Achievment Layout Style Poll! (Set for Wednesday! 12/6) (We apologize for the delay here!)

⋅ DLC Semi-Finals Level Poll! (Set for Saturday! 12/9)

⋅ Lots more Animation work!

⋅ OST, Foley, and SFX Work!

⋅ Final team interviews for possible new Main Devs!

⋅ More Procedural Cutscene and Chase work!

The Details (For Nerds):

Hey again everyone! Let's get to those results!

Breakdown: We've been planning and getting some big optimizations ready for a while now... And today we are finally able to test a big portion of what we have worked on to see what kind of performance boost we can realistically expect for Subliminal in the future. This test was done individually on level "Childhood" and separate from all other levels. (Mainly because it is currently the weakest link in terms of performance)

Note: This test does not account for seamless level loading (though it is quite insignificant overall)

Results:

-  Before Optimization: | CPU Usage: 22 - 54% utilization | GPU Usage: 90 - 100% utilization

-  After Optimization: | CPU Usage: 5 - 28% utilization | GPU Usage: 10 - 18% utilization 🎉🎉🎉

GPU Spec: RTX 3050 TI 4GB

Setting: Medium/High (Lumen on Medium)

Conclusion: These are some Massive improvements, especially on the GPU side of things, and some extremely promising benchmarks on our path to a fully optimized release! I (Sven) would like to take a moment to congratulate our new development side team members who played a massive role in getting our new optimization workflow up and running🎉🎉 A near 70% drop in GPU Utilization is huge and a big step closer to our original GTX 1060 minimum spec goal 🎉🎉

**In Addition: Through this week we're looking to finally close our final positions for our hopeful 1-2 new Main Devs! So if you'd like to try your hand at applying in the final hours shoot us a message in Patreon's messaging system, otherwise stay tuned for some hopeful very exciting news next week!