You’ll embark on a quest to survive, discover, explore and fight your way across an infinite universe! Latest stable update: August 7th, 2019 Take on the role of a character who’s just fled their home planet, only to crash-land on another. Following car isn't smooth at all.Starbound is a 2D extraterrestrial sandbox adventure game developed by Chucklefish, a London-based independent game studio! Opening panels causes noticeable FPS drop. Performance is poor and there is constant stuttering and lag. On OS X all settings must be on minimum and shadows must be turned off. Opening panels doesn't affect performance. Performance is good and there is rare and occasional stuttering and lag on dense areas. Shadows are set to Medium and Shadow distance is set to Short. On Windows all settings except Shadows and Shadow distance are as high as possible. Opening some panels cause noticeable FPS drop. Performance is mediocre and there is slight stuttering and lag.
Shadows are set to Low and Shadow distance is set to Short. On OS X all settings except Shadows and Shadow distance are as high as possible.
Performance is excellent and there is no stuttering or lag. On Windows all settings can be as high as possible. Operating systems and drivers are up to date. I tried the game yesterday on my both Macs with Windows and results where puzzling – performance on OS X is clearly very poor. What else can I try? Other 3D games perform absolutely fine at high-quality, including *cough* SimCity (hoping that's not too bad a word on here).
I love the game, though unfortunately it's becoming unplayable due to the amount of severe FPS lag and stuttering that I'm experiencing no matter what graphics settings I try.