FS22 performance post feb 2023 engine upgrade patches

[Snake Man]

On saturday 5th of august 2023 I plugged in FS22 SSD into PMC Gaming computer, then upgraded garbage win10 and Farming Simulator 22 (FS22) to v1.12. Started FS22, loaded PMC Cereal Region 32km Start From Zero savegame up and was shocked by roughly 30FPS to 40FPS (max 43FPS) performance

My Gaming computers hardware has not changed, only thing since feb 2023 which was the last time I played this savegame is update to both windows 10 professional and Farming Simulator 22.

Cant remember what was the FS22 version number back in early feb, but since then giants did some code changes to (graphics?) engine as large terrain performance is now complete shit. In FS19 we are suffering from 30FPS performance on large terrain savegames with many vehicles (especially trains), but one of the only good features of FS22 has been CPU multi core "threads" support which allows us to run large terrains (large density, weight etc images) with several courseplay vehicles and getting rock solid 60FPS performance.

If v1.12 (or some prior upgrade) destroys that now, we all might as well go back to play FS19 which is better Farming Simulator with mods anyways (seasons to begin with).

Has anyone else seen performance loss since 2023 february released FS22 game engine upgrades?

2024-02-22T04:34:00Z

Was proof reading Start From Zero PMC Cereal Region 32km from 2023-01-04 when that savegame got created, in those screenshots I have FPS counter up (F2 key) and while doing the first harvest contracts without owning any vehicles yet, just the borrowed harvester and semi-truck wilson pacesetter in the game, its rock solid 60FPS across several screenshots. So yes this is now a confirmation that PMC Cereal Region 32km terrain in JANUARY 2023 on whatever FS22 game engine version it was... has perfectly good performance.

I knew that was the case, just couldn't remember all the details, I'm very glad I found those proof screenshots now from 2023-01-04.

So question remains; has anyone else seen degraded performance on post february 2023 FS22 patches?

[Snake Man]

Just went through giants website blog and forum news pages for FS22 engine upgrade patches, it was hit an miss to find data from there as the main news/blog doesn't include patch version numbers in the header, updates might be hidden in some DLC etc news header.

farming-simulator.org/history page has been updated with all the missing patch release dates I could find with quick searching.

So as can be seen from this hopefully quite up to date history list, february 2023 falls between patches v1.8.2 and v1.9 hmm. Then my august 2023 gaming session with the poor performance skips through updates: v1.9, v1.10.1.1, v1.11 and as I said in first post my poor performance was experienced with v1.12.

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2022-11-15 Farming Simulator 22 - v1.8.2 update
2023-03-14 Farming Simulator 22 - v1.9 update
2023-06-12 Farming Simulator 22 - v1.10.1.1 update
2023-07-24 Farming Simulator 22 - v1.11 update
2023-08-03 Farming Simulator 22 - v1.12 update

[Snake Man]

Wrote and prepared a lengthy post about performance issue with plan on creating a new topic, but I think this is too close to the "post 2023 patch" issue topic I created here earlier so decided to do a reply here instead.

I am having an showstopper issue with Farming Simulator 22 (FS22) performance dropping to 20FPS and sometimes dipping even to 17FPS or so, this happens when four courseplay tractors are cultivating and/or plowing. Also if you happen to do herbicide spraying on top of that, then its a known issue that the weed 3d model/texture gives really bad performance hit, this is recipe for 20FPS performance which is unplayable

When I'm just doing fertilizing or other non cultivating/plowing field work then performance is fine, its often rock solid 60FPS depending on the scene of course (trees have through out the history in farmsim games dragged performance down, especially "logging areas").

Here is my computer and savegame info, I wish FS22 would report CPU and RAM etc as well. I run old i7 4970k quad core CPU with 16gb RAM, this is pre 2015 hardware so yes a decade old, but FS22 never required more CPU or RAM than my computer has, in fact FS22 doesn't even use 3gb RAM when it runs, so that is not the issue, at all.

Hardware specifications and settings:

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Render System
  Driver: Direct 3D 12
  Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
  Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
  Version: 32.0.15.8129 (5.9.2025)
  Revision: 161
  Hardware Feature Level : 12_1
  DirectX 12 AgilitySDK  : 610
  Windowed Mode : on
  V-Sync : on
  Allow Tearing : off
  Validation Layer : off
  Effective Window Size : 3840 x 2160px
  Effective Swap Chain Size : 3840 x 2160px

Hardware Profile
  Level: Custom Very High
  View Distance Factor: 5.000000
  Shadow Quality: 2.000000 Base-Size: 2048 Filter-Size: 16
  Shadow Focus Box: true
  Foliage Shadows: true
  Shader Quality: 3
  Skip Mipmaps: 0
  LOD Distance Factor: 3.000000
  Terrain LOD Distance Factor: 2.000000
  Terrain Quality: 3
  Foliage View Distance Factor: 2.000000
  Volume Mesh Tessellation Factor: 0.750000
  Tyre Tracks Segments Factor: 4.000000
  Max. Number of Shadow Lights: 5
  Max. Number of Lights: 256
  Max. Number of Dir Lights: 4
  Max. Number of Lights Per Cluster: 32
  MSAA: 1
  Post Process AA: Off
  DLSS Quality: Quality
  AMD FidelityFx SR Quality: Off
  AMD FidelityFx SR 3.0 Quality: Off
  Intel XeSS Quality: Off
  Sharpness: 1.00
  Recommended Window Size: 1920 x 1080px
  Bloom Quality: 5
  SSAO Quality: 19
  SSAO Resolution Scaling: 0.500000
  DOF: Enabled
  Half Resolution DOF: Disabled
  Cloud Quality: 4
  Texture Streaming: Enabled
  EnvMap Blending: Enabled
  Dynamic Specular EnvMap: Disabled
  Shading Rate Quality: 2

Farming Simulator 22
  Version: 1.14.0.0 b28949

My PMC mod-set:

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Warning: Only zip mods are supported in multiplayer. You need to zip the mod PMC_AnimalGiants to use it in multiplayer.
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On that mod-set TrailerParkFarm's vehicle sheds are v1.0 as it shows, however I wanted to point that out because some people might not realize the v1.0 and v1.1 difference which is quite huge, although none of the vehicle sheds are even in view on most of my "field work scenes" when getting horrible FPS performance.

In my savegame I have sheep barn, chicken coop and just last night setup dairy cow barn, all giants placeable buildings (well the cow barn is my own PMC_AnimalGiants config mod). Production chains are grain mill extended mod, sugar mill and bakery, that's all. So I would not expect those to bring performance down, at least without cultivating/plowing field work courses running my savegame is rock solid 60FPS.

Could it be PMC Undefined Farms 20km v0.2.7 which is the latest editing I did just weeks ago? Umm guess everything is possible, but I would have to say that if its the case then performance issue causing bug has been there since 2022. But obviously I'm not ruling it out.

Hmm guess that covers it.

Does anyone have any ideas? Any experience with bad FS22 v1.14 performance when cultivating/plowing? Please feel free to reply.