I've been able to play Avorion a little bit, and so far, I love it, but I have run into a huge issue.
I was playing the game normally without any issues until I placed shield blocks on my ship. Every time the shields did the shimmering effect, my framerate would drop to near 0 until the effect ended and my framerate returned to normal (about 30-40. Not sure exactly, never checked). I decided to update my graphics drivers. After doing so, now when entering any galaxy, the framerate remains extremely low (0-1 FPS).
Looking in the log file, it seems that one particular error pattern repeats extremely frequently. This, combined with the fact that performance was fine before (with the exception of the shields animation) leads me to believe that this is a bug and not incapable hardware.
client log: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwCZnyVOnXRYWThuajJuY1FDdDA
SP server log: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwCZnyVOnXRYbVcwOEFkV2huWDg
System:
Windows 7 SP1
Intel Core i5 2450M Quad Core @ 2.5GHz
8 GB RAM
AMD Radeon HD 7670M
Drivers I am now using:
https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/support-product/3476?b=1
Choose Windows 7 64 bit
VGA Driver: Vendor: AMD
For me to reproduce it, I only need to:
Start Avorion
Start any galaxy, SP or MP
Once game world has been loaded, quit.
Log file generated shows massively repeated errors (several MB in size).
I tested this on an older desktop of mine (Windows 7 SP1, AMD Dual Core CPU @ 3.2GHz, 4 GB RAM, AMD Radeon HD 6790) and it generates the same error messages in its logs.
What I have done so far:
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Avorion.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Steam.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling my drivers.
None of this has changed the performance. I haven't even been able to get back to the previous low-fps-only-on-shield-effect state.