Nitrate (Performance Optimizer) is a mod for Terraria created to significantly improve the game's performance by introducing extensive optimizations to various functions. The mod takes advantage of parallelism, SIMD instructions, GPU rendering and other modern technical solutions designed to increase the speed and stability of the gameplay.
Description of Nitrate (Performance Optimizer)
Please note:
- Nitrate is in early development; Some features may not be compatible with other mods.
- Balance between performance and accuracy: We strive to find the perfect balance between game speed and visual fidelity.
- Save Security: Your saves should be safe, but visual distortions and glitches may occur.
Main characteristics of the mod:
- Dust particle processing: Rewritten and optimized for GPU, which significantly increases performance (requires testing with modified particles).
- Parallelization of particle update: Increases game speed by simultaneous processing.
- Rain visualization on GPU: optimized so that most of the processing occurs on the video card (may not work correctly with mods that change the textures or color of rain).
- Parallelization of rain update: Increase productivity through more efficient processing.
- Replacing FNA types with SIMD: Important parts of the code now use JIT internal SIMD types to optimize execution.
- Tiled rendering and lighting: rewritten to be chunk-based and partially processed on the GPU (the current version may have bugs, for example, when using spelunker potions).
