There are various needs you can disable which makes the game stop calculating the specific need and thus save some resources which could in turn be used for something else and/or to improve performance.īy turning off “Guest Energy” you already disable quite a calculation for the game’s engine. Path Congestion Guests getting stuck on paths or bulking together actually has a hit on the game’s performance.Ĭheck your park for small or narrow paths and see if you can widen them. I recommend setting the guest limiter to 3000 or lower. I personally found the ideal amount of guests to be around: 3000 guests. The following options will impact the CPU and game’s engine. It’s playing a role in performance while not being too noticeable if you scale it down. Just like water reflections, it’s nice to have but isn’t a light feature. I recommend disabling it if you don’t immediately notice its effect yourself. Lower is always better.Īlthough it’s very nice and neat, it places a decent hit on the system performance. Try it out for yourself and see where you wish to draw the line. I personally recommend setting this setting at medium or lower. Shadows are quite intensive while not immediately noticeable. Where Temporal Anti-Aliasing is heavier/better than FXAA and FXAA better than none where none is the best performance-wise setting. If you’re running 2K or 4K it’s recommended to scale down although this will affect visual quality. It’s best to play at your native resolution if you’re playing at 1920×1080. The longer and more you play, the slower a zoo will eventually get as more and more needs to be calculated. Planet Zoo is much more CPU heavy than GPU intensive. Planet Zoo is running on DirectX11, which isn’t necessarily bad but will show it’s downside once you’re running bigger projects. Since the initial release Planet Zoo has received regular performance improvements and/or patches and said improvements are still expected to roll out in the next couple of years.

Planet Zoo is roughly three years old right now and is running the Cobra Game Engine which they made specifically for the game Planet Zoo (and also their other title: “Planet Coaster”). I will cover what worked for me.įor reference, I’m using an I7 7700K CPU with a GTX 1080. I’ve personally experienced and measured the impact of everything I’m covering in this guide. In this guide, I will cover a few steps and methods you can apply to improve performance on Planet Zoo. If you’ve been playing Planet Zoo for a while you’ll notice that performance will start to deteriorate gradually.

Planet coaster optimization mod