Performance Concerns with Demo Map

[lordrex34]

hello

I have cloned the ALS-Community, and opened the ALS_DemoLevel - the FPS was 120 when I opened it, but when I started to play with the character it dropped to 60~
I have removed the 42 example character from the level, and it returned to 120.

Is it normal behaviour that the FPS drops to the HALF because of measly 42 characters with ALS running around or I'm doing something wrong?

I am using a high end PC (AMD RX 6900 XT, Ryzen 9 3950x and 64GB RAM, Samsung Evo SSD 970) - so it's not hardware nor driver issue. Other applications/projects/games are fine - we can rule out this.

Is it possible that the performance drawback is strictly related to ALS_AnimMan_CharacterBP demo NPC AI ?

I have been directed from Discord #discussion channel here, so I posted my question.

[AlexelTech]

I have about the same result here, and my PC is an i7 3.8GHz / RTX 2080 8Gb VRAM / 64Gb RAM / RAID SSD.
It is clearly related to the high number of IA controlled characters on screen : if you look at the walls without any IA on screen then you get your FPS back to normal !
But once you compile your project and get it run in native executable form, you'll see that the FPS drop is still there but far more negligable, it is mainly an "in editor" performance drop...

[lordrex34]

Wow! Someone actually commented. Thank you.