having fps drops whenever i play with smapi. i tried running it without mods and it doesnt change anything. i dont have any issues when launching the game without smapi. did anyone experience something similar or has an idea where this could come from?
Which version are you using? There was a big performance issue in one of the earlier versions that got fixed, and a new performance issue in one of the newer versions that has been fixed now - but there might still be issues for some.
Ah, unfortunately you might be one of people who just have poor performance with SMAPI. Future updates will hopefully solve it but other than that there's not much I can suggest, sorry!
In order to even function, SMAPI is requiring quite a few extra `if` checks every tick, not really anything that can be done about that without building these events directly into the code in question, meaning SMAPI would have to be much bigger and would also be much more prone to breaking.
Mmm if you have pretty good hardware then something funky is going on. Maybe try deactivating your firewall and trying it, but yeah like Entoarox said - SMAPI works by constantly checking the state of the game and for some things that can mean a lot of extra work per frame. A future update to SMAPI is going to change it to function like Entoarox mentioned - directly building in the events so there's no huge amount of checking always going on... But it'll be awhile.
