I totally agree game performance and memory resources usage has crept up with every release and it's become borderline unplayable, which is annoying because the base game while basic (Increase stats = sex) is fun. The only thing that's kept me from trying out new versions (aside from a lack of new content) is the massive fucking lag that happens every time I try to do anything.I am surprised that almost no one addresses this issue:
I used to enjoy this game on a weaker computer some 6 years ago,
but the feeling is that it has become slower and slower with every release.
The game has become totally unplayable for me:
Any menu entry I click it's seconds and seconds of lag.
I started noticing it ever since Storm was added but I've had massive issues with slowdown even the occasional crash because the game just starts hogging more resources for seemingly no reason. I remember when this game used to eat up 300-ish Mb of my PC's memory worked nice and smooth, then it jumped to 500Mb some slowdown on animations, but still fine if I paced my clicks and actually read the dialog it was barely noticeable. Now on launch it's in the 850Mb range peaking to almost 1 GB duing events with lag spikes. It just doesn't feel worth it. If this game was rendering 3D images or animations I'd blame my potato of a PC but with mostly static images this is absurd. Frankly, after Gwen I hope Oni takes some time to polish the code because at this rate it the new girls he adds will eventually slow shit down to the point we'll all need an i9, with 32gb of RAM and a RTX 4070 to run it.